https://padlet.com/christopherbuchner/lt9h2friszuh3a2b Podcast Planner en-us 2023-09-27 16:18:25 UTC 2023-10-03 12:47:18 UTC hello@padlet.com christopherbuchner https://padlet.com/christopherbuchner/lt9h2friszuh3a2b/wish/2723426332 Hello people of earth, my name is Sean Buchner and you are listening to The Outer Reaches! Space is big. Like, really big. In fact, us humans have no idea how big it really is. The observable universe is approximately 95 million light-years in diameter(about 558 quadrillion miles), but what is a light year? a light year isnt a time like most people think, but a unit of measurement for distance. 1 light year is about 6 trillion miles. 1 light year is the distance that light travels in one year. For scale, the moon is about 238,900 miles away. Mars is 236.81 MILLION miles away(according to NASA). Elon Musk has big dreams with his Starship program. A spaceship program led by Elon Musk and SpaceX, with the help of NASA(National Aeronautics and Space Association). The Starships are what Elon wants to use to take humans to and from Mars. They can blast-off from here, fly all the way to Mars, land, and fly back and land here back on earth! Well, at least, that's his plan. Elon set himself a deadline to get a fully functional Martian city with 1 million inhabitants by the year 2050. He will be 76 that year! Happy early birthday Elon! I will be 48 and one of the 1 million people there, or will I?]]> 2023-09-27 16:34:01 UTC https://padlet.com/christopherbuchner/lt9h2friszuh3a2b/wish/2723426332 christopherbuchner https://padlet.com/christopherbuchner/lt9h2friszuh3a2b/wish/2723430854 2023-09-27 16:36:35 UTC https://padlet.com/christopherbuchner/lt9h2friszuh3a2b/wish/2723430854 christopherbuchner https://padlet.com/christopherbuchner/lt9h2friszuh3a2b/wish/2723431634 2023-09-27 16:37:05 UTC https://padlet.com/christopherbuchner/lt9h2friszuh3a2b/wish/2723431634 christopherbuchner https://padlet.com/christopherbuchner/lt9h2friszuh3a2b/wish/2723484335 But why does Elon want to achieve this out of this world plan? Whether you like it or not, the Earth is dying. The North pole is melting, rising sea levels, warmer temperatures year round, thanks to global warming. Global Warming is caused by pollution from factories, cars, phones, trash, pesticides, chemicals, nuclear waste, the list goes on. Even my computer and the microphone i'm using emits even the slightest big of pollution. In roughly 4.5 billion years from now, our very own galaxy will collide with another galaxy called Andromeda galaxy, thanks to something called the Great Attractor, which is situated about 150-250 million light years away. The Great Attractor is also being pulled by something even larger called the Shapley Attractor, but if I start talking about that topic I will get distracted and wont move on from that(I can talk about space for days nonstop). We need an escape plan. Elon wants us to go to mars, but mars has its own set of problems.]]> 2023-09-27 17:10:47 UTC https://padlet.com/christopherbuchner/lt9h2friszuh3a2b/wish/2723484335 christopherbuchner https://padlet.com/christopherbuchner/lt9h2friszuh3a2b/wish/2723501790 2023-09-27 17:22:18 UTC https://padlet.com/christopherbuchner/lt9h2friszuh3a2b/wish/2723501790 christopherbuchner https://padlet.com/christopherbuchner/lt9h2friszuh3a2b/wish/2723585014 In order for Humans to be able to live on Mars, we will need to build specialized building able to house us, while keeping pressure down, as Mars' atmospheric pressure would make it impossible for us to live there without pressure suits and building. The pressure would suffocate you, at the same time your blood everywhere in your body would boil due to the pressure. You would die instantly without a special "Mars Suit". NASA currently has 11 active spacesuits. 4 of which are on the ISS, the last 7 are on the ground and used for testing. In 1974, NASA revealed that 1 spacesuit cost around $15-22 million, which equals $82-122 million today. The SpaceX suit costs only a fraction of the NASA space suits(according to wikipedia). The atmospheric pressure on mars is approximately 0.087-0.145 PSI. Earth's pressure is about 14.7 PSI. In 2010, NASA designed a Mars Suits, dubbed the NASA Z-2 suit, and tested it in NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory. A massive pool used for astronaut training. The pool is so massive, that it could hold enough gatorade to hydrate every NFL team for 13 whole seasons. Each season, the NFL consumes about 464,000 gallons of gatorade. Some of the other design concerns include, but are not limited to: High speed winds filled with mars dust, radiation such as cosmic rays, low temperatures down to -202 degrees F, and exposure to ultraviolet light. ]]> 2023-09-27 18:17:43 UTC https://padlet.com/christopherbuchner/lt9h2friszuh3a2b/wish/2723585014 christopherbuchner https://padlet.com/christopherbuchner/lt9h2friszuh3a2b/wish/2723610150 2023-09-27 18:33:31 UTC https://padlet.com/christopherbuchner/lt9h2friszuh3a2b/wish/2723610150 christopherbuchner https://padlet.com/christopherbuchner/lt9h2friszuh3a2b/wish/2723644060 In order for the Starship to make its trip all the way to mars, Elon had devised a plan for it to all work out. This information comes directly from the man himself, on SpaceX.com. First, we need to launch from earth. The Starship will launch with the Starship Super Heavy Booster, a giant rocket tanker filled with mainly fuel so that the Starship can make it into earth low orbit. A Starship Leverage Tanker will launch separately with the first one to refuel the main Starship. Elon described this as "essentially the Starship spacecraft minus the windows". Starship one will refuel with Starship Tanker in earth low orbit, then the tanker will detach and make its return to earth and land. Starhip 1 will then make its long, 6 day trip to Mars. Landing a spaceship is hard. Elon will use aerodynamics and a huge heat shield covering the rocket, to conserve energy, and lower speed. The Starship will enter Mars' atmosphere at roughly 7.5 kilometers per second, or 16 thousand miles per hour. The Starship will enter the atmosphere vertical, while moving almost parallel with the planet. Using the heat shield, and starship will use air resistance to slow down until right before landing when it will use what is called Supersonic Retropulsion for its landing burn to slowly and carefully touchdown. Lastly, using Mars' local resources, it will refuel and make its way back to earth the same way, just without the tanker refuel in low orbit. ]]> 2023-09-27 18:58:39 UTC https://padlet.com/christopherbuchner/lt9h2friszuh3a2b/wish/2723644060 christopherbuchner https://padlet.com/christopherbuchner/lt9h2friszuh3a2b/wish/2723667355 2023-09-27 19:18:03 UTC https://padlet.com/christopherbuchner/lt9h2friszuh3a2b/wish/2723667355 christopherbuchner https://padlet.com/christopherbuchner/lt9h2friszuh3a2b/wish/2723674319 According to DailyMail.com, humans will only be able to live on mars for around 4 years. That's not that long. The article i read stated that some scientists believe that the radiation on mars will become unbearable and unlivable in that time. A research carried out by a UCLA team found that a spacecraft mission to and from mars would give enough protection during the round trip. However, is the material the spaceship is built with is too thick, it could increase the amount of secondary radiation. ]]> 2023-09-27 19:24:03 UTC https://padlet.com/christopherbuchner/lt9h2friszuh3a2b/wish/2723674319 christopherbuchner https://padlet.com/christopherbuchner/lt9h2friszuh3a2b/wish/2723674848 2023-09-27 19:24:32 UTC https://padlet.com/christopherbuchner/lt9h2friszuh3a2b/wish/2723674848 christopherbuchner https://padlet.com/christopherbuchner/lt9h2friszuh3a2b/wish/2723681059 While the radiation, temperatures, pressure, and everything else posed here, does cause problems, utilizing mars isn't so far fetched as you might think. If living on mars proves to be impossible, that doesn't mean we cant use it to our advantage. No, not saying we mine it for resources and destroy the planet like we have our own. We could use the planet as a place to refuel, do tests, and even look out farther into space. Some astronomers and scientists are thinking about building a giant telescope on the surface of the moon inside one of its craters. We could do something like that on mars, or maybe a place for spaceships to dock and refuel for even farther trips to planets in our solar system. Thank you all for tuning in to todays episode, this is the end and I will see you all in space!]]> 2023-09-27 19:30:02 UTC https://padlet.com/christopherbuchner/lt9h2friszuh3a2b/wish/2723681059