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These days it seems like everyone wants to go out into space and colonize new planets.
With global threats such as climate change and other factors like a growing world population
and Triangle Bob's never-ending appetite, it's probably a pretty good idea to expand
humanity's foothold throughout the galaxies, but it had me wondering.
Rather than rely on another pre-existing planet, could we make a new, habitable planet ourselves?
Now before we begin, it's best to know that we are going to be making a lot of assumptions
here and that there will be a world of other factors to consider than what we bring up
in this video.
And if this is even possible, it likely won't happen for a very long time.
But for curiosity's sake, let's go exploring!
I just hope we end up like the rover and not the cat.
To start off, if we'd want to be living on it, we should to find a good spot in space
to put the new planet.
We'd want it to be in a habitable zone, meaning the planet should have an orbit the
right distane from its star to ensure optimal temperatures and most importantly, liquid
water/.
Too close of an orbit to its star and the planet would be a good home for the Human
Torch.
Too far away and the planet would most likely be in a deep freeze.
We'd also need the right materials to make the planet.
Our Earth has a core made of mostly iron and nickel, then its mantle, which is comprised
of mainly silicate rock with elements like magnesium, aluminium, oxygen and more.
Atop that is the crust, which has some similar materials, but throws in more things like
calcium, sodium, and potassium.
If we made our own new planet, we'd probably want it to have similar elements and a similar
structure.
We'd also want a bunch of water to form some oceans, as most of the Earth's surface
is covered in it.
But even if we can get all the materials, actually creating a new planet like Earth
could prove troublesome.
It might be a better route to make something more like giant space station.
We've already made the International Space Station and plenty of space vessels, so this
could be more in our wheelhouse.
It would still require a lot of material though and be pretty expensive if we wanted it to
be super big, say the size of our moon or a small planet.
By comparison, it's been estimated that it would take around 850 quadrillion dollars
to build a real-life Death Star.
Either route we go, we'd probably also need a lot of food, since there's going to be
a bunch of scientists and astronauts out in space working on this project!
According to NASA, their average astronaut uses about .83 kilograms of food per meal,
with .12 kilograms of that being packaging material.
Excluding the weight of the packaging material, this would mean we'd need roughly 780 kilograms
of food to feed just one astronaut out in space for a year on a 3 meals a day diet.
One thing that could prove useful for any type of space colonization is having the ability
to have a giant magnetic shield to protect our new homes.
NASA recently announced that they want to try and deploy a magnetic shield around Mars
to make the atmosphere more livable through things like protection from solar winds and
radiation.
Having something like that at our disposal could help us with a variety of space missions,
including terraforming.
Putting this all together could be the start of making our own planet one day!
Now, in reality, creating a new planet would probably require some extremely advanced technology
and there would be tons of other things to consider
Could we one day create our own, new planet?
If so, what should we call it?
Let me know in the comments below!
I briefly touched on how much a Death Star would cost, but have you ever wondered how
much space is worth?
Check out this video!
Make sure you come back every Monday for a brand new video.
As always, I'm Blocko and this has been Life Noggin.
Don't forget to keep on thinking!
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