Post-Consciousness Civilizations: Evolving Beyond Human Awareness Extended Edition
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Science & Futurism Shorts Compilation #1: 1-20 October 1, 2023
A collection of the first 20 Shorts from SFIA, covering a wide range of topics in science & space. Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Join Nebula: https://go.nebula.tv/isaacarthur Support us on Patreon:...
Alderson Disks
The Alderson Disk is a popular but impractical megastructure that seeks to build an enormous flat planet with a Sun at its center, as an alternative to a Dyson Sphere. Produced, Written & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Music Courtesy of Epidemic...
Have Space Suit – Will Travel
Space is often called the final frontier, a place of billions and billions of worlds awaiting explorers and pioneers. But what will those journeys be like, and what gear will people need for them, and perhaps most importantly of all, what sort of...
The Great Filter – Are We Doomed or Exceptional?
The Fermi Paradox contemplates reasons why in so an ancient and huge Universe we don’t see enormous alien civilizations everywhere, and the Great Filters approach tries to think of reasons why life, or intelligent life, is rare. Produced, Written...
How Many Stars & Galaxies Could We Colonize?
The Universe is vast, and even voyages to neighboring stars may decades under known science, so how far can humanity colonize out into our galaxy or beyond? Produced, Written & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound...
Atmospheric Mining
Science fiction has popularized asteroid mining and cities in the sky, but could the future of mining be in cloud cities hanging far above distant worlds? Watch my exclusive video on Life As An Asteroid Miner:...
Antimatter Rifles
Antimatter is vastly more dangerous than even nuclear weapons, but warm temperature superconductors may allow it to be weaponized into man-portable machineguns that fired nukes with each shot. Produced, Written & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Music...
The Fermi Paradox: Fallen Empires
Go to https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ to get a 30-day free trial + the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual subscription. The cosmos seem silent and empty of any great interstellar empires, but perhaps they once existed, and if so,...
China Brain Hive Minds
The China Brain thought problem suggests that if it is possible for a big enough computer to run an uploaded copy of a human mind, then a sufficiently large number of humans run calculations by hand could too. But if they did, would this represent...