A look at Neptune, a potential gateway to the stars... Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ The Icy Giants, Neptune and Uranus, are often overlooked for as candidates for colonizing our solar system. Even when noted, the focus tends to be...
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 visit to Ceres and the Asteroid Belt. Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Ceres, a dwarf planet amid the Asteroid Belt, hold the potential to be the hub of a vast mining and manufacturing network in the Belt, as well as potentially...
Today we take a trip inward, to explore Sun-Scorched Mercury. Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Mercury is the nearest planet to the Sun, a seeming airless wasteland little discussed in conversations about colonizing our solar system....
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...
A journey out to the stars to colonize Alpha Centauri Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ We've looked at colonizing our own solar system, from Mars to Venus, and all the way inward to the Sun itself and out to the dark edges of the Oort...
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...
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Jupiter and its moon are a rarely considered prospect for colonization, but potentially the ripest opportunity for it in the solar system. In this episode of the Outward Bound series we will examine the options for colonizing each of Jupiter's primary moons and even...
We continue our look at colonizing the solar system by visiting Venus, and exploring both the options for vast floating habitats in the upper atmosphere as well as full terraforming of the planet. To pickup a copy of Ringworlds, our Book of the Month, use my link...
We begin the new Outward Bound series by discussing the Colonization of Mars, and survey all the colonizing and terraforming options from the early settlement days to the far future and a Green Mars. We will also look at alternatives to terraforming which might make...
A look at advanced means of altering or controlling the planet's climate and geography, drawing on concepts proposed for terraforming other planets. We look at existing and proposed ideas of controlling the weather, creating artificial islands or mountain ranges,...