Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ O'Neill Cylinders space stations are examples of large rotating habitats able to be constructed in space in which people and even a complex ecology might be transplanted. But what would it be like living...
Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ The Moon is gateway to space, and in the future it might serve as an industrial and mining complex fueling vast production of spaceships, rocket fuel, satellites, space stations, and colonial habitats....
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. Space is an awesome place filled with virtually infinite wonders to explore, and human colonization...
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....
Could we grow our foods in the heavens rather than on the earth? Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ In order to do serious exploration and colonization of space, we will need a source of food beyond Earth. But can we go beyond simply...
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...
Use my link http://www.audible.com/isaac to get a free copy of "Leviathan Wakes" Space is an incredibly harsh and immense environment absent of everything we need to live, and abundant only in harsh radiation and dangerous micro-meteors. Today we will examine how...
To explore space and expand beyond Earth we will need a robust orbital infrastructure to serve as our beachhead. Today we will explore the necessary components for that, how we will go about creating them, and threats to them like Kessler Syndrome, a potential cascade...
We return to the Upward Bound Series to look at spaceports, giant structures dwarfing the modern International Space Station, with a focus on the Gateway Spaceport design. If you want to help out the Gateway Foundation or get notifications:...
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...
A look at creating artificial planets, ones vastly bigger than Earth. Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ We return to the Megastructures series to discuss various ways of creating artificial planets, the special issues with making an...
Today we discuss the concept of trade throughout a colonized solar system, and ask how viable it is and what challenged it faces. Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://www.Brilliant.org/IsaacArthur While Interplanetary trade faces many challenges, Interstellar Trade...