So I stumbled on this rather interesting YouTube video, it caught my attention and got me watching the whole thing. Perhaps my review on it might get your attention to because this is something you would wanna see.
If people were to travel to different planets in our solar system, yes of course we are not made to adapt to the different terrains and it would be death for us, but the question this YouTube video answers vividly is how exactly will we die, pretty sick right?
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Let's start with Venus, and we know how hot Venus is. If you were to land on Venus, the author said it would crash you the like a plastic bottle.
You know how when you take a plastic bottle and send it close to fire or something as hot as fire, it starts crashing inwards, yep, something like that. How long will it take for you to die? Just 5 seconds. I think this is the moment you'd realize that 5 seconds is a very long time, lol.
But apparently it ain't just going to crash you, since Venus is super hot, you're getting crashed with the pressure plus it's boiling your insides. This is not the place I'll ever imagine going to regardless of how advanced protection suit tech gets.
Next up is Mercury, which as we all learned in preschool, maybe most of us... it's the closest planet to the sun. But here's the twist just in case you're not aware, it's freezing cold on Mercury on the night side, did you know that guys?
Don't worry if you didn't know that you're not alone, I literally just learned it. The reason is simple and the author explained it. Mercury unlike Venus, doesn't have an atmosphere and if you're a planet without an atmosphere, you ain't got nothing to trap the suns heat, so it could be close, super close to the sun and yet still cold at night.
If you land on Mercury at night, in the first instance you'll be fine. It's not going to be like Venus where you instantly die. But you slowly get hypothermia. It'll start with some tingling in your fingers and some shivering cold feeling and it keeps getting colder and colder, like worse than a deep freezer kind of cold.
Just imagine your body temperature dropping to 35 degrees Celsius, then down to 28 and further down. At some point you can't feel anything but super chilly.
The author said after 10 minutes in that kind of temperature you'd barely be able to move your body. All your body muscles would stiffen and the temperature of your body keeps dropping below that point.
The author says it'll take about an hour for Mercury's cold to kill you in a very slow and painful way. But honestly the author was being very sarcastic when he said, 60 minutes will be enough time for you to at least see Mercury's unique views. Yeah man, I don't know if I'm ready to die for a view, lmao.
In the day time, mercury is extremely hot but remember since it doesn't have an atmosphere it doesn't trap as much heat as Venus does so it's slightly cooler than Venus but still unbearably hot for any human being. If you land on the day side of venus, it's not just the heat that'll kill you but the radiation because it's super close to the sun. You'd feel like you've been set on fire too.
The next planet is Mars. Now this is very interesting and the reason I say that is because thanks to Elon Musk and his space X we're actually planning on going there. So you definitely wanna know what happens if you step on Mars now.
We know that on Mars, the air there is very thin and it's made up mostly of carbon dioxide so very unbreathable air. You would have to keep your space suit on at all times. The least malfunction of your space suit is enough for Mars to end your life.
The death comes from breathing the air on Mars. There's not enough oxygen so it's basically like getting choked out, like by a serious muscle guy. Oh and also the space suit that has been breached would decompress and get tighter. There's extremely low pressure on Mars and the blood cells of our body has gases, which when exposed to that kind of environment, begins to boil and you'll have your skin swelling.
As the author said, it'll take roughly 7 minutes for you to die on Mars. The death will be a disgusting one.
Seriously guys after watching this, I have absolutely zero intentions of going to Mars, I don't care what security Elon Musk assures us. I ain't going anywhere.
Oh just so you know, even if everything works out perfectly and your suit is so perfect it has no breach, remember that there are dust storms on Mars too. If you don't know what dust storms are, it's basically like a desert storm. But here's the tricky thing, the storms are not that strong, the problem is the dust particles are so fine and sharp that they can get into your space suit and cause a breach. And after a breach of your suit, well you know what happens next.
Next up, we've got Jupiter which is the largest planet in our solar system, gas planet or as it's called a gas giant. How big is Jupiter, well just combine all the planets in the solar system and multiply that by 2, that kinda big.
There's no land or solid surface to step on when you arrive on or let me say arrive in Jupiter. You're basically going to fall through its atmosphere as the author said. Because of its size, the pressure on Jupiter is super extreme but don't start guessing you'll die from suffocating because of the pressure, there's something serious there and that's lightning storm.
The most intense lightning storms you'll ever experience. Your chances of getting a lightning strike is too high it's almost guaranteed. You'd die by the wind storm and perhaps lightning bolt blast.
The next planet is Saturn. In my opinion Saturn is the most beautiful of all the planets of our solar system. The rings of Saturn is just too beautiful. It's similar to Jupiter, it's a gas giant. It's very windy and the pressure is high and all that could kill you, well that is if you even make it to Saturn's atmosphere lol.
Remember the whole Saturn's rings being beautiful, it's beautiful if you're looking at it, not when you're trying to approach it. The rings is basically billions of rocks and ice. You're in space with no oxygen except in your spaceship and you're heading straight towards billions of floating rocks and ice, what do you think is going to happen?
Oh and when I say, floating rocks and ice, I don't mean floating speed. The actual speed of the rings of Saturn as said by the author is around 70,000 KM per hour. How fast is that you ask? A Bugatti at top speed is about 490 KM per hour. So forget crossing Saturn's rings to get killed by the intense pressure after.
Next planet is Uranus. Don't know who made up that name but always sounding like "Your Anus" to me. That's the coldest planet in our solar system. Uranus gas is made up of methane that is concentrated enough to kill you in just few minutes. You might say you have a suit on but the intense pressure or particles contact with your suit can create a breach and then it's straight up breathing methane from there.
But if you make it through the deeper atmosphere of Uranus, because of its intense pressure and high temperature, it's enough to crystalize carbon atoms and guess what guys, we're made up of the carbon atoms. So that means you're going to have the privilege of being turned into a diamond.
The next planet is Neptune, most distant planet from the sun. Neptune is just like Uranus but only one difference, the most extreme winds in our entire solar system. So strong that your spaceship spins with some serious speed and that creates something you don't want to experience and that's G Forces, the force of gravity acting on the ship. This is enough to compress your own organs and of course the ship. You're both losing your structural integrity.
That's all the planets, but we're missing one and that's Pluto and it's technically not a planet, it's a dwarf planet that's even smaller than our own planet's moon. The death method on Pluto is freezing.
It's the furthest away from the sun so barely any heat comes here. All that is required is for a tiny malfunction of your space suit and imagine Titanic movie level freezing but multiply that by a lot. The freezing to death will only take about 3 minutes until you're just a piece of ice.
Honestly guys, after watching this video I've come to love earth way more. We really should start to think of our important earth is and preserve it rather than letting wars and greed cause distraction of our planet. No wonder there's almost no life around that we've spotted in our solar system besides earth.
This ends the video, did you enjoy it? I know I did. I'll be searching online for cool videos and maybe do some more reviews. Till next time, bye.