I love it!

I would like to see more videos in that style with higher production values.

Pleeeeease

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Thank you, I noticed that too and was hoping someone would explain it further.

Yes, indeed.

What the hell is minus pressure? No pressure is zero. I don’t get it.

Yeah essentially if earth is 1 bar or 14.xx psi, then space is 0 bar/0 psi. A guage that read 0 psi on earth would read -14 psi in space only because it's zero point is set at a baseline of normal atmospheric pressure at earth sea level. 30 psi would such ass

LOL just goes to show you the actual knowledge of UKposts talking heads. 28 psi lmao. Capable literally of nothing except regurgitating

Heaven yeah

Bump

Do it

Isn't Robert Bigelow on one of those "sex offender" lists though son?

@jennyanydots2389 I wouldn't doubt it, rich people get away with most everything.

I like that idea. But think underground overall is a good idea..can create own ecosystems, light control, maybe fill with air

How are you going to Mars when you can't get past the firmament?

@@jmar665 Do you think that will be a perpetually unsolvable problem?

@@jmar665 You don't know what a firmament is.

@@jmar665 we have been to the moon buddy....

Correct. Roughly 1 meter of rock, or 8 meters of water I believe. Inflatable habitats won't do outside of low Earth orbit.

They could pile martian sand on top to protect it. The habitat surface could have pockets/segments on top to contain the sand and stop it from sliding off

Agree

100% agree. I see underground as a more viable option

@@CountryLifestyle2023 I suspect that at the end of the day there is going to be a combination of all of the above. There is going to be the need for overwatch/Gateway-type balloon-type facilities, while on the ground, underground habitations will be created for living, working, agriculture and the like. Not everyone will relish the prospect of living underground long-term, though, so there will also be above-ground facilities, as well, that will be created in various ways, including 3-D printing and, eventually, there will be domes over towns and cities.

@Norman Munroe agreed! First gotta land, than everything else comes

Air locks won't work. You will need to use a shower lock to keep the dust and regulith from making it into the habitat and cause issues with the human body.

drill a tunnel on mars? do you have an idea of the size of a similar drill? a bit better a cave/tunnel where inflat bigger size of that staff. not a huge pressure, say 0.8 atm. some nuclear generator and as many moxie as possible to produce oxygen from Co2. One problem is to get hydrogen to make whater and the next is food. of course you plant vegetables but it's not easy. Mars regolite is almost poisoned, ostile to organic presence. must be treated for long. may be better to take some ground from the earth. Do you know making a 1000 m^3 of surface? plus you need an infrastructure to run a whater reciclyng system etc. Not one mission. it's years of work of in place workers. robots? let's see

Smart idea

was it not the intension to fill the inflatables with metallic foam, hence structurally self supporting.

If you love this idea it is because your brain lacks the resources, both tangible and intangible, to make good decisions. If you want you can run any big life decisions by me for advice.

Lava tubes and caves are a bit "stone age" don't you think? We stopped living in caves because they tend not to be located where we need them. The weather on Mars is less demanding on housing than on Earth. There is no rain and the wind exerts barely any pressure, so we could build simple "sand bag" igloos around the inflatable habitats.

Why? What is exciting about it?

Think about this, he spent all of that time studying Skinwalker Ranch for the government, and now he chooses to focus on life after death. You’ve got to ask yourself what has he found out that leads him in that direction? It’s interesting that’s for sure.

I like the way you think

There were several misconceptions commonly published in that time period. Bigelow was not interested in running space hotels. He corrected reporters constantly but lazy writers chose to instead stick with their conclusion jumping that because he owned hotels on Earth he wanted to run space hotels. What he wanted to do was BUILD space HABITATS, buy launches, and sell the facilities to the operators. The target market was countries that wanted their own SCIENCE and manufacturing capability; Brazil, Canada, Japan, Oceania, African coalitions, and of course individual European countries. Multinational mega corps were also obvious potential customers but that made everyone nervous so he stopped talking about them as customers. The idea was to be ready when launch services finally became available. That didn't happen, he ran out of time and money. He always wore a lapel pin depicting an ET. In fact the corporate logo was an ET. He had a "profound encounter experience" in his youth. He was super secretive in all his activities.

It looks like the rewards he's posting are for evidence for the survival of consciousness after death, likely due to his own health challenges and the death of his son but it looks like he's gearing for paranormal evidence. I believe he should focus on just recording journals and videos of his life electronically, have his brain sliced at 20 micron wafers and digitally photographed in high resolution after his death so that his neural network could be digitally preserved for research and leave a foundation to fund research into brain simulation on computers and to fund the server farms needed. With cryogenics, you have one chance of being revived and there will be many irreversible failed attempts to develop the knowledge needed to repair the damage from both the freezing and damage but a digital record of your neural synapses and neural network can be backed up and preserved forever allowing for multiple attempts of revival as you can always revert back to a basis. Of course just being able to simulate your neural networks does not mean the neural network would be as aware of your memories as you are so journals and videos and functional MRI scan records would be needed to try to bring the simulation of you as close to you as possible. It's basically the only real hard science approach that we currently have to try and have our consciousness survive after death. Note, if living only as a simulation in a virtual environment is not what you want, remember there is also the possibility of the simulation remotely operating an android avatar or of being bioprinted into a new biologic individual as science progresses, it's more about our digital records, backups and archives being the only way to preserve as much information as possible till science has progressed.

You can live off my fecal matter produced from eating nothing but blueberries and filet mignon. It'll be a mess but also nutritious for you and on mars... food is probably hard to come by so you should take what you can get son.

It wouldn't come to that. The inflatable habitats will be even safer from meteorites than the traditional ones. Besides, creating underground habitats would have too many unknown variables and requires too much engineering. Taking cost and mission complexity into account, I think that shipping the habitats whole cloth will be the only viable option.

Totally agree. One suggestion- show one on screen and the other in audio.

I agree, metric sucks.

1 meter = 3 feet

Yup

The best thing to do is NEITHER!!! The notion of trusting your life to a 3D printed mud hut full of POROSITY is a great way to die. An anal sphincter can hold air in better than that. I don't know if you have ever owned a 3D printer, but there are 1001 things that constantly go wrong. All it takes is one rock to get past screen, one electrical malfunction, one failed part and that entire idea is down the toilet; because you have no one there to fix it. I don't feel that I have to go into great detail of how stupid a balloon in space is, but yes you will die when it pops. Titan Aerodynamic Engineering has developed the only solution to any kind of ground based habitat and they have in their R&D a far superior space station. THINK PEOPLE!

How do you get the water though.

@@catprog There is water underneath mars' surface.

@@JR-nv4td I am more talking about transporting the water.

@@catprog Well the same way you get the habitat at first, you bring it with you. There are ways to harvest water from mars, but you need the habitats before you could set up something like that.

@@BeastofBourdon Exactly taking water to build a strcture is a lot more mass.

Air pressure on Mars is so low that typhoon speed winds feel like just a gentle breeze. That's why rovers can trundle around for years powered just by flimsy solar panels.

I think this is a great idea for an intial settlement. But long term, underground might be better. Even with the required work in it. Can create massive caverns and in time provide breathable air underground and use the soil dug for buildings. Maybe have a controlled day and night

​@@CountryLifestyle2023But didn't he Say that Martian Regolith is Toxic to Humans?

@@nukl3argam3r38 We don't know, we have never examined it. Plus you can always cover it, or something along those lines

@@CountryLifestyle2023 You Mean with Thin, Sturdy, Strechy and Inflatable Baloons? Yeah I guess you Could do that. But why DO you think that Inflatable Habs in Caves are Better than Just Inflatable Habs?

@@nukl3argam3r38 Nope that's not what I meant, but what ever works to reinforce the cave walls and protect vs toxins

Frozen water as a building material and radiation shielding has been proposed in a NASA competition and was the winning tender but remember water ice sublimates in the low pressures of the Martian atmosphere which is why we only find Martian water underground and not on the surface. It isn't as simple as you're thinking. Keep in mind that hydrogen rich shielding material such as water are only considered good radiation shielding for their unit mass. If you are to use in-situ materials as radiation shielding, packed regolith (dirt) is still a much better radiation shield than water or water ice for a stationary structure. Now lining the interior walls of a lunar rover with bags of human excrement has been proposed for radiation shielding but again that's only because hydrogen rich compounds have good shielding to weight, not just better shielding over other materials. Having to launch water into space is what makes water a good radiation shielding material for a spaceship, for a stationary planetary structure, packed dirt or just being underground is still much better. Water is also now believed to be both plentiful and rather shallowly buried on Mars, there's no need to bring water from chondrite asteroids and as Mars has had volcanism as recently as two million years ago, water could be extracted from a Martian volcanoes more easily than bringing it from distant asteroids. Note that both water from asteroids and volcanoes are ammonia water mixtures and the ammonia is where Earth got it's nitrogen atmosphere from by photolysis of the ammonia by sunlight over millions of years, we can't quite wait for solar photolysis by the Sun but electrolysis via say an electric arc can be scaled up to extract nitrogen for our habitats but the ground water cycle of Mars has already lost it's ammonia to the atmosphere of which the hydrogen and nitrogen have already been dispersed by the solar winds and the lack of geomagnetic shielding against the solar wind. Besides, we still don't know if the Martian ground water couldn't be flowed to you through a well so strip mining may not be necessary, we do know that there are some Rick features that are the result of temporarily flowing water so Martian ground water can be a lot easier than you are suggesting and really, gathering water from a lot of disparate and widely spread out asteroids and bringing them safely to the surface of Mars is also no easy task.

Problem is you need a product that makes money while developing the future products. SpaceX exemplifies this with its space transportation side (Falcon 9) and future (Starship).

Sierra has bought all Bigelows intellectual property and is carrying on his commitment. I was enthusiastic for his approach going way back. Very happy to see it continue. Also, Sierra's Tenacity Spaceplane will be a huge leap in space possibilities.

Very dumb

The nouveau Nephlilim pharisee Pharoahs aren't going to mars. They are getting off the planet before eclipsing the nucleus of our Sun's Oort cloud magnetosphere for the next millennium RESETS the planet as in the he days of Noah.

😂 Me too.

Well good news that's like an actual proposal for these things, some of the ideas use heavy water so it would only be potable if diluted and used sparingly (if it's less than like 10% of your water it works the same as water effectively but more than that and it slows things down too much) but others use normal water or even a premixed water that's more d2o than standard but still safe levels

I.e. The Boring Company.

Bunkers? How do you figure on pressurizing a bunker?

Did you even listen to the whole video? Or watch it at all?

Like you will know😂😂😂

Presumably, the inflatable structures would be buried by packed regolith to provide the micro-meteorite and radiation shielding preferably by tele-operated drone bulldozers before any occupant arrives. About two to three feet of packed regolith should reduce radiation by a factor of a thousand though it would take 40 feet to provide the same shielding as Earth's atmosphere. Remember the first habitats are about building them remotely before occupants arrive and need to be safely shielded. Later, more complex and larger habitats are possible as the work force would have a safe shielded refuge when needed. The inflatable structures are just as a form and a seal against the toxic chemicals and perhaps biology of the in-situ materials which would likely be regolith but could also be plastics as carbon monoxide could be processed from the atmosphere and hydrogen could be processed from the water we've found in the ground near the surface and a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen gas can synthesize any linear hydrocarbon in Fischer tropsch synthesis (which is how we make plastic grocery bags, milk and soda bottles). Indeed, I would expect that eventually the structures would be regolith binded by synthetic plastics as such could be extruded out in a 3d printing process but a plastic internal liner exported from Earth would still be needed to ensure a safe shield from the chemicals in the regolith and any indigenous biology that we do not know of. However, the first habitats would likely just be buried by bull dozed regolith that's been packed down (perhaps with a plastic outer liner or binder to prevent erosion by winds). We even create concrete dome structures on Earth by inflating a structure and spraying it with concrete. The inflatable habitats on Mars would be similar, it wouldn't just be the inflatable structures by themselves. Even if we were to build underground habitats as you propose, which would likely require workers to do so, we would have to line the interior surfaces to hold the pressures and prevent intrusion by harmful chemicals. Remember that Biosphere 2's initial problems were partially traced to the exposed concrete reacting with the atmosphere in the habitat. Even the underground facilities you are proposing would likely require an Earth exported inflatable structure to line the habitat at least till infrastructure is established on Mars to form a safe sealing barrier.

The Martian was awesome. Both the book and the movie. But with the low atmospheric density at the nominal surface of Mars, the most fierce winds would have trouble making a wind sock move. And yeah - plan to make O2, and methane from the trace H20 and plentiful CO2 in the atmosphere.

The wind speeds can be very high on Mars plus the dust blowing around can be pretty abrasive. A break wall for surface structures seems like a good idea to me. Maybe even better would be and inflatable in a lava tube or an excavated cave. This would provide total protection from the wind and dust plus protection from solar radiation and perhaps be a bit easier to keep heated (temps on Mars get way below zero every night).

Trying to use anything like that for even semi-long periods of time on any planet or moon that doesn't have either a real atmosphere or a strong magnetosphere is complete nonsense. Sorry dude. Enjoy the fantasy though....