Oceanic Aliens

Oceanic Aliens

Go to https://buyraycon.com/isaacarthur for 15% off your order! Brought to you by Raycon. Water is one of the most common substances in the Universe, and Earth has far more seas than land and life arose in the ocean first. Planets covered entirely in water may be...

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Civilizations at the Beginning of Time

Civilizations at the Beginning of Time

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. Our Universe is billions of years older than our planet, and we often contemplate alien civilizations that might have arisen...

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Becoming an Interstellar Species

Becoming an Interstellar Species

The first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur12201 As we move into space we prepare not just to settle the Moon and Mars, but stretch our reach out to other stars and settle the galaxy,...

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Low-Tech Kardashev-2 Civilizations

Low-Tech Kardashev-2 Civilizations

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Kardashev-2 Civilizations are hypothetical empires which encompass entire stars, with access to billions of times the energy Earth has, often seen as builders of megastructures like Dyson Spheres. But...

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SFIA Monthly Livestream: November 29, 2020

SFIA Monthly Livestream: November 29, 2020

Our monthly livestream Q&A session. Join us 4pm EST, Sunday, November 29, 2020, and get your questions about the channel and episodes on chat to be answered! Catch the audio-only show on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/isaac-arthur-148927746 Visit our Website:...

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Life as a Space Colonist

Life as a Space Colonist

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Interstellar Trade & Cyclers

Interstellar Trade & Cyclers

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Establishing Interstellar Trade and Commerce in the future will require an entirely new approach to moving cargo, as years if not centuries might pass for shipments to arrive by even the...

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Becoming a Kardashev-1 Post-Scarcity Civilization

Becoming a Kardashev-1 Post-Scarcity Civilization

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 Kardashev Scale measures how powerful a high-tech civilization is, with K-1 indicating a advanced society able to call on...

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Low-Tech Spacefaring Civilizations

Low-Tech Spacefaring Civilizations

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 typically imagine interstellar civilizations as vastly superior in technology to modern times, but could the future see...

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Mega-Cities

Mega-Cities

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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Return to the Moon

Return to the Moon

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur It's been over half a century since we first went to the Moon, and nearly as long since we last went. To Return to the Moon we need a base with a purpose, and we'll look at what purposes we...

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