Why should SpaceX and NASA do this!?

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So, you've probably seen those comments when you scroll down each week. People that don’t understand why we are so thrilled to see the investment into space technology like huge rockets and complex moon missions. Maybe you’ve even thought to yourself, “Why is SpaceX Starship and NASA's Investments in Artemis so Critical?” or "Why are we spending all this money on moon missions when there are so many problems here on Earth?" It's a fair question and I don’t think anyone can argue that there are plenty of great ways to spend money fixing the issues right here. Well my friends, there is a bunch of technologies being developed right now by SpaceX and NASA that we believe will not only inspire the world, but provide real useful technology and funding to do exactly that. To make the world better right here for us all. More recently, there have been astounding insights into what is coming and I think you might be surprised.
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@m_sedziwoj 12 днів тому

Money spend on rockets is not send to space, is paid to engineers, factories and similar, so it is put in progress of technology, and people which can work for others projects. I think too many people forgetting that money are not send to space.

@aldunlop4622 12 днів тому

Exactly, most of the money is spent on Earth, in jobs, those jobs pay taxes, and those workers buy goods and services, and they generate taxes. So, much of the money is actually an investment, not a cost.

@plainText384 12 днів тому

That's obvious. But what does go to space is the product of their work. From the miners digging up the aluminum to the engineers and scientists designing the spacecraft, lots of people are spending loads of time to create something that goes to space. And through taxes a little bit of everyone else's time and work goes towards enabling that. We could, instead, be putting that time, those working hours, towards, for example, building out more wind turbines.

@m_sedziwoj 12 днів тому

@@plainText384 and build maybe 1% more, do you even know how many people work in each industry? That something is flashy, don't mean is big.

@plainText384 12 днів тому

@m_sedziwoj the Artemis program will cost about 93 billion dollars from 2012 to 2025. For reference, Biden's bipartisan infrastructure law (Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act) dedicated about 73 billion dollars in additional funding towards upgrading power infrastructure. These aren't insignificant sums of tax dollars.

@Garryck-1 12 днів тому

@@plainText384 - People forget that every single cent spent on the Apollo Moon missions, paid for itself 100 times over, both in monetary terms, and in quality of life improvements, in less than 20 years. By now, that number is probably 1000 times over. Going to Mars, and returning to the Moon, will do the exact same thing again.

@karlthemel2678 12 днів тому

We spend more money (by a factor of about 10) fighting wars than developing space. Many nations went bankrupt through war expenditures, but none ever went bankrupt through space development expenditures. Still, most people say that space is a waste of money.

@4Fixerdave 11 днів тому

The vast majority of money spent on space development was actually just another form of "war expenditures." When the military competition was decided, funding was seriously cut. The sad part is that all the listed benefits in this video are easily 100x more for war. Nearly everything we have, all the way back to that first thrown rock, was to fight. Other uses came later. The argument that space exploration is a good way to fuel product development is... contestable on a number of fronts. Far better to just say that we fund space exploration because enough people want to, and we live in a democracy.

@qwerty112311 11 днів тому

@@4Fixerdave”it’s a democracy and people want it.” lmao

@Kloppin4H0rses 10 днів тому

@@4Fixerdave I'd rather live in the stone age than fight more wars though. I am so done with all this, entirely and absolutely, unjustified and utterly pointless fighting. Reading Ukrainians and Russians having talks online about how neither want these conflicts, or Iranians and Israelis talking about how indifferent they really are toward one another, prove that these wars are just the pet projects of egotistical maniacal men of power.

@4Fixerdave 10 днів тому

@@Kloppin4H0rses Agreed on the last part, but you'll have to go back a lot farther than the stone age to predate war. Even chimps throw rocks at each other. In fact, the archaeological evidence says that 25% of each generation of chimps and early hunter-gatherer humans end up killed by others of their own species. Mostly patrols killing individuals in boarder areas. But yeah, 25%. That's why we started making our rocks and sticks sharper. Oh, last century that death rate went down to 6%, and that includes both world wars. This century, it stands a reasonable chance of being a lot less. It's a weird bit of history but it seems the more lethal we make our weapons the less of us die from them, so far. Percentage-wise anyway.

@daniell1869 8 днів тому

no, most people do not say that. only a few loud mouthbreathers

@KingCovfefe 12 днів тому

Here I was expecting a normal weekly update, but instead was smacked with one of the best monologues on pushing the boundaries I've ever heard. Well done Marcus.

@MarcusHouse 11 днів тому

Thank you! Nice to make something a bit different.

@davidgifford8112 12 днів тому

If all the money currently spent on space exploration were spent on Earth to make it a better place, it would be drop in the ocean, no one would notice the difference. Spending the money on space may provide a new ways, innovation, to help humanity here on earth in ways we cannot imagine today. Satellite based weather prediction has probably saved substantial numbers of lives alone!

@danharold3087 12 днів тому

The waste is in bureaucracy and and the unfeathered for profit medical system with insurance.

@wrwhiteal 12 днів тому

Don’t mistake NASA self-serving PR propaganda, wishful thinking, or populist hype for objective analysis, confusing things Nasa USED that were developed by private enterprise or academia: For example, NASA didn't invent Tang, Velcro, ball point pens, transistors, Integrated Circuits, Teflon, GPS, computers, microchips, cell phones, carbon fiber, the internet, solar cells, fuel cells, pintel rocket engines…..or much of anything else. Giving NASA credit for the technology it uses/touts is like giving a rooster credit for sunrise.

@plainText384 11 днів тому

Artemis cost about 93 billion from 2012 - 2025. That's not an insignificant amount. Sure, the US spends about 10x that on the military EACH YEAR, so it's not like Artemis is the number 1 drain on the national wallet, but 100 billion dollars is still a LOT of money. 100 billion dollars isn't enough to fix all our problems, but if the Artemis budget was allocated to something else, you'd definitely notice.

@bobdalton2062 11 днів тому

@@plainText384If Artemis funding stopped I would notice the war escalating in Ukraine, while Americans deal with all the economic issues at home like open borders. No benefit

@gnaskar 11 днів тому

@@plainText384 93 billion out of a federal budget of 69,082 billion in the same period. 0.13%. I don't know about you, but in my world 0.1% is an insignificant amount.

@gnaskar 12 днів тому

Important to note: People tend to love debunking the list of stuff invented for space programs. Many of those technologies did exist before the space program used them, it's true. But they weren't ready for mass deployment or mass adoption before they got the attention and funding that came with being used by NASA.

@davebenhart4611 10 днів тому

And other companies realizing that if NASA could use it to "send those heroes into space" (as the thinking went in the 60s) then it would be good to look at for their company too.

@otakumagnet8106 9 днів тому

Sadly, NASA has a long history of putting the lives/wellbeing of astronauts in a far secondary position to cost cutting to maintain profits.

@davebenhart4611 9 днів тому

NASA doesn't have profits.

@jamiem7007 8 днів тому

@@otakumagnet8106 They also have a long history of spending tons of money and being years late, but launching relatively safe vehicles. SpaceX now does it even safer for a fraction of the cost and time.

@daniell1869 8 днів тому

@@davebenhart4611 seriously. what a dumb comment. NASA is not a for-profit company, that's the mind of a simple capitalist and whats wrong with this country

@glennbeattie6172 11 днів тому

"Why spend money on sending people to the moon." I know a ton of people, I wish they were on the moon.

@Ron4885 10 днів тому

😂👍

@0x4b55 10 днів тому

moon is not far enough; orbit around saturn would be better

@JustThankless 12 днів тому

Magellan's boat and crew where not free, so glad they did not sit at home and instead mapped a path to sail around the world. Without doubt many said that knowledge was useless and it was a stupid thing to do when they set sail.

@billygoat520 11 днів тому

Magellan was looking for riches, those who proceeded him like De Gama were looking for sea routes to Asia for spices, which also led to colonialism and empires. In other words they were looking for a direct return for the capital invested.

@dirgemcelvoy2583 10 днів тому

@@billygoat520 no different to space explorers, they are utilising the resources so they can fund future endevours.

@MarcusAgrippa390 12 днів тому

The fact is that there have always been problems we need to solve and there always will be, regardless of any government or private sector spending.

@davidgifford8112 12 днів тому

NERVA was developed in the 1960s, intended as nuclear rocket tugs and propulsion for an Apollo follow on program for a manned mission to Mars. Cancelled in the 1970s.

@i-love-space390 11 днів тому

Thank you Richard Nixon and the lefties in Congress. Nixon was a miser and the "spend the money on Earth" people were idealistic, deluded, short sighted and had no concept of the difference between giving the poor a fish to eat and developing fishing pole technology and teaching them to fish.

@lazynow1 11 днів тому

its was started in the 1950's get your facts correct...Jesus...

@georgemullen737 11 днів тому

Nasa didn't cancel this due to budget... it was due to the fact the math says , NO. ITS NOT A VIABLE WAY TO SEND A BASIC COLONY TO MARS. THATS THE FACT! BUT THERE IS A VIABLE Way... thank. Anymore scientist 😌

@somedude4805 12 днів тому

The financial black hole is Boeing, Starliner, and SLS. SpaceX is changing THAT.

@mervstash3692 12 днів тому

😂😂😂 it's literally the opposite of that fella.

@drproactive1 12 днів тому

Totally agree.

@gogakholuashvili5124 12 днів тому

Spacex will never get to the moon unfortunately. If u look at the mission architecture, you would know.

@romeogarbett4047 12 днів тому

@@mervstash3692Your not seriously defending Boing’s Starliner and the SLS Program, are you? Both programs are way to expensive for what they deliver as well as Starliner being completely abundant due to Dragon. In regards of SLS just watch Everyday Astronauts Video.

@UpperDarbyDetailing 12 днів тому

@@romeogarbett4047redundant*

@WilliamGrout 12 днів тому

Excellent presentation! I was 10 when Apollo 11 landed on the moon and grew up to work a number of years at Rocket Research (as it was known when I started working there). I was hands on with the development of EHT or electrical heated thrusters. I also had the unique experience working at Kennedy Space Center loading propellant on a NASA space satellite which felt like a childhood dream come true. I am following the rapid developments in space related technology with great interest, and your channel is much appreciated! Still have a ways to go to catch up with 2001 A Space Odyssey, another childhood inspiration.....

@GeraltofRivia5150 12 днів тому

Imagine where we would be if Apollo had been allowed to continue on to Mars.

@MustacheMerlin 11 днів тому

"Where we'd be" Mars, probably

@TheosEpicVideos 11 днів тому

We’d be on Mars I reckon.

@WJV9 9 днів тому

Apollo couldn't get to Mars and back with humans on board, not enough air, water, food, etc. Apollo was a moon mission only and it was only a 'sling-shot' with just enough fuel to get out of earth orbit temporarily and make a loop to moon orbit and back. I worked as an Electronic Engineer servicing programmable aerospace test equipment that tested the Apollo capsule when it was being built by North American Aviation in Downy, CA back in 1960's.

@adamadamadamadam 7 днів тому

It could have advanced and evolve into a more advanced program that could reach Mars. That was the plan all along until funding was cut.

@GeraltofRivia5150 7 днів тому

@@adamadamadamadam Thats the point I was trying to make. Thank you sir.

@SjMk1. 12 днів тому

The problems on this Earth is not a lack of money, there's plenty of it, its the way it is spent.

@Defort-jd8xe 12 днів тому

US are giving away another 60 billion to (proven) neo nazis to fight a lost war just so the senate members can make cash through multi billion military contracts. To put it in perspective.. you could make like 700 Starship rockets for that money.

@epsilon1670 12 днів тому

All lot of people seem to not grasp that just throwing money at a problem doesn't resolve the fundamental problem. A lot of world issues are cultural. So you could provide a home for all the homeless people great homelessness solved but in reality you haven't solved the issue of why they was homeless in the first place just giving them a home doesn't fix the problem. Some might be terrible at managing finances, some might be addict etc etc.

@MrQwerty3000 12 днів тому

And that we keep going to war with each other and need people to work hard to pay taxes to keep wars funded. We're all basically working to ensure we can afford to wipe each other out! Sad but true 🥲

@Defort-jd8xe 12 днів тому

60 billion send to fans of the number 88.. thats nearly 700 starship rockets.

@edwardcullen1739 12 днів тому

@@Defort-jd8xe Shhh! You're not allowed to criticise the politicians... They know better than you. Obviously.

@dalee.9128 11 днів тому

I will say what a lot of people don't think about is the possibilities of industry. Moving some of the very polluting industries such as concrete or even metal refining to space with the use of asteroids will have a high up front cost, but as time goes on it will become cheaper and cheaper when we don't need to bring things up from the surface. 90% of the fuel is for just getting out of earth's gravity. Imagine how far things could go if we had minimal shuttles that only run in orbit. That is the future they're working on. Not just a waste of money, but a way to rid our only home of pollution and industries that actively harm our ecosystem and human health. I just hope that our future will be one where we can clean up our planet.

@dannyunixanalyst9018 11 днів тому

For me, the biggest reason for expanding into space is simple... we wilfully ignore the fact that we are massively vulnerable while we exist on one blue marble. One single piece of rock from space can end it all. As far as we know we are the only conciousness in the entire universe. We have a responsibility to ensure the future of this remarkable phenomenon.

@JeffreyBue_imtxsmoke 11 днів тому

Being a materials engineer by trade, I've always been of the belief that human technological progress has always been limited by our mastery. or lack thereof, of materials required to do the job. We have a great future ahead of us if we would stop fighting each other.

@stephen35235 11 днів тому

Marcus, I've been enjoying your videos for a few years now and have never commented. This one, my friend, had me jumping for my keyboard... I believe you've hit the ball out of the ballpark! Magnificent!! 👍🏼

@gregrtodd 12 днів тому

One important reason that you didn't mention Marcus: Exploration is what we do -it's deeply woven into our DNA. We left the caves, and wondered what was in the next valley, what was beyond those distant hills. We came to deserts and crossed them. Followed the coastline to see where it would take us. We sailed the oceans and took to the air. Climbed the mountains, ventured to the bottom of the seas, and left footprints in moondust. Humans are explorers at heart, and space is what's next.

@RENO_K 12 днів тому

💀💀💀 humanity has populated every single corner of the globe There is no place in this world untouched by humans be it now or back then

@Mrbfgray 12 днів тому

Simple to think it's either or. SpaceX exists from a certain passion, not realistic to expect that particular drive is transferable to any other. Toss out the likes of SpaceX and what have you gained exactly? That *wealth was created* for THAT purpose, not a zero sum game. The world long ago depends on nearby space access, it's how the neighsayers communicate. lol. SpaceX is freeing up 90% of the wealth required to get there.

@MarcusHouse 12 днів тому

100 %

@BeheldtheSerpentSTEAMAcademy 12 днів тому

I love replies where people give credence to the passion of discovery from carbon based bipedal chemical reactions that formed 3.8 billion years ago by random chance and unguided natural processes as a product of complex chemistry, then mention DNA, an information system, which also is a product of random chance, then get mad if you mention intelligent design and suggest design is all an illusion. The mental midgetness and contraryness (my isms), of one’s worldview is absolutely fascinating. Good on you mate!

@oldtimer2662 12 днів тому

We are more than trilled 😛 Need too spend more money 💰🤑 At least all the new commercial space companies are doing this 🧐 Government’s fail unless they need to prove something that gets votes 🤪 Let’s go to the moon and beyond 🚀 Thank you Dr House 👽

@jamesf333 12 днів тому

Once again Marcus, brilliant. Enjoy your enthusiasm, enjoy your collaborations with other such as Scott Manley. Keep up the great work! Much love from Newcastle Australia. (Tassie rocks by the way!)

@kevindimauro9689 11 днів тому

“3D printing structures using lunar soil.” All we need to do is get the printing equipment up there and provide power for them.

@aleksanderwierzejski1346 12 днів тому

You totally nailed it, Marcus. Congratulations and greetings from Warsaw, Poland. BTW. should I say that this is what I'm thinking ever since I've heard of Mass Collonial Transporter.

@run369 12 днів тому

Marcus - you remain maybe the best source of information about space technology on the web. This video, however, is sort of preaching to the choir. Am curious what motivated this topic considering your usual saturday content. Thank you for the awesome channel!

@ismailnyeyusof3520 11 днів тому

19:48 Marcus’ closing line ‘I hope you enjoy this video…’ really hit me hard this time. Why do we spend money on space exploration instead of spending it here making Earth a better place is well answered here. Basically it centres on the concept of sustainability. Civilisations rise and fall depending on its sustainability and it all comes down to the development of technology. Technology that has been stress tested to failure and built from there is the very basis of sustainability and a robust civilisation and the ultimate stress test is found in interstellar space. Man didn’t return to the moon for 50 years becaause it took that long to develop the technology based on just a brief excursion to the lunar surface to create sustainable life support systems!

@kenhazelbaker4952 7 днів тому

Marvelous research and perspectives Marcus and Team. Thanks for grounding our dreams with significant possibilities as well as the reality of history to date. Timely and well done!

@davecoleman6855 11 днів тому

You need to read Robert Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"

@URnickel_MY2cents 11 днів тому

Thank you for explaining to those who weren't aware, the great amount of scientific discoveries that space exploration has provided to *_ALL_* of humanity !!!

@dog-loverjohn1379 День тому

Super presentation Marcus, thanks ever so much! It's a topic those of us interested in space often get asked about and you've provided us there with a wealth of information to draw on!!

@ericprothero9412 11 днів тому

Fabulous video - the “why” is just as important as the “how”

@wombatillo 12 днів тому

He3 is actually one of the few elements that might be worth retrieving from the lunar surface and returning to Earth surface.

@agsystems8220 11 днів тому

By the time helium 3 becomes useful we will be far better off getting it from Uranus. There's nothing on the moon worth bringing to earth. It is however far easier to get to geostationary orbit from, and beaming energy from there is surprisingly viable.

@wombatillo 11 днів тому

@@agsystems8220 Yeah, lunar aluminum, oxygen and titanium might be quite useful for orbital manufacturing but that also is at least 20 years away, probably realistically 30.

@SCComega 9 днів тому

The amount of He3 on the moon is overblown by pop culture, and is in only trace amounts in the regolith - sure, it can be extracted, but you can just as easily get He3 out of fission. (And Tritium, which is easier to use for fusion anyway)

@metalhead2550 12 днів тому

This video is a fantastic explanation for why everyone should be excited about the invention of space travel enabling technologies. Space travel is the reason that we have solar panels at the amazingly cheap cost point that they are at now!

@sfisherproductions7100 11 днів тому

Hey Marcus , love all your work covering the latest in spacex and other ventures, I truely enjoyed this Segway about future technology and potential uses on earth. Great work

@Kevin_Street 11 днів тому

Thanks for another great video! Love these deeper dives. I think there's a direct correlation between life support in space and designing more efficient structures on Earth. If you can "close the loop" and recycle water in a space station, then the same technology could be used to recycle water in a building or even a city on Earth. Similarly, technologies that recycle air and heat in space can help teach us how to create more efficient sealed buildings on Earth that maintain their internal temperature without active heating or cooling. The result is a dramatically lowered environmental footprint as we use less water and power for things like air conditioning.

@parkertazelaar 12 днів тому

This is one of the best videos you have ever made. You really nailed the "why". It's really easy, and quite frankly lazy, for people to simply dismiss space travel and its importance. Thank you Marcus!

@MarcusHouse 12 днів тому

Glad it was helpful!

@raymondgrose9118 12 днів тому

Great video Marcus. A bit refreshing from the usual launch pad development videos from SpaceX

@nabormendonca5742 12 днів тому

In other words, a good “filler” video. 😏

@raybailey3475 12 днів тому

Superb work Marcus, as always. A compelling summary & a useful cheat sheet or list of reminder prompts, to refer back to, whenever we are faced with associates or friends who challenge us to justify these commercial space passions & endeavours.

@Maungateitei 7 днів тому

When Elons Falcon 9 mission to 520km with 5 Astronauts Altitude taught him that 3 days at that altitude gave them as high a radiation dose as 9months on the ISS at 370km and the Proton belt only gets really hot from 1500 to 20000 km Altitude, and Solar Energetic Proton Events, outside the Earth's Magnetosphere, are similar, meaning radiation doses would be similar to many thousands of years on the ISS, any chance of humans riding his or NASAs capsules to the moon or Mars ended.

@bigdogben 12 днів тому

A truly exciting future!!

@domiwerner4199 12 днів тому

Thanks for being so reliable. Literally planning my day by the second. I just sat down with a coffee i bought, and reloading UKposts shows ypur Video just on time ;)

@MarcusHouse 12 днів тому

It was actually a fairly quiet week in space news so I decided to double down and focus on finally getting this video we've been working on for ages finalised. You would be amazed how many people leave comments with a negative opinion about the investment in space research and exploration.

@domiwerner4199 12 днів тому

I read this comments myself regularly. Thanks for this video!

@howsmydriving99 11 днів тому

Thank you, Marcus, for this week's diversion into the reasons why we're exploring space and the widespread benefits of our need to "invent our way" thru the obstacles that stand in our way. Your posts are one of the highlights of my weekends!

@williamlambdin9817 11 днів тому

Great video, BTW!! Love your enthusiasm !

@getinthespace7715 12 днів тому

If NASA were allowed to cancel SLS it would save Billions a year. As soon as SpaceX has Starship flying regularly... SLS is obsolete.

@dinojohn1 12 днів тому

Right On. SLS is a huge waste 🗑. ..Elon for President

@codeforce5556 12 днів тому

😂

@kokomo9764 12 днів тому

SLS is already obsolete and was from day one of the project.

@ltdees2362 12 днів тому

The government space program has become ludacris...Artemis Fartemis...Earth view from space is beautiful, appearing serene and peaceful...and I'm from Mars...We'll screw it up 😎

@londo776 12 днів тому

Starship is never going fly regularly.

@bewaremyswirlyblades6775 12 днів тому

SpaceX needs a flame trench or lifted launch mount with the ground level being the trench. there needs to be a catch tower further from the propellant tanks and quick mover to the launch tower...maybe a rail car that can be moved under the rocket. Just my ho

@yvonnesteen2327 11 днів тому

did you know musk rejected the Army corps of engineers initial offer for a flame trench design? the stage 0 problems are his own fault.

@richardloewen7177 10 днів тому

Disagree with Yvonne: Coastal locations mean water table up to the surface. No flame trench. NASA bypassed that limits by lots of acreage l, lots of money, and only the beginnings of hostile-attitude environmental lobby. They made a huge ramp system,well above the water table. For musk: less money, MUCH less room, and an active hostile environment lobby.

@erickessler6094 12 днів тому

Haha, A fun and informative Reporrt! Thx! Cheers, Eric

@leewalden892 12 днів тому

Good stuff Troop Much Appreciated

@4077Disc 12 днів тому

I make the PICA heatshield material that is used for interplanetary re-entry vehicles (Osiris Rex, Dragonfly, basically every Mars lander in the last 20 years, etc). The NASA based projects at my company are ~5% of the total revenue on any given year. The only other customer we have is the Department of Defense in its various forms. Our primary product is reinforced carbon-carbon for the pointy and flame-y ends of very high powered missiles. Yes, we spent billions on fancy NASA projects that seem like that don't solve any problems for the average human here on Earth. What people forget is that we spent TRILLIONS on weapons that, best case scenario, sit in a warehouse until we have to pay billions to decommission them decades later. IMO, that's the only argument you need to justify the worthiness of these NASA projects, but this video highlights the cherry on top of spending money on this stuff, of which there are many.

@lingeriedeparis7274 11 днів тому

The expression is science for science sake. Don't you want to know what the moon is made out of cheese?

@discombubulate2256 12 днів тому

i'm most excited about building ships in orbit.

@MaxKito2 11 днів тому

I’m all about space too, but As long as corruption remains on all present humanity issues, nothing will change.

@richardknapp570 11 днів тому

Thank you for the reminder of all the ways pushing boundaries forward causes changes for all.

@romain5967 12 днів тому

@Marcus House Fantastic video. It's really important that an understanding of this is spread. Another thing that I often see in your comments is people shutting others down; often in a quite malicious way, because they shared a thought or opinion that contradicts the ideal plan for things. I think it could have a non negligible effect if you did another video in the same style and format as this, talking about the importance of respecting and discussing all opinions, no matter how much you might dislike them. I really hope you see this comment and give it some thought.

@MarcusHouse 12 днів тому

Thanks. I love such comments that inspire future videos. Thanks also for taking the time.

@benjaminjackson8663 12 днів тому

The main fallacy for me is those who act like "terraforming Mars" is only a few years away, when we're struggling to maintain livable conditions here on the MOST OPTIMAL PLANET FOR LIFE. If we can't get things balanced out here, we have zero hope of doing it on a barren radiation-heavy desert planet like Mars.

@primrosereceptionist611 11 днів тому

Earth needs a "Lifeboat".🚣‍♂

@MustacheMerlin 11 днів тому

Well, we actually do know a lot of ways we could terraform Earth, though. Geoengineering is a thing. We just absolutely refuse to even try to do it in case it goes wrong... since we kinda live here. The part where Mars is a big empty planet without anybody living there makes it pretty ideal for testing all those geoengineering ideas we're unwilling to try on Earth. The main blocker to doing "terraforming" on Earth is not technical or industrial limitations, it's political. We have the technology to try, but not to do it without accidentally killing everyone or putting the ecosystem out of whack. We probably will be way better at terraforming Mars than we are at terraforming Earth. It's way easier to fuck around with a planet you aren't currently living on.

@bertoluccib6175 11 днів тому

Nuclear power in France has its drawbacks also: Quite a few were constructed near rivers for cooling water - which dried up so much in recent years that these reactors had to be shut down during summer (running at lower power not being possible unlike with gas or coal plants). The inability to run nuclear power stations at lower power levels leads to other issues like France having too much energy during summer (where Germany profits from it, getting cheap electricity), only to not be enough during winter (where France has to buy renewable energy from its neighbors)... I really liked your closing remarks about us humans working together on such projects worldwide - thinking about ISS being one of the only thing "the world" (well, the western world) talks to the Russians at the moment.

@CheMechanical 11 днів тому

Thank you for this very inspirational video.

@aquanano1 12 днів тому

That map at minute 6 may give hopes to flat earthers... 😁

@Mosern1977 12 днів тому

Hehe, except when they want to explain how cargo ships travel from China and Japan to the US west coast....

@Ylin_nilY 12 днів тому

Lmao😂

@bobfels5343 12 днів тому

lol and we still call it atmosphere :P

@raedwulf61 12 днів тому

And we got Tang.

@kgbuller7597 11 днів тому

Worth it.

@iwayini 11 днів тому

Wow what a video to produce. Must have taken ages to write the script and then to get all the video clips. Well done team Marcus.

@gccchc2449 11 днів тому

Glad to have a deep dive content video. The news videos can get ordinary due to the repetitive nature of routine launches.

@Klaatu-ij9uz 12 днів тому

The grand reason for the space exploration efforts is the fact that it creates all facets of GOOD JOBS and careers! 👍

@sbmoonbeam 12 днів тому

come on, that Tesla optimus robot is decades behind the competition, not even worth mentioning at this point.

@routybouty 11 днів тому

The robot they just started working on a couple years ago vs a decade?

@sbmoonbeam 11 днів тому

@@routybouty a couple of years ago yes. Honda, another car company, had a more advanced humanoid robot than Optimus in the 90s/00s. These guys are laying people off, they're not going to have as much money for blue sky R&D projects in the foreseeable future, it could be very slow going (much like Optimus if you've seen it walk).

@GailWiht 10 днів тому

I’ve noticed the “This changes everything” text on the thumbnail of several videos from different channels I watch. Usually I take it as a clickbait warning sign, but the content on this channel is always good. Is UKposts’s algorithm forcing the use of tactics like this?

@pauljcampbell2997 12 днів тому

Thanks Marcus for another fantastic video!

@alunevans4327 12 днів тому

Fabulous

@frankh7303 12 днів тому

Hmmm .

@ShastaTodd 11 днів тому

Please study "The Limits to Growth", a document from 1972 based on research by a bunch of MIT nerds. The premise is that (doh) unlimited growth on a finite planet is not sustainable... and the impacts (as we are starting to see) are rolling in now. As cool as it is, "Techno Cornucopianism" (like bases on the Moon and Mars) cannot mitigate that. It is wise to appreciate how good things are today, because this will not end well.

@weissguyvena 11 днів тому

Wow Marcus that was a graphic menagerie. One of the best! Thanks

@acanuck1679 12 днів тому

Thank you, Marcus. The age-old chant of those who believe that "we" should not do X because we haven't yet figured out Y will always be with us, even though the premise of their contention is logically questionable--or even repressive ("we" is a word that is often used to suppress "me"). However, it is worth acknowledging that when human beings begin to settle off-world, they will be taking with them some of the good and the bad that currently prevails amongst humans here on Earth. The response to that should not be "we should not go", but rather, "when we go, let us resolve to do better 'over there'". Of course, how "they" manage that will also depend on who funds those who "go" and how the off-world settlements will be governed. One of the reasons why I liked Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy so much was because he really made an effort to explore how humans will govern themselves off-world. And how that might affect us here on Earth.

@aldunlop4622 12 днів тому

Unfortunately, and fortunately the reason humans are the dominant species on this planet is because we are so successful competitive. As much as we want to supress that desire, it's deeply embedded within us. We constantly strive to keep that in check, but it follow us whether we go.

@andrewpaulhart 12 днів тому

It may be a fair question but it is a stupid question. If it isn’t obvious to someone that advances in technology generates prosperity then they are clueless. Re space and SpaceX you need only be aware that internet connectivity is generally accepted as one of the most effective ways to move large volumes of people out of poverty to realise how starlink is stunning value for money. That alone justifies space spending let alone all the thousands of the other science and tech advances created by space programmes.

@Rockribbedman 12 днів тому

Despiser is a luddite

@Jack-The-Gamer- 12 днів тому

@@Despiser25so you are opposed to sending more aid to Ukraine, right? Or are you a hypocrite?

@keithgodleman2557 11 днів тому

Well said Marcus 👍

@surplushunter 11 днів тому

A great informative video, thanks for all the information on space technology and how the research helps us on earth!!!

@TheAlchemisification 12 днів тому

Science fiction is always fun. Seriously, there is a long way to go before we even get close to this vision.

@colinsoars5748 12 днів тому

True but nothing is achieved without vision.

@dancingdog2790 12 днів тому

Not always -- the *other* "science fiction" will likely kill us all first!

@Scanner9631 11 днів тому

If you don't take that first step you never get anywhere.

@riparianlife97701 11 днів тому

I'm old enough I remember people laughing at the idea of home computers.

@Scanner9631 11 днів тому

@@riparianlife97701 My co-workers laughed at my interest in computers. You know who they eventual were coming to for help with theirs when they had them first at work then at home?

@Enigmatic.. 12 днів тому

One of our main problems is fighting over resources, space has infinite resources so that's one reason its worth doing. Helium 3 mining on the moon that could be turned into energy and sent back to earth, there's another reason to invest.

@tilmerkan3882 12 днів тому

We have enough ressources. Like communism did have enough ressources. We are using them wrong. Thats the main problem.

@aq_ua 12 днів тому

I'm getting For ALL Mankind flashbacks...

@Enigmatic.. 12 днів тому

@@aq_ua ,Oh, don't worry, we will be waring in space its just human nature. Moon battles over territory are on the horizon.

@denysvlasenko1865 12 днів тому

It's not "human" nature. Animals also fight for territory or dominance.

@Enigmatic.. 12 днів тому

@@denysvlasenko1865 Just because other animal do something it doesn't mean its not also in our nature. At the end of the day we all evolved side by side on the same planet, we also have a lot of the same DNA and ancestors so we're clearly going to have similar behaviours.

@randyreynolds6645 11 днів тому

Thank you, I needed that.

@Marcin_pl 11 днів тому

I enjoyed this a bit of a different video than usual :) Hearing about new possible and present inventions is inspiring.

@keiththorpe9571 12 днів тому

Best way to ensure constant, uninterrupted power generation on the moon is to set up orbiting solar collection arrays which transmit their power via microwaves to the colony habitats and facilities. It would serve as a good proof-of-concept for when we begin construction of humanity's first Dyson Swarm.

@johnrayfield11 12 днів тому

While it is true to say that space exploration has provided us with new materials and advancement in science, it does not necessarily follow that we needed to go to space to get these things.

@danharold3087 12 днів тому

These were things that industry would never have made. R&D cost money. But once they existed they were happy to find a market for them.

@howsmydriving99 11 днів тому

Integrated circuits were developed (not invented, but developed) in the early-mid '60's to save weight/space in ICBM's to compensate for much lower "throw weight" of American boosters vs Soviet counterparts. This work was super-expedited to create and maintain a credible threat. Without that incentive, IC's might have taken an additional decade or more to commercialize.

@bencoad8492 11 днів тому

err just getting to stage of space mining alone is worth it omg :/ don't any of these nay says have any foresight to see what will happen in the future :/

@SimonAmazingClarke 11 днів тому

Great video Marcus. Cost wise. NASAs budget is what, less than 1% of Americas budget. It really is a small amount. And as you pointed out, this goes to jobs and companies in America. As for people visiting Mars and the Moon, why not. What a thrill to do either, or both.

@smarchar 8 днів тому

Ayyyyy! Thanks for the word of support for nuclear energy! That "exploding" at 19:05 was brilliant!

@jackdbur 12 днів тому

There are no residents to complain about your strip mine, nuclear power reactor or what ever other thing you build on the moon !😊

@waxeggoil3130 12 днів тому

For now

@onionknight2239 12 днів тому

Whoop whoop Marcus in the house! SPACE NEWS UPDATES! 😁

@marchillyard199 11 днів тому

Could be a gold mine if and when they start spacing mining

@joerich3675 10 днів тому

Thank you for doing a video about the advancements that have been made becasue of the accomplishments of aerospace engineering. We learn when we challenge ourselves and take on difficult goals. I was alive during the time of the Apollo missions and remember the same political rhetoric about the costs involved. But understanding all the benefits that that challenge brought to us makes me sure that the goals of creating a moon base, and going Mars will certainly solve many of the problems we face on our planet.

@codeforce5556 12 днів тому

Fun fact, starship can't get to orbit empty 😂

@gnaskar 11 днів тому

Fun fact, starship has been in orbit.

@peterd9698 11 днів тому

To the good faith reader: Starship IFT-3 did prove capable of getting to orbit. Its trajectory was designed to fall slightly short for obvious safety reasons. Apparently the performance of IFT-3 was sufficient for "40-50" tons to orbit, so certainly not nothing. It could also do far more if launched on an expendable trajectory.

@yujinhikita5611 9 днів тому

And also it was not fully fueled with no weight optimization and with raptor 2 if raptor 3 delivers its gaing to take ton to leo well over 100 ton easily reaching 150+@peterd9698

@sheldonrigsby3523 12 днів тому

Not sure if he mentioned the fact that Spacex could also save the human race from extinction although this selfless aspect is hard to grasp or apreciate by most of the population.

@velisvideos6208 11 днів тому

That's almost funny...

@Illyrien 4 дні тому

Money spent on space is basically rounding errors in the budgets. Its basically nothing. We spend about the same on chocolate...

@officialwildcardadventures 11 днів тому

Another awesome video Marcus! Thanks for keeping us in the know.

@marcusoutdoors4999 12 днів тому

The space program funding is a drop in the ocean when compared with the Ukraine war.

@jasoncdebussy 12 днів тому

True! 😡

@nickmail7604 11 днів тому

Some of us Marcus are grown up enough to be able to cope without GPS because we can read a map.

@NeedsLessWedge 11 днів тому

And grid squares, and a protractor, and three Norths. In the dark, with a red lense readable map and a Lensatic 🧭

@highpointsights 9 днів тому

There have been numerous massive improvements found at the back door of ongoing development. For instance the basic components of the solid fuel motors were discovered by a company associated along the line with Morton Thiokol that was developing a rubber automotive tire. They had a test vehicle that was on the track that caught fire! At some point setting the tires off and burnt the test vehicle into a lump. This is my best recollection of the actual events and associations! The test vehicle tires were a mixture of aluminum and rubber. The genuinely radical developments are often, as was mentioned above, found when no one is actually looking!! Fueled rockets are barely capable of reaching nearby planets let alone "nearby stars" ?? We need the genuine focused research and the "happy accidents" of Bob Ross!!!

@aldunlop4622 12 днів тому

As usual, very inspiring mate, great video.

@melsuarez 12 днів тому

Nice push for the benefits of space exploration, Marcus. The business of supplying oxygen on the moon seems formidable.

@douginorlando6260 12 днів тому

With moon ice, the moonbase will become 98% self sustaining (oxygen, water, food).

@TheShorterboy 12 днів тому

you either expand into space or you go extinct

@velisvideos6208 11 днів тому

Very weird logic..

@bff458 11 днів тому

@@velisvideos6208 the fuck you mean

@TheShorterboy 11 днів тому

@@velisvideos6208 well you could ask dinosaurs how well not expanding went except they are extinct because in the long run planets are death traps.

@macbuff81 11 днів тому

Both my parents died of cancer when i was in my mid 20s. It destroyed me. 15 years on, I allowed that pain to destroy my life by not getting treated for PTSD early on We need to be able to treat and cure all forms of cancer

@skyrat3816 11 днів тому

Nailed it on the head regarding nuclear power, "as long as it's done well" and that's been my philosophy behind it. The high demand for electricity we have nowadays and to generate it without burning any fuel available to us. As long as no corners are cut like at Three Mile Island for high profit, it's a no brainer that 1g of U can produce power equivalent to thousands of tons of coal and a tiny percent of that nuclear fuel is waste. Down side is the time it takes to build the power stations, fire them up and decommission. The tech that can separate the air is very interesting and is something to keep an eye on.

@vicroc4 9 днів тому

You misunderstand. TMI was indeed "nuclear power done well." Compare and contrast it with Chernobyl. The failure was very similar, the reasons for it are very similar, but the outcome couldn't have been more different. Human error is always going to be present in any system that is created by humans. Therefore you have to account for that error and make sure that your design can only fail in ways where nobody gets hurt - that's the real meaning of Murphy's Law. The RBMK reactors at Chernobyl were designed as though nobody would inevitably fuck up. They were a disaster waiting to happen. The reactor at TMI on the other hand, suffered repeated and severe instances of human error and still managed not to hurt or kill anyone. I'm not sitting in an exclusion zone. And TMI was a far less advanced design than we have now.

@biest7625 12 днів тому

was there nothing better ? there was no news either?

@itinsuranceguy 12 днів тому

They need to move mining and manufacturing off-world.

@daniell1869 8 днів тому

This was a particularly powerful video. Seriously, props to you and the inspiration you provide to thousands.

@MarcusHouse 8 днів тому

Thanks Daniel!

@Imagine_Beyond 11 днів тому

I think you could have also mentioned things such as asteroid mining or space based solar power. Those will offer us things such as abundant clean resources and energy independence. That would revolutionise our world how it is today

@tilmerkan3882 12 днів тому

You said it: Cancer alone is enough reason for the space program. My friend died at the age of 34, last month. She leaves behind her 5 year old. I was devastated in learning, how little we know about the treatment of some cancer variations, after all those decades and billions for foundations and research programs, down on earth.

@danharold3087 12 днів тому

While there are many good people working hard to help mankind. Medicine is big business. Corporations are here to make money. They do that by optimizing the amount of money they take from us. We must fix this along with the insurance companies who more than double the cost of medicine while hamstringing care.

@spacehabitats 12 днів тому

Alpha particle-emitting isotopes can be linked to antibodies targeting specific cells in the body. It's like delivering a laser guided grenade to the cancer that ONLY destroys the cancer, leaving the surrounding healthy tissue intact. These have already been used to cure metastatic cancer. The problem is that these isotopes have such a short half-life that they have only been produced in nuclear accelerators at tremendous expense. They could be produced and extracted from molten salt thorium reactors on a continuous basis and used within days before they decayed. This would be a cure for ANY type of cancer without the horrible side effects of chemotherapy and traditional radiation therapy. BTW, I am a physician and a survivor of stage 3 nasopharyngeal cancer, so I know these side effects only too well.

@aldunlop4622 12 днів тому

34...That's just not fair. Life sucks sometimes. Let's hope in future we can at least research and prevent that from happening again in the future. So sorry to hear about your friend...

@aldunlop4622 12 днів тому

@@danharold3087 Well, you're talking about the US. Not all countries are the same.

@tilmerkan3882 12 днів тому

@@danharold3087 to be fair, that is mainly a US problem. In germany we extreme high prices at the drug store, but get free healthcare. I am no expert anymore, but a universal system is cheaper, everywhere in the world.

@wbwarren57 12 днів тому

Starship is not the way to go! I am a big supporter of spaceflight and I do support the starship as a heavy launch vehicle to low earth orbit but I don’t think that starship is the way to go to the moon if it requires 10 to 20 refueling in real low earth orbit in order to get there and get back. Plus, it requires a monstrous ladder for the Astros actually get down to the surface of the moon and back up. However, I do see your point about new technologies being developed. Here is a list of some of the technologies that I think are being developed right now by Elon: 1 How to make promises that you clearly can’t keep and yet have people believe them 2 how to call failure a success over and over again 3 how to brainwash a cult of people who refuse to listen to any realistic criticism of how the program is being run 4 how to create schedules that are clearly going to slip from day one and then slip them over and over and over again 5 how to keep redefining the project and the design of starship over and over again with no one noticing 6 how to get billions out of Congress without delivering what you promised, and yet still have people say that you are an entrepreneur who is boldly using his own money to develop this program when he clearly isn’t 7 and the most important technology of all, how to distract people from the failures of cyber truck and Twitter

@YourArmsGone 11 днів тому

THIS! Starship is not optimized for anything beyond LEO. SLS has already orbited the moon. The spaceX lander is ridiculously oversized and badly layed out, and the 10-20 flights required to fuel it makes it insanely complicated and risky. Not only is Starship incomplete they haven't even attempted orbital refueling.

@routybouty 11 днів тому

What is the way? Wait for NASA to get to the moon in the 2030s? That won't happen. It will be the 2040s or later and for billions and probably nearing a trillion.

@wbwarren57 11 днів тому

@@YourArmsGone You are entirely correct ! However, I urge you to BE QUIET lest the Muskrats hear you and show up at your door with pitchforks and torches! To mollify them, repeat "Starship is Perfect!" every minute of every day (both awake and in your dreams) for a year. Eventually you will ACTUALLY see 5 lights instead of 4!*** (***Yes, that's a TNG reference.)

@leslierogers3134 11 днів тому

Great episode Marcus. Very inspiring...

@Truthrevealed4022 12 днів тому

How are we going to have a moon base when the moon is already occupied?! bill nelson recently said that we dont know what's on the farside and further said its constantly in darkness!😂😢

@zebo-the-fat 12 днів тому

constantly in darkness?? 14 days of sun, 14 days of dark same as the side facing us

@Truthrevealed4022 12 днів тому

@@zebo-the-fat that's what he said. Either he's completely clueless or just plain stupid.

@Truthrevealed4022 12 днів тому

@@zebo-the-fat that's what he said completely clueless and lying to the public. Smh!

@Truthrevealed4022 12 днів тому

That's what he said!😂@@zebo-the-fat