Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ The idea of spaceships or other machines that were essentially alive and able to repair and operate themselves has long been a popular one in science fiction. We'll take a look today at how that might be...
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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...
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...
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,...
Use my link http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "ISAAC" to 500-500 to get a free book including a copy of Olaf Stapledon's "Star Maker" Without the Sun our world would be a frozen wasteland, and for this reason any efforts to colonize the galaxy must focus on...
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...
Get Started with Squarespace today: http://squarespace.com/isaacarthur To journey across the stars requires voyages of centuries or more, ensuring the crew will be long dead by the time they arrive. If you want your crew available to colonize new worlds after their...
A Journey to the Edge of Time and Space Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ As we continue our look at Generation Ships, vast vessels designed to carry many thousands of colonists to distant and alien worlds centuries away, we must ask...
Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ In order to terraform new planets, we will need to be able transport entire ecologies & ecosystems through interstellar space in the future. Today we will examine how we could build and maintain such...
A continued look at Generation Ships and Interstellar Colonization. Check out Cheddar's video on the Sun: https://chdr.tv/youtue6886 In order to colonize the galaxy, we are going to have to spend huge times on board equally huge spaceships. To move thousands of...
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