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Super-Earths

Super-Earths

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. As we find more and more exoplanets, we glimpse enormous "Super Earths" worlds more massive than our own....

The Fermi Paradox: Imprisoned Planets

The Fermi Paradox: Imprisoned Planets

Start building your ideal daily routine ! The first 100 people who click on the link will get 25% OFF Fabulous Premium: http://thefab.co/isaac Getting into space is difficult, but it may be that other worlds have even harder times at it than we do,...

Kessler Syndrome Planets

Kessler Syndrome Planets

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. Kessler Syndrome is a scenario in which a cascade of orbital collisions could render low...

The Future of Solar Power

The Future of Solar Power

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SFIA Monthly Livestream: January 30, 2022

SFIA Monthly Livestream: January 30, 2022

Our monthly livestream Q&A session. Join us on 4pm EST, Sunday, January 30, 2022, and get your questions about the channel and episodes on chat to be answered! Catch the audio-only show on Soundcloud:...

Nuclear Terraforming: Using Nukes to Bring Life to Mars

Nuclear Terraforming: Using Nukes to Bring Life to Mars

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Civilizations at the End of Time: The Big Rip

Civilizations at the End of Time: The Big Rip

The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur01221 Current science and cosmology tell us the Universe will slowly die and ebb away countless trillions of trillions of years from now,...

Telepathy

Telepathy

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Telepathy and other psychic abilities have often been investigated by science, but could the future offer humanity such talents, and is science they key to unlocking or creating them?...

Hibernating Aliens

Hibernating Aliens

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur One explanation for the Fermi Paradox is that aliens may be undetected because they slumber, quietly hidden away in the galaxy. But how and why might such...