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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
Galactic Domination Empire Eternal
As we move out into space to colonize new worlds and explore the galaxy, we'll need to contemplate interstellar empires, be they alien realms or our own future…
- Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Death Rays
Science Fiction loves to show us Death Rays, Rayguns, Heat Beams, and Disintegration Cannons, but could these weapons one day become a reality? Get a free…
- Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Future Manhattan Projects
The Manhattan Project and Apollo Program have become symbolic of massive efforts to achieve great goals, be they awe-inspiring or terrifying. What such efforts…
- Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Could Two Alien Races Evolve on the Same World?
Imagine two wildly different species evolving intelligence and technology on the same world. Would they exist in peace or seek to wipe each other out? Watch…
- Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
SFIA Monthly Livestream 31 - May 30, 2021
Our monthly livestream Q&A session for May 2021 Visit our Website: www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Social Media…
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The Fermi Paradox: Solar Flares
Our Sun constantly froths with sunspots and solar flares, many larger than our planet, and yet these are dwarfed by Coronal Mass Ejections, such as the…
- Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Arcology Design
Arcologies are type of future giant buildings, towns, or off-world outposts where architecture meets ecology and contains entirely self-sufficient communities…
- Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Laser Pistols & Lightsabers
Science fiction amazes us with futuristic technology and weapons, but many like the laser pistol, raygun, or lightsaber seem high-tech versions of old tech…
- Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Alien Languages
One day humanity might make contact with an alien race, but will we be able to understand their languages? Get a free month of Curiosity Stream…
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Biotech: Human Modification and Augmentation
In the future Biotechnology may allows us repair, modify, or augment humans, but how will this be done? What will these technologies look like and should we…
- Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
The Fermi Paradox: Multiverse
The Fermi Paradox contemplates the weirdness of our galaxy seemingly being devoid of intelligent alien life, but Many Worlds Theory, Multiverses, Parallel…
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SFIA Monthly Livestream 30 - April 25, 2021
Our monthly livestream Q&A session for April 2021 Visit our Website: www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Social Media…
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Post-Human Species
As Humanity moves into the future, traveling to other worlds and exploring genetics, AI, transhumanism, and cybernetics, we may begin to diverge into a…
- Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Creating a Sense of Purpose in a Post-Scarcity Society
In the future technology may help us enjoy prosperity beyond our dreams, with robots manufacturing our goods and attending all our needs but one... our need…
- Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
The Effects of Longer Lifespans
In the future, medical science may increase lifespan and longevity to the point of near-immortality, but what would be the effects of such technology on our…
- Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
The Fermi Paradox :Drakes Equation
Drake's Equation lies at the core of the Fermi Paradox and SETI, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, but is it a good guide in our search for…
- Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
AI Run Government
In the future we will rely ever more on Artificial Intelligence to run our civilization, but what role will AI and computers playing in governing? Start…
- Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
SFIA Monthly Livestream 29 - March 28, 2021
Our monthly livestream Q&A session for March 2021 Visit our Website: www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Social Media…
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What Is Sentience?
In the future we may encounter or create minds equal to our own, smarter, or somewhere in the gap between human and animal. And yet we still barely understand…
- Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Exo-Stellar Civilizations
Our future in the galaxy is typically envisioned as tied to the stars, be it on planets orbiting them or vast megastructures fueled by the alien suns, and yet…
- Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Killing Stars
When the largest of stars dies, the supernova they produce can outshine a whole galaxy, and potentially sterilize vast swathes of space. Future civilizations…
- Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
The Next Century Of War
Future battlefields will employ ever-more technology, whether that battlefield is on earth, in the sea, in space, or in cyberspace. Today we will examine the…
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SFIA Monthly Livestream 28 - February 28, 2021
Our monthly livestream Q&A session for February 2021 Visit our Website: www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Social Media…
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Colonizing Giant Stars
Giant Stars are often considered too hot and short lived to colonize, but it may be that they shall be the most powerful and pivotal systems in a future…
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Orbital Bombardment
They say you should always attack from the high ground, and there's no higher ground than from orbit. Today we'll examine orbital strikes, asteroid…
- Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Multi-Species Civilizations & Co-Alien Habitats
Science Fiction often shows us aliens and human living among one another in space, but how realistic are such portrayals and what sort of accommodation would…
- Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Dark Matter Technologies
Dark Matter is both the most abundant and most mysterious substance in the Universe, what properties does it have and what technologies might we create to use…
- Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Zero-Gravity Civilizations
Colonizing space and settling the minor planets and asteroids may mean adjusting to much lower levels of gravity, or micro-gravity, what sort of biological and…
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SFIA Monthly Livestream 27 - January 31 2021
Our monthly livestream Q&A session for January 2021 Visit our Website: www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Social Media…
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Machine Overlords & Post-Discontent Societies
Machines may help bring about a Post-Scarcity Utopia, assuming they don't take over instead, and we dream of a future that is a Post-Scarcity Utopia, but its…
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Cryonics: Frozen Civilizations
Cryonic freezing offers a pathway to reap future medical technologies today by preserving someone for future restoration, but what would the impact of this…
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Civilizations At The Beginning Of Time
Our Universe is billions of years older than our planet, and we often contemplate alien civilizations that might have arisen early than us in our galaxy, but…
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Becoming an Interstellar Species
As we move into space we prepare not just to settle the Moon and Mars, but stretch our reach out to other stars and settle the galaxy, becoming an interstellar…
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SFIA Monthly Livestream 26 - December 27, 2020
Our monthly livestream Q&A session for December 2020 Visit our Website: www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Social Media…
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Interstellar Navigation
Navigating the vast ocean of the galaxy to reach distant stars will be no easy matter, but future spaceships may find many new difficulties finding their way…
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Terraforming: Forging New Worlds
Our galaxy likely contains trillions of worlds, and perhaps none we could live on without great effort to make them like Earth. To colonize these worlds, to…
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SFIA Monthly Livestream 25 - November 29, 2020
Our monthly livestream Q&A session for November 2020 Visit our Website: www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Social Media…
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Life As A Space Colonist
In order to colonize space, we will need colonists willing to travel to desolate planets, moons, and asteroids to settle those worlds. What would life be like…
- Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Asteroid Mining and Orbital Settlements
Asteroids represent a threat to Earth, but in the future they may be a boon, serving as sources of vast wealth and resources, and as orbital settlements and…
- Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Interstellar Trade & Cyclers
Establishing Interstellar Trade and Commerce in the future will require an entirely new approach to moving cargo, as years if not centuries might pass for…
- Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Terrifying Aliens
Aliens are portrayed in Science Fiction both as our potential saviors and best friends, as well as the stuff of nightmares. Would an extraterrestrial…
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SFIA Monthly Livestream 24 - October 25, 2020
Our monthly livestream Q&A session for Octoberr 2020 Visit our Website: www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Social Media…
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Mars Base
To become an Interplanetary Species we need to colonize another planet, and Mars will be our first target. To establish a base there, and a future settlement…
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Low-Tech Spacefaring Civilizations
We typically imagine interstellar civilizations as vastly superior in technology to modern times, but could the future see planets colonized by spaceships…
- Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Response And Analysis Of Recent UFO Disclosures From The US Military
Recently the Military released Navy footage of 3 separate UFO or UAP - unidentified aerial phenomena - we will review that footage and consider both mundane…
- Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Return To The Moon
It's been over half a century since we first went to the Moon, and nearly as long since we last went. To Return to the Moon we need a base with a purpose, and…
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SFIA Monthly Livestream 23 - September 27, 2020
Our monthly livestream Q&A session for September 2020 Visit our Website: www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Social Media…
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The Fermi Paradox: The Phosphorus Problem
The genesis and origin of life may require a very rare and delicate mixture of certain chemicals. One of those is phosphorus, and trying to figure out how we…
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The Future Of Fission
Nuclear Fission was once hailed as the solution to our power & energy needs, but has grown unpopular of fears of radiation, meltdowns, and radioactive waste…
- Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Asteroid Defense
Asteroids represent a serious hazard to Earth, past, present, and future, but will be even more of a concern to humanity as we venture out to space beyond…
- Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Colonizing Cislunar Space And The Lagrange Points
To travel to other planets, we will first have to build up are infrastructure closer to home, in orbit of Earth. The best place to get all the mass for those…
- Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Nomadic Space-Based Civilizations
Spaceships and fleets of the future may host their own unique civilizations of nomads, traveling the space lanes or venturing deep into interstellar space to…
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SFIA Monthly Livestream 22 - August 30, 2020
Our monthly livestream Q&A session For August 2020 Watch Paleontology and Jerry Guern's other stories: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnySNJ_gDOdRAdUXbIpxYQw…
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Government Types of the Future
Over the centuries humanity has tried many versions of government and many variations on each type, today we will examine how technology and space colonization…
- Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Talkative Aliens
The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, SETI, relies on looking for signals from distant alien worlds where even very powerful signals can weaken to…
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Coming and Going: Navigating Space Between Megastructures
Our future in space may be one of millions or even trillions of vast space station, space habitats, and megastructures. How would a space-faring civilization…
- Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
The Impact Of Superconductors
Superconductors offer us a path to high-efficiency, low-loss power and energy, but the impact they'll have on our civilization through other technologies may…
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Techno-Barbarians
Science fiction often shows us post-apocalyptic future civilizations with techno-barbarians running around in fur & hides but carrying laser weapons or other…
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SFIA Monthly Livestream 21 - July 26, 2020
Our monthly livestream Q&A session For July 2020 Visit our Website: www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Social Media…
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Fermi Paradox Disappearing Stars & Cosmic Voids
If the Universe is inhabited by older alien civilizations, those who have ventured out to the stars and colonized galaxies, we would expect to see a footprint…