"The Mars Underground" Updated Edition/Director's Cut Leading aerospace engineer and Mars Society President Dr. Robert Zubrin has a dream. He wants to get humans to the planet Mars in the next ten years. Now, with the advent of a revolutionary plan, Mars Direct, Zubrin shows how we can use present day technology and natural resources on Mars to make human settlement possible. But can he win over the skeptics at NASA and the wider world? The Mars Underground is a landmark documentary that follows Zubrin and his team as they try to bring this incredible dream to life. Through spellbinding animation, the film takes us on a daring first journey to the Red Planet and envisions a future Mars teeming with life and terraformed into a blue world. A must-see experience for anyone concerned for our global future and the triumph of the human spirit. "This film captures the spirit of Mars pioneers who refuse to let their dreams be put on hold by a slumbering space program. Their passionate urge to walk the soil of an alien world is infectious and inspirational. This film is the manifesto of the new space revolution." James Cameron - Director of "Avatar" Please subscribe to Blue Mars Channel and new Mars Videos will be coming soon. SHOW YOUR SUPPORT! for our great content by clicking on the Fan Funding button on the BLUE MARS Channel page. We've got a special "Thank You" video. The Original Soundtrack is available on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/mar... The DVD of "The Mars Underground" Updated Editon/Director's Cut is available on DVD at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/The-Mars-Underg... Transcription 1st ACT: ASTRONAUT: Accessing disconnect. Enable on. Copy that E.L. Com. All systems are go for entry, decent, and landing. Stand by. Stand by. ASTRONAUT: We are looking fine, flight. Data is good. NARRATOR: At the dawn of the 21st Century, space agencies in Europe and America began making plans to land the first humans on Mars. But manned missions to the red planet have been proposed before. For some, Mars holds the answers to mankind’s future in space. Others say Mars is too far, too dangerous and too expensive for humans to explore. And in a world torn by troubles, some say there is no need or will for mankind to reach into space anymore. More than 30 years after the last Apollo astronaut walked on the moon, the American-manned space program seems to have lost its way, unable to reach beyond even low-earth orbit. DR. ROBERT ZUBRIN: We’ve got a problem, NASA has been literally going around in circles with the space program for the past 30 years. NARRATOR: Astronautically engineer, Dr. Robert Zubrin, has been arguing for years that sending humans to Mars is the mission the space program needs. ZUBRIN: It’s time that we set goals for NASA that were worthy of the risks of the human space flight. Mars is the next logical step in our space program image. It’s the challenge that’s been staring us in the face for the past 30 years. It’s the planet that’s most like the earth, it’s the planet that has on it the resources needed to support life and therefore some day technological civilization. It’s the planet that will provide us with the answer as to whether life is prevalent in the universe or exclusive to the earth. And it’s the planet that will give us the critical tests as to whether humanity, can breakout out of the planet of our birth and become a space-faring species. NARRATOR: In the early 1990s, Zubrin was the head of the Mars Direct program at Martin Marietta Astronautics. His team developed a mission to Mars that could be done at the fraction of Nasa’s projected costs. Using only existing technology Zubrin argues that the first steps on Martian soil could be made within 10 years. ZUBRIN: There is absolutely nothing in this that is beyond our technology. DR. EDWARD WEILER: We are not ready to send humans to Mars right now. We don’t know how to keep them alive. There are people out there who say we can go to Mars tomorrow. One of my requirements, one of NASA’s requirements is that if we send humans to Mars we bring them back alive. NARRATOR: For the past 15-years Zubrin and his colleagues have waged a campaign to convince society and the political class that humans on Mars should be the goal for NASA now. This is the story of our cold neighboring planet and the debate over whether man’s fate it tied to the red world. It’s the story of an engineer’s journey - and the battle of ideas over which direction in space will truly benefit mankind. ZUBRIN: We’re at a crossroads today. We either muster the courage to go or we risk the possibility of stagnation and decay. http://www.radiusproductions.com

Comments

1. ground control to major tom ....
2. "Venture out into space or die"
3. Oh dear someone got their knickers in a twist, perhaps my comment was a bit too near the truth, it seems to have been deleted. Mind you using foul language is about what I have come to expect from US replies. Very sad people some Americans, very sad.
4. As long as fear and money control man, man will never get beyond his own front yard. Man has to learn that money is no longer the driving force. Man has to learn that only as a group can we get beyond our own fears and move forward. War/greed/power/money can no longer be the driving force. Maybe someday man will figure this out, but (1) man will bring himself close to extinction, and (2) I will not see this in my time... But if man lives long enough he may just see this become a reality...
   Where ever we end up in space the one major thing we have to understand is that we can no longer live as we currently do. We can no longer take and take and not give back. We have to learn to live without leaving a carbon footprint. By this, we need to find new and much better ways to create energy and self sustaining ways of travel. We no longer can destroy and not give back...
5. Quote: "We fucked up planet Earth by poluting water, cutting trees and dropping bombs. Now NASA sayz they can make Mars habitable?"
   It would be easier and way cheaper to make Eart habitable again.
   Maybe they can start by sending bankers, warmongols and politicians to Mars?
6. the 3rd world war will happen before we all go there then it will be the end of the world between Muslim who some people call it terrorist and the democracy believers people who is Christianity and with there leader
   usa
7. If it's going to be done, it will need to be done through the private sector. The US tax payer is already on the hook for $22,000,000,000,000 in debt and our great grand kids and their grand kids will still be paying it down. A bloated fed. gov. high taxes, and debt it the wall.
8. We don't need space we have enough sorry greedy SOB's that will kill you here over a parking space
9. Reading about science will make you not believe in God because it's incredible
10. Well guys we can travel at the speed of light but it depends on the protons like 9999999999........ This speed can destroy the hole earth and make it into pieces But going to Mars need oxygen
11. i don't want to live in mars, because I want to be a football player and i don't think that there will be stadiums or the Santiago bernebeu
12. How can we know if they are saying the truth, if by now we know that these who are speaking are all clone, God send us on planet earth, Mars is not our Home.
13. it sickens me that NASA has been gutted and reduced to a window washing and TV repair service..
    it makes me want to pummel the people who think 1/10 of 1c of every dollar the government in the US spends is a "waste" of money ( cause thats all that NASA WAS getting. now its even less..) most of the technology we enjoy today was built by for or as a result of the science of space and space travel.
14. Shitty "documentary". Thumbs down. I wached it up until the worthless piece of shit lying traitor 0bama started flapping his gums about yet another issue he knows nothing about. WORST PRESIDENT IN US HISTORY!!!
15. What an inspirational documentary! My 5 1/2 year old son simply said to me... Daddy. I know what to do...
16. وايد حلو
17. lmao FLAT earth butches!!!!!!!
18. Bull $hit
19. Another taxpayer rape to feed the OTHER space programs they don`t tell us about.
20. If someone can explain how NASA manage to get through the Van Allen Radiation belts I might believe some of what they say, until that happens we cannot believe anything they say