Mars Base

Mars Base

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Low-Tech Spacefaring Civilizations

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...

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Return to the Moon

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...

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Asteroid Defense

Asteroid Defense

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Asteroids represent a serious hazard to Earth, past, present, and future, but will be even more of a concern to humanity as we venture out to space beyond beyond our atmosphere's protection....

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Colonizing Cislunar Space and the Lagrange Points

Colonizing Cislunar Space and the Lagrange Points

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ To travel to other planets, we will first have to build up are infrastructure closer to home, in orbit of Earth. The best place to get all the mass for those space stations and rocket fuel depots is from...

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Nomadic Space-Based Civilizations

Nomadic Space-Based Civilizations

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Spaceships and fleets of the future may host their own unique civilizations of nomads, traveling the space lanes or venturing deep into interstellar space to colonize the galaxy or flee...

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Government Types of the Future

Government Types of the Future

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Over the centuries humanity has tried many versions of government and many variations on each type, today we will examine how technology and space colonization might impact what types of governments we...

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Talkative Aliens

Talkative Aliens

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Coming and Going: Navigating Space Between Megastructures

Coming and Going: Navigating Space Between Megastructures

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Our future in space may be one of millions or even trillions of vast space station, space habitats, and megastructures. How would a space-faring civilization going about traveling around such an immense...

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Let’s Dismantle the Solar System!

Let’s Dismantle the Solar System!

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Our solar system contains many planets, moons, and asteroid that we may one day call home, but the future might instead be artificial space habitats, stations, and megastructures of vast size and...

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Becoming an Interplanetary Species: First Steps

Becoming an Interplanetary Species: First Steps

Get 26% of Curiosity Stream and free access to Nebula by using coupon code "isaac": https://curiositystream.com/isaac Our future lies out among the planets and stars, but to climb out in to space we must take many steps to get off, and today we'll look at those first...

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Continent-Sized Rotating Space Habitats

Continent-Sized Rotating Space Habitats

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Mankind's future is among the stars, but not necessarily on other planets. Instead we might forge giant space stations that are entire artificial worlds, and today we'll explore some of...

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