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Sure, Mars colonization is possible with us living in indoors in giant domes, but the whole thing would certainly be easier if the planet’s atmosphere was somehow made more like Earth’s. https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/no-terraforming-mars-soon/ http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by YT Wochit News using http://wochit.com

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Is there a way to make Mars develop a thicker atmosphere, warmer climate and liquid surface water? Well, maybe… NASA 360 joins Dr. James Green, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division, as he discusses how a “magnetic shield” could potentially make Mars friendlier for human exploration. Learn more about exciting ideas and visions for the future of solar system exploration at: www.livestream.com/viewnow/Vision2050

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Scientists think that in the future we may be able to transform our grey, desolate moon in to a miniature version of Earth by using a method known as terraforming. But how? **REMEMBER TO SUBSCRIBE FOR MUCH MORE TO COME** FʘLLʘW THE VENDOR 101 Subscribe - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheVendor101?sub_confirmation=1 ----------------------------------------­­---------------------------------------­-­-------------------- Google+ - https://plus.google.com/+TheVendor101 ----------------------------------------­­---------------------------------------­-­-------------------- Twitter - https://twitter.com/thevendor101 ----------------------------------------­­---------------------------------------­-­------------------- Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Ve... ----------------------------------------­­---------------------------------------­-­------------------- If you would like a copy of the script please send the request to - [email protected] The moon is a very common sight for most of life on Earth but also a familiar landscape for 12 incredibly brave astronauts, who each explored parts of its dead surface in the past. In the future more manned missions to land on the moon have been planned, but these explorers will still be wearing special spacesuits to allow them to survive the deadly vacuum of space. But what if there was a way in which you could walk on the moon without a spacesuit, instead take a leisurely stroll while looking up in to the sky and appreciating the beauty of our home planet, Earth. This might sound crazy but according to scientists this idea could one day be a reality. Scientists think that in the future we may be able to transform our grey, desolate moon in to a miniature version of Earth by using a method known as terraforming. This would take a very long time, require huge advancements in technology and huge monetary funds to make possible, but if it was achieved then the moon would be then become a hospitable place for life to exist. However, terraforming the moon would not be an easy process. The temperature at its surface massively changes from day to night, It can reach a scorching 123 C in the direct sunlight (around 250 F) and a frigid -153 C (243 F) when darkness falls. It has a very weak atmosphere that consists of many gases, including sodium and potassium which are not found in the atmospheres of Earth, Mars or Venus. It doesn't boast the gravitational forces required to retain a strong atmosphere for long periods of time and this means there's no surface pressure. The gravity is much lower than Earths which potential could affect the physical health of humans over time and the lack of magnetic field allows harmful radiation from the sun to bombard its surface................................................... Attributions - Super Moon- Michael Black (Vimeo) Day to night Moon - ESA/Hubble Astronauts - NASA Giant Comet - ESA/Hubble Flying over Iceland - Yannick Calonge (Vimeo) Music - "MERCURY" - DL Sounds Intro "Hurry Up" YouTube Audio Library (Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0)

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NASA might have a plan to make Mars habitable, and it would involve a giant space magnet. We Found New Planets. No, You Can't Live There - https://youtu.be/9IEteg3ms3g Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI Read More: Mars' atmosphere stripped by solar winds, NASA says https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/06/science/space/mars-atmosphere-stripped-away-by-solar-storms-nasa-says.html?_r=0&mtrref=undefined&gwh=960DFDF31E5F9677BB724A1705737078&gwt=pay&assetType=nyt_now Maven Mission reveals speed of solar wind stripping martian atmosphere http://news.agu.org/press-release/maven-mission-reveals-speed-of-solar-wind-stripping-martian-atmosphere/ NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission has identified the process that appears to have played a key role in the transition of the Martian climate from an early, warm and wet environment that might have supported surface life to the cold, arid planet Mars is today. It's Official: NASA Announces Mars' Atmosphere Was Stripped Away by Solar Winds http://www.sciencealert.com/live-updates-nasa-is-announcing-what-happened-to-mars-atmosphere-right-now We finally have an understanding of how Mars transformed from a once habitable, Earth-like planet into the dry world we see today. NASA researchers have just announced that Mars' once rich atmosphere was stripped away by solar winds in the early days of the Solar System, causing the planet to dry out. A future Mars environment for science and exploration http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/V2050/pdf/8250.pdf This may sound "fanciful" but new research is starting to emerge revealing that a miniature magnetosphere can be used to protect humans and spacecraft. Writer: Alex Parkin ____________________ Seeker inspires us to see the world through the lens of science and evokes a sense of curiosity, optimism and adventure. Watch More Seeker on our website http://www.seeker.com/shows/ Subscribe now! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=dnewschannel Seeker on Twitter http://twitter.com/seeker Trace Dominguez on Twitter https://twitter.com/tracedominguez Seeker on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SeekerMedia/ Seeker on Google+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/+dnews Seeker http://www.seeker.com/ Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here: http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI

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Until recently, scientists thought the moon had no atmosphere, but it actually does! What's it made of and can it be made to support life? How the Lunar Module Launched from the Moon Without a Flame- https://youtu.be/QsLtAUb1-Lw Why Does Earth Only Have One Moon? - https://youtu.be/2HoVa2-PLCM Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI Discovery GO - http://smart.link/57ae195b47796 Read More: Is There an Atmosphere on the Moon? https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LADEE/news/lunar-atmosphere.html#.WAFEj5MrI_V "What is the moon's atmosphere made of? We have some clues. The Apollo 17 mission deployed an instrument called the Lunar Atmospheric Composition Experiment (LACE) on the moon's surface. It detected small amounts of a number of atoms and molecules including helium, argon, and possibly neon, ammonia, methane and carbon dioxide." Mars Lost Atmosphere to Space as Life Took Hold on Earth http://www.space.com/31031-mars-atmosphere-discovery-nasa-maven.html "Observations by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity and other spacecraft have shown that the Red Planet was relatively warm billions of years ago, with extensive lake-and-stream systems and perhaps even a large ocean that covered much of the Martian surface." How Do We Terraform The Moon? http://www.universetoday.com/121140/could-we-terraform-the-moon/ "Ever since the beginning of the Space Age, scientists and futurists have explored the idea of transforming other worlds to meet human needs. Known as terraforming, this process calls for the use of environmental engineering techniques to alter a planet or moon's temperature, atmosphere, topography or ecology (or all of the above) in order to make it more 'Earth-like.'" ____________________ DNews is dedicated to satisfying your curiosity and to bringing you mind-bending stories & perspectives you won't find anywhere else! New videos daily. Watch More DNews on Seeker http://www.seeker.com/show/dnews/ Subscribe now! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=dnewschannel Seeker on Twitter http://twitter.com/seeker Trace Dominguez on Twitter https://twitter.com/tracedominguez DNews on Facebook https://facebook.com/DiscoveryNews DNews on Google+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/+dnews Seeker http://www.seeker.com/ Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here: http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI Special thanks to Amy Shira Teitel for hosting and writing this episode of DNews! Check Amy out on Twitter: https://twitter.com/astVintageSpace

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How can we make Mars, Venus, or some of the moons in our solar system more earth-like? Terraforming, of course! Watch More: This Rocket Failed to Put Soviets on the Moon ►►►► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuEvJ63-ckM Support Life Noggin on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LifeNogginStudios?ty=h Follow Us! https://twitter.com/LifeNoggin https://facebook.com/LifeNoggin Click here to see more videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/lifenoggin Life Noggin is a weekly animated educational series. Whether it's science, pop culture, history or art, we explore it all and have a ton of fun doing it. Life Noggin Team: Animation by Steven Lawson Director/Voice: http://lifenogg.in/patgraziosi Executive Producer: http://lifenogg.in/IanDokie Director of Marketing: http://lifenogg.in/JaredOban Head Writer: http://lifenogg.in/KayleeYuhas Sources: http://quest.nasa.gov/mars/background/terra.html http://www.universetoday.com/127311/guide-to-terraforming/ http://www.universetoday.com/113346/how-do-we-terraform-mars/ http://quest.nasa.gov/mars/background/terra2.html http://www.space.com/31044-mars-terraforming-nasa-maven-mission.html http://earthsky.org/space/solar-wind-stripped-martian-atmosphere http://www.universetoday.com/113412/how-do-we-terraform-venus/ http://www.space.com/18527-venus-atmosphere.html http://www.universetoday.com/127311/guide-to-terraforming/ Written by Amy Shira Teitel

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What is TERRAFORMING? What does TERRAFORMING mean? TERRAFROMING meaning - TERRAFROMING definition - TERRAFROMING explanation. Source: Wikipedia.org article, adapted under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ license. Terraforming (literally, "Earth-shaping") of a planet, moon, or other body is the hypothetical process of deliberately modifying its atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology to be similar to the environment of Earth to make it habitable by Earth-like life. The concept of terraforming developed from both science fiction and actual science. The term was coined by Jack Williamson in a science-fiction story (Collision Orbit) published during 1942 in Astounding Science Fiction, but the concept may pre-date this work. Based on experiences with Earth, the environment of a planet can be altered deliberately; however, the feasibility of creating an unconstrained planetary environment that mimics Earth on another planet has yet to be verified. Mars is usually considered to be the most likely candidate for terraforming. Much study has been done concerning the possibility of heating the planet and altering its atmosphere, and NASA has even hosted debates on the subject. Several potential methods of altering the climate of Mars may fall within humanity's technological capabilities, but at present the economic resources required to do so are far beyond that which any government or society is willing to allocate to it. The long timescales and practicality of terraforming are the subject of debate. Other unanswered questions relate to the ethics, logistics, economics, politics, and methodology of altering the environment of an extraterrestrial world.

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Excellent documentary discusses how Humans can Terraform Mars In the Next 50 years.

Turns out that some planets are fixer-uppers, this is about those little fellas.

It sounds like science fiction, but journalist Stephen Petranek considers it fact: within 20 years, humans will live on Mars. In this provocative talk, Petranek makes the case that humans will become a spacefaring species and describes in fascinating detail how we'll make Mars our next home. "Humans will survive no matter what happens on Earth," Petranek says. "We will never be the last of our kind." TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more. Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at http://www.ted.com/translate Follow TED news on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tednews Like TED on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector

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I am a massive Mars nerd. Can you tell? How to Terraform Mars: An Analysis of Ecopoesis and Terraforming Research http://www.dartmouth.edu/~humbio01/s_papers/2001/budzik.pdf Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/billygoatideas?sub_confirmation=1 billygoatideas on social media Music: Public Service Broadcasting - The Other Side (used with permission) http://publicservicebroadcasting.net Business email: [email protected]

This video gives an overview of various terraforming concepts and hurdles from those using near-horizon technologies to very advanced and speculative tech. Support the Channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Listen or Download the audio of this episode from Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/isaac-arthur-148927746/cs05-terraforming-techniques Cover Art by Jakub Grygier: https://www.artstation.com/artist/jakub_grygier Learn More...... Martyn Fogg's Terraforming Page: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~mfogg/ The International Mars Research Station: http://marsbase.org Paul Birch Archive (hosted by Orion's Arm): http://www.orionsarm.com/fm_store/Paul%20Birch's%20Page.htm Discussion of using an artificial magnetosphere on Mars: http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/V2050/pdf/8250.pdf The song in the video is from Koalips "Rain on Mars" album: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Koalips/Rain_On_Mars/

Is there any possible way to take a black hole and terraform it to be a place we could actually live? Support us at: http://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: http://www.universetoday.com/ Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Follow us on Tumblr: http://universetoday.tumblr.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Google+ - https://plus.google.com/+universetoday/ Instagram - http://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain Jason Harmer - @jasoncharmer Susie Murph - @susiemmurph Brian Koberlein - @briankoberlein Chad Weber - [email protected] Kevin Gill - @kevinmgill Created by: Fraser Cain and Jason Harmer Edited by: Chad Weber Music: Left Spine Down - “X-Ray” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tcoZNrSveE&feature=youtu.be In the challenge of terraforming the Sun, we all learned that outside of buying a Dyson Spaceshell 2000 made out of a solar system’s worth of planetbutter, it’s a terrible idea. Making a star into a habitable world, means first destroying the stellar furnace. Which isn’t good for anyone, “Hey, free energy! vs. Let’s wreck this thing and build houses!” Doubling down on this idea, a group of brilliant Guidensians wanted to crank the absurdity knob all the way up. You wanted to know if it would be possible to terraform a black hole. In order to terraform something, we convert it from being Britney Spears’ level of toxic into something that humans can comfortably live on. We want reasonable temperatures, breathable atmosphere, low levels of radiation, and Earthish gravity. With temperatures inversely proportional to their mass, a solar mass black hole is about 60 billionths of a Kelvin. This is just a smidge over absolute zero. Otherwise known as “pretty damn” cold. Actively feeding black holes can be surrounded by an accretion disk of material that’s more than 10 million degrees Kelvin, which would also kill you. Make a note, fix the temperature. There’s no atmosphere, and it’s either the empty vacuum of space, or the superheated plasma surrounding an actively feeding black hole. Can you breathe plasma? If the answer is yes, this could work for you. If not, we’ll need to fix that. You’d be hard pressed to find a more lethal radiation source in the entire Universe. Black holes can spin at close to the speed of light, generating massive magnetic fields. These magnetic fields whip high energy particles around them, creating lethal doses of radiation. There are high energy particle jets pouring out of some supermassive black holes, moving at nearly the speed of light. You don’t want any part of that. We’ll add that to the list. Black holes are known for being an excellent source of vitamin gravity. Out in orbit, it’s not so bad. Replace our Sun with a black hole of the same mass, and you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. So, problem solved? Not quite. If you tried to walk on the surface, you’d get shredded into a one-atom juicy stream of extruded tubemanity before you got anywhere near the time traveling alien library at the caramel center. Reduce the gravity. Got it. As we learned in a previous episode on how to kill black holes, there’s nothing you can do to affect them. You couldn’t smash comets into it to give it an atmosphere, it would just turn them into more black hole. You couldn’t fire a laser to extract material and reduce the mass, it would just turn your puny laser into more black hole. Antimatter, explosives, stars, rocks, paper, scissors…black hole beats them all. Repeat after me. “Om, nom, nom”. All we can do is wait for it to evaporate over incomprehensible lengths of time. There are a few snags with this strategy, such as it will remain as a black hole until the last two particles evaporate away. There’s no point where it would magically become a regular planetoid. That’s a full list of renovations for the cast and crew of “Pimp my Black Hole”. Let’s look at our options. You can move it, just like we can move the Earth. Throw stuff really close to a black hole, and you get it moving with gravity. You could make it spin faster by dropping stuff into it, right up until it’s rotating at the edge of the speed of light, and you can make it more massive. With that as our set of tools, there’s no way we’re ever going to live on a black hole. It could be possible to surround a black hole with a Dyson Sphere, like a star. It turns out there’s a way to have a pet black hole pay dividends aside from eating all your table scraps, shameful magazines and radioactive waste. By dropping matter into a black hole that’s spinning at close to the speed of light, you can actually extract energy from it.

In the list of crazy hypothetical ideas, terraforming the Sun has to be one of the top 10. So just how would someone go about doing terraforming our sun, a star, if they wanted to try? Support us at: http://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: http://www.universetoday.com/ Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Follow us on Tumblr: http://universetoday.tumblr.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Google+ - https://plus.google.com/+universetoday/ Instagram - http://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain Jason Harmer - @jasoncharmer Susie Murph - @susiemmurph Brian Koberlein - @briankoberlein Chad Weber - [email protected] Kevin Gill - @kevinmgill Created by: Fraser Cain and Jason Harmer Edited by: Chad Weber Music: Left Spine Down - “X-Ray” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tcoZNrSveE&feature=youtu.be In our series on terraforming other worlds. We’ve covered Mars, Venus, the Moon and Jupiter. Even though I solved the problem of how to terraform Jupiter, you’re welcome, science, you wanted to take things to the next level and you demanded I sort out how to terraform the Sun. Seriously? The Sun. Fine… here we go. Let’s see what we’ve got to work with here. It’s a massive ball of plasma, containing 333,000 times more mass than the Earth. It’s about 74% hydrogen and 25% helium with a few other trace elements. There’s no solid surface to stand on it, so we need to fix that. The average temperature on the surface of the Sun is about 5,500 Celsius, while the average temperature on Earth is about 15 C. Iron boils at only 2,800 degrees, so… that’s probably too hot. We’ll need to cool it down. The gravity on the surface of the Sun is 28 times the gravity of Earth. If you could stand on the surface of the Sun, which you can’t, you’d be crushed flat. Okay, so we’ll add reduce the gravity… check. There’s no breathable atmosphere, there’s no solid ground, the Sun generates deadly X-rays. Oh, and don’t forget about the terrible sunburns from the ultraviolet radiation. So, what’s the list? Hot fire unbreathable pressure cooker goo surface gravity crushing machine. Sounds impossible, or does it. First, the gas. As we covered in a previous episode, scientists have actually considered ways that you might extract the hydrogen and helium off of a star like the Sun, known as “stellar lifting”. There are a few ways you could work this. You could zap the surface of the Sun with a powerful laser, increasing the speed of solar wind in that area, forcing the Sun to throw its mass off into space. Another method is to set up powerful magnetic fields around the Sun’s poles, and channel its hydrogen into jets that blast out into space. I’m not sure how you actually set up those magnetic fields, but that’s not my problem. Once you’re done with the Sun, you’ve stripped away all its hydrogen and helium gas. What are you left with? About 5,600 times the mass of the Earth in heavier elements, like oxygen, silicon, gold, etc. Great! Except 5,600 sounds like a lot. Jupiter is only 316 times the mass of the Earth. We’re looking to reform a “planet” with more than 10 times the mass of Jupiter. And not only that, but we had to kill the Sun to make this work. You monsters. This is a terrible idea. What else could we do? If you’re a science fiction fan, you’ve heard of a Dyson Sphere. If not, you’ve got some TNG to catch up on. First proposed by Freeman Dyson, you cover an entire Sun in a metal ball. Instead of the measly amount of energy that falls on Earth, this would allow you to capture 100% of the energy released by the Sun: 384 yottawatts. According to Dyson and a variety of matheletes, you could dismantle all planets in the Solar System and build a sphere at a distance of 1 Earth radii at 8 to 20 centimeters thick. That would give you a surface area 550 million times more than the Earth. Although, building an actual rigid sphere is probably unfeasible because it would be pretty unstable and eventually collapse. It probably makes more sense to build a swarm of satellites surrounding the Sun, capturing its energy. We did a whole video on Dyson Spheres. Check it out here. So there you go. I just terraformed the Sun. I’m terrified about your next suggestion: how could you terraform a black hole? I guess that’ll be the next video. Would you like to live on my imagined terraformed Sun? If not, what about a Dyson Sphere or swarm? Thanks for watching! Never miss an episode by clicking subscribe. Our Patreon community is the reason these shows happen. We’d like to thank Nathan Miller and the rest of the members who support us in making great space and astronomy content. Members get advance access to episodes, extras, contests, and other shenanigans with Jay, myself and the rest of the team. Want to get in on the action? Click here.

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So just what would it take to terraform Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system? Support us at: http://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: http://www.universetoday.com/ Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Follow us on Tumblr: http://universetoday.tumblr.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Google+ - https://plus.google.com/+universetoday/ Instagram - http://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain Jason Harmer - @jasoncharmer Susie Murph - @susiemmurph Brian Koberlein - @briankoberlein Chad Weber - [email protected] Kevin Gill - @kevinmgill Created by: Fraser Cain and Jason Harmer Edited by: Chad Weber Music: Left Spine Down - “X-Ray” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tcoZNrSveE&feature=youtu.be Just a few videos ago, I blew minds with a “How to” on terraforming the Moon. Once we’ve developed a Solar System spanning civilization and have claimed mastery over the laws of physics, and have common-place technology which staggers and dwarf our current comprehension of what’s possible it should be easy enough. In fact, it might even be easier than terraforming Mars or Venus, as long as you keep a steady flow of gas to the Moon replenishing the constantly escaping atmosphere. And in the comments on that video, ABitOfTheUniverse threw down , he wants to know what it would take to terraform Jupiter. All right “ABitOfTheUniverse”, if that is your real name… I’m up for it. On the surface, this is madness. We already explained how Jupiter is completely and totally inhospitable to life. An alien started a “Build a star kit” and stopped a ⅓ of the way through, because he got bored and wandered away. Just like his Mom said he would. Jupiter is a ball of hydrogen and helium, which compresses these gasses to almost starlike temperatures and pressures. Fine, Jupiter is the absolute worst. It makes traveling to Venus look like a spa visit. Jupiter does have something we can work with. Astronomers think below the septillions tons of hydrogen and gas, there’s actually a rocky core. The mass of the core is still a mystery, but recent computer simulations put it at somewhere between 7 and 45 times the mass of the Earth, complete with plenty of water ices and other chemicals you might require on an Earthlike planet. Furthermore, this core may contain similar constituents as the internal structure of Earth. This means a central core of iron and nickel, surrounded by liquid metal, surrounded by rock. The problem is you need to strip away 95% of the planet’s mass. It’s all that hydrogen and helium, and that’s pretty much impossible. And almost completely impossible, is still very slightly completely possible. Jupiter is made of fuel. It’s like looking at a pool of gasoline and wondering if there was some way to get rid of it all. What good Solar System-spanning civilization hasn’t worked out hydrogen fusion? It’s a technology that’s probably only 30 years away from us now. You could fly a spacecraft down into Jupiter’s gravity well and scoop up hydrogen fuel from the clouds. Or you could create fusion-powered dirigibles filled with hot hydrogen, which float around the cloud tops of Jupiter, using their fusion reactors to spew hydrogen off into space. Over untold lengths of time, you could get at that rocky juicy center, once you stripped it of its hydrogen. Then you’ll need to do all that other stuff I mentioned in previous videos, to turn it into a habitable world. Sure, it’s a world with much higher gravity than Earth, but that’s not my problem. You said “Earthlike”. That’ll teach you to make wishes with a monkey’s paw! What if you need to move Jupiter first, perhaps a little closer to the Sun. There’s an awesome idea cooked up by Larry Niven in his book, “A World Out of Time”. It’s a fusion candle, and it lets you shift gas giants around. You take a long space station, and light up fusion thrusters on both ends. You dip one end down into the upper clouds, where it siphons hydrogen fuel. Both ends of the space station start blasting. One end keeps it from dropping down into the planet, and the other end pushes on the entire planet, pushing it around the Solar System. Instead of trying to terraform Jupiter, we could just push the planet closer to the Sun, where its icy moons warm up and become habitable themselves.

What would it take to transform our moon into a world we could live on? Support us at: http://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: http://www.universetoday.com/ Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Follow us on Tumblr: http://universetoday.tumblr.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Google+ - https://plus.google.com/+universetoday/ Instagram - http://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain Jason Harmer - @jasoncharmer Susie Murph - @susiemmurph Brian Koberlein - @briankoberlein Chad Weber - [email protected] Kevin Gill - @kevinmgill Created by: Fraser Cain and Jason Harmer Edited by: Chad Weber Music: Left Spine Down - “X-Ray” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tcoZNrSveE&feature=youtu.be In our episode about terraforming Venus, we talked about cooling the planet with a giant sunshade, and then hand-wavingly bind up all that carbon dioxide. We did the same with Mars, filling the atmosphere with greenhouse gasses to warm it up, and releasing the planet’s vast stores of C02 to thicken the atmosphere. Then just crash in a few comets worth of water and upgrade them to to a 3 star resort. We’re pitching this as a new series on the Discovery Network, called “Flip My Planet - Canada”. Now let’s turn our imagination towards another rockball that is really more of a fixer-upper: The Moon. I know, you never even thought of the Moon as a place that we could possibly terra-renovate. Go ahead and imagine with me all the possibilities of a verdant green and blue little world hanging in the night sky. Doesn’t that sound great? So, what does it take? Do we tear it down and just use the orbital lot space? Should we raise it up and lay a new foundation? Or could we get away with a few coats of paint and adding an atrium on the backside? Fortunately for me, scientist and sci-fi author Gregory “Planetary Makeover” Benford has already done the math. Let’s take a look at what we’d need to get the Moon habitable. For starters, the fact that the Moon is so close to Earth is a huge advantage. This is like living on the same block as a Home Depot, and we won’t have to travel far to get supplies and equipment to and from our project. We’re going to need an atmosphere thick enough to breathe and trap in the Sun’s heat. This takes wild comet capture and harvest, tear them apart and smash them into the Moon. Benford notes that you probably want be careful not to let an entire comet collide with the Moon because it might spray your primary investment home with debris and do a little damage to the resale value, or potentially annoy your tenants. This could get bad enough that we’d have to terraform Earth to get it livable again, and you’d need to bring in Mike Holmes to publicly shame us and put our primary residence back in order. After you’d splattered a few comets on the Moon, it would have an atmosphere almost immediately. The transfer of momentum from the comet chunks would get the Moon rotating more rapidly. If you invest a little more in your planning stage, you could get the Moon spinning once every 24 hours, and even tilt its axis to get seasons. Benford estimates that we’d need 100 Halley’s mass comets to get the job done. This might sound like a pretty tall order, but it’s tiny compared to number of comets we’d need for your Mars or Venus real estate scheme. The maintenance and upkeep isn’t going to be without its challenges. Low gravity on the Moon means that it can’t hold onto its atmosphere for longer than a few thousand years. Once you got the process going, you’d need to be constantly replenishing our your orbital cottage with fresh atmosphere. Fortunately, we’ve got a whole Solar System’s worth of ice to exploit. The benefits of a terraformed summer home on the Moon are numerous. For example, if the Moon had an atmosphere as thick as the Earth’s, you could strap on a pair of wings and fly around in the 1/6th gravity. The enormous gravity of the Earth would pull the Moon’s oceans around the planet with 20 meter tides. You could surf the tide for kilometers as it washes across the surface in a miniature version of the shallow water scene in Interstellar. This might be the greatest sponsorship opportunity for GoPro of all time. Look out Kiteboarding, you’re about to get more extreme. Everyone always wants to talk about terraforming Venus or Mars. Let them be, that’s too much work. The next time someone brings it up at D&D night, you can blow their minds with your well crafted argument on why we want to start with the Moon.

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A hypothetic future of our neighbour planet Venus. In this example, Venus might have been terraformed partially. Plants have been put onto the surface to produce oxygen after reducing pressure and heat. Please watch my other Videos for flights above Mars and Venus. Please enjoy my further animations of mars and Venus terraforming at https://youtu.be/5oSeGZNM4AA https://youtu.be/DJahK6kypG0 https://youtu.be/a0DOjIAk1LI https://youtu.be/0m3-CRjBEa0 https://youtu.be/mqRhawgcXjI https://youtu.be/iWk5WHmtGvM https://youtu.be/L-E_l23uzTo https://youtu.be/C3F_eEwvXgs

flight above the surface of a hypothetic terraformed mars. in this animation, a hypothetic atmosphere has been created by melting hidden ice after warming up the surface. additional heat might have been produced by using vast mirrors in space reflecting additional sunlight onto the surface before plant growth. Please enjoy my further animations of mars and Venus terraforming at https://youtu.be/5oSeGZNM4AA https://youtu.be/DJahK6kypG0 https://youtu.be/a0DOjIAk1LI https://youtu.be/0m3-CRjBEa0 https://youtu.be/P_jc8pBIAug https://youtu.be/mqRhawgcXjI https://youtu.be/L-E_l23uzTo https://youtu.be/C3F_eEwvXgs

Are there ways to terraform Mars -- that is, make it habitable for humans? Some scientists think so. They have big plans, but they also face some big obstacles. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/artist/52/SciShow Or help support us by subscribing to our page on Subbable: https://subbable.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Thanks Tank Tumblr: http://thankstank.tumblr.com Sources: http://meteorite.unm.edu/site_media/pdf/BringingLife.pdf http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast09feb_1/ http://www.fromquarkstoquasars.com/terraforming-mars/ http://www.universetoday.com/9730/zubrin-on-terraforming-mars/ http://science.howstuffworks.com/terraforming.htm http://www.pbs.org/exploringspace/mars/terraforming/no_flash.html http://io9.com/5868115/how-we-will-terraform-mars http://www.marssociety.org/home/press/news/howwewillterraformmars

One day, it might be possible to live on Mars without a spacesuit! How could this be possible? Trace explains the process of terraforming in order to one day live on the Red Planet. Get 15% off http://www.domain.com’s s domain names and web hosting when you use coupon code DNEWS at checkout! Read More: How long can a human survive in outer space? http://science.howstuffworks.com/question540.htm “Outer space is an extremely hostile place. If you were to step outside a spacecraft, such as the International Space Station, or on a world with little or no atmosphere such as the moon or Mars without the protection of a space suit, then the following things would happen:” Here’s The Longest You Could Survive On Mars Wearing Only Jeans And A T-Shirt http://www.businessinsider.com/how-long-can-you-survive-on-mars-2013-9 “Mars is a cold world, full of deserts and containing very little oxygen or gravity.” Is it possible to terraform Mars? http://science.howstuffworks.com/terraform-mars.htm “Think of Mars as a massive fixer-upper. Sure, it's nowhere nearly as nice as our current planetary home, but perhaps with a little work we could live there.” How We Will Terraform Mars http://io9.com/5868115/how-we-will-terraform-mars “NASA's latest Mars rover, Curiosity, is currently its way to Mars, on a mission to explore whether life could exist there.” Should We Terraform Mars? http://www.universetoday.com/91920/should-we-terraform-mars/ “As we continue to explore farther out into our solar system and beyond, the question of habitation or colonization inevitably comes up.” Trouble With Terraforming Mars http://www.science20.com/robert_inventor/trouble_terraforming_mars-126407 “Most science fiction and news stories describe Mars terraforming as a long term but simple process.” Which Planet Would Be Easier to Terraform: Venus or Mars? http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2013/09/12/outer_space_can_we_make_mars_or_venus_habitable.html “Simple answer: Mars, because it already has a day which is about the right length, and heating planets is easier than cooling them.” Terraforming and the Future of Humans in Space http://www.astro.umd.edu/~miller/teaching/astr380f09/lecture27.pdf “Human colonization of other planets, even in our Solar System, is a long way away.” How to Terraform the Moon http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/07/terraforming_the_moon_it_would_be_a_lot_like_florida.2.html “As more comets arrive and pellets pelt down, the moon spins faster. From its lazy ‘day’ cycle of 28 days, it speeds up to a 60 hours—close enough to Earthlike, as they say, for government work.” Watch More: Using Salt to Find Life on Mars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJpdAm8C4kw TestTube Wild Card http://testtube.com/dnews/dnews-462-cool-sound-waves?utm_campaign=DNWC&utm_medium=DNews&utm_source=YT How Are We Looking for Aliens? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFwjoXKo9lE ____________________ DNews is dedicated to satisfying your curiosity and to bringing you mind-bending stories & perspectives you won't find anywhere else! New videos twice daily. Watch More DNews on TestTube http://testtube.com/dnews Subscribe now! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=dnewschannel DNews on Twitter http://twitter.com/dnews Trace Dominguez on Twitter https://twitter.com/tracedominguez Tara Long on Twitter https://twitter.com/TaraLongest Laci Green on Twitter http://twitter.com/gogreen18 DNews on Facebook https://facebook.com/DiscoveryNews DNews on Google+ http://gplus.to/dnews Discovery News http://discoverynews.com Download the TestTube App: http://testu.be/1ndmmMq

It might be possible to terraform Venus some day, when our technology gets good enough. The challenges for Venus are totally different than for Mars. How will we need to fix Venus?

If we really want to live on Mars, we're going to need to do a complete renovation. We'll need to thicken the atmosphere, warm the planet, and get the liquid water flowing. What'll it take?

Fair warning: I have no scientific authority backing me up beyond the fact that I'm such a geek. Let's tackle our third immediate contender: the Moon! Impact Moderato by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Fair warning: I have no scientific authority backing me up beyond the fact that I'm such a geek. After how the Mars video worked out, I felt like doing a sequel. The music is: Decisions by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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The search for life on Mars begins on Earth. Directed by James Yeats Smith https://community.mars-one.com/ Follow Mars One Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/tc_e9 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarsOneProject Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarsOneProject Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marsoneproject/ Google+: https://plus.google.com/+Mars-one/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mars-one Pinterest: https://pinterest.com/marsoneproject/

[Sorry for the tiny audio sync issues] How we can transform Mars into a habitable planet, from the Documentary - Mars Underground

SpaceEthics2261 - Christopher McKay - Terraforming Mars

Made to supplement a high school oral presentation on space colonisation Film Clips: "The Mars Underground" (2007 Documentary) Music: "This is Gallifrey, Our Childhood, Our Home" - Murray Gold

What is this? This is my idea of a fanciful technique of terraforming Pluto and its major satellite Charon. How: The double planet system orbits around a barycenter that is above the surface of Pluto. The two are tidally locked so they are always facing each other. The long pole between them is a carbon nanotube mega structure to bridge the both of them. I call it the River Styx. Then I domed both and turned on the lights. Add some scifi hand waving and you take the raw materials and eventually form new worlds. Look closely and you can see coastlines and city lights and blue oceans under the clouds. Is that how Pluto really looks? Not really. But we can infer the the coloring because of space telescope images, we can tell light and dark spots and even brown coloring on the surface. I just took an available low resolution color map of Pluto and super imposed it on a map of the moon Ganymede. I'm a little disappointed it came out so dark. THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE!: No shit. But I don't care. It took 2 computers a solid week of rendering time to make this and I think it's awesome. Music is Two Steps from Hell: Album: The Devil Wears Nada: After the Fall.

- music from "The Island" (Steve Jablonsky) - video from "Mars: Making the New Earth" aka. "Living on Mars" (National Geographic)

Rather than hauling heavy atmospheric pumps from earth, the way to create a habitable atmosphere on Mars is to take advantage of its own topology, geography and nature. Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/dr-kakus-universe/the-cheapest-way-to-terraform-mars Follow Big Think here: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/bigthink Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BigThinkdotcom Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Transcript: Let's be blunt.  It will take centuries to terraform Mars.  Mars is a gigantic planet, roughly on the order of half the size of the planet Earth. The key is not to bring pumps to the planet Mars because it costs too much money. The way to do it is to take advantage of Mars' own topology, geography and nature.Beneath the surface of Mars is lots of carbon dioxide.  If you could heat up the planet a little bit that will release carbon dioxide and initiate a greenhouse effect, which will then melt more ice and let more carbon dioxide come up, so in other words, you have an autocatalytic effect.  You just have to jumpstart it.  Once you jumpstart it more carbon dioxide creates more temperature.  It heats up the planet, which releases more carbon dioxide.  So then the question is how do you jumpstart it?  A number of mechanisms have been proposed; greenhouse effects, hydrogen bombs, nuclear power plants to raise the temperature of Mars a little bit and that will then set off a chain reaction releasing even more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.  That's the cheapest way to take advantage of the carbon dioxide that already exists rather than hauling pumps and generators from the Earth to Mars.