The O’Neill Cylinder Space Habitat: Islands In The Sky

The O’Neill Cylinder Space Habitat: Islands In The Sky

What if humanity’s future isn’t on Earth—or even other planets—but in colossal artificial worlds built in space? In this episode, we explore the O’Neill Cylinder, a visionary space habitat that could house millions, serve as interstellar arks, and transform the cosmos...

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Upward Bound: The Environments of Space Habitats

Upward Bound: The Environments of Space Habitats

A look at environments and ecology on truly massive space stations. Check out Cheddar's video on Extinction: https://chdr.tv/youtu0277c As we expand in space and build ever large space stations, true space habitats, we will need to incorporate ecosystems into them....

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O’Neill Cylinders

O’Neill Cylinders

A look at O'Neill Cylinders, immense space habitats. Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Far larger than any conventional Space Station, O'Neill Cylinders could potentially serve as as entire city-states or nature preserves. Today we will...

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Outward Bound: Colonizing the Sun

Outward Bound: Colonizing the Sun

We contemplate colonizing planets, but what about the stars themselves? Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Containing virtually all the mass and resources of the solar system, the Sun, the Sun is the ultimate asset for a growing...

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Life in a Space Colony, ep2: Colony Spaceships

Life in a Space Colony, ep2: Colony Spaceships

This episode is the second of a three-part series focusing more on the specifics of colonization including the human aspect of it. Having laid the groundwork last time, we now ask ourselves what the ships carrying people to new worlds would be like, and what life...

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Life in a Space Colony, ep1: Extraterrestrial Colonies

Life in a Space Colony, ep1: Extraterrestrial Colonies

This episode begins a three-part series focusing more on the specifics of colonization including the human aspect of it. We lay the groundwork by looking at colonies just in our solar system before moving off in episodes two and three to look at life on colony ships...

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Megastructures E04: Rotating Habitats

Megastructures E04: Rotating Habitats

In this fourth installment of the series we take a lengthy look at Rotating Habitats, large space stations that simulate gravity via spin and can replicate Earth-like environments. Support the Channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Listen or Download...

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