how could we possibly make the human race uh multiplanetary when you think that since 1957 with with sputnik's launch that of all the thousands upon thousands of rockets that have left the Earth every single one of those Rockets has taken with it from the surface of the Earth every gram of material whether it's water or food for people or energy or batteries or whatever it was that it everything that it would ever need throughout its entire lifetime which in many cases could be decades they've had to drag it from the earth and you pay such
a price to bring things to space from the earth that if we could begin to use resources in space it would dramatically change the equation you got to be able to utilize space resources to survive there you've got to be able to live off the land you know sometime if you look at a conastoga wagon pulled by horses I like to point out to people that that was in a sense the spaceship of its time a a multi-purpose exploration and settlement vehicle and the motors of that multi-purpose vehicle were horses or oxen propelled by grass
they lived off the land if we had had to import all the propellant for the horses and oxen that would have been been used to try and settle the North American continent in our experiment it wouldn't happen the people had to survive by what they hunted for what they harvested they had to live in buildings they built by using what the land provided unless we can do that on this new frontier as we did in the old Frontier there will be no Frontier [Music] there's some debate about where we should do our first colonies some
people say we should do it free floating you know why do we have to go to some planetary body why can't we just you know go to an asteroid and mine resources there get the metal we need and everything else and build a colony personally give me a Taurus give me a large enough space that we can plant our crops and and grow and be self- sustaining I personally believe that the ultimate love for Humanity and the ultimate faith in humanity is living in in in something that humans made because boy if they make a
mistake you're dead that's faith one of the things that's neat about free space we can build habitats in space that rotate and produce what we call artificial gravity and you can build those in such a way that we can basically reproduce the 1G gravity field of the Earth in space and the climate you can't do that on the moon and you can't do that on Mars because you're stuck with the gravity of the object you're on I think the big action is going to be The Space Between Worlds because that's where the resources are essentially
infinite and we have the space to build anything as big as we want forever some people say the moon uh might be a good place to start because you know maybe you could beam back solar energy there might be actual export products that could help make it sustainable by the way we can terraform the moon people say well no you can't there's such low gravity yeah you could you could start by putting domes over the craters and then you could move on from there by just pumping uh atmospheric gases in at a rate that's higher
than you're losing them there's already an atmosphere on the moon and it's extremely tenuous and that's just from the the outgassing and the gases and and the dust and things like that that have been created by us being up there we'll go to the Moon we will set up a permanent base on the moon and we will figure out all those things we need to know and find out all the things that we learn and decide when this is worthwhile and when we've invented enough things and then we'll go further and we'll go to Mars
[Music] Mars is a real destination because it's much more earthlike it has the same uh amount of land basically as Earth because it's a third the size because it has no oceans and it's got a roughly earthlike day night cycle you know it's about 24hour 23 something like that it's just slightly off it's got an atmosphere you know potentially you could terraform Mars maybe you could you know if you could start you know if you could find enough carbon dioxide and water and things in the ground maybe start pumping it into the atmosphere you might
be able to create an earthlike habitat over hundreds of years so that's one line of thinking too that you keep building there's no way you can keep building on the moon it's always going to be an airless Rock but but Mars potentially you could I am not a big fan of robots I love software but I don't like robots what it takes them a week or a month to do a human could do in an afternoon when you start sending people going to be some guy he's up there he's looking out the window goes what's
that a probe doesn't do that a probe looks for what it's told to look for Bugs Bunny's over here dancing up and down it wasn't programmed to look for Bugs Bunny it doesn't see Bugs Bunny people see stuff this is the exciting thing this is what's going to happen this is day two at the nastar center we're now ready for the real space flight simulation so let's get in and let's get started they're signing up now and uh there's still that apprehension but there's that belief there's that now that that mindset shifted slightly people of
all ages um anywhere from 22 to 88 years of age um they are going to be going to space in our lifetime that's wonderful it's pretty exciting here he goes get on it now he's at 567 he's just kind of pursing his lips but only getting a cheek full of air in eyes are gone look he's gone already that hurts now G are back down to 1.2 oxygenated blood is returning to his brain he does this funky chicken as he wakes up and now he's starting to realize ooh where am I and the instructor saying
don't forget we got you on video camera oh I'm On video okay yeah I'm my how's my hair look my hair look good every time you do that you get one step closer to to the actual flight flying into Space 3 2 1 L looking good Tom how you feeling we got 7 billion people you find enough with the right motivators send them let them go to Enceladus why not they will sign you know like I sign and you sign I don't care if I hurt my toe let him go and certain private space organizations
are looking to do exactly that
