Deep Space Habitats – Designing Self Sustaining Biomes for Interstellar Journeys

Feb 5, 2026

How and why would humans live far from stars? Exploring deep-space habitats, artificial suns, and megastructures.
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Credits: Deep Space Habitats – Designing Self-Sustaining Biomes for Interstellar Journeys
Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur
Graphics from Bryan Versteeg, Fishy Tree, Jeremy Jozwik, Katie Byrne, Ken York, Melänovis, Udo Schroeter
Music Courtesy of Chris Zabriskie & Stellardrone
Select imagery/video supplied by Getty Images

Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:09 Between the Stars and the Ice
1:42 From City-States to Deep Stations
4:19 Fission: The Fire That Never Fails
9:06 Fusion: Bottled Stars for Cold Worlds
11:04 The Beamed-Power Web
14:10 Clarketech Power Supplies
15:33 Outposts of Life
21:40 Flexispot
22:57 Worlds of Ice and Thought
24:43 Crawlonizing