It’s Never An Earth-like Planet

It’s Never An Earth-like Planet

Astronomers constantly awe us with new exoplanets found around distant stars, but the news often proclaims these worlds Earth-like. Have we found any truly earth-like worlds yet? Colonizing Red Dwarfs: https://youtu.be/Vr5Fap_RTu0 Produced, Written & Narrated by:...

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The New Dawn: The Orion Project Spaceship Revitalized

The New Dawn: The Orion Project Spaceship Revitalized

Start Forging New Worlds: https://www.worldanvil.com/isaac-arthur Before we landed on the Moon, in the early days of the Cold War, Project Orion contemplated using Nuclear Bombs to power spaceships to new worlds and stars. More than half a century later, new...

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The Geopolitics of Space Colonization

The Geopolitics of Space Colonization

Subscribe for free to receive Morning Brew: https://bit.ly/mbisaacarthur A new Space Race has begun, and as governments and corporations begin seeking to develop space, the future political landscape will be impacted by asteroids, moons, and planets we settle and what...

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Exo-Stellar Civilizations

Exo-Stellar Civilizations

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Our future in the galaxy is typically envisioned as tied to the stars, be it on planets orbiting them or vast megastructures fueled by the alien suns, and yet the true future of humanity...

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Space Colonies: From Outposts to Cities

Space Colonies: From Outposts to Cities

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur As we venture out into space to colonize new planets, moons, and asteroids, how will these new settlements grow from simple outposts in to developed worlds with cities and civilizations all...

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Summer on Jupiter: Making a Second Sun

Summer on Jupiter: Making a Second Sun

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Jupiter is an enormous gas giant, more massive than all the other planets in the solar system combined... and yet small compared to our Sun and other Stellar Objects. Could Jupiter be turned into a...

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Genetic Divergence & Civilization

Genetic Divergence & Civilization

The first 1000 people who click the link in the description will get 2 free months of Skillshare Premium: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur16 As humanity reaches out to the stars and make new homes on strange new worlds, how will our genetics & DNA change under those...

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Life on a Low-Gravity Planet

Life on a Low-Gravity Planet

Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook plus two Audible Originals are free. Visit http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "isaac" to 500-500. Science fiction loves to take us to desolate alien worlds with low-gravity, and envision creatures...

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Postponing the Heat Death of the Universe

Postponing the Heat Death of the Universe

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ According to modern cosmology, one day all the stars will burn out and the Universe will be full of dead planets, black holes, and other stellar remnants, slowing decaying till entropy brings the Heat...

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Fermi Paradox: Could Technology Develop Without Fire?

Fermi Paradox: Could Technology Develop Without Fire?

Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook plus two Audible Originals are free. Visit http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "isaac" to 500-500. Fire is often considered the foundation of human technology, but there may be many worlds on which...

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Interstellar Civilizations & Time

Interstellar Civilizations & Time

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ As we pioneer our way out from Earth to other planets and eventual the stars, our concept of time will change in more ways than just different calendars. We'll explore how interstellar civilizations...

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The Fermi Paradox: Rare Technology

The Fermi Paradox: Rare Technology

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur The Fermi Paradox, the big question of where all the aliens are, has many proposed solutions focusing on what might lower the odds of intelligent species arising on another world, or what...

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