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Hope for Life on Mars as Machine Produces Oxygen for the First Time

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0:00 what if you just jerk the tree off and then put the semen the tree semen yeah in the soil [Music] Bart knows I love science okay how does everybody feel about life on Mars Mars oh honey bunny you should mention I love it I'm there all the time Earth creature creature I've heard that in a minute dude of course Marvin the Martian okay you know you know yeah he was one of my favorites I think he's gonna ████ suck my phone is gonna suck ████ yeah dude they don't got in and out for a while yeah this could be tough I need in and out I need cream barbecue

0:52 and then I need some shorts weather here and there okay do they go done you're probably gonna have some shorts weather out there potentially there's no ocean no there's no so it's just like a big Las Vegas before the casinos came like the Red Rock Casino without the casino just becomes Vegas please read that headline because it's crazy how about you do it in your Mars The Martian okay here we go uh this is from the Mirror by the way a very reliable new source Life on Mars hopes as a machine produces oxygen on the red planet for the very first time whoa so wait so it produced oxygen that stayed or concentrated to one area so it's not so much about let me let me show you a photo so you even understand did they

1:42 shoot like an oxygen maker there and it's just sitting there going no it's it's a machine and it's that size this little gold box that can turn carbon dioxide into oxygen now obviously Mars has a ████ plethora of carbon dioxide like nothing but it almost isn't that the same ████ as a plant though as a tree absolutely just put ████ plants on that ████ well there's also like not really just red ready water available so you can't just like keep the plant alive sunlight and then also temperatures the way that plants work on Earth they like work within certain tropical temperatures and stuff Mars has much more variance much more extremities on their surface right but what if you just what if you just jerk the tree off and then put the semen the tree semen yeah in the

2:32 soil yeah Anthony yeah why not okay so scientists say oxygen has been produced on Mars for the first time bringing humans closer to the possibility of Life on another planet using an instrument the size of a lunchbox a team sported by NASA says transforming the red planet's carbon dioxide to produce more oxygen for the past 18 months wow that long already it's a temporarily sustained human life we're pretty sure that entire time has been more so like trials and stuff as well since landing on Mars in February 2021 the MIT LED this is called Mars oxygen Institute resource utilization experiment or Moxie we'll just call it Oh I thought it was going to be moisture that would be fun uh has turned CO2 into oxygen at the rate of a small tree on seven occasions because they had to test in like a lot of varying atmospheric like kind of situations on Mars way more

3:22 crazy over there oxygen was created both during the day and the night in different seasons so they needed enough time to actually understand whether or not the same type of like device would be able to be used during different times they're using their Noggin they're using their Noggin it means that astronauts stepping onto Martian territory will be able to breathe unaided for their arrival as well so they could take off their ████ Fishbowl they can like take it off and then breathe I think if they're in another contained thing I don't think the entire atmosphere at this time okay it's time it's just especially the size of a little boss I don't think that little Boston to the whole planet It's gotta be like a little burning man tent yeah Sandy Cheeks on SpongeBob in a bubble with her both yeah so I mean obviously there's still like a million more steps to take before we can get into any inhabitable element but

4:13 they consider this a pretty promising and large kind of development for where we need to go because oxygen is a huge huge thing we kind of come yeah um they said that we have learned a tremendous amount that will inform future systems at a larger scale so I mean in essence you are right living there right now would suck balls but everything needed to develop a habitable type of situation means that this this generation this time however long it's going to take I thought we were trying to terraform that whole planet like we're trying to like I mean in essence this is a part of the terraform right to be able to actually change the atmosphere as well I wonder if their origin story is going to be like at first we had oxygen NASA gods made oxygen second day they may water well when did Genesis

5:03 first be like the creation of Mars on like a holy uh you know I'm just gonna play with your exam well they might they go like first they brought a gold box yeah no no no the first would be like first Our God Elon scent yeah you know Elon God it sounds like a god name right it's ████ up on the blue place first yeah yeah they said um quote this is the first demonstration of actually using resources on the surface of another planetary body and transforming them chemically into something that would be useful for a human Mission it's historic in that sense the atmosphere of Mars is far more variable than Earth the density of the air can vary by a factor of two through the year I don't know what the ████ that means and the temperature can vary by 100 degrees whoa one objective

5:54 is to show we can run in all seasons are you guys pioneering enough to go I'ma go out there do something dude props to the first gen people are gonna colonize it's gonna need to be something really crazy and extreme for me to go there it's like maybe like I ████ up super crazy on this planet and then like the mob is going to kill my whole family if I don't sacrifice myself and go on the mission or some ████ so this is the movie right that we're gonna make it's the the first song Gerard Butler yeah I was listening to a podcast that Elon was talking on and all this stuff he was talking about the oxygen the carbon dioxide and stuff and it's like very possible and very serious he was saying there will be test groups and volunteers that people don't want to go out there did you do it he said it's it is gonna like the first people that go it's gonna suck like you're on this rock you're only gonna have a small area but they said they will slowly bring

6:45 volunteers over to try to create this it could fail like there's so many possible things I feel like the same thing that you said the people that do go like you know people are not coming back those people that are depressed are terrible lives or homeless you know how I saw your episode about the homeless hotels we just send them to Mars you might be paraphrasing in a way that makes it sound really bad the plot for Conair too yeah it's kind of like America part three or two yeah gonna bring all the the bad people optimistic people yeah because if we said the depressed ass people man just

7:35 please book it sucks I remember um ████ what movie was it was it Interstellar yeah I'll ████ love Interstellar right yeah and then Matt Damon's supposed to be this like revered and glorified lie he was like the one who would lead the bravest men and women to go check out these he was a ████ and he ended up being the guy when he like all hope was lost put in the the long sleep but sent out the signal to say his plan was habitable even though he was lying because he need help yeah he just want to save himself right so it's kind of like there's that innate like maybe you are the bravest in that moment you don't know until you're there man yeah and then once you get out there and the world's or your world sucks for like 15 years and you start to go Cycles that's why the first test group they need to send them and they need to uh not know they need to not know it's just a simulation and then watch them think it's Mars and see what they do

8:25 and then at the end of it when they're successful go all right now you can really go yeah and then that's when they go cycle because they're like you've been lying to us the whole time but America and Australia worked out it's kind of the same concept well well they already we already have things like um plants and oxygen and yeah so I feel like the things that they have to deal with are just a different Foundation of tragedy at least they don't have to deal with Predator animals and different tribes you got a point there different stuff you don't know well maybe that there might be uh Marvin the Martians out there that are like dude they might have some Martian ground Gophers that ████ dig out from the bottom all of a sudden eat your ass they'll have Martian Thanksgiving now though woke up with the golfers there you're gonna have Martian Thanksgiving they're

9:15 going to have a whole different kind of it's gonna be gonna be like go for genocide first though right and then we'll do holidays for a while because we're gonna wipe them out whatever's there right I feel like with a gun called The Santa Maria isn't this what England did like they just kept sending like I mean our jails are packed let's just ████ send our ████ homeless and crazy people let's just send them different different places right and then all the countries did really really good so maybe Mars would do really really good we just need they also did turn their back on them so what if we send these new guys to Mars they turn their back on us they attack us oh and they're like how are we going to listen to a tyrant ruler more than 3 000 miles away they're gonna have their own July 4th yeah and they'll have Martian fireworks saying Independence Day yeah I never think about that they have their like marshes to this movie The Martian tea

10:05 party and ████ like that the Martian tea party yeah whatever rebel against us damn I never thought about that dude and now that you know anything different in the way you're gonna live your life I I'm staying in ice I like Earth foreign

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