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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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All Episodes

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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00:35:26

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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00:35:57

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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00:17:24

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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00:28:11

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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00:27:33

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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00:35:28

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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00:45:14

The Fermi Paradox: Large Moons (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/10/03

One of Earth’s most unique features is the enormous gemstone in our sky we call the Moon, but could the Moon be the reason why we even exist?

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00:28:08

Life As An Asteroid Miner

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/09/29

We often envision filling space with vast megastructures people might live on in the future, and mining asteroids to provide the materials for their construction, but what would life as an Asteroid Miner be like?

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00:27:40

Life As An Asteroid Miner (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/09/29

We often envision filling space with vast megastructures people might live on in the future, and mining asteroids to provide the materials for their construction, but what would life as an Asteroid Miner be like?

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00:28:58

Is Privacy Going Extinct?

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/09/26

Technology brings us many wonders, but it may also bring about the end of our privacy. What, if anything, can we do to protect it?

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00:28:27

Is Privacy Going Extinct? (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/09/26

Technology brings us many wonders, but it may also bring about the end of our privacy. What, if anything, can we do to protect it?

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00:55:28

Transcendence (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/09/19

Many seek a path to enlightenment through study and meditation, but what does science tell us about transcendence? And could entire civilizations seek to leave this reality behind?

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00:38:06

Anachronistic Technology (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/09/15

In the future we may have technologies sufficiently advanced that they are indistinguishable from magic, but could those civilizations also be indistinguishable from primitive ones?

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00:29:10

The Cities Of Mars (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/09/12

One day we will journey to the Red Planet and perhaps settle there, but what great civilizations and cities will emerge on the red sands?

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00:33:09

The Library Of Babel (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/09/05

The Library of Babel is repository of every book ever written... if you can find it.

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