Galactic Gardeners

Galactic Gardeners

Sign up with Skillshare for 2 months of Free classes: https://skl.sh/isaac7 The galaxy is an immense place, with billions of solar systems to colonize, and interstellar voyages to even nearby stars can take centuries. In order to explore and settle those new worlds,...

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Space Prison Colonies

Space Prison Colonies

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Many a land was settled by exiles and prisoners, and many a science fiction story contemplates that we may use such methods when colonize new worlds. But are such methods viable? and what...

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Seeding the Stars

Seeding the Stars

Sign up with Skillshare for 2 months of Free classes: https://skl.sh/isaac5 The galaxy is a vast place with billions of potential new worlds for humanity to colonize, but interstellar space is so enormous that reaching even the nearest stars and planets by spaceship...

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Sleeper Ships

Sleeper Ships

Get Started with Squarespace today: http://squarespace.com/isaacarthur To journey across the stars requires voyages of centuries or more, ensuring the crew will be long dead by the time they arrive. If you want your crew available to colonize new worlds after their...

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Exporting Earth

Exporting Earth

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ In order to terraform new planets, we will need to be able transport entire ecologies & ecosystems through interstellar space in the future. Today we will examine how we could build and maintain such...

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Exodus Fleet

Exodus Fleet

A continued look at Generation Ships and Interstellar Colonization. Check out Cheddar's video on the Sun: https://chdr.tv/youtue6886 In order to colonize the galaxy, we are going to have to spend huge times on board equally huge spaceships. To move thousands of...

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Galactic Humanity & the Fermi Paradox, Part 1

Galactic Humanity & the Fermi Paradox, Part 1

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Watch Part 2: https://youtu.be/tbvmxo90F9I For today's 2-part episode we team again with John Michael Godier to discuss the future of humanity should we head out to colonize the galaxy and find it empty,...

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O’Neill Cylinders

O’Neill Cylinders

A look at O'Neill Cylinders, immense space habitats. Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Far larger than any conventional Space Station, O'Neill Cylinders could potentially serve as as entire city-states or nature preserves. Today we will...

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