Beam Powered Spaceships

Beam Powered Spaceships

Sign up with Skillshare for 2 months of Free classes: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur11 In order to get into space, we require either huge amounts of rocket fuel or dangerously powerful energy sources, making personal spacecraft a technology limited to science fiction. But...

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Black Hole Ships

Black Hole Ships

Sign up with Skillshare for 2 months of Free classes: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur10 Black Holes are often considered the greatest dangers to spaceships in science fiction, but they may turn out to be the perfect power source for future spaceships. Check out PBS...

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Giant Robots & Power Suits

Giant Robots & Power Suits

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. Giant Robots, or Mecha, in films and comic books fascinate audiences, but are usually considered...

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Kickstarting Space Industry

Kickstarting Space Industry

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ So often expanding into space can seem like a Catch-22, where every proposed idea for development can only be practical if space is already developed. Today we'll take a look at some potential options...

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Upward Bound: Power Satellites

Upward Bound: Power Satellites

How transmitting power down from space may be our future. Visit our sponsor: https://skl.sh/isaac2 Beaming energy down from satellites in orbit to replace the production of electricity on Earth may solve many of our problems, and avoid a potential economic or...

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Portable Power

Portable Power

Many of the strongest limitations on our technology and civilization at this time are from problems moving energy around with us, in a way which is light, energy dense, and cheap. Today we'll look at some ways we might increase that vastly, and challenges to do that...

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