It can be hard to hear a signal 100 miles away—so what does it take to build a beacon loud enough to be heard 100,000 light years away? In this episode, we explore galactic beacons: powerful transmissions that may teach, warn, or outlast the minds that made them....
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Go to https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ to get a 30-day free trial and 20% off their annual subscription. One day our civilization may settle our whole galaxy, with mighty star empires consisting of millions if not billions of worlds, but what would the centers of...
We often hear that our galaxy will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest neighbor, but in reality this is just the biggest of many titanic galactic mergers to come. Intergalactic Voyages: https://youtu.be/6aBfLA_g3og Produced, Written & Narrated by: Isaac...
Worlds far from the Galactic Core are thought to be low in many important elements for life, but some new research calls that into doubt, indicating that the ancient old worlds of the galactic rim might harbor alien life. See our episode The Fermi Paradox: The...
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. Wars in the future may involve vast interplanetary conflicts or civil wars sprawling over an entire world or more, but what...
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 The great mystery of where all the aliens are in our vast Universe contemplates ancient...
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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. Interstellar civilizations home to hundreds of peacefully cooperating alien species are a common theme in science fiction, but...
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. From Asteroid Mining to disassembling entire alien planets all the way out to the Galactic Rim, our galaxy has untold...
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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. One possible solution to the Fermi Paradox, the big question of where all the aliens are, is that some ancient galactic...