Colonizing Ganymede

Colonizing Ganymede

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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. Could these harbor...

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Zero-Gravity Civilizations

Zero-Gravity 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. Colonizing space and settling the minor planets and asteroids may mean adjusting to much lower levels of gravity, or...

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Colonizing Red Dwarfs

Colonizing Red Dwarfs

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur For every yellow star like our own there are ten times as many smaller stars. Red Dwarfs are the most common type of star, outnumbering all the others combined, and as we head out into...

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Terraforming: Forging New Worlds

Terraforming: Forging New Worlds

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Our galaxy likely contains trillions of worlds, and perhaps none we could live on without great effort to make them like Earth. To colonize these worlds, to make them settlements for our descendants in...

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Life as a Space Colonist

Life as a Space Colonist

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Nomadic Space-Based Civilizations

Nomadic Space-Based Civilizations

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Spaceships and fleets of the future may host their own unique civilizations of nomads, traveling the space lanes or venturing deep into interstellar space to colonize the galaxy or flee...

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Life on a Low-Gravity Planet

Life on a Low-Gravity Planet

Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook plus two Audible Originals are free. Visit http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "isaac" to 500-500. Science fiction loves to take us to desolate alien worlds with low-gravity, and envision creatures...

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The Fermi Paradox: Late Filters

The Fermi Paradox: Late Filters

Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook plus two Audible Originals are free. Visit http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "isaac" to 500-500. The Fermi Paradox asks why we don't see any alien civilizations with our SETI efforts. The Late...

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Matrioshka Worlds

Matrioshka Worlds

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ The galaxy contains countless billions of planets we might colonize, and we may build far more living area as space station habitats and megastructures, but Earth will always be unique and living here...

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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 we'll consider how...

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