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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.

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00:23:41

Ultra-Relativistic Spaceships: Racing Towards the...

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/11/24

Explore the science and implications behind ultra-relativistic spaceships capable of approaching the speed of light, pushing the limits of technology and physics.

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00:35:51

The Fermi Paradox: Gravity

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/11/21

Explore how gravity might explain the Fermi Paradox and the Great Silence of the cosmos. Could gravitational forces impact the rise of life and sustainability of civilizations, influencing why we haven't found intelligent life?

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00:35:11

The Fermi Paradox: Gravity (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/11/21

Explore how gravity might explain the Fermi Paradox and the Great Silence of the cosmos. Could gravitational forces impact the rise of life and sustainability of civilizations, influencing why we haven't found intelligent life?

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00:44:18

Aliens Have Contacted Us... Now What?

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/11/15

Many believe that aliens have already contacted us, while others think it's only a matter of time. If extraterrestrial life has reached out or soon will, the question remains: how should humanity respond? Explore the potential next steps we could take in a post-contact world and the impact alien communication might have on our future.

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00:43:52

Aliens Have Contacted Us... Now What? (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/11/14

Many believe that aliens have already contacted us, while others think it's only a matter of time. If extraterrestrial life has reached out or soon will, the question remains: how should humanity respond? Explore the potential next steps we could take in a post-contact world and the impact alien communication might have on our future.

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00:46:43

Nuclear Fusion: Updates & Impacts (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/11/10

Explore the latest breakthroughs in nuclear fusion technology and their potential global impacts.

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00:48:16

Nuclear Fusion: Updates & Impacts

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/11/10

Explore the latest breakthroughs in nuclear fusion technology and their potential global impacts.

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00:36:50

Harvesting Planets: Space Mining and the Future of...

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/11/07

We often imagine civilizations so immense they can create worlds and colonize galaxies, and yet to fuel those immense engines of creation, they may need to harvest entire planets.

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00:36:39

Harvesting Planets: Space Mining and the Future of...

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/11/07

We often imagine civilizations so immense they can create worlds and colonize galaxies, and yet to fuel those immense engines of creation, they may need to harvest entire planets.

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00:30:38

Early Terraforming (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/11/03

Terraforming an entire planet is a colossal undertaking that will take lifetimes to complete. So assuming you're that committed to seeing it through, how do you even start?Watch my exclusive video Orbital Farms: https://nebula.tv/videos/isaacarthur-orbital-farms Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: https://go.nebula.tv/isaacarthur Get a Lifetime Membership to Nebula for only $300: https://go.nebula.tv/lifetime?ref=isaacarthur Use the link gift.nebula.tv/isaacarthur to

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00:31:09

Early Terraforming

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/11/03

Terraforming an entire planet is a colossal undertaking that will take lifetimes to complete. So assuming you're that committed to seeing it through, how do you even start?

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00:35:57

Ghost Armadas & Primordial Galactic Wars

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/10/31

An exploration of the unsettling possibility we live in a universe of ancient galactic wars, ruins, relics, and leftover war machines scattered across the cosmos.

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00:35:26

Ghost Armadas & Primordial Galactic Wars (Narration...

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/10/31

An exploration of the unsettling possibility we live in a universe of ancient galactic wars, ruins, relics, and leftover war machines scattered across the cosmos.

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00:17:24

Dark Stars At The Beginning Of Time (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/10/27

In the ancient past, before the first stars formed, all was darkness and the Universe was a very different place, but there may have been strange dark stars in that primordial era at the beginning of time.

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00:41:49

Posthuman Pathways (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/10/24

Soon humanity may reach out to the galaxy and spread ourselves to every world in it, but in the billions and billions of years to come on those billions and billions of worlds, humanity shall surely diverge down many roads and posthuman pathways.

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00:29:47

Ocean Habitats (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/10/17

Humanity has often lived with one foot on land and the other in the sea, but in the future, we may build our homes in the seas, here and on other worlds.

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00:27:33

Fungal Aliens (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/10/13

Fungus and Protista are far more ancient than animal life, and far more varied in form. So could alien fungi be more common in the galaxy, and might it spread through space by spores?

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00:28:11

Fungal Aliens

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/10/13

Fungus and Protista are far more ancient than animal life, and far more varied in form. So could alien fungi be more common in the galaxy, and might it spread through space by spores?

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00:35:28

Colonizing Io

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/10/10

Explore the challenges and possibilities of colonizing Io, Jupiter's volcanic moon, as we delve into the extreme conditions, scientific innovations, and potential for human settlement on one of the most hostile environments in our solar system

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00:34:53

Colonizing Io (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/10/10

Explore the challenges and possibilities of colonizing Io, Jupiter's volcanic moon, as we delve into the extreme conditions, scientific innovations, and potential for human settlement on one of the most hostile environments in our solar system

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