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Lost Space Colonies

Lost Space Colonies

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. A Galaxy of trillion of worlds, all separated by vast gulfs of time and space, it is very easy for pioneers...

Making a Magnetosphere for Mars

Making a Magnetosphere for Mars

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 We believe Mars may once have had oceans and sky, but lost them from a lack...

Godlike Aliens

Godlike Aliens

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 often shows us alien civilizations so advanced they are godlike, but how...

Is a Technological Singularity Inevitable?

Is a Technological Singularity Inevitable?

Use code ISAACARTHUR16 for up to 16 FREE MEALS + 3 Surprise Gifts across 6 HelloFresh boxes plus free shipping at https://bit.ly/3uRoKz7 As computers have improved at an accelerating rate for generations now, fears of some emergent super...

SFIA Monthly Livestream: April 24, 2022

SFIA Monthly Livestream: April 24, 2022

Our monthly livestream Q&A session. Join us on 4pm EST, Sunday, April 24, 2022, and get your questions about the channel and episodes on chat to be answered! Register for for the International Space Development Conference in May 2022:...

Traveling Around Other Worlds

Traveling Around Other Worlds

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. In the future we will journey to new worlds, but how will we travel around on them? Visit...

What if Earth became a Rogue Planet?

What if Earth became a Rogue Planet?

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 Is it possible the Earth might be separated from the Sun or the Sun go out?...

Multi-Species Empires

Multi-Species Empires

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. Interstellar civilizations home to hundreds of peacefully cooperating alien species are a common theme in...

Self-Growing Habitats & Space Bases

Self-Growing Habitats & Space Bases

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. In the future we will build outposts and bases in space and on distant worlds, but what if...