Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

We continue our discussion of surveying for habitable exoplanets by touring our possible option for interstellar probes, dumb and smart, flyby and protracted orbital. Click the link in the description box or go to buyraycon.com/isaacarthur to get 15% off your Raycon purchase! Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/-_yuOmIii90 Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon:...

The Silurian Hypothesis contemplates how long the ruins of a civilization would be detectable, on Earth or even other worlds, and if we could ever know if a world had once been inhabited by a technological civilization. Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook is free. Visit http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "isaac" to 500-500. Watch the Video Version: https://youtu....

In the future humanity may build enormous structures, feats of mega-engineering that may rival planets or even be of greater scope. This episode catalogs roughly 100 major types of Megastructure, from those that are cities in space to those that rival galaxies. Sign up for a Curiosity Stream subscription and also get a free Nebula subscription (the streaming platform built by creators) here: https...

Our capability to render virtual realities better and better makes it seem likely one day we could simulate our world flawlessly, and perhaps our minds too. If so, perhaps we will in the future... and perhaps we already did in the past. Visit https://brilliant.org/isaacarthur/ to get started learning STEM for free, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription. watch...

Many don't realize that most of our satellites and space stations aren't intended to be far from Earth, but rather, as close as we can get them and still maintain a stable orbit. How much lower can we go in the future? Start Forging New Worlds: https://www.worldanvil.com/isaac-arthur International Space Development Conference Registration: https://isdc2022.nss.org Visit our Website: http://www.isa...

One day humanity might journey to new worlds and settle them, or discover life already on them, but first we'll have to find those exoplanets under aliens suns. Visit https://brilliant.org/isaacarthur/ to get started learning STEM for free, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription. Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/UyWOjD8uxVA International Space Developm...

A Galaxy of trillion of worlds, all separated by vast gulfs of time and space, it is very easy for pioneers and colonists to disappear. But what happens to these lost space colonies? Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook is free. Visit http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "isaac" to 500-500. International Space Development Conference Registration: https://isdc2022.ns...

We believe Mars may once have had oceans and sky, but lost them from a lack of a magnetosphere. How does this happen, and how can we create a magnetosphere for Mars so we can terraform and live on it? Sign up for a Curiosity Stream subscription and also get a free Nebula subscription (the streaming platform built by creators) here: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur International Space Develo...

Science Fiction often shows us alien civilizations so advanced they are godlike, but how realistic are they, and what would such entities be like? Visit https://brilliant.org/isaacarthur/ to get started learning STEM for free, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription. Biocene 2022 Registration: https://oai.org/biocene-2022-event-registration/ International Space...

As computers have improved at an accelerating rate for generations now, fears of some emergent super intelligent computer mind have grown, but is such a Technological Singularity Inevitable, and can we survive it? Use code ISAACARTHUR16 for up to 16 FREE MEALS + 3 Surprise Gifts across 6 HelloFresh boxes plus free shipping at https://bit.ly/3uRoKz7 Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/px9RyIK...

Our monthly livestream Q&A session. Join us on 4pm EST, Sunday, April 24, 2022, and get your questions about the channel and episodes on chat to be answered! Register for for the International Space Development Conference in May 2022: https://isdc2022.nss.org Catch the audio-only show on Soundcloud: @isaac-arthur-148927746 Visit our Website: www.isaacarthur.net SFIA Discord Server: discord.gg/53GA...

In the future we will journey to new worlds, but how will we travel around on them? Visit https://brilliant.org/isaacarthur/ to get started learning STEM for free, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription. Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/OjR2HrJ3sA4 Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur...

Is it possible the Earth might be separated from the Sun or the Sun go out? And if so, could we survive under an eternally dark sky? Sign up for a Curiosity Stream subscription and also get a free Nebula subscription (the streaming platform built by creators) here: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/bZDbrayj5O0 Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthu...

Interstellar civilizations home to hundreds of peacefully cooperating alien species are a common theme in science fiction, but are such civilizations likely or would we instead see conquest and xenocide? Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook is free. Visit http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "isaac" to 500-500. Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/jdsZn41x9aY V...

The future may see advancements in claytronics, memory metals, and catoms to allow shapeshifting materials that can take on any form and perform any job - possibly even taking on human form itself. Sign up for a Curiosity Stream subscription and also get a free Nebula subscription (the streaming platform built by creators) here: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Watch the Video Version: http...

Our monthly livestream Q&A session. Join us on 4pm EST, Sunday, March 27, 2022, and get your questions about the channel and episodes on chat to be answered! Catch the audio-only show on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/isaac-arthur-148927746 Visit our Website: https://www.isaacarthur.net SFIA Discord Server: https://discord.gg/53GAShE Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur F...

The Moon may one day be colonized and grow to be covered in domes and bases spanning the entire once-barren surface, a single mega-city sprawling not just over the surface, but deep below too. Visit https://brilliant.org/isaacarthur/ to get started learning STEM for free, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription. Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Supp...

Clandestine conspiracies and covert alien activity are popular theories involving UFO & UAP sightings as well as in science fiction, but what would covert alien activity look like? Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook is free. Visit http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "isaac" to 500-500. Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://w...

We often discuss cybernetic, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, and hybrids of them, but what truly is synthetic life? And what is it like? Sign up for a Curiosity Stream subscription and also get a free Nebula subscription (the streaming platform built by creators) here: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/vN43BTjxB-w Visit our Website: htt...

In order to build a future able to stretch across millions of years, we may need to be able to build machines able to endure the brutal erosion of deep time. Visit https://brilliant.org/isaacarthur/ to get started learning STEM for free, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription. Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patr...

All we are made of comes from dying stars, those rare supernovae and other cosmic death throes that forge those scarce heavier elements, but could we learn true alchemy and mass manufacture those materials ourselves, and even others not found in nature? Start Forging New Worlds: https://www.worldanvil.com/isaac-arthur Registration link for RAND US-Japan Space Conference: US-Japan Space Conference:...

Our monthly livestream Q&A session. Join us on 4pm EST, Sunday, February 27, 2022, and get your questions about the channel and episodes on chat to be answered! Registration link for RAND US-Japan Space Conference: US-Japan Space Conference: https://www.rand.org/events/2022/03/7-8.html Catch the audio-only show on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/isaac-arthur-148927746 Visit our Website: https:/...

In the future humanity will look to build new lives out among the stars, forging new worlds and megastructures for us to live on. But what about deep sea ecologies and aquatic life? What sort of habitats might we design for them? Visit https://brilliant.org/isaacarthur/ to get started learning STEM for free, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription. US-Japan Spac...

As we find more and more exoplanets, we glimpse enormous "Super Earths" worlds more massive than our own. Could these harbor life and would we be able to colonize or terraform them? Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook is free. Visit http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "isaac" to 500-500. Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://...

Getting into space is difficult, but it may be that other worlds have even harder times at it than we do, imprisoned by orbital debris, high gravity, or even being quarantined by alien civilizations. Start building your ideal daily routine ! The first 100 people who click on the link will get 25% OFF Fabulous Premium: http://thefab.co/isaac Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/L7oo0ChPM_c Vis...