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Asteroid Mining & Orbital Settlements

Asteroid Mining & Orbital Settlements

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Asteroids represent a threat to Earth, but in the future they may be a boon, serving as sources of vast wealth and resources, and as orbital settlements and keystones of...

Fermi Paradox: The Prime Directive

Fermi Paradox: The Prime Directive

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ One solution to the Fermi Paradox, the big question of where all the aliens are, is that extraterrestrials might hide from us to avoid altering our society, a concept we see in Star...

Interstellar Trade & Cyclers

Interstellar Trade & Cyclers

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Establishing Interstellar Trade and Commerce in the future will require an entirely new approach to moving cargo, as years if not centuries might pass for shipments to...

Becoming a Kardashev-1 Post-Scarcity Civilization

Becoming a Kardashev-1 Post-Scarcity Civilization

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 Kardashev Scale measures how powerful a high-tech civilization is, with K-1 indicating a advanced...

Terrifying Aliens

Terrifying Aliens

The first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur10201 Aliens are portrayed in Science Fiction both as our potential saviors and best friends, as well as the stuff of...

SFIA Monthly Livestream: October 25, 2020

SFIA Monthly Livestream: October 25, 2020

Our monthly livestream Q&A session. Join us 4pm EST, Sunday, October 25, 2020, and get your questions about the channel and episodes on chat to be answered! Get 26% of Curiosity Stream and free access to Nebula by using coupon code "isaac":...

Mars Base

Mars Base

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ To become an Interplanetary Species we need to colonize another planet, and Mars will be our first target. To establish a base there, and a future settlement, we need to get their...

Low-Tech Spacefaring Civilizations

Low-Tech Spacefaring Civilizations

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. We typically imagine interstellar civilizations as vastly superior in technology to modern times, but could...