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Mars
2016 · TV series · 50 min episodes · 2 seasons
Created by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer
Science FictionFantasyActionAdventure
The maiden crew of the Daedalus spacecraft must push itself to the brink of human capability in order to successfully establish the first sustainable colony on Mars. Set both in the future and in the present day, this series blends scripted elements set in the future with documentary vérité interviews with today’s best and brightest minds in modern science and innovation, illuminating how research and development is creating the space technology that will enable our first attempt at a mission to Mars.
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I saw a bit of the mars tv show where private miners turned up and announced as they had brought no water with them the existing government astronauts were obliged legally to assist them and share their water. So the theory seems there may be no government but there will be lawyers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_(American_TV_series)
Why dont they just give others to do their work? Last I remember india sent a probe to Mars for less than amount it took for making the movie Mars featuring Matt Damon ?
> 60 years hence we’ll have settled Mars
Not as long as there is the popular notion that only researchers should go to Mars and anyone going there for profit is bad. See National Geographic's "Mars" miniseries.
The only way people will settle the solar system is when:
1. there's money to be made
2. people get past the notion that terran life will "contaminate" the other worlds
These days where everyone is emotionally high. Deliberately avoiding anything that reflects today's state of affairs: 1. Amazon: The Boys, The Feed, Upload, Catastrophe, The Widow, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, The Newsroom, Homecoming 2. NBC: Zoey's Playlist <--GREAT to unwind emotionally. 3. CDW: The 100 4. ABC: The 4400 5. Netflix: Mars (only 1 season, 2nd season looks and feels like current gov state of affairs whereby the 1st season was more Mars adventure)
So much crap going on, just trying to avoid anything that reflects today's idiot run gov/policy makers. But admittedly, slowly finding it hard to avoid since every show plot always seems to come full circle to why things gets F*d up in the first place. Netflix' Mars is a perfect example where 2nd season they brought in more gov/policy/corp injustice and made it unwatchable.
If you really need to get away...mentally, found Zoey's Playlist quite touching... like sobbed in every episode it was so emotionally releasing. I was forced watch bc my wife won the night's remote control.
Bottomline: repeating what I've said above, just avoid anything that has gov/policy/corruption/corp.
Looks awesome! I love this images. There is a documentary on NetGeo that narrates this journey to Mars.
I see people have already told you that the atmosphere is thinner. But they've not really said just how much thinner.
The atmosphere on Mars is about one hundred times thinner than on Earth. That means that between "Earth atmosphere" and "vacuum", it's 99% of the way to being a vacuum.
This means that the blades need to spin really REALLY fast. Like "oh no, we'll start having transonic effects on the blades" fast. It's really tricky to build a craft where the propellers move faster than the atmosphere can "move aside". It was a really big deal to go supersonic back in 1947 or whatever, and that was with planes and did not use propellers. Transonic effects is why modern airplanes have swept wings.
But yes, gravity is like a third, so it's got that going for it.
So this is really cool, and I even found it unrealistic in the Mars TV series that they had drones, because how could that possibly be effective? Shows what I know.
I saw some videos on this drone on youtube. It can't really fly on Earth. So no, a drone off the shelf really can't fly on Mars.
And an antagonist on the TV series 'Mars'!
Mostly my feelings/intuition, but here's the argument:
Name one other thing recently on air that's realistic about space while also being interesting to general audience.
Closest thing that comes to mind would be NatGeo's Mars series, but that's half documentary, half speculative concept art, and definitely very niche. Beyond that, there's nothing. Before that, we had the trio of Gravity, Interstellar and The Martian, the former two being sorta-hardish if you squint hard enough. And before we had 2001: A Space Odyssey, and that's it.
It's difficult to make a space show that's both true to physics and fun/engaging at the same time. Most authors don't bother with "true to physics" part. The Expanse succeeded at both, because an excellent team took great source-material and expanded on it, instead of butchering it like usually happens. The result was a show that was interesting to non-space geeks, that still gave accurate picture of how space works. If someone asked you, "I wonder why they're doing X", or "I wonder why they didn't do Y", your answer would likely contain some explanation of real-world physics. This is how you give regular people intuition about concepts they're not encountering daily.
So yeah, losing the only show about near-future space exploration that's both engaging and highly realistic - I think it's a bad day for both science outreach and science fiction.
Even more recent: https://youtu.be/vacjOrVqesM?list=RD7Oq-ClZ8Gbs&t=299
From the series Mars (2006) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4939064/.