McKendree Cylinder Space Habitat

McKendree Cylinder Space Habitat

A McKendree Cylinder is a continent-class space habitat design larger than a country that might house billions or an entire continent's ecosystem Produced, Written & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Graphics: Udo Schroeter Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound...

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Mobile Cities

Mobile Cities

Humanity has often preferred to move its communities, and in the future we might do that by moving our entire cities, by air, sea, or land. Watch my exclusive video on Nomadic Miners On The Moon: https://nebula.tv/videos/isaacarthur-nomadic-miners-on-the-moon Get...

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Birch Planets: Galaxy-Sized Worlds

Birch Planets: Galaxy-Sized Worlds

Birch Planets are enormous hypothetical Megastructures which would have more living area than every planet in our galaxy combined, and are even larger than Dyson Spheres. Mega Earths: https://youtu.be/ioKidcpkZN0 To find out more about megastructures, see the...

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Building Artificial Planets

Building Artificial Planets

We may terraform Mars or Venus one day, but to truly make worlds like Earth, we may need to build them ourselves. Mega Earths: https://youtu.be/ioKidcpkZN0 To find out more about megastructures, see the Megastructure Compendium: https://youtu.be/1xt13dn74wc Produced,...

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Non-Equatorial Space Elevators

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:...

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BWC Megastructures & Artificial Planets

BWC Megastructures & Artificial Planets

BWC Megastructures are types of hypothetical mega engineering projects, like artificial planets, who scope is vast, but whose practicality is debatable. To find out more about them and other megastructures, see the Megastructure Compendium:...

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Space Towers

Space Towers

The first 1,000 people to use the link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare https://skl.sh/isaacarthur06238 One day we may retire our rockets and instead reach the heavens by ascending towers so tall they dwarf mountains, and rise above the sky itself. NSSA New...

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Transhumanism & Humanity’s Future

Transhumanism & Humanity’s Future

To claim your matching donation with Givewell, go to https://www.givewell.org/isaac In the future, humanity may embrace genetic engineering and cybernetic augmentation of mind and body, but what does this Transhuman future look like? And should we embrace or resist...

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The Megastructure Compendium

The Megastructure Compendium

Sign up for a Curiosity Stream subscription and also get a free Nebula subscription (the streaming platform built by creators) here: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur In the future humanity may build enormous structures, feats of mega-engineering that may rival...

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Self-Growing Habitats & Space Bases

Self-Growing Habitats & Space Bases

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. In the future we will build outposts and bases in space and on distant worlds, but what if we could make it so...

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Synthetic Life

Synthetic Life

Sign up for a Curiosity Stream subscription and also get a free Nebula subscription (the streaming platform built by creators) here: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur We often discuss cybernetic, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, and hybrids of them,...

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Challenges & Predictions for the Next 100 Years

Challenges & Predictions for the Next 100 Years

Try out Curiosity Stream's New Smart Bundle: https://smartbundle.com/isaacarthursb code “isaacarthursb” Every year has new challenges, every generation faces its own unique crises, and as we move into the New Year, we will look at the challenges facing us in the next...

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