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Rivers in Space & Water From Stars
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Starboosting
A starbooster is a megastructure designed for heating a cooler star to make it more sun-like and with a wider habitable zone for planets. Orion's Arm Starbooster entry: https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/47897efc7129a To find out more about them and other...
Refueling Our Sun
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The Future of Solar Power
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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...
Colonizing Red Dwarfs
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Summer on Jupiter: Making a Second Sun
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Conscious Stellar Objects
Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Ancient cultures long thought the Sun had a mind of it's own, but could life form in stars by nature or exist by artificial origins, and what would star with a mind of its own be like? Visit...
Colonizing Pluto
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Making Suns
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5 Ways The World Could End – And How We Can Survive It, with Joe Scott
Watch Part 1: https://youtu.be/X2YtamBhSHg Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Today we team up with Joe Scott to discuss 5 catastrophes that might threaten humanity in the future, and what we can do to prevent or mitigate them. Here in...
