Becoming an Interstellar Species

Becoming an Interstellar Species

The first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur12201 As we move into space we prepare not just to settle the Moon and Mars, but stretch our reach out to other stars and settle the galaxy,...

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Interstellar Trade & Cyclers

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...

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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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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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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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Moon: Industrial Complex

Moon: Industrial Complex

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....

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Spaceship Design

Spaceship Design

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ From the most basic rockets to future ships designed for interstellar or even intergalactic flight, spaceship design is all about mission purpose, available technology, and keeping your crew safe and...

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Space Derelicts & Trash Worlds

Space Derelicts & Trash Worlds

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Science fiction delights in showing us brave adventurers boarding abandoned spaceships, exploring ancient alien worlds and space hulks, or surviving on planets turned into giant garbage dumps, but how...

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Space Whales & Bioships

Space Whales & Bioships

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ The idea of spaceships or other machines that were essentially alive and able to repair and operate themselves has long been a popular one in science fiction. We'll take a look today at how that might be...

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Beam Powered Spaceships

Beam Powered Spaceships

Sign up with Skillshare for 2 months of Free classes: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur11 In order to get into space, we require either huge amounts of rocket fuel or dangerously powerful energy sources, making personal spacecraft a technology limited to science fiction. But...

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Spaceplanes

Spaceplanes

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Spaceplanes long seemed like the logical next step for getting into orbit after the Space Shuttle, but have seemingly fallen to the wayside in recent years in favor of reusable rockets. But...

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Fleet of Stars

Fleet of Stars

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. Interstellar travel is very time consuming, moving from star to star, but perhaps we could use...

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