Use my link http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "ISAAC" to 500-500 to get a free book including a copy of "Rendevous with Rama" and a 30-day free trial of Audible. Today we will begin our look at the spaceships we might use for colonizing interstellar space in the...
A visit to Ceres and the Asteroid Belt. Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Ceres, a dwarf planet amid the Asteroid Belt, hold the potential to be the hub of a vast mining and manufacturing network in the Belt, as well as potentially...
A look at the possibility of future civilizations rising and falling. Visit our sponsor: https://skl.sh/isaac It's long been observed that empires tend to rise and fall in a seeming cycle, never identical but sharing many similarities. Today we will examine the idea...
Today we take a trip inward, to explore Sun-Scorched Mercury. Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Mercury is the nearest planet to the Sun, a seeming airless wasteland little discussed in conversations about colonizing our solar system....
The possibility that ancient civilizations might have encountered or even been influenced by extraterrestrials has fascinated us for as long as we knew there were distant suns they might visit from. Today we will examine the evidence and consider the numerous...
To see deeper into space, we will need much bigger telescopes. Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ As astronomy seeks to find and study distant planets and peer further and more accurately into space and time, the limitations of ground...
Astronomers have been looking for signs of extraterrestrial signals for decades, and not yet found any. Today we will examine the notion of Interstellar Beacons and ask just how far away you can be heard if you want to be. Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net...
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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...
Our first installment of a new series looking at Faster Than Light, or FTL, concepts and technologies. In this episode we review the basics of Special Relativity and some misconceptions about it, then look at Quantum Entanglement. Support the Channel on Patreon:...