What If We Move to Jupiter

So, after breathe litres of CO2 in Mars and Venus, holding your breathe in Mercury, what happens next? Wait, there's still many planet for you to stay there, so your suffering don't lifted up. Now I will assigned you to Jupiter, largest planet in Solar System. So... what will happen if you move to Jupiter?

Jupiter size. That small circle are Earth

1. You Will Crushed By Large Gravitational Forces
I promise this time I will not write about you can't breathe. So we start with this. Because it enormous size, (it mass were 317x larger than the Earth mass) it will have very high gravitational forces. Your body are only adapted to Earth gravitational forces not Jupiter gravitational forces, so your body can't resist the gravitational force at Jupiter. Your bone will crushed, your skin will destroyed, your brain will be juice for zombie to drink. That's scary? No. You will not scared because before you can scream around your body has crushed. So I think you will RIP (maybe the last P must changed into J, Rest In Jupiter)

2. You Can't Standing
Yeah, Jupiter is large planet, but you will have to wait if you want summer vacation there, except you want to spend your vacation at hot air balloon. Because Jupiter are gasses planet that contains hydrogen and helium (that answer all of your questions) so you can't just walk around. The Jupiter colonisation are maybe using air balloon that burn hydrogen to keep flying and harvest the helium-3, isotope of helium that rare in Earth, but in giant gas planet are common. Helium-3 is can be use for clean energy. But, maybe you want to control that air balloon from Earth if you want to be easy.

Jupiter temperature

3. You Will.....Freezing or Melting?
This depends on what layer you want to stay. If you want to stay in surface (actually it wasn't surface, it don't contains any  surface, it only scientists term for place where the pressure is same as the Earth) to 30 miles above the ground, the temperature is decreasing if you climbed the atmosphere. It have temperature range from -100℃~-160℃. If you want to climbing the atmosphere stair to next layer, the temperature increase if you climbed above. The temperature is can become -100℃ again as you rising and at the highest point it can reach 725℃. Just prepared what did you need, Heat Clothes or Cold Clothes.

Jupiter orbit. © Todd K. Timberlake

4. Your Calendar Need To Be Adjusted
Because 1 years in Jupiter is as same as 4332 Earth Day or 11,8 Earth Years. This because it position. Jupiter-Sun distance is about 5 times than Earth-Sun distance. This resulting very long orbiting period. So, while (technically, because you celebrate your birthday every Jupiter years) your age is younger than your age at the Earth, you will have to wait 11 year to celebrate New Year, 1 decades at Jupiter is 110 years, 1 century in Jupiter is 1100 years, 1 millennium is 11000 years. So if Halley Comet are closing to the Sun in Earth years is 75-76 years, if you using Jupiter calendar The Halley Comet just need 6,8 Jupiter Years for every it's perihelion.

Jupiter atmosphere composition.

5. You Can't Breathe
Hmm.... yeah, what is other best answer? So I break my promise, forgive me ;). You can't breathe because there's only small trace of Oxygen. The Jupiter, like Sun, are make from Helium and Hydrogen (I has told you, look again at 2nd number). Now to colonize the Jupiter, don't use the Mars Rover that can transform CO2→O2. Why? First reason Jupiter real surface are many miles below the atmosphere. Second reason, Jupiter are also only have abundant number of CO2, so that CO2 transformer are useless. Third reason, look the name. The Mars Rover are should be used in Mars, not in Jupiter or Halley Comet.

FROM THIS SERIES:   Mercury
                                      Venus
                                      Mars
                                      Jupiter
                                      Saturn
                                      Uranus
                                      Neptune
                                   

What If We Move to Mars

So.. did you has watching The Martian? If you don't, same. I also don't have time to watch it. But that's scored the box office ( yeah, I'm not a film expert, if you want to see the synopsis, look at IMDb.). So just end the film review. Back to our topics, in this 3rd articles from this series, we are now leaving the Mercury and Venus and go to Mars. What If.... you move to Mars?

That's lot of CO2 in Mars and Venus!

1. You Can't Breathe
Yeah, I bored to write this again. But, yeah! I still start using this. So you don't have any atmosphere at Mercury and you will have to breathe with CO2 at Venus. How about the Mars? Yeah, unfortunately you will have to breathe in CO2 again. (You) What? I has breathe many liters of CO2 in Venus and I still need to breathe CO2 again? Yeah, but that's the fact. Mars atmosphere is composed from 95,97% of CO2, 1,98% of Argon, 1,89% of Nitrogen, 0,146% of Oxygen, and 0,0557% of CO. So your MarsCar still need that CO2→O2 converter. Your Spacesuit must equipped with CO2→O2 converter or lots of Oxygen.

Mars temperature. Look at "hot" part. That's still in minus ℃

2. You Will Freezing
Okay, you may don't freezing in Mars, if you are living in perfect place you will not freezing. The fact is at average Mars temperature is -60℃. But, you know, as in the Earth, the equator are hotter than at the poles. This also applies in Mars. At the Mars equator, the temperature is can reach 20℃ at the summer day.
But because Mars don't have thermal blanket, (thermal blanket is system that able to retain the thermal energy. Earth have this one.(if you want to understand it, use your Teddy Bear blanket. You will still feel warm even when there's no outside warmer because your blanket are able to retain heat from your body)) at the night the Mars temperature can reach -73℃. (Actually you still freezing). If at the equator the temperature was that extreme, look the temperature at Mars poles. At Mars poles, the temperature can gets into -125℃. This temperature actually 1,5 times colder than dry ice that use in your dry-ice ice cream.

Did he looks like WALL-E?

3. You Can't Plant Anything
The Mars are called red planet because it have a yellow to red surface (yeah). But, why Mars have red color? This because it surface was makes from iron-oxide or in your usual language, rusting iron. Now, you know that the Mars surface is not makes from dirt. Just imagine, did you have metal pipes? Can you plant dandelion at that pipes? Absolutely not. The plant root are not strong enough to breach the iron. If it somehow can pierce that iron, the plant don't need too much iron. It will die because iron poisoning. So, how did you plant your orchids flowers here? My tips, bring your dirt and your broken bottle to Mars and plant your orchids on that. #simple.

That's geological area at Mars. Click it to look larger version

4. Your Weight Will Be Lesser than At The Earth
Good news for you that in diet. So the Mars are smaller than the Earth, and it having less gravitational forces. Don't be optimistic, you will not jumping around like you'd in moon or Venus. This will affect your body, because you are added osteoporosis risk. This are also what happens in the ISS. Because you need less energy to move around, calcium in your bone will be released. Answer for this question? You need to doing sports there. At the Mars. But this come to not fun like you that works in gym. Just ask the ISS crew. Or you want to doing Sunday-jogging at the Mars?

He wasn't at Mars, he is in Mauna Loa, Hawaii, United State, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way ;)

5. You Can Build Building in Mars Without Material from Earth
Seriously (not too). Mars is make from iron (I suggest you to using the inner side of Mars that don't rusting) and you can mine it. Not only iron, Mars also contains aluminium, magnesium, silicon, calcium and many other elements. Okay, you still need materials from Earth like for make drilling machine, refining, storing, and machine for build something from that. But, still if you want iron house in the Mars you can using it. You can even make spacecraft to go to Oort Cloud (just maybe) because the Mars have lesser gravitational forces so you can launch spacecraft to space easily.

FROM THIS SERIES:   Mercury
                                      Venus
                                      Mars
                                      Jupiter
                                      Uranus
                                      Saturn
                                      Neptune

What If We Move to Mercury

What If We Live in Venus

We live in Earth (absolutely, except you work in ISS) and earth is perfect place. Not too cold or to hot. We have water in 3 form, liquid, solid, and gasses. Because that we have ocean, sea, river, bacteria, storm, plants, animal, and human. So how if we live in Venus?

Mariner 1 launch. It crash 4 minutes after it's launched

1. Before We Live There, Our Spaceship Are Destroyed
This because very high atmospheric pressure. So your spacecraft are has been destroyed because very high atmospheric pressure. Two spacecraft that tried to enter the Venus atmosphere are destroyed. Soviet owned Venera 3 are crash landing at Venus and unable to call to earth. The Mariner 1 spacecraft, are failed when launched to space because software error (okay, the Venus is not reason why this spacecraft exploded. Just FYI). You need very strong spacecraft to enter the Venus.

Venus and earth size compared

2. We Will Melting
After you land, you will encounter the first problem. Earth and Venus are have similar size, but they have very different conditions. As I told, earth temperature was OK. Venus, instead have very high temperature, the highest in the solar system. It temperature was 462℃, 4 times than boiling water temperature. It even higher than Mercury, that closer to the sun then Venus. It's because Venus have many CO2, 300 times than earth CO2. So, the Venus are like greenhouse, because it CO2, the heat from sun are only able to getting in to it, but they can't go outside. Yeah, if you barbecued a tenderloin at Venus, it will instantly melting with your body (I never try this, but I recommend you to never do this, for obvious reason)

Venus atmosphere pressure. Great picture ;)

3. Our Body Will Be Crushed
Okay, now you has evolved and you can resist heat until 600℃. But, one problem solved, other problems coming. If your skin just resist to heat, other elements of Venus will crush you (Really). Even if it's size are similar to earth, so it gravitational forces are same as the Earth, but it's air pressure are 92 times than the earth. This is the reason why there's no crater on Venus, the small asteroid are CRUSHED by air pressure of Venus. This also reason why the human cant look what is inside the Venus. So imagine if you hold 1 large dictionary book. You are absolutely can do it. But how if I added 92 more dictionary book? Your hands will not being a hand again (I know that hurts)

Venus composition. That's lots of CO2!

4. We Can't Breathe.
Now you have diamond skin, so you can resist the air pressure on Venus. But this is the problem: You can't breathe at Venus because, again it have 300 times of CO2 than the earth CO2. And, it also have very low O2 for you to breathe. The Apollo A7L only have oxygen for 7 hours. But maybe this will be your solution. For the mission to Mars, scientists are developed a carbon dioxide to O2 transformer to installed at Mars Rover. Maybe this is the solution for Venus.

Did you think there's any animal here? FYI, that's wasn't H2O rain. Instead it's Sulphuric Acid rain.

5. We Don't Have Water and Food
After you have as-hard-as-diamond skin and CO2 breathing system, you still have problems. How did you eat or drink? Animal and plant are died due the hot temperature. Water evaporates. Your ransom for 45 years at Venus are melting and you can't eat it again. Maybe they evolved to have a diamond skin like you, but how did you cut/kill/eat them? Did you want to eat diamond? Yeah, you don't want to do that, right? So this is the trickiest part. You want melt steak or diamond steak?

FROM THIS SERIES:   Mercury
                                      Venus
                                      Mars
                                      Jupiter
                                      Saturn
                                      Uranus
                                      Neptune

What If The Nuclear War Start Now

The nearest time in human history to a nuclear war is Cuba Missile Crisis at 1962. Fortunately, the nuclear war are never broke between US and USSR. Now, after Cold War ended there's little chance that nuclear war will begun. But how if US or Russia are launching their Minuteman or SS-18 Satan (yeah, I know the name was horrified you, it explosive are also like it name) and the nuclear war are started?

Destruction of London if the Tsar Bomba exploded over her skies. Horrifying?

1. Many Cities in the World Will be Destroyed

Okay, put Washington, New York, Moscow, London, St Petersburg, Beijing, Pyongyang, Paris, New Delhi, and Islamabad in this list. They are few from many cities that will destroyed because they are major cities in each of nuclear weapon owned countries. One of Minuteman III that exploded in Center Moscow can killed 618,110 people ( I using the NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein, here the website) that just one of this missile, US have 450 Minuteman III. Imagine how if they all explode in city around the world.

People watching the destroyed building in Hiroshima

2. Many People Will Died Because Nuclear Explosion (radiation fallout and nuclear winter not counted)

The Hiroshima "Little Boy" bomb are killed 90.000-166.000 people, and by nuclear weapons standards now, that was small nuclear weapon. The Minuteman have 300-500 kt of TNT or 20 to 30 times from Hiroshima bomb, TN 80/81, the largest French nuclear arsenal have 300 kt of TNT or 20 times from Hiroshima bomb, the Dong-Feng 5, largest China nuclear weapons have 5 mt of TNT, or 333,333333 times from Hiroshima. Kt means kiloton or thousands of ton, Mt means megaton or million of ton. How much people will killed because the explosion? I don't know.

Nuclear fallout shelter building sign in New York. Did you want to go inside?

3. Many People Will Died Because Radiation Fallout
The radiation fallout are can killed many people, but usually it was long-term effects, 1.900 Hiroshima and Nagasaki people are have cancer 5 or 15 or 30 years after the explosion ad die because cancer .If you are a survivor from explosion in ground zero (this is very unlikely, the nearest survives victims in Hiroshima are 170 m from ground zero, his name is Eizo Nomura) you will have high chance having a cancer many years later. It because the radiation can cause cell mutation so the cell aren't digesting it self after the cell are finish his job like normal cell.

You don't want this happens, right?

4. Nuclear Winter
Nuclear winter is occurred because after nuclear explosion, the firestorm will have enough power for lifting up (many, many) smoke into the upper troposphere and make counter-greenhouse effect (it may sound good, but in reality it was VERY bad) and block sunlight. So you will not see the sun for few year. Maybe for you it was not bad because you are spend many hour and day without sunlight and you will not died, but for plant, this are their nightmare. Back to 4-th grade, plants need sunlight for their photosynthesis. Without sunlight almost all plant will died. That was also have bad news for animal and us because it will destroyed the food chain so we can't get food except you have 10 year food storage. This will kill most of us and the animal.

Did you want to live like them?

5. We Will Back to Stone Age
Einstein are saying this: " I don't know what weapons in the Third World War that will be used, but I sure that Fourth World War will using stone and axe". This mean after 3rd World War our civilization will be destroyed and many of the survivors of this world war live will become like their ancestors thousands years ago. They will have story of our great civilization from mouth to mouth and their hope that once in future our civilization will repeated. So we are becoming hunters-gathers once again.