The Bernal Sphere is an immense spherical space habitat design and the inspiration for many habitats and space stations. To find out more about them and other megastructures, see the Megastructure Compendium: https://youtu.be/1xt13dn74wc Produced, Written &...
Planets vs Megastructures – SFIA 750,000 Subscriber Special Edition
To celebrate 750,000 subscribers we're taking a look at the benefits and disadvantages of settling and terraforming planets vs constructing megastructure space habitats Watch my exclusive video on Retrocausality: https://nebula.tv/videos/isaacarthur-retrocausality Get...
The Stanford Torus
The Stanford Torus is an enormous 10 million ton space station ring habitat designed to house many thousands. To find out more about them and other megastructures, see the Megastructure Compendium: https://youtu.be/1xt13dn74wc Produced, Written & Narrated by:...
Building Artificial Planets
We may terraform Mars or Venus one day, but to truly make worlds like Earth, we may need to build them ourselves. Mega Earths: https://youtu.be/ioKidcpkZN0 To find out more about megastructures, see the Megastructure Compendium: https://youtu.be/1xt13dn74wc Produced,...
BWC Megastructures & Artificial Planets
BWC Megastructures are types of hypothetical mega engineering projects, like artificial planets, who scope is vast, but whose practicality is debatable. To find out more about them and other megastructures, see the Megastructure Compendium:...
Colonizing the Kuiper Belt
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Space Habitats
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. For humanity to explore space and distant worlds, we will need to construct enormous artificial habitats in...
Deep Space Habitats
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 Every known planet, moon, and asteroid in our solar system occupies a volume of space both...
Self-Growing Habitats & Space Bases
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Oceans in Space: Marine Space Habitats & Preserves
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. In the future humanity will look to build new lives out among the stars, forging new worlds and megastructures...
Solar System Colonization Strategies
Start Forging New Worlds: https://www.worldanvil.com/isaac-arthur Whether its pioneering spirit and an urge to explore or a chance to make a fortune or new life out in space, colonization of our solar system may pursue many strategies across many new worlds. Visit our...
Coming and Going: Navigating Space Between Megastructures
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...
