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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a new discovery of selenomelanin – a material that could be used to protect us from dangerous radiation.Paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/jacs.0c05573#
Paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.16.205534v1.full
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Sunblock 5000
He calls everything a little bit, i don’t know if he means a little bit or a big bit.
Cool!
Ahhh, ultra radiation protection… this is it. Mars HERE I COME!
Hi Anton
Add astragalus to your sunscreen. It contains selenium. It will combine with your melanin and add protection.
If astronauts used a selenomelanin cream would it turn them purple?
Does the moon have any lead?
Russian math: 20 REM – not great, but not terrible either…MARS = safe 100%
My selenomelanin brings
All the monkeys into space
They’re like, just rub it on your face
Damn right, just rub it on your face
Before you know it we’ll be
All over the place
If you’re going to have to live underground on mars then some kind of boring or tunneling machines are needed. Wait a minute.
Science at its best. I wonder how did they even had the idea to combine those together
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Is it me or lately we are discovering a lot of things about space travel ?
Radiation? very vague Anton
I’ve been hoping for biomechanical suits and ships, seems the natural progression for deep exploration. This could be an important element to that kind of thing. Self-healing skins and systems are going to be beneficial.
On a side note, sci-fi novel idea: Far future humanity is exploring deep space and suffers a catastrophe. All that’s left of us live in space. Evolution takes it’s course, and Homo Galactus is darker than Avery Brooks and spindlier than Doug Jones.
Yay
a layer of this , built into the space craft,and also the suits they ware – would be awesome !
What risks are there using this new sunscreen? Answer: Cancer. What’s the risk of not using the sunscreen? Answer: Cancer. Ok, going with sunscreen.
Inititially they need to use Elon Musks tunneling equipment to go underground which will shield all radiation at a certain depth . Create an underground environment …..air tight . Maybe find a way to convert the Martian atmosphere to oxygen with new technology then pump that down into the underground environment.
i didnt need another reason to not swim in the sea, but i got one.
Vampires are sponsoring super sunscreen research!
I thought that was a dinosaur
Conquering the issue of radiation is paramount to space travel, so this is awesome news.
so many potential jokes from this… invest
Haven’t watched yet, but if this is realistically feasible, it is huuuuuuge
I think God will create sunscreen with his mutations just like he does with all species if he sees it is neccisery.
Anton! You are the best! Real science! Love it!
Seems the best place for us on Mars will be subsurface. Let the ground shield them.
If life there exist, subsurface might be the place.
Ah, yes, we all remember the sunscream after rising over the horizon πππ«π(οΏ£ΟοΏ£)p
*Phase 13 β Melanochrome, or Melanochromic Organ.*
“This organ is hemispherical and black. It functions in an indirect and extremely complicated manner. It monitors radiation levels and types bombarding the skin, and if necessary, sets off chemical reactions to darken the skin to protect it from ultraviolet exposure. It also provides limited protection from other forms of radiation.”
Forget sunscreen, just spray that stuff onto thin plastic films, stack them up, and line the inside of the spacecraft or space suit with it.
2:33 About 20cm thick.. thats a pretty big amount of cream that you need π
Radiation in the Marvel Universe is insanely terrifying.
Lead paints gonna make a comeback! You watch!
xD
Darker than a Panther?
cover yourself in mud like animals do earth
What about a suspension gel as a layer of protection on the ship? Combined with an electromagnetic radiation shield, a layer of water and the spacecraft itself, it could drastically reduce the exposure. Just a thought
Is there lead on Mars?
That is fantastic news.
Rad-X is real!
I got my wonderful person t-shirt today π I never thought a shirt could make me so happy! You are a wonderful person Anton!
Just so you know, purple mushroom spores reflect radiation and this allows mushroom spores to literally float through space and colonize on planets.
Just evolve that spacey gooo.
That fish looks scary.
Great news
Makes sense. Selenium is used to blacken steelβ¦Oxpho Blue.
i had heard of the food space to human waste space for shileding in the craft used to travel to mars, gotta say im glad its not derived from that
Yeah the melanin colours the fish but its the colour that reflects the radiation aways.
Wait until humans discover non silicate 10 π½π½
Wonderful teacher person… that was wonderful, as usual. Thank you!
I don’t see a cream happening, but…
I do see a way to use this as part of a radiation shield itself. We know how deep alpha and beta particles can go, which would be a large portion of the solar wind. (For example, a simple piece of foil could block alpha easily enough.) If this mixture was used as part of a layered shield, it could absorb all three primary sources of radiation damage from the sun.
So here is how a Mars base would probably work. The habs will likely employ an outer ablative shield to protect against abrasion, an outer tough hull for extra protection, an inner radiation hull using selenomelanin in a honeycomb sandwich matrix…You get the general idea, though.
Melanin we soak up the sun π!
Neato!
Just lather the spaceship with the cream lmfao
maybe a paint?
What about your eyes?
Better take some antioxidants.
Just buy some amifostine on ebay
Seal Melons destroy the Sun
derp
Nature gives us everything we need to live ! Just gotta do the research !
@Bethesda
Neutrogena SPF 10,000
Interesting. This has been one of the great problems for space travel. I hope it pans out.
Thanks for the info Anton! My son wants to go to Mars with Elon Musk!! Arrrrgh Glad to hear they are making progress on the radiation issues. Looking forward to your follow up reports.
Hello Anton! what about c-60? it’s supposed to protect you from radiation.
No other YouTube video has information on this nano-material
Amazing
Nice ππΌ
Thanks antonπ
They should try it as a paint or some kind of powder coating. It would be a much lighter shielding.
Thank you Anton That has to be one of the most informative post I’ve seen so far as to the REAL reasons we Don’t do AND also an insight into new tech
“RAD-X” from “Fallout” games becomes reality!
Now you 5G nerds can leave us alone lol
So, the melanin in our hair provides protection from radiation! π. But … what about bald heads?!? π΄πΌπ©βπ¦². Melanin wigs would sell a lot on Mars π€£π»
Something I didn’t know about melanin until recently is that it’s found in all lineages of eukaryote.
Plants, animals and fungi all produce it, so it’s reasonable to say it was present in their last common ancestor.
I wonder if some bacteria and archaea can also produce melanin.
Amazing!
Utterly fascinating stuff!
The βburning bushβ or this….
I know what i prefer to listen to.
Anton, has anyone calculated how much outgassing Mars is experiencing?
They were hoping to find that it existed in nature… itβs does! π½π½π½
Submartian lava tubes may be the way to go.
You ever hear of shungite
Sun screen? Turn it into a paint for armor…
I understand its SPF 5 million.
I think shampoo has selenium too. Stock on hair products?
Thanks for educating me
How about editing it’s geans to improve it form 2β to higher
I didn’t think about Melanin like that! I always that it was simply a carbon based molecule that makes humans brown.
More evidence that my melanin is magic
Selenium is found in very high concentrations in Brazil nuts. I found out the hard way by mega binges on the buggers and then suffering through the consequences. Thought Iβd share…
Wow! Great news. Thank you.π£πΎπ¦ π¬πΊπΈβ₯οΈπβοΈπ»β°οΈποΈπππ ππ°
so basically all astronauts will be required to wear a blackface every day. ThatΒ΄s going to get so popular.
Creams simply wouldn’t work. It would need to be THOROUGHLY applied way too often to be of any practical use on missions.
We either need to make a suit of this stuff or we can genetically engineer astronauts to produce this in their skins. We would likely need to feed them on a diet of brazil nuts.
What is the name of that fish? Why does it need so much melanin?
Strange… I just got done watching Chernobyl and this video pops up.
Exciting news. Maybe it could be used for Solar One, the interstellar spacecraft that I propose.
Exciting information! Thanks Anton!!
Hey I got extra melanin seeing that im black! Hahahaha but seriously some pan African historians and researchers have been saying melanin is a wonder material for years.. There are a lot of unexplored property’s of melanin that have pretty amazing property’s!! Thought I would share this comment with everyone π
Just call it “Rad-X”
Am I watching joe rogan?
No. No I am not.
I’m watching anton petrov, the most wonderful person in the world!