Orbital Ladders

Orbital Ladders

Orbital Ladders are a type of megastructure that allow rapid, cheap transport to space or around the planet. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g/join Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Join...

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The Banks Orbital: God’s Bracelet

The Banks Orbital: God’s Bracelet

The Banks Orbital is a ring-shaped Space Habitat over a million miles across with hundreds of times more living area than the entire Earth. Watch my exclusive video Machine Monitors: https://nebula.tv/videos/isaacarthur-machine-monitors Get Nebula using my link for...

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Defending Earth

Defending Earth

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Chandelier Cities

Chandelier Cities

While we sometimes imagine vast structures rising above the sky, it is possible to have equally vast structures hang down from the sky, and on world's whose atmospheres are far larger than earth's, this may be where people choose to live. Graphics: Jeremy Jozwik,...

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Martian Solar Mirrors

Martian Solar Mirrors

Mars gets little sunlight, but we may be able to warm the Red Planet by using orbital mirrors to shine more sunlight down on Martian bases. Produced, Written & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator

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Banks Orbital – God’s Bracelet

Banks Orbital – God’s Bracelet

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

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Interplanetary Infrastructure

Interplanetary Infrastructure

They say space is the future, out among the countless billions and billions of new worlds in our galaxy, but a journey needs a path or road, so what sort of roads will we build in space? Watch my exclusive video on Life As An Asteroid Miner:...

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Non-Equatorial Space Elevators

Non-Equatorial Space Elevators

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:...

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Planetary Civil War

Planetary Civil War

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. Wars in the future may involve vast interplanetary conflicts or civil wars sprawling over an entire world or more, but what...

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Tethered Ring Space Launchers

Tethered Ring Space Launchers

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. To get into space in a big way we need to be able to move vast amounts of people and cargo to space at a...

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Orbital Bombardment

Orbital Bombardment

Go to https://buyraycon.com/isaacarthur for 15% off your order! Brought to you by Raycon. They say you should always attack from the high ground, and there's no higher ground than from orbit. Today we'll examine orbital strikes, asteroid bombardment, kinetic weapons,...

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Asteroid Mining & Orbital Settlements

Asteroid Mining & Orbital Settlements

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Asteroids represent a threat to Earth, but in the future they may be a boon, serving as sources of vast wealth and resources, and as orbital settlements and keystones of interplanetary...

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