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...
The Fermi Paradox: Extinction
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 ask us how in a Universe so vast and ancient we seem to be the only intelligent...
Colonizing Black Holes
Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Black Holes are amongst the most destructive things in the Universe, but it may be that properly utilized, they might be the best places in the galaxy to live around in the future, and possibly right...
Fleet of Stars
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. Interstellar travel is very time consuming, moving from star to star, but perhaps we could use...
Matrioshka Worlds
Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ The galaxy contains countless billions of planets we might colonize, and we may build far more living area as space station habitats and megastructures, but Earth will always be unique and living here...
Techno-Primitivism
Sign up with Skillshare for 2 months of Free classes: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur9 Fears about technology and it's impact on our civilization, or on individuals even when new tech is net benefit, are often shown to us in fiction as giving rise to technophobic cultures...
Planet Ships
Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Earth has often been compared to a spaceship, one that's successfully orbited our star and the galaxy many times over billions of years. So what about moving our planet or even converting it or another...
The Fermi Paradox & the Aurora Effect
A new paper has come out discussing how the Fermi Paradox might be explained by the rigors of traveling space for interstellar colonization, causing settlements to be rare and and possibly not long-lived. We'll look at this model for spreading humanity out across the...
Hitchhiking the Galaxy
Sign up with Skillshare for 2 months of Free classes: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur8 The Galaxy is an enormous place, and moving from your planet to worlds in a different solar system over vast interstellar distances will be no easy voyage. Today we'll consider how...
Galactic Gardeners
Sign up with Skillshare for 2 months of Free classes: https://skl.sh/isaac7 The galaxy is an immense place, with billions of solar systems to colonize, and interstellar voyages to even nearby stars can take centuries. In order to explore and settle those new worlds,...
Making Suns
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Seeding the Stars
Sign up with Skillshare for 2 months of Free classes: https://skl.sh/isaac5 The galaxy is a vast place with billions of potential new worlds for humanity to colonize, but interstellar space is so enormous that reaching even the nearest stars and planets by spaceship...
