Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

The other side of the coin to all the new & future wonders we produce is what to do with them when they're old or broken. Today we examine the future of garbage, waste, and recycling. Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/YozXkvCREfs Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Isaac & Sarah's Wedding Registry: https://www.myregistry.com/wedding-registry/sarah-f...

Science Fiction has long contemplated the idea that alien life not based on carbon chemistry such as silicon might exist on distant and strange worlds, or might be made to exist advanced biological engineering. What would such life be like? Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/Y584AjZmqwY Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook plus two Audible Originals are free....

We often see science as an eternal march forward, but could a society stop advancing, either by choice or by running out own new things to discover. Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/vlJIWlyLOmU Go to https://www.expressvpn.com/isaacarthur and find out how you can get 3 months free. Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur SFI...

Every day brings us new technological advances, today we'll explore many of those of such as robotics, automation, rapid delivery, education, medical science, nanotechnology, and more. Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/njeztZauREU Videos referenced in the Episode: Power Satellites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBCbdThIJNE...

We often speculate that the reason we can't hear aliens civilizations is because our SETI efforts (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) relies on radio and telescopes to weak to hear them. But how plausible is that? and what would it tell us about our own future? Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/T9BQFbZ6o8I Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Visit ou...

Could Earth be home to a trillion people, or even more? We'll explore if we can do this with current technology, what future technologies would help, and what such a planet-wide city, an Ecumenopolis, might be like. Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/8lJJ_QqIVnc Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support...

Our future in space will require immense industry and infrastructure as we colonize out solar system and beyond. But how will those industries affect that colonization, and what form might an interplanetary civilization take from that influence? Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/Zvj96NmddjI The first 500 people who click the link in the description will get 2 free months of Skillshare Prem...

The Zoo Hypothesis is a Fermi Paradox solution that assumes extraterrestrial civilizations can't be detected by our SETI efforts because they keep our whole world in an Alien Zoo. Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/nOuh_nJWSlM Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon....

A brief look at the life and work of Physicist and Mathematician Freeman Dyson. Videos of Freeman Dyson to learn more My Middle Class Upbringing: https://www.webofstories.com/play/freeman.dyson/1 Ted2003: Let’s Look for life in the outer solar system https://www.ted.com/talks/freeman_dyson_let_s_look_for_life_in_the_outer_solar_system#t-363941 Freeman Dyson: Nukes and Genomes https://www.youtube.c...

Our monthly livestream Q&A session. Join us 4pm EST, Sunday, February 23, 2020, and get your questions about the channel and episodes on chat to be answered! SFIA Episode List, past and upcoming: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E7UTCFWSRk1vuyjmYhSvtmvINVSU9tWy5LabQeHW9t8/edit?usp=sharing Get a free month of Curiosity Stream & now Nebula: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Catch the aud...

Climate Change can occur from many sources, natural or manmade. In order to handle these problems we may wish to utilize many of the technologies we've developed for future space exploration, colonization, and terraforming. Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/bbMmQFwdACk Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net...

According to modern cosmology, one day all the stars will burn out and the Universe will be full of dead planets, black holes, and other stellar remnants, slowing decaying till entropy brings the Heat Death of the Universe. But could this fate be postponed or even reversed? Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/80tdw-kBiu8 Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Visit...

Artificial Intelligence, while still limited to only the most simplistic computers and robots, is beginning to emerge and will only grow smarter. Can humanity survive it's own creations and learn to coexist with them? Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/tz8EBU01sIA Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Suppo...

The Moon is covered in vast numbers of craters, some larger than entire Earth-based Nations, which may serve as dome habitats for humanity's future space colonies. But what would a crater city colony be like? Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/4cv3SjVK-n0 The first 500 people who click the link in the description will get 2 free months of Skillshare Premium: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur14 Vis...

O'Neill Cylinders space stations are examples of large rotating habitats able to be constructed in space in which people and even a complex ecology might be transplanted. But what would it be like living in one and how would civilizations based inside them in the future tend to operate? Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/hYyg8JC-6ew Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacA...

Our monthly livestream Q&A session. Join us 4pm EST, Sunday, January 26, 2020, and get your questions about the channel and episodes on chat to be answered! Get a free month of Curiosity Stream & now Nebula: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Catch the aduio-only show on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/isaac-arthur-148927746 Visit our Website: https://www.isaacarthur.net SFIA Merchandise av...

Our monthly livestream Q&A session. Join us 4pm EST, Sunday, December 29, 2019, and get your questions about the channel and episodes on chat to be answered! Get a free month of Curiosity Stream & now Nebula: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Catch the aduio-only show on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/isaac-arthur-148927746 Visit our Website: https://www.isaacarthur.net SFIA Merchandise a...

Our monthly livestream Q&A session. Join us 4pm EST, Sunday, November 24, 2019, and get your questions about the channel and episodes on chat to be answered! Get a free month of Curiosity Stream & now Nebula: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Catch the aduio-only show on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/isaac-arthur-148927746 Visit our Website: https://www.isaacarthur.net SFIA Merchandise a...

The big question of why life exists has challenged minds for countless centuries, but what does science have to say on this matter? Could life arise on other worlds and in other Universes, and what is the reason for it? Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/6z9U-tQ5RIw Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Sup...

The Moon is gateway to space, and in the future it might serve as an industrial and mining complex fueling vast production of spaceships, rocket fuel, satellites, space stations, and colonial habitats. Watch the Video version: https://youtu.be/y47MMNqKGxE Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://ww...

Fire is often considered the foundation of human technology, but there may be many worlds on which it would not be likely to practical, such an ocean planets, and on which intelligent life like Dolphins might emerge. Could such worlds host technological civilizations anyway? Or would they be forever stuck at little to no technology? Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/q8uJ2int43Y Start liste...

Alien Conspiracy theories are too numerous to count, but are they simply being paranoid about UFOs or might aliens be conspiring against us? Alternatively, could an extraterrestrial civilization be conspiratorial by nature, and what motives might a galactic civilization have for involving themselves with us in secret? Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/_vuCG3YhJBU Get a free month of Curios...

Is time travel possible, and if it is, what sort of civilizations would result? We'll explore the science that might permit it as well as the classic science fiction examples to see if they make sense. Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/0-37PLt7n7A Click here to explore your creativity and get 2 free months of Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur13 Visit our Website: http://www.is...

As we pioneer our way out from Earth to other planets and eventual the stars, our concept of time will change in more ways than just different calendars. We'll explore how interstellar civilizations might cope with everything from relativity to life extension and how century long voyages and time lags of communication over millions of worlds might be managed. Watch the video version: https://youtu...

Space Piracy is a classic theme of science fiction, but is there chance we'll see it in the future? We'll examine how it might develop in the next century around asteroid mining and how it might occur in the interstellar void as spaceships travel out to the wider galaxy. Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/pzlaLJIhh5I Right now, for a limited time, you can get 3 months of Audible for just $6...