Dumbest Alien Invasions

Dumbest Alien Invasions

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. An Alien Invasion of Earth is a terrifying scenario, yet science fiction rarely has good reason for those invasions. Today...

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Primitive Aliens

Primitive Aliens

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. We often imagine Earth being visited by more advanced civilizations, but in the future humanity may encounter more primitive...

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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

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. As ancient and vast as the Universe is, it seems like some alien race arose in the galaxy long...

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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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