Journey to Alpha Centauri

Journey to Alpha Centauri

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 Alpha Centauri may be the closest star system to us, but reaching it will be the voyage of a lifetime. Visit our Website:...

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Planetary Terraforming Strategies

Planetary Terraforming Strategies

Check out SFIA's Bonus Content: https://go.nebula.tv/isaacarthur Once we journey out to the stars, we will need to forge new worlds to live on. Choosing the best terraforming techniques for each planet and star system will be vital to surviving on alien worlds. Visit...

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Planetary Civil War

Planetary Civil War

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. Wars in the future may involve vast interplanetary conflicts or civil wars sprawling over an entire world or more, but what...

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Refueling Our Sun

Refueling Our Sun

Sign up for a Curiosity Stream subscription and also get a free Nebula subscription (the streaming platform built by creators) here: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur One day our Sun will die, and consume our world in fire, but is it possible to refuel our Sun...

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Traveling Around Other Worlds

Traveling Around Other Worlds

Visit https://brilliant.org/isaacarthur/ to get started learning STEM for free, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription. In the future we will journey to new worlds, but how will we travel around on them? Visit our Website:...

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Nuclear Transmutation

Nuclear Transmutation

Start Forging New Worlds: https://www.worldanvil.com/isaac-arthur All we are made of comes from dying stars, those rare supernovae and other cosmic death throes that forge those scarce heavier elements, but could we learn true alchemy and mass manufacture those...

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Escaping the Galaxy

Escaping the Galaxy

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ One day humanity might find itself competition on the galactic stage, and need to flee aliens, artificial intelligence, or even other humans. How could the escape pursuit and survive the long exodus to...

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Folding Space

Folding Space

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur To travel to the stars by Folding Space is a method of space travel seen in many science fiction classics like Dune, but could it be possible under known science? Visit our Website:...

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The Fermi Paradox: Solar Flares

The Fermi Paradox: Solar Flares

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Our Sun constantly froths with sunspots and solar flares, many larger than our planet, and yet these are dwarfed by Coronal Mass Ejections, such as the Carrington Event of 1859, which would...

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Colonizing Red Dwarfs

Colonizing Red Dwarfs

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur For every yellow star like our own there are ten times as many smaller stars. Red Dwarfs are the most common type of star, outnumbering all the others combined, and as we head out into...

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Interstellar Navigation

Interstellar Navigation

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Navigating the vast ocean of the galaxy to reach distant stars will be no easy matter, but future spaceships may find many new difficulties finding their way throughout space, and also...

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Fermi Paradox: The Prime Directive

Fermi Paradox: The Prime Directive

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ One solution to the Fermi Paradox, the big question of where all the aliens are, is that extraterrestrials might hide from us to avoid altering our society, a concept we see in Star Trek called the Prime...

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