Our telescopes find new exoplanets and reveal deeper details about them everyday, unveiling massive hydrogen-rich atmosphere planets and icy worlds which may be able to harbor life even far from any star.

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Hycean Planets & Ice Worlds
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 377, January 12, 2023
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
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Donagh Broderick
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Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator
Markus Junnikkala, "We Roam the Stars", "A Memory of Earth"
Stellardrone, "Red Giant", "Ultra Deep Field"
Reign Pagaran, "Titan's Waves"

Hycean Planets & Ice Worlds

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 they be the biggest threat of all?

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Super Soldiers
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 381a, February 12, 2023
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
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David McFarlane
Lukas Konecny

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Super Soldiers

If travel to other realities and multiverses is possible, then so is conflict between them, but how would a multiversal war be fought?

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Multiverse Warfare and Quantum Mania
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 382, February 16, 2023
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
David McFarlane
Briana Brownell
Lukas Konecny

Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator
Markus Junnikkala, "We Roam the Stars", "A Memory of Earth"
Stellardrone, "Red Giant", "Ultra Deep Field"
Sergey Cheremisinov, "Labyrinth", "Forgotten Stars"
Taras Harkavyi, "Alpha and..."
Reign Pagaran, "Distant Voyager"

Multiverse Warfare & Quantum Mania

If the end of the world is nigh, it may be too late to avert a catastrophe. So what can we do to mitigate the damage or recover after a cataclysm comes?

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Surviving An Apocalypse 
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 385a, March 12, 2023
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
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David McFarlane
Lukas Konecny

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Markus Junnikkala, "Hail The Victorious Dead", "A Memory of Earth"
Stellardrone, "Red Giant", "Ultra Deep Field"
Reign Pagaran, "Distant Voyager"
Sergey Cheremisinov, "Labyrinth", "Forgotten Stars"
Tara Harkavyi, "Alpha and..."

Surviving An Apocalypse

Far beyond our Moon and Mars and the other planets is our greater galaxy and its billions and billions of stars. And yet it is but a flyspeck compared to the enormity of the Universe beyond. Could we every voyage to these distant galaxies?

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Intergalactic Voyages
Episode 385, March 9, 2023
Produced, Written & Narrated by:
Isaac Arthur

Editors:
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David McFarlane
Briana Brownell

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Markus  Junnikkala, "Always Tell Me The Odds"
Sergey Cheremisinov, "Sirius", "The Signals"
Stellardrone, "Red Giant", "Between the Rings",
Miguel Johsnon, "Far From Home", "So Many Stars"
Aerium, "Fifth Star of Aldebaran"

Intergalactic Voyages

Powerful new technologies are helping us learn more about our past, uncovering lost cities and recreating documents that time destroyed.

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The Future of Archeology
Episode 386, March 16, 2023
Produced, Written & Narrated by:
Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Alberto Imbrosciano
Briana Brownell
Donagh Broderick
Evan Schultheis
David McFarlane

Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator

The Future of Archeology

In order to reach the stars we will need vastly more powerful engines for our spacecraft than modern rockets offer. Fortunately, when it comes to possible ship drives, the sky is not the limit.
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Advanced Spaceship Drive Compendium
Episode 385, March 9, 2023
Produced & Written by: Isaac Arthur

Narrated by:
Isaac Arthur
Sarah Fowler Arthur

Editors:
Darius Said
David McFarlane
Sarah Fowler Arthur

Music Courtesy of:
Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator
Markus Junnikkala, "A Memory of Earth" https://markusjunnikkala.com
Miguel Johsnon, "Strange New World" http://www.migueljohnsonmjmusic.com
Aerium, "Fifth Star of Aldebaran" https://aeriumambient.bandcamp.com

▬ Spaceship Drive Index  ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:00 Intro
3:12 Alcubierre Drive
4:10 Antimatter Ablated Light Sail
5:06 Antimatter Catalyzed Fusion
6:13 Antimatter Rocket
8:12 Arcjet Rocket
9:15 Bias Drive
10:02 Black Hole Drive
11:23 Bussard Ramjet
14:04 Caplan Thruster
14:39 Chemical Rockets
16:24 Clarketech
17:30 Diametric Drive
18:51 Disjunction Drive
19:31 Electric Solar Wind Sail
21:26 Electrodynamic Tethering
22:59 EM Drive
24:15 Exhaust Velocity
26:03 Field Propulsion
26:34 FTL or Faster Than Light Drives
27:20 Fuel
27:59 Fusion Torch Drive
30:02 Gravitational Dipole
31:31 Gravitic Propulsion
32:58 Hall Effect Thruster
34:46 Hawking Radiation Drive
36:45 Helicon Double-Layer Thruster
37:22 Helios Drive
38:41 Hyperspace Jump Engine or Hyperdrive
40:09 Inertia Reduction Drive
41:39 Ion Drive
43:15 Krasnikov Tube
44:52 Laser Sail
47:21 Magnetic Solar Wind Sail
48:03 Magnetoplasmadynamic Thruster
49:41 Matter Beam
51:09 Medusa Drive
51:43 Microwave Electrothermal Thruster
52:57 Negative Mass Propulsion
54:25 Neutrino Rocket
56:08 Nova Drive
57:41 Nuclear Electric Ion Drive
57:11 Nuclear Lightbulb
58:09 Nuclear Pulse Drive
1:00:40 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
1:02:19 Orion Drive
1:02:40 Oxidizer
1:03:10 Photon Rocket
1:05:48 Pitch Drive
1:06:38 Propellant

Advanced Spaceship Drive Compendium

Our galaxy is a dangerous place for life. A vast storm of stars in which new ones are born and die in deadly displays. How much of the galaxy is truly safe for life to emerge in? 
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The Fermi Paradox: Galactic Habitable Zones
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 389, April 6, 2023
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Briana Brownell
David McFarlane
Jerry Guern

The Fermi Paradox: Galactic Habitable Zones

A recording of SFIA's monthly livestream Q&A session [#53] from March 26, 2023



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387a SFIA Monthly Livestream 53  Sunday, March 26, 2023 4pm EST

We often contemplate life on alien planets, but might giant moons orbiting distant immense worlds be a better candidate for where extraterrestrial life might be found?
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Life on Giant Moons
Episode 391, April 20, 2023
Written, Produced & Narrated by:
Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Anne Kristoffersen
Briana Brownell
David McFarlane

Graphics by: 
Jeremy Jozwik
Ken York
Tristan3D

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Lombus, "Cosmic Soup"
Markus Junnikkala, "We Roam the Stars"
Stellardrone, "Red Giant"
Miguel Johsnon, "Far From Home", "So Many Stars"
Aerium, "Fifth Star of Aldebaran"ifth Star of Aldebaran"

Life on Giant Moons

Cities in the future will need to be increasingly clever in how they operate, by utilizing more data collection, automation, and artificial intelligence to serve its citizens and businesses. 
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Smart Cities
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 392, April 27, 2023
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
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David McFarlane

Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator

Advanced Spaceship Drive Compendium

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