Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Our solar system contains many planets, moons, and asteroid that we may one day call home, but the future might instead be artificial space habitats, stations, and megastructures of vast size and...
Continent-Sized Rotating Space Habitats
Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Mankind's future is among the stars, but not necessarily on other planets. Instead we might forge giant space stations that are entire artificial worlds, and today we'll explore some of...
Moon: Crater Cities
The first 500 people who click the link in the description will get 2 free months of Skillshare Premium: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur14 The Moon is covered in vast numbers of craters, some larger than entire Earth-based Nations, which may serve as dome habitats for...
Life on board an O’neill Cylinder
Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ O'Neill Cylinders space stations are examples of large rotating habitats able to be constructed in space in which people and even a complex ecology might be transplanted. But what would it be like living...
Moon: Industrial Complex
Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ The Moon is gateway to space, and in the future it might serve as an industrial and mining complex fueling vast production of spaceships, rocket fuel, satellites, space stations, and colonial habitats....
The Fermi Paradox & Virtual Worlds: Colonizing Inner Space
Sign up with Skillshare for 2 months of Free classes: https://skl.sh/isaac6 Many believe humanity's future lies among the stars, colonizing distant planets around alien suns, or perhaps building artificial worlds, space habitats, and megastructures. But what if...
Upward Bound: The Environments of Space Habitats
A look at environments and ecology on truly massive space stations. Check out Cheddar's video on Extinction: https://chdr.tv/youtu0277c As we expand in space and build ever large space stations, true space habitats, we will need to incorporate ecosystems into them....
Surviving in the Expanse of Space
Use my link http://www.audible.com/isaac to get a free copy of "Leviathan Wakes" Space is an incredibly harsh and immense environment absent of everything we need to live, and abundant only in harsh radiation and dangerous micro-meteors. Today we will examine how...
De-Extinction: Resurrecting the Past
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Mega Earths
A look at creating artificial planets, ones vastly bigger than Earth. Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ We return to the Megastructures series to discuss various ways of creating artificial planets, the special issues with making an...
