Farming On Mars

Farming On Mars

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. One day humanity might settle the Red Planet, but how will we grow food on world more barren than any desert or...

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Living Planets: The Gaia Hypothesis

Living Planets: The Gaia Hypothesis

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. Many have believed Earth might have a spirit, but Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis contemplates this as a scientific...

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Your Own Personal Spaceship

Your Own Personal Spaceship

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. Many of us dream of one day owning our on spacecraft, of traveling to space and other worlds when we choose to....

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Alien Environments

Alien Environments

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. Among the uncounted stars in this Universe there may be unnumbered strange new worlds, many of which may have environments...

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Colonizing Planetary Rings

Colonizing Planetary Rings

Sign up for a Curiosity Stream subscription and also get a free Nebula subscription (the streaming platform built by creators) here: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Saturn's Moon Titan captures our attention as a future colony, but might the majestic rings of...

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The Fermi Paradox: Technological Timebombs

The Fermi Paradox: Technological Timebombs

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. We often wonder where all the aliens are out in the galaxy, but could it be that the technologies needed to get...

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Alien Refugees

Alien Refugees

Sign up for a Curiosity Stream subscription and also get a free Nebula subscription (the streaming platform built by creators) here: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Aliens may one day visit Earth not to invade us but to seek refuge from an invasion or other...

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The Megastructure Compendium

The Megastructure Compendium

Sign up for a Curiosity Stream subscription and also get a free Nebula subscription (the streaming platform built by creators) here: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur In the future humanity may build enormous structures, feats of mega-engineering that may rival...

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Surveying for Habitable Interstellar Star Systems

Surveying for Habitable Interstellar Star Systems

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. One day humanity might journey to new worlds and settle them, or discover life already on them, but first we'll...

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Lost Space Colonies

Lost Space Colonies

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. A Galaxy of trillion of worlds, all separated by vast gulfs of time and space, it is very easy for pioneers and colonists to...

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Making a Magnetosphere for Mars

Making a Magnetosphere for Mars

Sign up for a Curiosity Stream subscription and also get a free Nebula subscription (the streaming platform built by creators) here: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur We believe Mars may once have had oceans and sky, but lost them from a lack of a magnetosphere....

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Colonizing Space: Staking & Jumping Claims

Colonizing Space: Staking & Jumping Claims

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur In the future we may settle the moon, asteroid, planets, and even other stars - but how do pioneers stake claims in space and what keeps other from jumping those claims and stealing or...

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