The Fermi Paradox: Galactic Great Filters

The Fermi Paradox: Galactic Great Filters

Amid the swirling vastness of galaxies, each a cosmic city of stars and planets, the silence raises a compelling question: could the very nature of galaxies themselves hold the key to why intelligent life remains unseen? Watch my exclusive video The Fermi Paradox: Air...

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Mass Drivers vs Rockets

Mass Drivers vs Rockets

Rockets and mass drivers each promise to launch humanity into space—but which approach will take us further, faster, smarter, and cheaper? Watch my exclusive video The Fermi Paradox: Air https://nebula.tv/videos/isaacarthur-the-fermi-paradox-air Get Nebula using my...

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The Fermi Paradox: Hermit Hypothesis

The Fermi Paradox: Hermit Hypothesis

Could the secret to the Great Silence be that individuals or groups might abandon civilization to live off-grid in deep space, far from neighbors or threats, by leveraging advanced technology for autonomy and survival. Watch my exclusive video Post-Stellar...

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Gravitic Spaceship Propulsion

Gravitic Spaceship Propulsion

To get started planning a career that works on one of the world’s most pressing problems, sign up now at https://80000hours.org/isaacarthur Gravity is a fascinating force, it’s what holds everything on our planet together, and it might one day help us travel to other...

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The Medusa Spaceship Drive

The Medusa Spaceship Drive

To get started planning a career that works on one of the world’s most pressing problems, sign up now at https://80000hours.org/isaacarthur The Medusa Starship Drive offers us the chance to sail between the stars, propelled by nuclear bombs. Visit our Website:...

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Outward Bound: Colonizing Mars

Outward Bound: Colonizing Mars

We begin the new Outward Bound series by discussing the Colonization of Mars, and survey all the colonizing and terraforming options from the early settlement days to the far future and a Green Mars. We will also look at alternatives to terraforming which might make...

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Orbital Rings

Orbital Rings

The Orbital Ring is a type of launch-assist system that goes beyond moving small ships and crews into space and allows cheap movement of bulk cargo up to space, into orbit, and beyond. The channel has reached 100,000 subscribers just before this episode's release,...

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Upward Bound: Space Towers

Upward Bound: Space Towers

Today we look at using Space Towers, Buoyant Structures, Airships, and Space Fountains as means of launching spaceships, as well as their other applications to create enormous structures that normal materials could never permit. Visit our Website:...

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