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Crawlonizing The Galaxy: Settling Space At Ultra-Low Speeds
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. Science Fiction has shown us humanity exploring the stars at hundreds of times faster than...
Interstellar Probes
Click the link in the description box or go to buyraycon.com/isaacarthur to get 15% off your Raycon purchase! We continue our discussion of surveying for habitable exoplanets by touring our possible option for interstellar probes, dumb and smart,...
The Silurian Hypothesis: What Traces Of Humanity Will Be Left 50 Million Years From Now?
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. The Silurian Hypothesis contemplates how long the ruins of a civilization would be detectable, on Earth or...
The Megastructure Compendium
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 In the future humanity may build enormous structures, feats of...
SFIA Monthly Livestream: June 25, 2022
Our monthly livestream Q&A session. Join us on 4pm EST, Sunday, June 25, 2022, and get your questions about the channel and episodes on chat to be answered! Support the stream: https://streamlabs.com/isaacarthur Catch the audio-only show on...
What are Ancestor Simulations… and are we living in one?
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. Our capability to render virtual realities better and better makes it seem likely one day...
Dark Sky Stations, Stratospheric Satellites, and Ultra Low Orbit Infrastructure
Start Forging New Worlds: https://www.worldanvil.com/isaac-arthur 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...
SFIA Live from the International Space Development Conference: May 29, 2022
Tune in Sunday, May 29, 2022 4pm ET for Isaac's presentation on Megastructures & Living in Space at the National Space Society's International Space Development Conference in Arlington, VA. The International Space Development Conference in May...
Surveying for Habitable Interstellar Star Systems
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. One day humanity might journey to new worlds and settle them, or discover life already on...