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Statites, Lagites, and Quasites
A look at Statites, or Static Satellites, and variations like the Lagite, Quasite, Mag Sail, Solar Moth, and Non-Keplerian Orbits that offer us powerful foundations for advanced, Kardashev-scale space development. Watch my exclusive video Giant Space Monsters:...
The Fermi Paradox Compendium of Solutions & Terms
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Starboosting
A starbooster is a megastructure designed for heating a cooler star to make it more sun-like and with a wider habitable zone for planets. Orion's Arm Starbooster entry: https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/47897efc7129a To find out more about them and other...
Birch Planets: Galaxy-Sized Worlds
Birch Planets are enormous hypothetical Megastructures which would have more living area than every planet in our galaxy combined, and are even larger than Dyson Spheres. Mega Earths: https://youtu.be/ioKidcpkZN0 To find out more about megastructures, see the...
The Fermi Paradox: Searching For Dyson Spheres
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Grabby Aliens & The Fermi Paradox
Start Forging New Worlds: https://www.worldanvil.com/isaac-arthur The new Grabby Aliens model proposes that the Universe may already contain several thousand immense alien empires... and that we may soon be one of them. See the Grabby Aliens Paper & Presentations:...
Barriers to Becoming a Kardashev Civilization
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The Fermi Paradox: Absent Megastructures
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Low-Tech Kardashev-2 Civilizations
Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Kardashev-2 Civilizations are hypothetical empires which encompass entire stars, with access to billions of times the energy Earth has, often seen as builders of megastructures like Dyson Spheres. But...
Becoming a Kardashev-1 Post-Scarcity Civilization
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. The Kardashev Scale measures how powerful a high-tech civilization is, with K-1 indicating a advanced society able to call on...
Fermi Paradox: Into the Void
The Fermi Paradox asks us where all the alien civilizations are? Today we will ask if the might be hiding in the Voids, from those between the stars to the massive Supervoids like the Boötes Void. Could they be home to Extraterrestrial Empires so large they dwarf even...
