We’re going to be building on the Moon this decade — and next will be Mars, says space architect Melodie Yashar. In a visionary talk, she introduces her work designing off-world shelters with autonomous robots and 3D printers and explores how it might help uncover radical solutions to some of the problems troubling humans on Earth today.
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Foundups Michael Trout
October 4, 2022 at 3:59 pm
I think its insane that people want to leave beautiful earth for a dead one. 😂😂😂 why not build community habitats in Africa or for displaced Pakistanis…
樂樂樂
October 4, 2022 at 4:06 pm
These ted talk topics be wildin 😂😂😂
Reena BINA
October 5, 2022 at 12:16 am
😂
Ramninder Singh
October 4, 2022 at 4:09 pm
😂 loll
Peter M
October 4, 2022 at 4:20 pm
You need to figure out how to get to the moon first and really go this time..
Mn54
October 4, 2022 at 4:27 pm
Mars… maybe aliens visit their 🧐
John Kesich
October 4, 2022 at 4:47 pm
Perhaps it would be better to build for humane life on Earth?
Hezron Owaka
October 4, 2022 at 5:49 pm
Build right here on earth sounds soo last year….this talk is more like a sleepover with friends, then talking about unicorns and mermaids and gingerbread houses and rivers of soda and endless mountains of icecream….😀
Adventures of a Skoolie named Lauren
October 4, 2022 at 7:40 pm
Agreed!
John Smiff
October 4, 2022 at 5:51 pm
Great! We can implement this on Antarctica. See if it helps them stop going insane after 2 years there.
Seriously tho we shouldn’t send anyone to Mars until we can get people to live in Antartica without realiably having mental breakdowns. The mental health needs of humans are not easily supplied on the surface of Mars but they pose a very real threat to the operational security of any colonization effort.
Louis Young
October 4, 2022 at 6:10 pm
That was very interesting, thank you for the talk. 👏🙂
Reena BINA
October 5, 2022 at 12:16 am
Right 💃
Lubomir Schusterovi
October 4, 2022 at 6:16 pm
Sarah Silverman thank you ❤️
تعلم شئ جميل لنفسك
October 4, 2022 at 6:57 pm
I think the nine planets of the solar group are a part of the earth 🌍
Future Underground Collective Media
October 4, 2022 at 7:09 pm
Fix life here first before sending our best and brightest to be slaves to a totalitarian technocrat overlord.
Adventures of a Skoolie named Lauren
October 4, 2022 at 7:40 pm
We need to grow where we are planted… we can’t even manage our own planet much less inhabit a planet we aren’t even close to being able to reach. This is a complete waste of time and money that would better serve everyone here … where we belong.
Think for yourself
October 4, 2022 at 7:50 pm
They are lying to you.
Uselessly Useless
October 4, 2022 at 8:13 pm
boutta do some amogus
LightofDawn7
October 4, 2022 at 8:21 pm
What a waste of time and energy. Focus on what’s already happening here on Earth instead of wasting precious resources on matters that we as a human race are not prepared for. It’s elitist and will not help the greater good for humanity. Step it up with your ideas and do better.
irob rf
October 4, 2022 at 8:36 pm
Just drop a bunch of vegans off on Mars they know how to turn any old crap into food .
Andrei Serheichuk
October 4, 2022 at 9:02 pm
She uses extremely complex turns for non-native speaker, nothing is clear(
TheEudaemonicPlague
October 4, 2022 at 9:12 pm
When TED talks first came along, I thought they were great. But, not long after, I started seeing both TED and TEDx videos that were obvious nonsense. This video, which I will not bother wasting time watching, can’t be anything but nonsense, too. TED talks seem to have no filter…we’re expected to take utter fantasy, lies, and other nonsense seriously. Perhaps its time for me to just block all TED material…then I only have millions of other BS channels to worry about.
“A visionary talk”….like the kind of visions when you take hallucinogens. It’s entirely pointless to talk about having people living on Mars, when we can’t even pull off a closed ecosystem here on Earth. Until that’s been figured out, all this is, is a pipe dream. It isn’t like the space station–we can reach that easily and quickly…but for people to live on Mars, a self-contained ecosystem will be required, because it won’t be possible to send enough supplies to allow humans to survive for long.
Considering how Elon Musk fans are, with living on Mars in the near future being one of their favorite dreams, I’m wondering if this girl is a Musk fan. Would be surprised if she isn’t, actually. Elon Musk is a con artist, who’s gotten away with his BS for far too long.
Gas Axe
October 4, 2022 at 9:44 pm
How dose one become a space architect?
THE SPIRITUAL BADASS
October 4, 2022 at 10:04 pm
We cannot even be moralistic ethical human beings here on Earth, let alone mars.
I think tedx has gone to Mars a long time ago.
You’ve all lost your minds in your own egos.
A B
October 4, 2022 at 10:21 pm
Let leave the MARS alone.
Don’t create chaos in the solar system.
KJ
October 4, 2022 at 11:05 pm
Going to happen at some point assuming civilisation survives. But with the constraints and complexity that’s involved it’s realistically centuries away
Reena BINA
October 5, 2022 at 12:16 am
Agreed
ba
October 4, 2022 at 11:31 pm
Housing solutions for the chronically homeless?
1. Spend billions of dollars to send them to mars
Or
2. Rehab abandoned homes. Build affordable housing. Address rampant increasing corporate greed which is a real problem. Provide counselling.
And this, what will people do for a living on mars cause commuting between earth and mars isn’t doable.
Basic Beatdowns
October 5, 2022 at 12:32 am
What is a birthday? I believe it can be best understood if we break down the words birth and day
News Mdmssb
October 5, 2022 at 1:29 am
MDMSSB⭐💦💦💫wish everyone Happy New Year 2022.Lets work otogether to overcome the covid-19 trauma asap. Latest news sharing. J
“We support human Work life balance”
Bathrezz1
October 5, 2022 at 1:54 am
Should get one of those youtube channels where they wander into a ‘random part of a forest’ and create the Taj Mahal with one shovel to help build a Mars habitat.
lowl fesfesfes
October 7, 2022 at 10:52 am
jes
I know its wrong but i don´t care
Richard Bennett
October 5, 2022 at 2:34 am
Colossal waste of energy and money. She fails to mention the intense gamma radiation read Xrays. It will be a cancer colony. We must build a survivable habitat on the earth first. This is the voice of the space military complex. Hidden in her propaganda is the demand that we taxpayers to ante up.
Trey4x4
October 5, 2022 at 2:56 am
Wrong old man!! The private investors are leading this 3D printing evolution!! And do you really think all of these very well educated people working on this task isn’t thinking about the radiation?? Lol you need to read up on some of these companies that’s engineering these robots!
CRYPTO
October 5, 2022 at 2:58 am
First start by crossing the firmament …. then will talk. folks are so brainwashed
periklis spanos
October 5, 2022 at 3:00 am
The March has oxygen it is no problem for us there, it is proven with the opening of parachute who Carie’s curiosity. No masks needed
Mimi
October 5, 2022 at 3:02 am
Like we already had a human life on Earth, we need more of “How to build for a human life on Earth?”
Rosalie Iapalucci
October 5, 2022 at 3:28 am
Is she a robot?
Rezin 8
October 5, 2022 at 3:57 am
The first building MUST be the Control Enclosure 🌐 so wild
Eric Johnson
October 5, 2022 at 4:11 am
Ask yourself why? Is it something they know we don’t?
Patrick Renau
October 5, 2022 at 5:31 am
Totally fascinating, but after 3 minutes I could not take the Creaky vocal fry any longer. If she can work on that, she will be a phenomenal speaker. Please try.
yumi ・
October 5, 2022 at 6:45 am
自分用 1:43
Burhanuddin Neemuchwala
October 5, 2022 at 6:46 am
Mars chodo, Dharti pe aao pehle.
Mindseas
October 5, 2022 at 10:06 am
What an inspiring and encouraging talk! A lot to process, and plenty left unsaid. I’m very curious to learn more about this tho, so job well done!
Bauer
October 5, 2022 at 12:03 pm
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Lauren Davao
October 5, 2022 at 2:46 pm
A friend that I referred to her received $7000 profit after 10days of investing. became jealous…lol
Lauren Davao
October 5, 2022 at 2:46 pm
She’s awesome we love you!
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October 5, 2022 at 2:49 pm
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Michael James
October 5, 2022 at 2:53 pm
Wow 😍
Michael James
October 5, 2022 at 7:25 pm
Thanks
Nishant Gaming
October 5, 2022 at 1:31 pm
very knowledgeable
Nataliewhite
October 5, 2022 at 3:39 pm
Creative Society!!! This is the way out of dead-end projects. There is no electromagnetic field on Mars. It’s just money going nowhere.
Meanwhile, on earth we need to solve real problems. We need a Creation Society. Take a look at this project.
sleepy E
October 5, 2022 at 4:00 pm
We need to learn how to get along where we are now talking about going somewhere else to build I could just imagine what space life would be..
Katherine Morales
October 5, 2022 at 5:51 pm
One of the best ted talks I’ve seen by far, admirable woman
Betty Mendoza
October 5, 2022 at 7:01 pm
This was a waste of thought, I hope her college apologized to her for a waste of study .
long ta
October 6, 2022 at 8:45 am
God have create earth for humans, human belong to this plannet only, dont think that human now has high level technology then we have the right to break God’s rule. let protect environment in earth and remain on earth !
Sudharshan Hegde
October 6, 2022 at 8:47 am
I don’t understand why can’t we change the human condition only and make him live in the place where the atmosphere is not same as that of earth some research in biology should go on about this thing
Positive Quote’s
October 8, 2022 at 6:58 pm
It’s interesting. But what is the need of build human life in mars?
What you are going to do? You want to spoil the mars planet same like earth.
Let’s think like this: suppose if you build human life in mars , after 1000 years you are going to check for another planet.
You have everything on earth. Instead of build human life on earth . Build a good community . Change human mentality as they think earth is only for humans.