Very awesome creator who is in-depth and does great videos on anything space related.

Thought this video on him talking about Mars was interesting. Haven't heard of the "iron rod" tactic of creating a magnetic field.

  • GlueBear [they/them, comrade/them]
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    2 days ago
    1. Fair. We can have unlimited care for both, but money, resources, time, and labor are finite. So I would say: allocate those to projects on our own planet.

    2. My point was this: if we can't even build anything underwater or in Antarctica that is fit for human civilization, why should we even consider extra planetary settlements? It's like saying, "I can't run a mile in under 10 minutes, but I think I'll run a full marathon and finish first!" Talk about settlements on Mars and the moon after you build them in the most inhospitable parts of the Earth.

    3. 🟦 Nothing you mentioned was actually made by NASA for the purpose of "space" it was made for the purpose of defense. It just so happens that you can market and sell the stuff for defense and war to regular people sometimes. Like GPS, internet, cell phones, etc. 🟨 I'm not trying to insult the scientists, but let's be frank: how many of these people (not politicians or billionaires) talk about this stuff for the purpose of securing funding for research? Even scientists need to eat, and I don't blame them. At the same time, I value their research and work. Truly I do, but I care more about the climate scientist's research than the astrophysicist's because in <100 years the climate will seriously complicate human life on the earth and will lead to more wars and instability. Space research gets so much more attention than it reasonably should.

    4. Also fair. I guess I'm going too hard on space research, but can you blame me? After seeing all those billionaires' vanity projects, knowing the money that paid for those rockets was stolen from workers, knowing that those billionaires who will continue to fund these projects are also the ones destroying our planet for profit, I have a right to be skeptical and just not interested in space. After all, it's not like regular people are going up there; it's going to be plutocrats and their trust fund, fail children who will be up there thinking that they deserve to be up there and reap untold profits bc they're the innovators that took the risk, without them we would have nothing.