Moon: Mega City

Moon: Mega City

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. The Moon may one day be colonized and grow to be covered in domes and bases spanning the entire once-barren...

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Colonizing Space: Staking & Jumping Claims

Colonizing Space: Staking & Jumping Claims

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur In the future we may settle the moon, asteroid, planets, and even other stars - but how do pioneers stake claims in space and what keeps other from jumping those claims and stealing or...

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Space Colonies: From Outposts to Cities

Space Colonies: From Outposts to Cities

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur As we venture out into space to colonize new planets, moons, and asteroids, how will these new settlements grow from simple outposts in to developed worlds with cities and civilizations all...

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Return to the Moon

Return to the Moon

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur It's been over half a century since we first went to the Moon, and nearly as long since we last went. To Return to the Moon we need a base with a purpose, and we'll look at what purposes we...

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Colonizing Cislunar Space and the Lagrange Points

Colonizing Cislunar Space and the Lagrange Points

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ To travel to other planets, we will first have to build up are infrastructure closer to home, in orbit of Earth. The best place to get all the mass for those space stations and rocket fuel depots is from...

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Moon: Crater Cities

Moon: Crater Cities

The first 500 people who click the link in the description will get 2 free months of Skillshare Premium: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur14 The Moon is covered in vast numbers of craters, some larger than entire Earth-based Nations, which may serve as dome habitats for...

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Outward Bound: Colonizing Neptune

Outward Bound: Colonizing Neptune

A look at Neptune, a potential gateway to the stars... Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ The Icy Giants, Neptune and Uranus, are often overlooked for as candidates for colonizing our solar system. Even when noted, the focus tends to be...

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Generation Ships

Generation Ships

Use my link http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "ISAAC" to 500-500 to get a free book including a copy of "Rendevous with Rama" and a 30-day free trial of Audible. Today we will begin our look at the spaceships we might use for colonizing interstellar space in the...

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Outward Bound: Colonizing Ceres

Outward Bound: Colonizing Ceres

A visit to Ceres and the Asteroid Belt. Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Ceres, a dwarf planet amid the Asteroid Belt, hold the potential to be the hub of a vast mining and manufacturing network in the Belt, as well as potentially...

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Outward Bound: Colonizing Mercury

Outward Bound: Colonizing Mercury

Today we take a trip inward, to explore Sun-Scorched Mercury. Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Mercury is the nearest planet to the Sun, a seeming airless wasteland little discussed in conversations about colonizing our solar system....

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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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Outward Bound: Colonizing Alpha Centauri

Outward Bound: Colonizing Alpha Centauri

A journey out to the stars to colonize Alpha Centauri Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ We've looked at colonizing our own solar system, from Mars to Venus, and all the way inward to the Sun itself and out to the dark edges of the Oort...

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