The Fermi Paradox: Late Filters

The Fermi Paradox: Late Filters

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. The Fermi Paradox asks why we don't see any alien civilizations with our SETI efforts. The Late...

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The Fermi Paradox: Rare Technology

The Fermi Paradox: Rare Technology

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur The Fermi Paradox, the big question of where all the aliens are, has many proposed solutions focusing on what might lower the odds of intelligent species arising on another world, or what...

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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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Void Ecology

Void Ecology

Sign up with Skillshare for 2 months of Free classes: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur12 The possibility of extraterrestrial life on other worlds has long fascinated us, as has the idea of alien life living in space itself, but while the former is often considered quite...

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Hitchhiking the Galaxy

Hitchhiking the Galaxy

Sign up with Skillshare for 2 months of Free classes: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur8 The Galaxy is an enormous place, and moving from your planet to worlds in a different solar system over vast interstellar distances will be no easy voyage. Today we'll consider how...

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Galactic Gardeners

Galactic Gardeners

Sign up with Skillshare for 2 months of Free classes: https://skl.sh/isaac7 The galaxy is an immense place, with billions of solar systems to colonize, and interstellar voyages to even nearby stars can take centuries. In order to explore and settle those new worlds,...

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Space Prison Colonies

Space Prison Colonies

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Many a land was settled by exiles and prisoners, and many a science fiction story contemplates that we may use such methods when colonize new worlds. But are such methods viable? and what...

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Subterranean Civilizations

Subterranean Civilizations

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Historically humanity has often taken shelter in caves or underground, and it is often thought we might do so again, on other worlds, in event of disasters, or simply because we run out of room on the...

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The Fermi Paradox &  Virtual Worlds: Colonizing Inner Space

The Fermi Paradox & Virtual Worlds: Colonizing Inner Space

Sign up with Skillshare for 2 months of Free classes: https://skl.sh/isaac6 Many believe humanity's future lies among the stars, colonizing distant planets around alien suns, or perhaps building artificial worlds, space habitats, and megastructures. But what if...

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Seeding the Stars

Seeding the Stars

Sign up with Skillshare for 2 months of Free classes: https://skl.sh/isaac5 The galaxy is a vast place with billions of potential new worlds for humanity to colonize, but interstellar space is so enormous that reaching even the nearest stars and planets by spaceship...

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