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Interstellar Colonization Compendium
Go to https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ to get a 30-day free trial and 20% off their annual subscription. Space is huge, immense beyond our wildest dreams. In order to explore and settle it, we’ll need to learn to dream a lot bigger and bolder than ever before. Join...
VASIMR: Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket
Any advanced spaceship drive design which may allow faster voyages to nearby planets. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g/join Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Join Nebula:...
Life on an Interstellar Ark Ship
Try Cell to Singularity, free to play: https://l.linklyhq.com/l/1uNoF The vast gulfs between stars may take decades or even centuries to travel, requiring enormous generation ships carrying families and whole ecosystems with them. What will life be like on board such...
Pulsed Nuclear Spacecraft
Pulsed Nuclear Spacecraft designs like the Orion Drive offer us an option for travelling to neighboring star systems without any new advanced science or technology. Produced, Written & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound...
Bussard Ramjet Starship Drive
To travel between the stars requires vast amounts of fuel and energy, but as it turns out, the ocean of night in deep space is full of fuel, if you can collect it along the way. The Fishback ramjet revisited:...
Nuclear Lightbulb Spaceship Drive
Nuclear propulsion offer vast energy to run a spaceship but is hard to convert into efficient and high thrust... the Nuclear Lightbulb seeks to address that. The Nuclear Option: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aBOhC1c6m8 The Advanced Spaceship Drive Compendium:...
Non-Equatorial Space Elevators
Space Elevators offer the possibility of ultra-cheap space travel for all, but even if we find strong enough materials to build one, can we place them near our cities or only on the equator? See our episode Space Elevators for more details:...
Advanced Spaceship Drive Compendium
Offset your carbon footprint with confidence with Wren--the first 100 people to sign up will have one month of emissions offset for free: https://wren.co/start/isaacarthur In order to reach the stars we will need vastly more powerful engines for our spacecraft than...
Journey to Alpha Centauri
To get started planning a career that works on one of the world’s most pressing problems, sign up now at https://80000hours.org/isaacarthur Alpha Centauri may be the closest star system to us, but reaching it will be the voyage of a lifetime. Visit our Website:...
Journey to Alpha Centauri
To get started planning a career that works on one of the world’s most pressing problems, sign up now at https://80000hours.org/isaacarthur Alpha Centauri may be the closest star system to us, but reaching it will be the voyage of a lifetime. Visit our Website:...
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 converting it or another...
