First contact is easy. Living together isn’t. How would humanity merge with alien civilizations in a shared galaxy of trade, politics, and uneasy peace?
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Credits:
Merging with Alien Civilizations – Our Future in a Galactic Community
Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur
Editors: Keith Oxenrider & Donagh Broderick
Music Courtesy of Stellardrone
Select imagery/video supplied by Getty Images
Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:19 The Galaxy We Expected to Grow Into
2:38 The “Same-Age Galaxy” and Why We Keep Imagining It
5:43 First Contact Is Easy; Integration Is the Hard Part
10:16 Galactic Government: Who Writes the Rules, and Who Enforces Them
13:34 Galactic Economics: Trading Without a Shared Baseline
16:55 Peace Needs Teeth: Military Power in a Polite Galaxy
19:43 Cultural Drift: How Civilizations Actually Merge
21:53 Humanity’s Likely Role in the Galactic Neighborhood
25:10 Gods & Monsters
26:19 Growing Up as a Galactic Species