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Planet Ships

Planet Ships

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Earth has often been compared to a spaceship, one that's successfully orbited our star and the galaxy many times over billions of years. So what about moving our planet or even...

Civilizations at the End of Time: Dying Stars

Civilizations at the End of Time: Dying Stars

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur One of the biggest reasons for colonizing other worlds is to ensure we don't die with our own sun, but even those alien suns we might travel to will die one day. And yet,...

Clarketech: Technologies Indistinguishable from Magic

Clarketech: Technologies Indistinguishable from Magic

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Science Fiction often presents us technologies that go far beyond the realms of known science, but many of these, such as force fields, inertial dampeners, anti-gravity, or faster...

The Fermi Paradox & the Aurora Effect

The Fermi Paradox & the Aurora Effect

A new paper has come out discussing how the Fermi Paradox might be explained by the rigors of traveling space for interstellar colonization, causing settlements to be rare and and possibly not long-lived. We'll look at this model for spreading...

Hitchhiking the Galaxy

Hitchhiking the Galaxy

Sign up with Skillshare for 2 months of Free classes: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur8 The Galaxy is an enormous place, and moving from your planet to worlds in a different solar system over vast interstellar distances will be no easy voyage. Today...

Secret Aliens

Secret Aliens

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ The possibility that aliens might be regularly visiting Earth is one of the most popular Fermi Paradox solutions. In this episode we will look at UFOs and flying saucers theories and...

Welcome to SFIA!

Welcome to SFIA!

A brief introduction to the Channel: Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur. Click to subscribe or visit us at any of our online communities: Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur...

SFIA Monthly Livestream: February 24, 2019

SFIA Monthly Livestream: February 24, 2019

Our monthly livestream Q&A session. Join us 5pm EST, Sunday, February 22, 2019, and get your questions about the channel and episodes on chat to be answered! Then join us again on SFIA Discord for live voice chat at 6:30 pm EST SFIA Discord...

Cloud Cities

Cloud Cities

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Humanity has long wished to dwell among the clouds, today we'll look at what options we may have in the future for floating a city or home high in the sky. Visit our Website:...