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Life as a Space Colonist
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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...
Fermi Paradox: The Prime Directive
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Interstellar Trade & Cyclers
Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Establishing Interstellar Trade and Commerce in the future will require an entirely new approach to moving cargo, as years if not centuries might pass for shipments to arrive by even the...
Becoming a Kardashev-1 Post-Scarcity Civilization
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. The Kardashev Scale measures how powerful a high-tech civilization is, with K-1 indicating a advanced society able to call on...
Terrifying Aliens
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Mars Base
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Low-Tech Spacefaring Civilizations
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. We typically imagine interstellar civilizations as vastly superior in technology to modern times, but could the future see...
Response and Analysis of Recent UFO Disclosures from the US Military
Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Recently the Military released Navy footage of 3 separate UFO or UAP - unidentified aerial phenomena - we will review that footage and consider both mundane explanations and the...
Mega-Cities
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Return to the Moon
Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur It's been over half a century since we first went to the Moon, and nearly as long since we last went. To Return to the Moon we need a base with a purpose, and we'll look at what purposes we...
