Could we survive prolonged space travel? - Lisa Nip
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2016
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Prolonged space travel plays a severe toll on the human body: microgravity impairs muscle and bone growth, and high doses of radiation cause irreversible mutations. As we seriously consider the human species becoming space-faring, a big question stands: even if we do break free from Earth’s orbit, can we adapt to the extreme environments of space? Lisa Nip examines our odds.
Lesson by Lisa Nip, animation by Bassam Kurdali.
Wow, the animation, once again was amazing!
It gave you appetite? LMAO!
This new animation style is awesome!
no matter how dangerous Space travel is we still need to accomplish it.
Well think of this, space travel will take hundreds of years. It would take over 900 years to go to the closet earth like planet with the technology we have. Also if you are born in space you're muscles will not be as a strong so gravity will kill you due to blood flow. We still have lots to learn about space and long distance travel
the real trick is make space move around you instead of moving through space
I that a Furturama reference?
WYW yes
WYW and im fairly sure thats how space travel will work
Great info! I really enjoyed the animation on this one.
I'm so glad I discovered this channel 😊 I love learning new things
no1 asked
heck yeah, been tossing this thought around in my head for months, finally its been answered
I just learnt that our Earth protects us in so many ways, like the magnetic field which I thought was meant for limited purposes...
This is so beautiful, and makes me sad how we fail to see it and how we fail to protect our beautiful Earth
A Ted Ed about space? HELL YESS MY DAY GOT SO MUCH BETTER!!
Congratulations for the awesome animation!
This animation is amazing, how'd you do it?
This puts in other contexts the sports competitions: people living in differents zones have different adapted bodies which made them more or less prone to different sports.
awesome video on space travel complexities
hi ted ed thanks for teaching me this
loved the animation
I'm working on a way to fix these issues to as close as a negliigable point as possible, keep your eyes and ears open in the future for my breakthrough.
Dear Ted-Ed,
Please do a video on Hemophilia, it would be an interesting video with topics ranging from Superheros (like Wolvarine) to gene therapy to a fascinating royal history, and you guys would have the first official video on the subject on UA-cam.
Please do consider.
The Animation is amazing!!!
What a Fascinating Animation
cool animation. so smooth
Beautiful Animations!
Really nice animations here
Why is no one talking about the actual information in this video??
Because youtube is populated by edgy morons.
^ You're on youtube. You just insulted yourself.
Wow, how long did it take you to come up with that one? I don't know if I'll ever recover.
I love it. It bothers me that everyone is so worried about whats right in their own opinion, than whats better for the human civilization. Of course, they may be right anyway, but that doesn't necessarily mean we shouldn't do whatever it is anyway.
About the gravity. Can we not make a spaceship that turns like a centrifuge pushing the humans inside against the wall making a fake gravity?
but thats no fun.
a giant themepark cenrtifuge in space no fun?
I do not understand :P
JetDoes i wanna gene splice people. With or without their permission.
Joseph Fox Who does not? Everyone loves space marines. For the god emperor!
There are many practical and very basic reasons why that isn't such a great idea. For example, running against the direction of the rotation would make the astronaut lighter and maybe even weightless. That's just one example.
You can do exercises in space using elastic type equipment
how to do these animation?
what a program I'll to use?
I have a question. how does the actual tanning process work? & how does it make skin darker? is the darker pigment a result of dying cells? I'm curious
Good luck with that. Most people resist the idea of tinkering with DNA. That is as long as it's someone else that is suffering.
can you blame them? a simple mistake can cause massive damage with the possibly to pass it on for generations and not to mention intentional abuse governments making people more accepting of authority or terrorist injecting dangerous DNA with a time trigger.
Joseph Fox Yes, Absolutely I can "blame" them. The people that stand on principle and resist curing DNA issues when they themselves is suffering I have more respect for. But I have NO respect for people that force others to suffer because it doesn't affect themslefs directly.
Sylphus Lacreme so humans would be voiding our warranty?
Sylphus Lacreme You are way to late for that argument to have any value. Like 100 generations too late.
***** if you are asking why scientists dont just start human geneome testing is because they would be shut down and they need funding which is often a university or company and those tend to not like controversy. The military might be testing it without public knowledge but that tends to fall in the darker side of science
just watched natgeo channel about should we go to mars and then after watch this i think i'm going to rethink it again..
smooth animation
Q: Could we survive in space ?
A: Theoretically.
Gee, thanks...
Maybe use these tools to end obesity rather than just make it socially acceptable..?
Well, conservation of energy is a law of physics, that we cannot break. So people either need to reduce their energy intake (eat less calories) or increase their energy consumption (exercise). (Hint: the first is usually much easier) It's matter of behaviour/psychology, not of biology.
So, yes, the biggest problem is the social acceptance of obesity. Most people would call a person with healthy weight "skinny" nowadays, and the figures in this video are not helping.
+Slyphus Lacreme
There might be genes that influence your appetite or how well you digest food, but in the end eating less than you burn will ALWAYS lead to weight loss.
Edit: So let me clarify this. Some people will find it harder to loose weight, since they suffer from a stronger feeling of hunger, but everybody can come to a healthy weight by eating (and drinking) on an adjusted diet.
+Slyphus Lacreme Genetics has almost nothing to do with obesity. There are some studies that show it does but that's only because kids adopt the eating habits of their parents. If your parents raised you properly, you shouldn't develop shitty eating habits and you shouldn't be fat especially at an early age.
+DankLord420
Exactly. But I think you meant to write "Genetics has almost nothing to do with obesity."?
N0Tgod oh shit my b just fixed it.
OMG I've been thinking of those funghi since 11th grade and wanted to be a part of that research ever since. Please wait for me scientists
I like the idea of radiation synthesis but we can easily fix the gravity problem with Hardware like rotating space vehicles and stations that can produce gravity
The most difficult thing about genetic manipulation in sentient beings is not whether it should be allowed, but whether it should be imposed upon those who grow into it. The most dramatic changes that could be achieved would be through manipulation of Zygotes, not fully grown beings capable of making informed decisions about such changes to their genetic code and possible side-effects that could greatly effect their well-being and wuality of life
You guys didint mention that the effects of micro gravity are counter acted (theoretically on the mars one flight) with intense exercise.
0:18
I get that reference
where do you get this stuff @+ted-ed
I ❤️ your videos!
I'm guessing the recent announcement and presentation by Elon Musk was one of the reason for producing this video
Just like how Columbus and all the other explorers explore the new world through the ocean, it will be us this time exploring space. They faced many challenges too like scurvy and the rough sea, since history repeats itself, we will face challenges too but on our own level.
You do realise that outer space travel is not like sailing the seas?
my genome is so messed up....i need a complete overhaul!
All that extra weight in space would be a terrible idea. They'd never make the cut. Also... you get altitude sickness if you change altitudes too quickly, and don't adapt. Mountain peoples are better suited for this, but they're not magic.
Good animation
4:26 That Bacteria 3d model though.
Why not produce spacesuits that counteract low gravity by filling them with super dense materials therefore giving our bodies the sensation of earth gravity while also possibly blocking radiation at the same time? I know I can't be the first one to think of this, just curious. Does anyone have an answer?
I think they're thinking too hard on the microgravity problem. I think the simplest most efficient way of working around that limitation is a centrifuge, an artificial gravity habitat. Every time I hear this idea being dismissed, it's because of the false assumption that a centrifuge that does just that would have to be insanely big and would be prohibitively expensive to launch. That's just not true, another way would be to tether 2 pods or habitats together and have the whole rotate around the center of the tether.
Another thing to consider is, who ever said that the centrifuge needs to house the entire habitat? While I have no basis for thinking this, we'd need more research, but maybe we could have a very small centrifuge that the astronauts would sleep in. That way they wouldn't get motion sick, and it would also make it easier to sleep. It could be just enough to help reduce or even nullify muscle and bone loss due to lack of gravity. If this were the case, the centrifuge would probably only have to be about the size of the carnival ride "Gravitron", maybe even smaller, and spin at a much slower rate for a measly 1G(the ride supposedly hits you with 3Gs).
4:26 HOLY SHIT WHAT IS THAT THING ON THE RIGHT THAT IS NOT A CELL LMAO
3:49 "I have osteoporosis" IDubbbz meme
3:16
She speaks in Lithuanian...
"Ar tikrai rytoi"
Can you make a video on how tablets work?
Is it possible to use this fungus
ability to turn radiation into energy to make more energy
In nuclear power plants or is
it limited to uv A rays only ?
That is literally a Newtype in Gundam that is talked about here.
As long as the person, getting the mutations, is ok with it, I do not see any harm
The narrators voice is so nice.
I'm tired of ethics, feel like we could be light years away from where we are now if only we did not limit ourselves with ethical reasoning.
Another bad factor is copyrighting new technologies or keeping them secret.
S Skyler Well, if we were to not care about ethics, we could have/be space slaves by now.
Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Sounds better than earth slave at least.
S Skyler Imagine a slave powered space craft.
Ethics isnt to stop development of science. It is to stop bad practice. Many of poeple woudl like to take care yourself without limits.
NASA has already learned exercise techniques that do such a great job of maintaining strength that it can even be increased.
oh thanks Ted ed , I will now become fat to get closer of becoming an astronaut
So now you can actually form your children like you would do in an rpg game. Awesome.
Freaking engineer those super humans already. Who can oppose that? It’s super cool and necessary to quickly evolve our species for space travel
you can add vietnamese cc are not? Please
Why are there so many comments questioning the shapes in the video?
4:28 the cell looks like it's suffering.
so um we would be able to photosynthesis?
Still take years for that to happen.
well 5 years have passed, nothing changed :(
So, to travel in space we need to be fat?
Are there requirements for astronauts causing them to have over 35 bmi?
So you're saying we can be Spiderman? Count me in.
And have scientist discovered
How the fungi turn radiation into
Energy or is it still being Studied?
What is the temperature in space?
iCrazySkillsHD
That is like saying what is the temperature of earth. It depends...
Amber
LOOOOOOL. Yea of course I do. I mean who doesn't?
Btw I was just being sarcastic if you didn't know...
can you topic the! : can we live in mars?????
How much material is there on
Earth to build ships , is it possible
To mine asteroids and if it is how much of it would be metallic?
CRISPER CAS 9!!!
it said it would create more energy and don't you think that everybody will become hyper active in that case
probably they'll have ADHD with the extra energy
This might happen in our life time because of CRISPR ... Who's excited to visit Mars?
3:00 Idubbz falls into the wheelchair and says "I have Osteoporosis."
Would SpaceX charge more for the extra weight?
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The most troubling aspect of bio engineering humans is not fear of the unfamiliar or fear of competing with such people for jobs or resources. You compete with lots of people already for jobs and resources and will be too old to be a direct competitor to a bioengineered person who will be born 20 years in the future. You can get used to something new or even a new type of person.
No, the most troubling aspect is whether or not this person is really a human (if you insert DNA from a fungus) or is really your child (if you mix and match the DNA of let's say 5-10 people to make the best possible combination.)
3:49 I have (insert meme here)
This is literally how Gundam Seed started.
Let's make sure we can survive well enough on Earth first. Namely by not being a chicken leg away from a heart attack.
we already have a solution to micro gravity and it's far safer than gene editing, spinning cylinders to produce an environment where it feels like gravity but is the constant change of momentum.
LETS GET CRISPER UP
IN HERE
Wouldn't it be better to concentrate all the efforts on developing artificial gravity and efficient barriers to radiations? In this way everyone would be able to travel through space, and not only those who have been genetically engineered.
second video ive seen this week advocating human gene editing
Joseph Fox life noggin?
Joseph Fox that guy is good, I also watch his videos :) life noggin is the same kind of animated science videos, but it focuses a bit more on biology rather than space
You can't stop science!
comment section is pretty boring this early...
remove the "this early" and you've got yourself a winner
Comment section is pretty boring
We've got a winner^
This video is discriminating towards non fat non-male and non curly-haired people, every individual expressed is a fat female with curly hair. The fat curly-hair matriarchy is here.
sushanalone maybe they want to make fat curly haired women more appreciated, seeing that the world favors mainly men and beautiful skinny women
The proprotion of discussions about the potential implications of human genetic altering in the comment section here compared to the amount of discussions on why the ficticious animated characters in the video are fat is why we're not in space yet. People have their priorities so so wrong.
That sounds like great opertunities, but gene editing, like most big technologies opens a door to misuse and destruction if not used/regulated corectly, a good example is nuclear fusion/fission: great for generating power, also great for destroying cities. There are a lot of such 'dangerous technologies coming into our reach in the next centuries like nanobots, general AI, bioprinting and maybe in the long term things like anti matter. All of this things hold the potential to move our civilisation forward by a significant distance but in order to avert the malice they could bring over us we should start developing legal and ethical regulation methodes now alongside these technologies. But our current economical and political structure will make things exponentially harder if not impossible. So we are pretty much doomed in the long term if things don't change fast, I also believe that these technologies are the barriers explaining the fermi paradox. How many civilisations might have nuked themselfes out of existance or have fallen prey to biological weapons or superbugs before reaching the stars? We can't even predict how many more is waiting for us unseen by our current understanding of the universe. I am by no means saying that we should crawl back into caves but I think if we want to survive the next century we have to learn to work together for the sake of our civilisation and not just for our own, and I don't see this happening anytime soon...
I dont like the animation, you know why...
too much pastel colors?
I think it was great :D
Hugh....Mongus....*TRIGGERED*
Fat purple haired blobs... It's almost a caricature, if it wasn't for the fact that Ted-Ed often times tries to push a certain agenda that tangents a certain ideology...
+West Yorkshire *DISGUSTING*
i'm retarded
Is this narrated by vi hart??? I swear it is!
We could make our selves into newish species like star wars
Did you just suggest turning people into plants? >.>
*fungi
Sounded like photosynthesis to me
they specifically say fungi.....
How does it sound like photosynthesis.
Starting at 2:36
"Melanin exists in many forms across species, and some melanin-expressing fungi use the pigment to convert radiation into chemical energy.
Instead of trying to shield the human body, or rapidly repair damage, we could potentially engineer humans to adopt and express these fungal, melanin-based energy-harvesting systems.
They'd then convert radiation into useful energy while protecting our DNA."
via Google:
"Photosynthesis is the process by which plants, some bacteria, and some protistans use the energy from sunlight to produce sugar, which cellular respiration converts into ATP, the "fuel" used by all living things."
believe humans... we will accomplish it too... because we are greatest species of all time... proud human
Does the answer matter?
yep
This is hard to understand... I'm spacing out
okay ill go now...