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  • Mars is a dream... just like America was, a long time ago...

  • Top comment: A Family Guy reference.

    Sorry Zubrin, I don't think we're even going to be able to pull it off in 50.

  • Robert Zubrin is PISSED.

  • Respectfully, there's no way Newt would be able to secure funding for manned missions beyond LEO. I share your enthusiasm for manned space exploration as much as the next person, but with the Constellation program dead there's no way we're going to, say, put a permanent base on the moon by 2020 as he would like. Never mind the president. Congress controls the money. They're the real obstacle.

  • Of the need for manned space travel into the solar system, celebrated Aerospace Engineer Robert Zubrin said "So there's the choice in life: one either grows or one decays - grow or die. I think we should grow." Do you suppose Mitt Romney knows more about science than Robert Zubrin? Let's vote for a president who doesn't live in the 14th Century and who actually shares the vision for manned space travel - let's vote for Newt!

  • You know, I would think that big mining corporations would be sponsoring Mars explanation. Think of all the foreign metals that could be there.

  • "If you put out a call..." I know I would sign up in a heartbeat.

  • I feel such a geek for loving this...but it's that epic geekness that nothing else can give

  • Terra-forming Mars... well that fires up mu imagination :)

  • The 1%er's won't let us have flying cars let alone independence from the surly bonds of earth..

  • @Veldtian1 Okay there is a serious problem with your statement, you are implying the 1% is holding back flying car technology. . . .

    that would imply THEY HAVE FLYING CARS, which they clearly DO NOT HAVE

  • @Ralokone Okay you got me on that point, but just look at all the promising tech that's been allowed to languish at the fringes of aeronautical design because if they where allowed to fly we would be game changers for the status quo, the Roton Rotary Rocket for one, the novelist Tom Clancy invested in it saying it was a craft akin to the Covered Wagon which opened up the West in frontier times - but this time for earth orbit, Barclays Bank got involved and suddenly, Roton no more...

  • It shouldn't be "Humans to Mars in 50 years", it should be "Humans to Mars in 5".

    ...

    After this wonderful vision I cannot help but to loath the state we find ourselves in. Instead of illuminating the consciousness of our population, pursuing understanding and planning our great ventures, we're being purposely distracted by the people claiming that getting 20% of the people to communicate in cars running on electricity by 2025 would be a huge success. Or religious bullies, or greedy corporates.

  • total recall if tru we shuld activate the alien machine that melts the ice and brings water and oxygen to mars if only were tru

  • i read that the first try to mars with humans will be a one way one man trip...that kinda sucks..its gonna take a really brave dude

  • @runeoner Whoever wote that is crazy.

  • @kokofan50 i forgot where i read that..but other people were saying that nasa would send alot of supplies before the dude even lands...so he could survive and by that time..like other people would show up 2 or 3 years later and he could go home..

  • @runeoner I'm saying it's crazy because you don't send just one person, ever!

  • Mars in 10 years, fuck yeah!!

  • to Nat4brendan, and The zombie man87. I can only hope that it does change us, and war wont follow. Time will tell.

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  • I like the part when it should be mars in 10.

  • @2583060 same

  • Best music video ever. Hiking Vallis Marinaris will be tremendous!

  • @Zemthemat I want to summit olympus mons.

  • How about we stabilize the Earth first, before we head out. With the mentality of growing and growing, to what extent? Until all energy resource in the universe are exhausted? I'm for the advancement of our species, but lets fix the issues at hand, and head out into space with wisdom and understanding.

  • @superchamp94 /watchv=P9AZTGcNecA&list=PLDA9­261009BA0E866&index=11&feature­=plpp_video, wtach this and you understand how what you have just writen is stupid

  • @kokofan50 I never said we should stay on our little rock until our sun dies. We have enough time, enough time to fix our problems, and explore about ourselves, "to learn about ourselves" as explained in that video. We have war, religious prejudice, economic collapse, destabilization of countries, starvation, and disease. When we have the resources and time to explore, then by all means lets see whats awaiting us. If we leave now, we have the risk of bringing our problems across many worlds...

  • @superchamp94 Think about it in the position of a Mars colony in the future, if there is a war going on, other countries might want to stake claim to other parts of mars. Religion as well would work in this case. How would the starving Earth feed the Mars colony at its conception (we have to terraform her first, which doesn't happen quickly and without resources, and time). We are too war-like, either Humanity needs to drop its weapons and work together, or were screwed.

  • @superchamp94 If you read A Case for Mars by Zubrin you dont need to terraform Mars to grow food. What you need are pressurized domes and plants that can thrive in the iron rich soil.

  • @superchamp94 Humans aren't quite that destructive, at least the ones with degrees in astrophysics aren't. War is a political thing, it won't just magically follow us to Mars, we won't let that happen.

  • @superchamp94 You watched the video and didn't even understand what it said. By going to space we help understand our problems and leads to fixing them. Go back and watch watch the video again. Understand the point about Veins. If we limet our selves to the Earth we'll think that the Earth is all there is and fight over our ideas and the Earth.

  • @superchamp94 A colony on Mars will reinvigorate us. It will change our society away from apathy, corruption and other nasty things. A colony would attract pioneers from every horizon of life.

  • Thums up if you would go on the first mission to Mars!

  • Lez go slay some dragons. Who's with me?

  • Well, As Peter Griffen once said...

    'WHY ARE WE NOT FUNDING THIS!?"

  • @wolfking218 because it doesnt make specific people very rich.

  • We really should go to Mars. That's where we'll find the Prothean ruins and element zero.

  • @JamesHLanier Get that head start on killing the Reapers. if we have 100 years of technology under our belt we could easily kill them.

  • @JamesHLanier thats awesome..but we knows what happens after that

  • I vote we name the first Mars Colony "Sagan"! :D

  • @notessimodude And the second one, Eos or Parker!

  • @notessimodude Am I the only one who knows who inspired Sagan as a youth? To look towards the skies with open arms?

    Does Edgar Rice Burroughs ring a bell to anyone? Seriously? John Carter? Barsoom?

    A Princess of Mars?

    The single most influential science fiction series of all time?

  • This is epic, but the actual music in this is even more epic. I need an instrumental!

  • I get continuous rifts five thousand kilometres long through my body when I listen to this.

  • "It shouldn't be humans to mars in fifty years, it should be humans to mars in ten."

    That old sob just wants to get to mars before he dies.

  • @minameise Of course he would like to go to mars.........why shouldnt he???

  • @minameise I want to get to Mars before I die too, but the reason Dr. Zubrin says it is because we have to it quickly before the will to it fads and we have put off getting it done.

  • @kokofan50 Great perspective.

  • @minameise Why wouldn't he? He's right.

  • I'm pretty sure I listen to this every day.

  • Science =a way to show God's power

  • @mafiahamid

    Funny how it proves 'He' has none, then ;)

  • @mafiahamid Father Creator and Mother Creator!!

  • @Andysingtoyou

    Oh, so there's two superbeings now?

  • but we cant live on it if there is no water and rain makes water if there's no water then no plants or animals

  • @starwolf5051 go read my commentat the top in the top comments. Also go look up a video about teraforming Mars.

  • @kokofan50 ok then

  • @starwolf5051 Rain doesn't make water.

  • @IamaSoge ok then whats that stuff that falls from the sky when thunder storms hit hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm i wonder

  • @starwolf5051

    Read carefully. Rain doesn't MAKE water. Rain is simply a recycling of water that was already there.

  • @starwolf5051 as keesengels said. pay more attention in science class.

  • Mother Creator IS greater then Mars.

  • @Andysingtoyou

    *than

    And who is Mother Creator?

  • Mars doesn't have an atmosphere.

  • @Barcode11 Yes, it does. The atmoshere of Mars is just thin.

  • @Barcode11 even Mercury has a small atmosphere. being a burnt rock, it's still abundant with...water too. Hmm, Just because a place doesn't have a full atmosphere like we do........

  • We should focu$ on the moon

  • @igbal9 Why is that? Mars is bigger and better, and we can get to Mars. The Moon we have been there and done that before.

  • 0:55 Giant Iced Shits

  • Venus made 69 accounts to dislike this video.

  • @CrackHeadForLife420 Venus is so immature O_O

  • @CrackHeadForLife420 Make that 70.

  • We are not screwing up the planet as bad as many would think. Yes we are, but the time scale is beyond our own lives. Yes, we can do something now to change some things. To think that we would go to Mars and mess it up like what were doing here is a bad thought process. Stop playing Red Faction and read a few books.

  • @overusedoxymoron2003 The time scale of our lives is not so important to me. The eventual survival of humanity is, and I believe that we have a far better chance of terraforming Mars if we first become sustainable here. In fact, if we first become sustainable here, it becomes inevitable that we (1) terraform mars eventually and (2) do it sustainably. Otherwise we risk failing.

  • @ErgoProxy12345 We're not bound to screw it up on earth. Nothing wrong with having a security planet either. Just watch out for the crazies who say that we *must* reach Mars if it means terraforming Earth into a wasteland to do so.

  • God created evolution and science. Open your mind.

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  • @houstonmaverick

    Proof?

  • @houstonmaverick And I created God.

  • @cmatcmextra The only thing you create is waste products known as excretia, gaseous clouds , and ignorant YouTube statements.

  • @houstonmaverick stop trolling.

  • Mars is what we'll get on earth if we don't change the course of our actions.

    What is the point of trying to terraform Mars if we can't even terraform Earth sustainably?

  • I understand that Mars holds wonders, but if you think it's any more wonderful than Earth, you're probably in denial.

    Your problems and suffering will follow you even to Mars.

  • Mars is far from the only place in the solar system humans can colonise.

  • @JuggaloOzi

    But it is by far the most promising for the near future.

  • @JuggaloOzi Europa moon

  • @invrnrv the point is that if we are bound to screw it up on earth, we can have a place to run off to. We only have 1 planet and must care for it. But maybe with technology we might make ourselves a security planet just in case...

  • @invrnrv Umm....earth has already bee terraformed over the course of hundereds of millions of years. You want to help cut down greenhouse gass emissions? Stop eating corn-fed beef. Seriously, the herds of corn-fed cattle across the world produce a hundred times more methane than all of the cars on the planet.

  • -finds Asuperl33tninja-

  • That feel when an aerospace engineer speaks.

    Goddamn, I took the right career.

  • I'd go.

  • Devil's Advocate Alert!

    It would be much better from a scientific point of view to send an army of robots to explore mars than send a few humans (for the same cost)

  • @sulljoh1 That's wrong. Robots can't do some of the things humans can, so from the scientific point of veiw it's best to send humans that can do those things.

  • @sulljoh1 an intelligent position. consider that there may be things besides science that are attracting us to mars... mars... is a world of wonders

  • Mars is the next critical step in the evolution of the human species into space.

  • @CosmicOceanStar For its evolution, that's it!

  • All of melodysheep's songs make me more emotional than any other music. I feel connected to all of you :) <3

  • I really admire your restraint in not using any clips from "Total Recall" in this video.

  • @danielgbgibson the entire reputation of this beautiful series would collapse under the weight of it !

  • anyone know the sample to this?

  • we all need food. we all need to eat or we die together. and now on mars as it is on earth it leaves no choice for the individual or to the state: we all must eat. we can all eat together or else we will most certainly eat separately.

  • So we'll just die there when we run out of food?

  • @Icedoggy924 Food can be grown my friend.

  • @Icedoggy924 there is soil and water there, and we can grow food with hydroponics (since it takes 6 months to even get there we'll have to be good at it)

    Problems have solutions, we need to get off this planet before we get hit by a massive asteroid :P

  • @emikochan13 it's always nice to have options!

  • And then everyone turns into creepy water monsters. ...or becomes dark and golden-eyed. Y'know, depending on whether you're a Bradbury fan or a Whovian. Whichever your preferred flavor of sci-fi is. Me, I'll just stay nice and safe back on Iorrt.

  • Their ability to dream makes me happy :)

  • While I agree in some sence, is the solution to totally fucking up our planet really in fucking up another?

  • @newe6000 We haven't totally fuck up the Earth, and even if we had we can't make Mars much worse for life as we know it. This is part of the scientific advance ment that will save the Earth too, so we will have two planets to live on.

  • @kokofan50 Quite true. The entire human race cannot accomplish in centuries what a single volcano can do in a few hours. Humans produce millions of tons of pollution a year, and most of that is digested by the biosphere. Volcanic plumes can potentially excrete millions of times more, blotting out sunlight for months or years. A rock from space the size of an aircraft carrier can kill billions, something only full scale nuclear war can do. Nature is far harsher than man.

  • @overusedoxymoron2003 I wouldn't say that humans can't do what nature can. An aircraft carrier sized asteroid wouldn't likely be as bad as you make it out to be (I'm not saying it would be bad just no that bad).

  • I'm wondering about a possible fossil record on mars.

  • Loved it :) you sir, are a very talented music maker, no doubt.

  • The problem is, mar's waters were erased by solar winds, which were caused when it lost it's atmosphere because.....it slowed down, and it's magnetic field was lost. Humans will not figure out how to reverse that in ten years. However, it would be a great first step to finding a planet outside the range of our dying sun, and a great place to start experimenting. Love the guitar pattern, by the way.

  • @DirigiblePlumCompany

    1 Mars still has waterin the form of ice and maybe even some liquid water under ground

    2 Mars' magnetic feild isn't gone just alot weaker and it's do to cooling of the core not the spin of the planet.

    3 If we terform Mars it would take the solar winds 100,000 to 100,000,000 years to strip away the atmosphere again. That's more than enough time to fix and problems

    4 Our sun has billions of year left.

  • @kokofan50 and mars it will be!

  • @kokofan50 one problem Mars HAS liquid water underground. Otherwise the ice caps could not expand again after they shrink.(seasonal retreating and advancing) we just don't know if it's near the equator where there is more light for electricity.

  • @kokofan50 you can live on mars but mars dose not have air on it

  • @starwolf5051 What do you mean by "air"? If you mean beathable atmosphere your right, but we can change that. If you mean no atmosphere at all you're dead wrong, or there wouldn't wind, dust deivls, and the dust storms Mars is well knowen for.

  • @kokofan50 Quite fascinating that winds can blow on other planets...dont u think?

  • @Zanazuah I don't think it's fascinating that other planets have wind. I think the diversity in the winds and storms of other planets is thoe.

  • @kokofan50 but mars has no storms like rain storms or thunder storms

  • @starwolf5051 Mars has lightning, and so what if it doesn't have storms like here on Earth?

  • @kokofan50 5 billion

  • @RippeDisc What?

  • @CollateralTrickshots No, the Hubble will take us there, the first building shall be christene Galileo, and the City of Sagan will help us grow on Mars.

  • This can be summed up with a quote from Total Recall:

    "Get your ass to Mars"

  • @2creator The entire of life and every potential moment can be summed up with Arnie quotes.

  • This video gives me hope yet in our progression as a species. when carl sagan said "mars is a world of wonders" at first i didnt understand. how could a desolate place offer us anything. than i looked beyond the cosmetic face of mars and looked at the possibilities. Mars is beautiful.

  • Brian Cox doesn't age?

  • How stupid are we, as a race, that we want to go to Mars? We know more about Mars than we do about our own oceans. We give NASA more money in a day than we give to NOAA in a year, and for what? How much benefit do we get from a dozen or so people setting foot on another planet vs. our race learning how to live on this one? We need to stop wasting our time with the theoretical and start caring more about the practical. Geology and oceanography may not be sexy, but they actually benefit humanity.

  • @wakrusgumbo The two things aren't mutually exclusive.

  • @wakrusgumbo If the dinosaurs had gone to mars, they would still be here.

  • @wakrusgumbo How stupid are you as a person? To limit yourself. That's like saying i'm never going to club again. You go out, you learn, you meet things, you discover something. You go down the street, you meet someone, You travel 1000 miles away and you see things you never though of. You travel a billion miles and further the human race.

    How does 12 people swimming in the ocean help me? The same way 12 people landing on mars does. The same way 12 people Digging in the dirt does.

  • Need more Zubrin autotune.

  • Zubrin needs to chill out a little... maybe lay back and watch some SoS videos.

  • 1:43

    If you had a cawk for volunteers.

  • If we did a good job on Mars, maybe we could leave Earth alone for a few centuries to rest? You don't need to explain anything to me there, I know what would be said.

  • i love this song!!!!!!!!!!

  • @assyla90 i'm just kidding. this "song" makes my ears bleed

  • @assyla90 cool story, bro.

  • If I was middle aged around the time of the first expedition to Mars I'd sure as hell try to go.

  • Brian Cox is just so adorably enthusiastic!

  • Brian Cox has some nasty ass hair.

  • I just read an article that NASA is launching a new rover to Mars on Saturday. Its called the Curiosity, and its as big as a car. 11 feet long, and 9 feet wide, and weighing almost a ton. Itll be the biggest machine sent to another planet by human beings, and will use a new deployment system using a thrust pack and a tension cord, like how helicopters deploy machines or equipment

  • we got limits you know... so to speak imagine a bunch of crabs that live in the bottom of the sea and they want to create a giant whale-like vehicule to colonize the beach...there are physical limits and a slim chance of succes..death is not a bad thing

  • @luckytom13 That's the cool thing about humans: We have no limits. We always succeed.

  • @Starpilot149 we can even handle our own business on earth and now we are gonna handle mars ones too

  • @luckytom13 There are people that will advance our race further into the incline of time, and then there are people like you, with fruitless ideologies, who will perish unremembered.

  • @YourMotherDear I want to see you walkin on mars

  • @YourMotherDear /watch?v=oY59wZdCDo0&list=PLC4­31CCAF7C3411D4

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  • @luckytom13 That video made me sad I will never see this day, but hopeful of its possibility.

  • @YourMotherDear thats what im sayin mom..we got limits here on earth and heres an example.

    cannabis is illegal so that mean some of the planetar plants will be illegal because we are still to stupid...we look like monkeys comperd to a stars civilization

  • @luckytom13 I still disagree with your ignorance though. Those videos clearly state that waiting for our species to mature is not a bad thing, but a possible gamble. It's a two-sided argument that should never be argued. These are days that have yet to come.

  • @YourMotherDear we are talkin og evolution of humans a process of thousands of years that dont mean anything to your survival...the way we are functioning may extinguish ourselves.

    you talk about ignorance but yet you got a lack of awereness.

    we dont belong there...we dont even belong to the third of the planet wich is water. i see a big lie in your life

  • @luckytom13 You have told me nothing I haven't agreed with already. I'm sorry, but your post confuses me. You have a lack of logic and grammar. I will not be responding to you any further.

  • @YourMotherDear you called me ignorant.I see whos more ignorant now...fuck grammar.. Yo hablo español, es mi lengua materna..lastimosamente nos falta mucho por aprender de nuestro propio planeta y dejar de creernos superiores.

  • I cant belive Obama cut the lunar colonies

  • Imagine what we could accomplish with the 1.6 trillion dollars spent annually on war... It'd be a field day for science. Pretty much unlimited research in every field every year.

  • @Asuperl33tninja :( The earth is dying slowly...

  • @Asuperl33tninja

    Unfortunately humanity as a whole still fails to grasp such a concept.

  • @mvsrs So frustratingly true.

  • @Asuperl33tninja it's 3.2 trillion worldwide

  • @Asuperl33tninja On war? That's absolutely stupid.

  • @MagamisI the usa's defence budget allocated for overseas is ~664 billion dollars a year. Look on wikipedia.