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:...
Go to https://buyraycon.com/isaacarthur to get 20 to 50% off sitewide! Brought to you by Raycon. In the grand theater of the cosmos, amidst a myriad of distant suns and ancient galaxies, the Fermi Paradox presents a haunting silence, where a cacophony of alien...
The Banks Orbital is an enormous space habitat with hundreds of times more living area than a normal planet. Produced, Written & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Graphics: Steve Bowers Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator
Bishop Ring Space Habitat is a continent-class space habitat design larger than a country that might house billions or an entire continent's ecosystem Produced, Written & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Graphics: Steve Bowers Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound...
A McKendree Cylinder is a continent-class space habitat design larger than a country that might house billions or an entire continent's ecosystem Produced, Written & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Graphics: Udo Schroeter Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound...
The Alderson Disk is a popular but impractical megastructure that seeks to build an enormous flat planet with a Sun at its center, as an alternative to a Dyson Sphere. Produced, Written & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound...
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...
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 &...
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...
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...
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,...
Space Elevators offer the possibility of ultra-cheap space travel for all, but even if we find strong enough materials to build one, can we place them near our cities or only on the equator? See our episode Space Elevators for more details:...