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Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur explores humanity’s long-term future through space exploration, advanced technology, and big-picture science. Hosted by National Space Society President Isaac Arthur, each episode uses real science and careful speculation to examine space colonization, megastructures, artificial intelligence, post-scarcity economies, and the physics shaping civilization beyond Earth.
Episodes
- Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Multiverse Warfare and Quantum Mania
If travel to other realities and multiverses is possible, then so is conflict between them, but how would a multiversal war be fought? Go to…
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Hycean Planets & Ice Worlds
Our telescopes find new exoplanets and reveal deeper details about them everyday, unveiling massive hydrogen-rich atmosphere planets and icy worlds which may…
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Super Soldiers
We often see stories of invincible warriors with superhuman abilities combating monstrous threats, but are the days of super soldiers nearly upon us, and could…
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Planetary Terraforming Strategies
Once we journey out to the stars, we will need to forge new worlds to live on. Choosing the best terraforming techniques for each planet and star system will…
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SFIA Monthly Livestream Q&A: Sunday, January 29, 2023
A recording of SFIA's monthly livestream Q&A session [#51] from January 29, 2023. Join Nebula: https://go.nebula.tv/isaacarthur Support the stream…
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Using Asteroids As Spaceships
Asteroids may serve as future bases and colonies for humanity as we travel into space, but could they also be converted into spaceships to take us strange new…
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The Omega Point
The Omega Point Cosmological Theory argues that it may be possible to continue existing until the End of Time itself. Sign up for a Curiosity Stream…
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The Dark Forest, Aliens, and a Hostile Galaxy
When we look up into the night skies, all we see is absence and silence, but could our galaxy be a dark forest full of hidden predators waiting to consume us?…
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What If We Never Become Post-Scarcity?
A day may come when our technology permits vast prosperity for everyone, with robots and other automation producing plenty, but if that day never comes, what…
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Interstellar Colonization Strategies
As we seek to travel vast distances to claim the galaxy, we will need to develop strategies and methods for voyaging through deep space and reaching strange…
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SFIA Monthly Livestream: December 31, 2022
Our monthly livestream Q&A session. Join us on New Year's Eve in the Afternoon, at 4pm EST, Saturday, December 31, and get your questions about the channel and…
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Transhumanism & Humanity’s Future
In the future, humanity may embrace genetic engineering and cybernetic augmentation of mind and body, but what does this Transhuman future look like? And…
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Farming On Mars
One day humanity might settle the Red Planet, but how will we grow food on world more barren than any desert or tundra on Earth? Visit…
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Planetary Civil War
Wars in the future may involve vast interplanetary conflicts or civil wars sprawling over an entire world or more, but what will those wars look like? Start…
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Humanity: Firstborn Space Civilization
As we continue to scan the heavens for signs of intelligent life, we must contemplate what it might mean if we are the first civilization to ever arise. Go to…
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The Plan For After SETI Is Successful
One day we may get a signal from beyond Earth, positive proof of the Existence of Extraterrestrial Life... but what comes next? Sign up for a Curiosity Stream…
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SFIA Monthly Livestream 49 - November 27, 2022
Our monthly livestream Q&A session for Sunday, November 27, 2022, where we take questions live from the audience. Support the stream…
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Reasons To Be Optimistic About The Future
As we head through hard times things can seem rather bleak, but there's lots of amazing and beneficial technologies on the horizon. Compare news coverage. Spot…
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Living Planets: The Gaia Hypothesis
Many have believed Earth might have a spirit, but Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis contemplates this as a scientific possibility. Could our world be alive itself?…
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Stranded On An Alien World
As we reach out to explore the stars, could we find our explorers getting lost on new worlds, inhabited or otherwise. What should we do if stranded on an Alien…
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Refueling Our Sun: Holding Back Eternity
One day our Sun will die, and consume our world in fire, but is it possible to refuel our Sun so that it might live trillions and trillions of year to come?…
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SFIA Monthly Livestream 48 - October 30, 2022
Our monthly livestream Q&A session for Sunday, October 30, 2022, where we take questions live from the audience. Support the stream…
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Damaged Spacecraft & Shipwrecked Saucers
Spaceships getting damaged or crashing is common story in science fiction but it's also terrifyingly common with real spaceships. So what do we if our…
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Your Own Personal Spaceship
Many of us dream of one day owning our on spacecraft, of traveling to space and other worlds when we choose to. What technologies must the future deliver to…
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Alien Environments
Among the uncounted stars in this Universe there may be unnumbered strange new worlds, many of which may have environments unlike anything we've ever imagined…
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What Happens If We Can't Leave Earth?
One day our destiny may take us to the stars, but what happens if we find we are unable, or unwilling, to journey to new worlds, and remain only on Earth?…
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Colonizing Planetary Rings
Saturn's Moon Titan captures our attention as a future colony, but might the majestic rings of Saturn and other planetary rings be better places to transplant…
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Grabby Aliens & The Fermi Paradox
The new Grabby Aliens model proposes that the Universe may already contain several thousand immense alien empires... and that we may soon be one of them. Start…
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SFIA Monthly Livestream 47 - September 25, 2022
Our monthly livestream Q&A session for Sunday, September 25, 2022, where we take questions live from the audience. Support the stream…
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Post Science Civilizations
For centuries now science has unlocked ever more mysteries, but could we one day run out of discoveries or abandon further research? Visit…
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Barriers to Becoming a Kardashev Civilization
Kardashev Civilizations are beyond immense, with even the first tier of them making any modern nation look miniscule, and there are many barriers to becoming…
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Alien Impostors & Doppelgangers
The idea that some mimic might steal your identity and replace you, or takeover your mind, is terrifying. But could we encounter aliens that were able to do…
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Tethered Ring Space Launchers
To get into space in a big way we need to be able to move vast amounts of people and cargo to space at a fraction of modern costs; tethered rings offer a…
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Staying Sane in Space
Space is deadly and our spaceships and stations are cramped and thin-protected environments, placing enormous stress on those who journey there. So how to we…
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SFIA Monthly Livestream 46 - August 28, 2022
Our monthly livestream Q&A session. Join us on 4pm EST, Sunday, August 28, 2022, and get your questions about the channel and episodes on chat to be answered!…
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The First Space Settlement
One day humanity will settle space, but what will that first settlement be like and where will it be? In Orbit? The Moon? Mars? Or somewhere else entirely?…
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Time Wars & Alternate Timelines
Temporal Paradox and Time Travel delight us in science fiction, but what would a war across time really look like? Click the link in the description box or go…
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Dumbest Alien Invasions
An Alien Invasion of Earth is a terrifying scenario, yet science fiction rarely has good reason for those invasions. Today we'll discuss the worst reasons…
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The Fermi Paradox: Technological Timebombs
We often wonder where all the aliens are out in the galaxy, but could it be that the technologies needed to get to space and travel the stars lead to…
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Alien Refugees
Aliens may one day visit Earth not to invade us but to seek refuge from an invasion or other calamity, how can we respond and should we? Sign up for a…
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SFIA Monthly Livestream 45 - July 31, 2022
Our monthly livestream Q&A session for July 31, 2022 Visit our Website: www.isaacarthur.net SFIA Discord Server: discord.gg/53GAShE Support us on Patreon…
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Black Holes & Dark Matter
Black Holes and Dark Matter are two of those mysterious things in the Universe, but could black holes be the key to unlocking the secrets of Dark Matter? Visit…
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The Fermi Paradox: Absent Megastructures
The great mystery of where all the aliens are in our vast Universe contemplates ancient interstellar civilizations building enormous megastructures that rival…
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Primitive Aliens
We often imagine Earth being visited by more advanced civilizations, but in the future humanity may encounter more primitive ones on alien worlds. What…
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Deep Space Habitats
Every known planet, moon, and asteroid in our solar system occupies a volume of space both enormous and yet tiny compared to the vast empty gulf between stars…
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Life As A Planetary Explorer
We conclude our journey begun in Interstellar Probes by exploring an alien world and asking what life will be like as a Planetary Explorer. Go to…
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SFIA Monthly Livestream 44 - June 25, 2022
Our monthly livestream Q&A session. Join us on 4pm EST, Sunday, June 25, 2022, and get your questions about the channel and episodes on chat to be answered!…
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Crawlonizing The Galaxy: Settling Space At Ultra-Low Speeds
Science Fiction has shown us humanity exploring the stars at hundreds of times faster than light speed, but what if the fastest ships we can make never even…
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Interstellar Probes
We continue our discussion of surveying for habitable exoplanets by touring our possible option for interstellar probes, dumb and smart, flyby and protracted…
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The Silurian Hypothesis: What Traces Of Humanity Will Be Left 50 Million Years From Now?
The Silurian Hypothesis contemplates how long the ruins of a civilization would be detectable, on Earth or even other worlds, and if we could ever know if a…
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The Megastructure Compendium
In the future humanity may build enormous structures, feats of mega-engineering that may rival planets or even be of greater scope. This episode catalogs…
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What Are Ancestor Simulations... And Are We Living In One
Our capability to render virtual realities better and better makes it seem likely one day we could simulate our world flawlessly, and perhaps our minds too. If…
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Dark Sky Stations, Stratospheric Satellites, and Ultra Low Orbit Infrastructure
Many don't realize that most of our satellites and space stations aren't intended to be far from Earth, but rather, as close as we can get them and still…
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Surveying For Habitable Interstellar Star Systems
One day humanity might journey to new worlds and settle them, or discover life already on them, but first we'll have to find those exoplanets under aliens…
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Lost Space Colonies
A Galaxy of trillion of worlds, all separated by vast gulfs of time and space, it is very easy for pioneers and colonists to disappear. But what happens to…
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Making a Magnetosphere for Mars
We believe Mars may once have had oceans and sky, but lost them from a lack of a magnetosphere. How does this happen, and how can we create a magnetosphere for…
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Godlike Aliens
Science Fiction often shows us alien civilizations so advanced they are godlike, but how realistic are they, and what would such entities be like? Visit…
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Is A Technological Singularity Inevitable?
As computers have improved at an accelerating rate for generations now, fears of some emergent super intelligent computer mind have grown, but is such a…
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SFIA Monthly Livestream 42 - April 24, 2022
Our monthly livestream Q&A session. Join us on 4pm EST, Sunday, April 24, 2022, and get your questions about the channel and episodes on chat to be answered!…
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Traveling Around Other Worlds
In the future we will journey to new worlds, but how will we travel around on them? Visit https://brilliant.org/isaacarthur/ to get started learning STEM for…