Building a Marsbase is a Horrible Idea: Let’s do it!

Published 2019-02-03
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Humans love to explore. Strangely enough even horrible places – like Mars. Let’s see how building a Mars base could work and how insanely nerve-wracking exactly it would be.

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All Comments (21)
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  • @murilovsilva
    Kurzgesagt videos: 70% trippy, cool as shit scientific stuff 30% birds dying horribly
  • this channel's extreme love for science fiction things inspired me, making me inspired and determined enough to ad them into my books, this has sprouted an entire alien species in it, then an entire series of books, about nine of them too! This is amazing. i've always loved this series, but the fact that It inspired me this much is more insane than half of my villains
  • @kentam6891
    Imagine future kids choosing between Earth and Martian history!
  • @a3.0001
    I cant help but notice the doomguy helmet at 7:17
  • @jamesjohno1180
    I just think it’s crazy that not too long ago they managed to look up and wonder what these things in the sky where and thought it’s absolutely impossible to get close enough to see what they are, now we are looking into how we can land here and sustain life here, I just wish I could see what 500 yesrs into the future will be like if we got there if we have started anything
  • @Grandflea02
    "_________ is a horrible idea, let's do it!" Humanity in a nutshell
  • @AntsCanada
    I bet ants would find a way to survive on Mars!
  • I'm reading the hard sci-fi book Red Mars right now and it covers a lot of these topics. Would definitely recommend to anyone interested in a story featuring the struggles of mars colonisation, both practically and mentally.
  • @dvms9292
    Playing a game be like "why is it loading so slow???" "Uh i dont know?" "Where do you live?" "Eastern part of mars" "Bro Your ping is 500000" "yea"
  • Kurzgesagt usually refers people as “Humans,” and has a lot of birds, so is Kurzgesagt secretly a bunch of birds able to talk working together and possibly helping/warning Humans about the near future?
  • @Tsotha
    Illuminating video. I have been familiar with many of the practical challenges most likely involved in humans conquering Mars but NOT all of those mentioned here until now. I also absolutely love Kurzgesagt's animation style, would love to play a strategy game involving building and managing a Mars base in this art style.
  • @TaKiDaily
    lets save the planet in kurzgesagt pfp than living on mars
  • @liansmith4038
    "Doing X is a horrible idea! Let's do it!" Otherwise known as the entire history of the human race summarized.
  • Underground in a very large cave might give a jump start . With the explorers we should be searching for such a place in advance . Once you get enough people there maybe we can push our limits . To do nothing or not try would be a big mistake in my view . They should use a cave on earth to see what could be done and how it could help .