Before we plant flags on alien worlds, we’ll build homes that can cross the void. This episode explores how humanity’s first interstellar colony might be born inside the ship itself.
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Credits:
The First Interstellar Colony Humanity’s Leap Beyond Sol
Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur
Editor: Donagh Broderick & Ludwig Luska
Graphics: Bryan Versteeg, Jeremy Jozwik, Udo Schroeter
Select imagery/video supplied by Getty Images
Music by Epidemic Sound: http://nebula.tv/epidemic & Stellardrone
Chapters
0:00 Intro
3:17 What Counts as an Interstellar Colony?
8:04 Transport and Survival Options
13:35 The Nearby Candidates
19:00 How We Might Actually Do It — and the Challenges Ahead
22:04 Scav
23:23 Migration Methods
23:55 Sleeper Ships & Cryogenic Arks
25:39 Interstellar Relays
27:52 Cloning to Colonize & Digital Migration