I love this guy, Dreksler. "No one would consider living on Mercury. So, let's explore this crazy idea."😂 His narration makes these videos even better.😊
No it's not, not even anyway comparable. Mercury is very dense for it's size as it probably has a high iron content. Basically Mercury is a planet that has had it rocky layer smashed off. Our moon is mainly just a rock body formed from the impact of Earth and Thea. Nothing in common at all.
Living on Mercury would be like living in Kuwait. My tent there was cooled to about near freezing in our poorly lit, drab living conditions. We had to wear heavy coats inside. Then you open the flap and go outside to Hell on Earth where asphalt melts to your boots and the sun instantly blinds you. Send me to Mercury. I've been trained and conditioned already.
I read a sci-fi book a bit back where there was not only a city on Mercury, but the main character was FROM there. It worked quite differently though, being on the surface and powered by the sun to keep moving along rails, just ahead of it (the sun). It was a really cool idea. (The book was "2312" by Kim Stanley Robinson, if you were wondering.) Usually Mercury just gets dismantled for materials in sci-fi, so I thought that was a neat change. :)
I'm a fan so I definitely need to track this book down. I totally think the concept it doable especially with domed pressurized cities since this is the concept for building settlements on the moon as well...
Mars, Europa and Titan seem to offer the best chance of human colonization, although they're a long way off. Much better technology is needed for this.
I don't think Titan would be viable - consider how much insulation you'd need. You've got a thick atmosphere and methane rains adding a convection drain to your station's heat reserve. On the moon and Mars you mainly have to worry about conduction in the ground, but with a thin/no atmosphere, all the other surfaces merely face the less powerful radiation escape. I also can't imagine what living there would be like with the liquid. Imagine getting caught in a methane storm. Sinking into methane-soaked mud. Trying to patch a leaking station roof! Our liquid, water, causes all kinds of trouble here on Earth.
@@Deciheximal Well, with better technology developed, who knows? At the moment though, human colonization of possible planets in the outer solar system, is just a dream for the moment. Sometimes, it's better to stay where you are.
Living at the edges of sunlight is smart on Mercury, but because the planet isn't tidally locked, you'd have to keep moving. Living near the poles would mean you would have to move a shorter distance at a time. Hopefully even a triangle pattern of moving between 3 points would be sufficient. Maybe you cold just build a large cylinder at the poles and move around it. The thing about mining water ice in craters... I have to wonder - would your equipment function well enough to mine it when you're dealing with temperatures that cold?
There's actually a few possibilities for habitats on Mercury to be static. One of these are the "mushroom" habs. The "mushroom" portion would act as an umbrella or parasol to shield the colony below from direct sunlight. Another possibility would be to go underground. Maybe dig into crater walls.
I read an article that we could colonize under ground where it is room temperature, far enough down away from radiation also mercurys gravity is 38 percent greater than earths, meaning no bone loss, mining its vast resources, the covering most of it with solar panels, providing near unlimited energy.
You suggest solar energy would be much more efficient, but would there be an increased risk from solar flares, especially since there is no atmosphere or magnetic field? So we would have to invest in some serious shielding..?
I know people are living on Mercury, always look in craters, they build many houses in craters on every planer, and most moons!! I believe someone's got some figures not figured!!!
I highly doubt Mercury will ever be prime real estate in our solar system, far fewer people would want to live on Mercury than who'd want to live on Luna, Mars, the upper Venusian atmosphere and the moons of Jupiter and Saturn.
I love the backing tracks of your videos. I want to say that it sounds like space! But that's impossible because there is no music or indeed any sound in space. But let's be honest, it does sound like space! 😃
What you say is true, but there is no atmosphere, so heat is not convected. A shield, even a metal umbrella is sufficient to keep things cool in its shade. It is therefore even theoretically possible to live near the equator on Mercury with such a shield.
Not in Australia. Wish it were sometimes. Our summers are intensely hot. But on the flip we get good winters. Cold at night but generally T-shirt and shorts during the day.
Living on Tau Ceti E? (It's an exoplanet in the Tau Ceti system 11.9 light years from Earth in the constellation of Cetus and it was said that the exoplanet there is Earth like.
@@Rainier214 That I do know, I've watched it, did some research on that, but wanting to learn a bit more about this planet than e stone talking about Proxima B (Our nearest exoplanet)
---->"Its ice area,so probably its not above 0." Exactly my point. "Never below" is a double negative of sorts, meaning "always above". ---->"Everyone can make mistake,but he is still making the best space videos" Sure, that's why I pointed it out to the uploader so he can correct it if he so desires.
@@@Rafa-Wojcik "Imagine lakes of liquid mercury all over the surface" If you would have only checked that the highest temperatures on Mercury far exceed that of the boiling point of mercury (despite having all that info readily available), then I can imagine that you will be flipping burgers all your life.
Everyone thought that (star sun) will not move an inch fixed on same location, which is not wrong calculation , As per Tamil Scientist , Sun will move approximately few inches every year when comes to 4th week of march, . This calculation found by greatest Tamil scientist , Approximately 10 thousands years ago. பூமத்திய ரேகையில் சந்திரனுடன் ஒரே ஒருங்கிணைப்பில் சூரியன் சில அங்குலங்கள் உயரும், இங்குதான் தமிழ் புத்தாண்டு தொடங்குகிறது. இதை தமிழ் விஞ்ஞானி கண்டுபிடித்தார்
Its actually would be a nice place to colonize the one problem is the gravity just live on the back mercury actually has a bunch of water on the back. Other problem though its gonna be hard to plant food without sunlight but we can forger that out.
Love these videos. My guess is, in a short few hundreds years, our android descendants will colonize the solar system as they will not need food or water.
Obviously it's possible for example to live in a mercurian-lunar crater closed with anti-radiation glass and filled with air, but what about meteorites? It'd be a great thing to live in a crater under a 'Good' Sun(I'd call it 'little Earth!').
Mining colonies are rarely attractive! Yet, the potential mineral wealth of Mercury would attract developers. Cheap solar power would later attract heavy industry. Mercury might become the Pittsburgh of the Solar System. Norare those other problems mentioned insurmountable. People will probably start their habitats in lava tubes and mine outward from them, expanding their living space in the process. The gravity is the same as Mars, so that should not be an issue. Over time, the "Delves of Mercury" could become an attractive place to live. Big money can work wonders!
If that solar flare from a few days was pointed at Mercury with it's little atmosphere and low magnetic field would be a disaster for life, also every CME and just regular solar radiation would be an issue...
Is there a twilight zone (not the TV series) between the edge of poles and the sunny side of the planet or does it go straight from light to pitch black?
It's called a terminator. The lack of substantial atmosphere means there's little to no scattering of light illuminating the sky, so it'd go from light to dark much more suddenly than on a body with a thick atmosphere and thus a broad terminator like Venus, Earth, or even Mars, to a lesser extent. Mercury isn't actually tidally locked, so the terminator doesn't remain at the same longitudes; it slowly moves around the planet as the planet turns, with a day taking about 6 Earth months.
Well, an atmosphere on Mercury wouldn't last very long. The solar wind would strip it away over several thousand years. That said, parts of Mercury could be domed over, that way the atmosphere would remain on the planet.
Not really, Mercury is too close to the sun to be terraformed. The planet could potentially be domed over though! The domes would have gold plating or something to reduce the sunlight and heat that penetrates through the domes.
Okay. If the planet has no atmosphere, it has no protection from the 2.9 nanometer wavelength x-rays released from the corona. Thermal radiation. That's weird.
Ray Bilverstone interesting right? Venus is further from the sun than mercury, but it’s twice as hot! Why? Because it’s atmosphere! The Venusian atmosphere is like 95% Carbon dioxide at around 90 Bar, or 1300 PSI. And this atmosphere is extremely insulating. “So if Venus is really hot because it’s CO2 atmosphere, and CO2 is rising in earth’s atmosphere, will earth get warmer?” Boom, global warming as a theory was born.
Because Mercury dominates it orbit to Sun and Pluto doesn't. Pluto is one of many dwarf planets that are surrounded by an insane amount of debris/small objects. Mercury is clearly the most dominant object in its orbit.
@@fromnorway643 Excellent points. I'm sure we will find another method for determining what qualifies as a planet because there's plenty of holes in the current one.
90c that is too extreme people on earth have died due to 45c ok they had no food electric on the blink all could of paid a part in those deaths, i dont like it any hotter than 15c, im in UK 15-20c is fairly warm 25c and i start cooking
So basically living on Mercury is like living on the Moon just with roughly twice the gravity and higher temperature differences.
Right
Nope.
Maz Oler A fuck ton of radiation
Yes
@@axelNodvon2047 not really because it has tiny magnetic field and in the crater you'd be protected from the sun.
I love this guy, Dreksler. "No one would consider living on Mercury. So, let's explore this crazy idea."😂 His narration makes these videos even better.😊
400° Celsius? So at the day i dont need a microwave or oven.
Or skin
😂
You could use a long pole to raise above the lip of the crater to roast wieners and marshmallows.
Yeah
@@connorm6916 🤣
Mercury, the *big brother of the Moon*
Yes indeed
Pretty much. Also at least in Universe Sandbox 2 Mercury can orbit Earth without it being a binary like system.
No it's not, not even anyway comparable. Mercury is very dense for it's size as it probably has a high iron content. Basically Mercury is a planet that has had it rocky layer smashed off. Our moon is mainly just a rock body formed from the impact of Earth and Thea. Nothing in common at all.
@@sunnyjim1355 r/wooosh
Sunny Jim r/Wooosh
Living on Mercury would be like living in Kuwait. My tent there was cooled to about near freezing in our poorly lit, drab living conditions. We had to wear heavy coats inside. Then you open the flap and go outside to Hell on Earth where asphalt melts to your boots and the sun instantly blinds you. Send me to Mercury. I've been trained and conditioned already.
when you get to mecury, then you'll realise that Kuwait is just a small boy,,,🤣
I wonder what his real job is coz he keeps dissapearing. Please never leave us. Thanks for this upload!
The sun would be five to six times brighter and larger if you were standing on Mercury.
Serge Chaves and if you were on the day side you’d probably melt
Sunglasses and sun screen lol
I will pick my camera and take a picture of beautiful sunrise and sunset of that large sun
If I remember correctly; three times larger and seven times stronger
Ouch
I read a sci-fi book a bit back where there was not only a city on Mercury, but the main character was FROM there. It worked quite differently though, being on the surface and powered by the sun to keep moving along rails, just ahead of it (the sun). It was a really cool idea. (The book was "2312" by Kim Stanley Robinson, if you were wondering.)
Usually Mercury just gets dismantled for materials in sci-fi, so I thought that was a neat change. :)
City is Terminator! Came to comment about this novel. Good read.
I'm a fan so I definitely need to track this book down. I totally think the concept it doable especially with domed pressurized cities since this is the concept for building settlements on the moon as well...
great vid, glad you got to 100k love you bro
Mercury doesn't seem like prime real estate in our solar system, but that planet does have potential uses.
The Solar Spa to get bronzed like T-Rump is out of this world, eh?@thecritic8096
4:01 Who else sees the smiley face?
Yes
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
MERCURY: Hi humanity! Come live on me! :)
(please don't mine me out of existence)
I can’t unsee
Mars, Europa and Titan seem to offer the best chance of human colonization, although they're a long way off. Much better technology is needed for this.
And in future cause lack of technolgy enceladus moon of saturn
And venus and pluto
And some of the moons.
@Albertan They all are.Incredibly hostile and dangerous.
I don't think Titan would be viable - consider how much insulation you'd need. You've got a thick atmosphere and methane rains adding a convection drain to your station's heat reserve. On the moon and Mars you mainly have to worry about conduction in the ground, but with a thin/no atmosphere, all the other surfaces merely face the less powerful radiation escape.
I also can't imagine what living there would be like with the liquid. Imagine getting caught in a methane storm. Sinking into methane-soaked mud. Trying to patch a leaking station roof! Our liquid, water, causes all kinds of trouble here on Earth.
@@Deciheximal Well, with better technology developed, who knows? At the moment though, human colonization of possible planets in the outer solar system, is just a dream for the moment. Sometimes, it's better to stay where you are.
Why not make Earth great again with the esteemed leadership of King Un Jong.
Venus: oh you think im beautiful?
Venus, as seen from space, is actually the less attractive planet, despite its name.
Love your videos man I am into learning stars and planets because of you good job 👍🏻
i love these dreksler planets videos, thank you
Can you imagine Mercury has people on it?? It does!!! I even have a picture of a man on Mercury
Finally a video.
Love your content man .
Wish you uploaded a little more
Right. More videos lol
Living at the edges of sunlight is smart on Mercury, but because the planet isn't tidally locked, you'd have to keep moving. Living near the poles would mean you would have to move a shorter distance at a time. Hopefully even a triangle pattern of moving between 3 points would be sufficient. Maybe you cold just build a large cylinder at the poles and move around it.
The thing about mining water ice in craters... I have to wonder - would your equipment function well enough to mine it when you're dealing with temperatures that cold?
What if you dig into liquid water on the poles and mabey even find life
rotates very slow on its axis yeah
There's actually a few possibilities for habitats on Mercury to be static. One of these are the "mushroom" habs. The "mushroom" portion would act as an umbrella or parasol to shield the colony below from direct sunlight. Another possibility would be to go underground. Maybe dig into crater walls.
Finally bro a new video! Love your content
I think mercury will be mined for its high metallic content.
Gotta be pretty fucking worth the cost
@@orphanrafferty1955 check out 4:01
I read an article that we could colonize under ground where it is room temperature, far enough down away from radiation also mercurys gravity is 38 percent greater than earths, meaning no bone loss, mining its vast resources, the covering most of it with solar panels, providing near unlimited energy.
Great to hear your voice again, Drex. God bless you
He has with talent, thats for sure
Is crater damage included in my HOA?
Where have you been bro? Miss your videos 😦😦
Please make a video of all the dwarf planets in the solar system
You suggest solar energy would be much more efficient, but would there be an increased risk from solar flares, especially since there is no atmosphere or magnetic field? So we would have to invest in some serious shielding..?
I know people are living on Mercury, always look in craters, they build many houses in craters on every planer, and most moons!! I believe someone's got some figures not figured!!!
I highly doubt Mercury will ever be prime real estate in our solar system, far fewer people would want to live on Mercury than who'd want to live on Luna, Mars, the upper Venusian atmosphere and the moons of Jupiter and Saturn.
Dobar video!
Could you make vids more often your content is great
I love this, you shuld do an entire colonization series:)
I'd totally watch it! :)
Another Dreklser vid means more education
I love the backing tracks of your videos. I want to say that it sounds like space! But that's impossible because there is no music or indeed any sound in space. But let's be honest, it does sound like space! 😃
Great work again
What you say is true, but there is no atmosphere, so heat is not convected. A shield, even a metal umbrella is sufficient to keep things cool in its shade. It is therefore even theoretically possible to live near the equator on Mercury with such a shield.
Many people don't know that Earth is the closest to the sun in winter (northern hemisphere) and furthest in summer
...
Because of counter-intuition
Not in Australia. Wish it were sometimes. Our summers are intensely hot. But on the flip we get good winters. Cold at night but generally T-shirt and shorts during the day.
RIP mercury when we are building our dyson sphere
You cant do that i dont allow it
Thanks, very informative.
Living on Tau Ceti E? (It's an exoplanet in the Tau Ceti system 11.9 light years from Earth in the constellation of Cetus and it was said that the exoplanet there is Earth like.
A great suggestion.
We should do exoplanets!
@@montanus5661 Definitely!
The Exoplanets Channel has a video about Tau Ceti E.
@@Rainier214 That I do know, I've watched it, did some research on that, but wanting to learn a bit more about this planet than e stone talking about Proxima B (Our nearest exoplanet)
@@Rainier214 I do like his channel, I did subscribe to him, but wished the video was a tad longer 😀🙄
His videos calm me!
3:22 "The temperature there is never below zero celsius" --- > Should've been "above", eh? Slip of the pen? Anyway, great vid as usual!
Its ice area,so probably its not above 0. Everyone can make mistake,but he is still making the best space videos 😉
---->"Its ice area,so probably its not above 0."
Exactly my point. "Never below" is a double negative of sorts, meaning "always above".
---->"Everyone can make mistake,but he is still making the best space videos"
Sure, that's why I pointed it out to the uploader so he can correct it if he so desires.
Never thought mercury would be ever habitable. Great deep thinking man
You should do living on Makemake
Im still wondering do u really get the best prices for
Hotels on trivago
Nope, you don't :(
Where does water come from with no atmosphere?
BRO WHERE ARE YOU IAMADDICTED TO YOUR VIDEOS I NEED MORE
I like your videos , can you make one about how could we live on calisto or Ganymede?
imagine mercury was actually made entirely of mercury (the element).
; it would be the hottest or explode
@@@Rafa-Wojcik "Imagine lakes of liquid mercury all over the surface" If you would have only checked that the highest temperatures on Mercury far exceed that of the boiling point of mercury (despite having all that info readily available), then I can imagine that you will be flipping burgers all your life.
imagine freddie mercury living on mercury which is made out of mercury
It would be a gas planet
I'd move to Mercury, just because it's so bad ass.
Interesting thank u 🙏
If one could have a close physical relationship with someone, one could thrive. You could both 'go away' together and handle what may.
You and John Michael Godier should do a collab video together! It’d be perfect
1st
Probably not but still early :)
Like before watching
living on europa, ganymede, and titan too please. amazing video btw keep'em comin'
Everyone thought that (star sun) will not move an inch fixed on same location, which is not wrong calculation , As per Tamil Scientist , Sun will move approximately few inches every year when comes to 4th week of march, . This calculation found by greatest Tamil scientist , Approximately 10 thousands years ago.
பூமத்திய ரேகையில் சந்திரனுடன் ஒரே ஒருங்கிணைப்பில் சூரியன் சில அங்குலங்கள் உயரும், இங்குதான் தமிழ் புத்தாண்டு தொடங்குகிறது. இதை தமிழ் விஞ்ஞானி கண்டுபிடித்தார்
Mercury's still the itty-bittiest planet in all our Solar System.
Its actually would be a nice place to colonize the one problem is the gravity just live on the back mercury actually has a bunch of water on the back. Other problem though its gonna be hard to plant food without sunlight but we can forger that out.
Welcome Back 😍😍😍😍
Love these videos. My guess is, in a short few hundreds years, our android descendants will colonize the solar system as they will not need food or water.
Why??
Obviously it's possible for example to live in a mercurian-lunar crater closed with anti-radiation glass and filled with air, but what about meteorites? It'd be a great thing to live in a crater under a 'Good' Sun(I'd call it 'little Earth!').
Can you do what If titan hit the earth
It wouldn't be more efficient, brother. It'll just be more effective. 2:35
Mining colonies are rarely attractive! Yet, the potential mineral wealth of Mercury would attract developers. Cheap solar power would later attract heavy industry. Mercury might become the Pittsburgh of the Solar System. Norare those other problems mentioned insurmountable. People will probably start their habitats in lava tubes and mine outward from them, expanding their living space in the process. The gravity is the same as Mars, so that should not be an issue. Over time, the "Delves of Mercury" could become an attractive place to live. Big money can work wonders!
Or some major calamity could render Mercury the Centralia of our solar system!
I don't know how you could ever send humans in that direction towards the sun...
I'll miss going fishing our green landscape the the blue sky etc, etc I'll pass nice vid though
I'm the first person to figure out that their is or was life on it
Atleast some planet is calm
If that solar flare from a few days was pointed at Mercury with it's little atmosphere and low magnetic field would be a disaster for life, also every CME and just regular solar radiation would be an issue...
Living on Mercury's poles, shout be very similar to living on the moon's poles.
Where are the subs????
Oh cool a new video! I really need to space out in today's world lunacy!!!! 😅😅😅😅
😁😅😂🤣
We should try to develop artificial gravity
I don't know if it's possible
For space stations at least.
That's nice but colony may be destroy by only radiation
Is there a twilight zone (not the TV series) between the edge of poles and the sunny side of the planet or does it go straight from light to pitch black?
Yes! I've always wanted to ask this! And for the temperature change, too. Is there a small comfort zone?
It's called a terminator. The lack of substantial atmosphere means there's little to no scattering of light illuminating the sky, so it'd go from light to dark much more suddenly than on a body with a thick atmosphere and thus a broad terminator like Venus, Earth, or even Mars, to a lesser extent. Mercury isn't actually tidally locked, so the terminator doesn't remain at the same longitudes; it slowly moves around the planet as the planet turns, with a day taking about 6 Earth months.
Cool shit!
just amazing the size of sun from mercury
Yes!!! Yet many people live there!!! Many houses, always look in craters for homes!!!
@@duanewilliams7353 the fudge?
People usually dont talk about the radiation in space.
Could we add a atmosphere and terraform Mercury?
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Well, an atmosphere on Mercury wouldn't last very long. The solar wind would strip it away over several thousand years. That said, parts of Mercury could be domed over, that way the atmosphere would remain on the planet.
Not really, Mercury is too close to the sun to be terraformed. The planet could potentially be domed over though! The domes would have gold plating or something to reduce the sunlight and heat that penetrates through the domes.
The line where hot and cold environment mate there could be life
If humans will live on Mercury, maybe they will be a bit disoriented, because Mercury's revolution around the sun is so fast! ✈️ 🤸 🌅
i would think we would actually completely hollow out mercury before it could eventually reach the sun
Do I look like moon???
Okay. If the planet has no atmosphere, it has no protection from the 2.9 nanometer wavelength x-rays released from the corona. Thermal radiation. That's weird.
Mercury isn't a too much visiting planet.
Man I love this channel 🥰❤️❤️
The second hottest I thought it would be the first as it’s closer to the sun🤔.
Ray Bilverstone interesting right? Venus is further from the sun than mercury, but it’s twice as hot! Why? Because it’s atmosphere! The Venusian atmosphere is like 95% Carbon dioxide at around 90 Bar, or 1300 PSI. And this atmosphere is extremely insulating. “So if Venus is really hot because it’s CO2 atmosphere, and CO2 is rising in earth’s atmosphere, will earth get warmer?” Boom, global warming as a theory was born.
Mercury doesn't have an atmosphere thick enough to immure heat, so it can't be the hottest planet.
Guessing what young man Mercury entered in to the sun 😎. Comprehend
I was brought up on Mercury with mother.
Would be a great place for criminals such as politicians, stock market gurus, rapers, killers, burglers, brokers, bankers,
And bad police officers!
If Mercury is smaller then Pluto why is it still considered a planet?
Because Mercury dominates it orbit to Sun and Pluto doesn't. Pluto is one of many dwarf planets that are surrounded by an insane amount of debris/small objects. Mercury is clearly the most dominant object in its orbit.
Actually, Mercury is bigger than Pluto.
@@fromnorway643 Excellent points. I'm sure we will find another method for determining what qualifies as a planet because there's plenty of holes in the current one.
"อาศัยอยู่บนดาวพุธ - ดาวเคราะห์ที่ร้อนแรงที่สุดดวงที่สองในระบบสุริยะ
Could Mercury have been an escaped moon from Venus?
Maybe in the early formation of the solar system. But I wouldn’t bet on it.
Possible, albeit unlikely.
Unlikely, but it's possible.
90c that is too extreme people on earth have died due to 45c ok they had no food electric on the blink all could of paid a part in those deaths, i dont like it any hotter than 15c, im in UK 15-20c is fairly warm 25c and i start cooking
Mercury is spicy moon
Waaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy higher UV levels than Australia
I've just terraformed Mercury in terragenesis
If Mercury is tidally locked and the poles are - 90. Is there a sweet spot away from the poles that's a bit more earth like in temperature?
Great
Your name is a bird that lived 150 million years ago
@@rodxanoplayz6868A dinosaur
Yeah but it is a mixture of a reptile and a bird so i call it a repid but I also say birds
and one of the coldest
The radiation is the main problem