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00:21 the lander looks like the Eagle of Space 1999
There's an NCIS episode involving this, it's pretty neat.
Wait it would take 7 months to reach Mar by spaceship what is the crew going to eat when they get to the red planet?
Of course that date will be pushed back. Companies were talking about going to Mars in the early 20's, not going to happen.
Solitary confinement is all a person needs. All a home needs is a bathroom, a kitchen, and a bedroom. Most people spend most of their time in the kitchen. So, yes a kitchen would be a bit bigger.
To make the 3D print better, would be to use a Japanese bedroom style. Simular to a bunk in a submarine.
as every single spaceship would ever tell you you probably should take an engineer of some kind that actually knows how to fix stuff and not just a desk engineer so that if you have a problem you don't have a bunch of people who've never fixed me thing in their lives panicking and trying to fix something on the fly
Such problems could arise is correct. We only have to look back towards Biosphere 2.
Damn I love your content. Keep it up, do not stop.
Waiting for your channel to pop up. 👍👍👍
Anyone who couldn't have predicted the mental problems from isolation like this before covid is an idiot.
I thought we couldn't get thru the van Allen belt or something like that.
A multi-nation project without Americans?!? Doesn't the UN charter forbid this type of crime against humanity??
Did I just find another Simon Whistler channel?! I thought I knew them all 😂
Why not just grab a bunch of educated inmates from a Supermax prison and shoot them at Mars.
I'm an officer on a cruise ship. I have crew members who are on board for 11 months at a time. Why doesn't NASA ask them about this stuff?
I could imagine myself after a few months suspecting the onboard AI of trying to kill me while i'm on the vacuum toilet!
That guy hated me from the off.
I wonder what the minimum number of individuals (MNI) it would take to reduce the effects of isolation to a negligible level. 4 people is a small crew. If the MNI is somewhere around 12, building a larger habitat and sending 3 ships might be the safer option. With a crew that size, its easier to duplicate specialties which reduces the risk of losing a critical job role in the event of a death or incapacitation. Source: read lots of scifi.
How about we build a series of way stations until our technology advances? It's how we've expanded civilization for thousands of years
Ha. Simon thinks we walked on the moon.
How about a video explaining why oxygen and other gasses use cylinders and not some other shape.
Well, Ross, the more handsome guy, is going to be busy with the women. I hope Nathan doesn't get envious.
It'll be fine as long as they don't send Danny Stevens.
On that note, I want season 4 already
I think they're overlooking a group of people with the skills capable of this environment. Crappy food, regimented schedule, used to being isolated for months at a time, not sure if you're going to have clean water or a broken toilet.
Sailors. Specifically submariners.
Sounds fun, mars training camp.
So you're telling me astroneer could be real one day? Sick
So that crew should have tossed the electrocution victim out of the habitat and locked the door to properly simulate that issue.
Are the microbiologist and the biomedical research scientist not a redundant classification?
So basically house arrest with
No internet, no uber eats, no amazon
'Preparing for the Mars mission' is one of the reasons (sometimes directly mentioned, sometimes only implied) for having a permanent Moonbase. Far from the only reason, but certainly a good one.
I spent a year living aboard a yacht with between 10 and 18 other crew members, and my experience was that when the shit hits the fan that’s when everyone pulls together. It’s when there’s no firm collective goal that friction becomes more likely. I don’t think the fear of actually dying would be a big problem, I suspect the bigger issue will be crew members starting to wonder if their sacrifices are really worth it.
".. which means it wasn't important because there weren't any Americans involved"
Ah yes, what would we do without some shootings on the Mars between 50 different genders, thanks 'Murica
Given that Nasa is flying a helicopter on Mars, getting there isn't the issue, trusting people though….
Putting a body outside the airlock would be beneficial to science…
Too bad this will never happen on MARS :/ let me know when they do a real vertical habitat.
No such mission or long- term space exploration can succeed without first construction of large scale rotating space station's that provides 1g of simulated gravity. For many reason's that may not seem obvious. One is that no long term colony will have all of the resources available for them to grow and prosper at any place that is not earth. The resources that are needed will come from many places,not just resupply rockets, and all of it will be best handled in orbit first. Also, large scale farming is not possible in a greenhouse on Mars. For that we will need something much more efficient to industrialized agriculture.
Spaceman Simon already has a secret lair on Mars made out of petrified toffees.😂😂
They should just send the astronauts with a digital library of all of Simons videos… plenty of entertainment that would easily last the entire length of the mission and beyond.
Simon, I spent more time then that in solitary confinement while in prison and I did great. I exercised, read books, played chess with myself, it’s very doable with the right people.
Totally easy. Just get any US sailor who's spent 2-4 years on a destroyer or aircraft carrier. The only private space is your bunk, which is the size of a single bed, and you can't sit up. You see the same faces every day. You only get news of the outside world my packages or letter. We didn't have fresh fruit or veggies but every so often. Water was heavily rationed. Going out on deck was the great escape from the rest of humanity. You burred yourself in your tasks and spent a lot of time at the gym.
Everyone knowing they’re volunteers is like knowing the final exam is pointless, so why bother trying?
If NASA is seriously(?) planning to colonize Mars, the best rehearsal for that would probably be colonizing Antarctica.
I would need at least a million dollars to do this.
Damn the future looks crazy!. They can simulate anything… except the gravity difference. Right?.
I mean just look at jails. People are in a 8 by 10 room for the rest of there life with little to no entertainment. But yeah a year with lots of freedoms is toooooooo much for these guys
As a former NASA Space Shuttle astronaut instructor and contributor to NASA’s mars Exploration Office – my 2nd M.S. Thesis was on selecting drilling sites on mars for robotic missions to search for subterranean water – I am depressing familiar with NASA’s so called plans to go to Mars. My research was part of the office’s 700 pg report which i did in 1989 – that’s not a typo. Unfortunately NASA will NEVER get humans to Mars for the simple reason that they are not actually in control of the space agenda for the country. The VP of the U.S. is typically designed by the President as the one who manages space policy & what direction NASDA goes. And since the VP hangs around at best for 8 years we get a continual revolving door for NADSA’s direction which in and of itself wouldn’t be that catastrophic except that going to Mars is hard and you need to stay focused and funded for 154-20 yrs without interruption. This is why I’m Elon Musk’s biggest supporter. He is literally humanity’s only hope to get to Mars since he doesn’t need anyone’s permission. No gov’t will ever get us there …
Sounds amazing. Beam me up Scotty.
2 men and 2 women sex will happen 😂
The problem with all of these simulation tests is the complete lack of real danger. They need to setup a long term test like this, but put the entire habitat inside a vacuum chamber and keep it at Mars atmosphere outside the habitat, so there is real danger, which will seriously change how the crew work and their mood and stress.
Interesting skin tones lighting 😊
Having worked on ships for much of my career having even a tiny space to call “your room” is incredibly important. Just to look at anything of yours that is not institutional brings a sense of calm
It be easier to train submariners to be scientist and biologist since they are highly valid and mentally stable for long, duration, isolation, don’t try to reinvent the wheel. This is the problem with NASA and All academic people you have no common sense