How To Terraform Mars – WITH LASERS
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Mars is a disappointing hellhole lacking practically everything we need to stay alive. It looks like we’ll only ever have small crews spend a miserable time hidden underground. Except, we could terraform it into a green new world. But to solve the planet’s problems, we first need to make it worse and turn it into oceans of lava with gigantic lasers.
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Considering giant space mirrors have been a key technology in many of these “futurist” videos… it’d be neat to have a video exploring how we could make them, transport them, and keep them locked in the position we need them in!
Agreed
@A Thousand Oaks You’d probably have to build them in space, preferably on asteroids that have all the necessary ressources.
JWST is a mirror XD
Also is it even possible to build so much mirrors that they cover the size of the US several times?
we could make a machine that spawns mirrors into existence from thin air
Please make a videogame about terraforming (could be throughout the entire solar system with increasing difficulty per planet). With your style – as perfectly shown in this video – this would look soo good, with a nice UI, achievements, visual progression. Plus it would be powered by all the knowledge you guys have about how something like this could work, so it would not only feel super educational but also scientific, maybe having game modes for both younger and older audiences.
… And check out “Dyson sphere program” out, too! It’s a reeeaaalllyyy good RTS game with a lot of science fiction space crafting.
Look up “planet crafter”. It’s basically a terraforming pc games.
I’d buy it!
@Steffen Pruin Surviving Mars exists
Planet Crafter ist really good. It’s a first person survival game, kinda feels like Subnautica.
The mention of “big laser” is very amusing to me. It’s just so absurd, I love it. It’s rather sad that I won’t see this planet with no mosquitos though
Funny thing. An insects will probably evolve to fill that niche
@Marcelino Deseo–
And bed bugs.
I mean that is true, the giant laser sounds like the biggest reach of Kurzgesagts terraforming videos. The venus terraforming video seemed much more doable
@Peace Pills Giant curved mirrors are way easier to do than giant lenses (that’s why telescopes use big mirrors). It’s probably possible to focus sunlight with big mirrors into small spots on martian surface, but I’m guessing maybe the heat needs to be _really_ concentrated to efficiently reach temperatures high enough to decompose rock.
wonder if it’d be easier (or possible) to just use a lens like a magnifying glass in between mars and the sun to turn the sun into a laser.
I’m genuinely hoping that we come together as a species to finally make our neighboring inner planets into garden worlds.
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I’m genuinely hoping that we come together as a species to not come to our own extinction by fully destroying the one and only planet that is proven to sustain life.
@Brazy not exactly true, but above a couple hundred fps latency is much more important
@zaiyre what about planes we have cheap air travel now though I wouldn’t trust spirt with anything space related
@Kokorocodon the “the Martian Congressional Republic” was a reference from a popular show. he was joking
@Kokorocodon No, because we are wasting most of it. Every day, we overproduce.
Awesome as always. As to the animation style, this idea should actually be made into a game. That would be awesome
This all sounds so hard to do, but for a planet without mosquitoes? Absolutely worth it
@Romuland Meier Exactly mosquitoes only use blood as a protein source otherwise their diet is limited to nectar and or plant sap depending on species. A mechanism for obtaining protein is actually a major limit to animals adapting to nectar as a food source as nectar while rich in sugar lacks protein.
Hummingbirds and wasps get their protein from hunting prey, bees and nectar bats get their protein by consuming pollen, but mosquitos just happen to use blood as their protein source.
@HoneySauce At least in the case of the aforementioned island environments like Hawaii which for millions and millions of years have completely lacked mosquitoes prior to humans introduced them. They are the single most destructive invasive species(aside from ourselves).
@Jay Kay Yeah the mosquitoes are actually the greatest source of native animal biodiversity loss in Hawaii because all the endemic birds have not had to deal with them for millions of years they have no protection from the avian strain malaria we brought there.
@Romuland Meier Quicksave but you need to speedrun the game to get it
@Marino that would take thousands of years
Awesome as always. As to the animation style, this idea should actually be made into a game. That would be awesome
I’m impressed by how many videos you guys have been releasing in the past month!
Thank you so, so much for yet another wonderful & informative video. I’m not quite sure what it is about Kurzgesagt but it really is magical and one of the best things to come out of the internet ❤