Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Our monthly livestream Q&A session for January 2021 Visit our Website: www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Social Media: Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/ Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/ Twitter: twitter.com/Isaac_A_Arthur on Twitter and RT our future content. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Not...

Machines may help bring about a Post-Scarcity Utopia, assuming they don't take over instead, and we dream of a future that is a Post-Scarcity Utopia, but its dark reflection is the Post-Discontent society, one where through deception or brainwashing people do not even known how they are being deprived or oppressed. The first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium M...

Cryonic freezing offers a pathway to reap future medical technologies today by preserving someone for future restoration, but what would the impact of this technology be on civilization? Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Watch the Video version: https://youtu.be/V_u9Za00uBY Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www....

Our Universe is billions of years older than our planet, and we often contemplate alien civilizations that might have arisen early than us in our galaxy, but just how early could life have arisen? 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/OytOJdGsrA0 Visit ou...

As we move into space we prepare not just to settle the Moon and Mars, but stretch our reach out to other stars and settle the galaxy, becoming an interstellar species. The first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur12201 See the SFIA Episode Listing: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E7UTCFWSRk1vuyjmYhSvtmvINVSU9tWy5La...

Our monthly livestream Q&A session for December 2020 Visit our Website: www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Social Media: Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/ Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/ Twitter: twitter.com/Isaac_A_Arthur on Twitter and RT our future content. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy No...

Navigating the vast ocean of the galaxy to reach distant stars will be no easy matter, but future spaceships may find many new difficulties finding their way throughout space, and also throughout time. Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Watch the video version: Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Is...

Our galaxy likely contains trillions of worlds, and perhaps none we could live on without great effort to make them like Earth. To colonize these worlds, to make them settlements for our descendants in the future, we must first terraform them. Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/C2jh7dCwGRs National Space Society Roadmap: https://space.nss.org/nss-roadmap-to-space-settlement-3rd-edition-2018...

Our monthly livestream Q&A session for November 2020 Visit our Website: www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Social Media: Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/ Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/ Twitter: twitter.com/Isaac_A_Arthur on Twitter and RT our future content. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy No...

In order to colonize space, we will need colonists willing to travel to desolate planets, moons, and asteroids to settle those worlds. What would life be like as a pioneer to the alien frontier? Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/CHXIQCQslmk Get the best discount of the year on Raycons! Now through the end of November, go to https://buyraycon.com/isaacarthur to get 20% off your order! Visit...

Asteroids represent a threat to Earth, but in the future they may be a boon, serving as sources of vast wealth and resources, and as orbital settlements and keystones of interplanetary trade. Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/xTAxjJ6KY7M Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur National Space Society Roadmap: https://space.nss.org/nss-roadmap-to-space-s...

Establishing Interstellar Trade and Commerce in the future will require an entirely new approach to moving cargo, as years if not centuries might pass for shipments to arrive by even the fastest spaceships, but may be aided by the use of vast interstellar Cycler Castles traveling on century long trade routes. Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/2MGVFCr4sIM Get a free month of Curiosity Strea...

Aliens are portrayed in Science Fiction both as our potential saviors and best friends, as well as the stuff of nightmares. Would an extraterrestrial civilization be benevolent or terrifying, and how would we seem to them? Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/cEoROjsXWKE The first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur102...

Our monthly livestream Q&A session for Octoberr 2020 Visit our Website: www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Social Media: Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/ Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/ Twitter: twitter.com/Isaac_A_Arthur on Twitter and RT our future content. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy No...

To become an Interplanetary Species we need to colonize another planet, and Mars will be our first target. To establish a base there, and a future settlement, we need to get their first, so we will also examine the Aldrin Cycler, a type of spacecraft that may make traveling to other worlds far easier. Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/42Je9Xczu0o Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brill...

We typically imagine interstellar civilizations as vastly superior in technology to modern times, but could the future see planets colonized by spaceships little better than our modern ones? Could some alien worlds allow space travel to develop far sooner and easier than it did on Earth? Or could civilizations abandon more advanced technology? Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/FEV5r8jdBvQ...

Recently the Military released Navy footage of 3 separate UFO or UAP - unidentified aerial phenomena - we will review that footage and consider both mundane explanations and the not-so-mundane, like secret projects, extraterrestrial origins, and what it might indicate about the technology and motivations of such alien civilizations if they are visitors from out in the galaxy. Watch the Video versi...

It's been over half a century since we first went to the Moon, and nearly as long since we last went. To Return to the Moon we need a base with a purpose, and we'll look at what purposes we have in mind and what the bases might be like as we head back to establish a Lunar Colony. Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/D-J9maAnhwg Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com...

Our monthly livestream Q&A session for September 2020 Visit our Website: www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Social Media: Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/ Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/ Twitter: twitter.com/Isaac_A_Arthur on Twitter and RT our future content. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy N...

The genesis and origin of life may require a very rare and delicate mixture of certain chemicals. One of those is phosphorus, and trying to figure out how we ever got enough of it in Earth's primordial soup for life to form in the first place has long puzzled scientists. We will also discuss the recent discovery of Phosphine Gas in Venus's Atmosphere Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and...

Nuclear Fission was once hailed as the solution to our power & energy needs, but has grown unpopular of fears of radiation, meltdowns, and radioactive waste. However, advances in science and reactor design may make atomic energy safer and more attractive in the future. Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/baQelfQAH54 Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Visit our W...

Asteroids represent a serious hazard to Earth, past, present, and future, but will be even more of a concern to humanity as we venture out to space beyond beyond our atmosphere's protection. We will explore what technologies and methods may be available to help protect us from asteroids. Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Visit our Website: http://www.isa...

To travel to other planets, we will first have to build up are infrastructure closer to home, in orbit of Earth. The best place to get all the mass for those space stations and rocket fuel depots is from the Moon, and we'll examine the milestones we'll need to reach to start lunar resource harvesting and building up space settlements. Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/gOr-Gd58zu8 Visit our...

Spaceships and fleets of the future may host their own unique civilizations of nomads, traveling the space lanes or venturing deep into interstellar space to colonize the galaxy or flee peril. What would such cultures be like? Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/5q4b7VZs6Uo Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur...

Our monthly livestream Q&A session For August 2020 Watch Paleontology and Jerry Guern's other stories: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnySNJ_gDOdRAdUXbIpxYQw Visit our Website: www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Social Media: Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/ Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/ Twitter: twitter.com/Isaac_A_Arthur on T...