Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ To become an Interplanetary Species we need to colonize another planet, and Mars will be our first target. To establish a base there, and a future settlement, we need to get their first, so we will also...
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Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Science Fiction delights in showing us grim, dark, giant, and dystopian future cities of covered in garbage and where life is cheap, but how realistic are such metropolises and how can we avoid living in...
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Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Nuclear Fission was once hailed as the solution to our power & energy needs, but has grown unpopular of fears of radiation, meltdowns, and radioactive waste. However, advances in science and reactor...
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Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ To travel to other planets, we will first have to build up are infrastructure closer to home, in orbit of Earth. The best place to get all the mass for those space stations and rocket fuel depots is from...
Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Spaceships and fleets of the future may host their own unique civilizations of nomads, traveling the space lanes or venturing deep into interstellar space to colonize the galaxy or flee...
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Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Over the centuries humanity has tried many versions of government and many variations on each type, today we will examine how technology and space colonization might impact what types of governments we...
Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Our future in space may be one of millions or even trillions of vast space station, space habitats, and megastructures. How would a space-faring civilization going about traveling around such an immense...
Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Superconductors offer us a path to high-efficiency, low-loss power and energy, but the impact they'll have on our civilization through other technologies may be far greater, and we'll...