Surveying for Habitable Interstellar Star Systems

Surveying for Habitable Interstellar Star Systems

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. One day humanity might journey to new worlds and settle them, or discover life already on them, but first we'll...

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The Fermi Paradox: Digital Empires & Miniaturization

The Fermi Paradox: Digital Empires & Miniaturization

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Could Two Alien Races Evolve on the Same World?

Could Two Alien Races Evolve on the Same World?

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The Fermi Paradox: Drake’s Equation

The Fermi Paradox: Drake’s Equation

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Drake's Equation lies at the core of the Fermi Paradox and SETI, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, but is it a good guide in our search for aliens, and what does modern...

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Fermi Paradox: The Prime Directive

Fermi Paradox: The Prime Directive

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ One solution to the Fermi Paradox, the big question of where all the aliens are, is that extraterrestrials might hide from us to avoid altering our society, a concept we see in Star Trek called the Prime...

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The Fermi Paradox: The Phosphorus Problem

The Fermi Paradox: The Phosphorus Problem

Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook is free. Visit http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "isaac" to 500-500. The genesis and origin of life may require a very rare and delicate mixture of certain chemicals. One of those is phosphorus,...

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The Fermi Paradox: Firstborn

The Fermi Paradox: Firstborn

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The Fermi Paradox: Zoo Hypothesis

The Fermi Paradox: Zoo Hypothesis

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur The Zoo Hypothesis is a Fermi Paradox solution that assumes extraterrestrial civilizations can't be detected by our SETI efforts because they keep our whole world in an Alien Zoo. Visit our...

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Fermi Paradox: Could Technology Develop Without Fire?

Fermi Paradox: Could Technology Develop Without Fire?

Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook plus two Audible Originals are free. Visit http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "isaac" to 500-500. Fire is often considered the foundation of human technology, but there may be many worlds on which...

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The Fermi Paradox: Late Filters

The Fermi Paradox: Late Filters

Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook plus two Audible Originals are free. Visit http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "isaac" to 500-500. The Fermi Paradox asks why we don't see any alien civilizations with our SETI efforts. The Late...

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The Fermi Paradox: Rare Technology

The Fermi Paradox: Rare Technology

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur The Fermi Paradox, the big question of where all the aliens are, has many proposed solutions focusing on what might lower the odds of intelligent species arising on another world, or what...

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Aloof Aliens

Aloof Aliens

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Discussion of advanced extraterrestrial civilizations often hinges on the idea that they may have ascended to a higher state or higher level of reality, and lost interest in us and the rest of the...

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