Cylindrical Planets

Cylindrical Planets

A planet shaped like a cylinder might be built as novel alternative to a spherical or flat discworld. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g/join Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Join Nebula:...

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Alderson Disks

Alderson Disks

The Alderson Disk is a popular but impractical megastructure that seeks to build an enormous flat planet with a Sun at its center, as an alternative to a Dyson Sphere. Produced, Written & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound...

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Colonizing the Kuiper Belt

Colonizing the Kuiper Belt

Go to https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ to get a 30-day free trial + the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual subscription. We often discuss our future in the Asteroid Belt, and the glorious civilizations we might one day build there. However, it is but a...

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Megastructures: Flat Earths

Megastructures: Flat Earths

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Our planet is so enormous that it can often appear flat to those living on it, as time went on and we determined it was a sphere, many still chose to assume it was a flat disc. While this notion is...

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