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, we need to get their first, so we will also examine the Aldrin Cycler, a type of spacecraft that may make traveling to other worlds far easier.

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Becoming an Interplanetary Species: Mars Base
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 261; October 22, 2020
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Mars Base

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SFIA Monthly Livestream 24 - October 25, 2020

The Kardashev Scale measures how powerful a high-tech civilization is, with K-1 indicating a advanced society able to call on all the power of their planet, which we often envision as a Post-Scarcity Utopia. Is this the future of Humanity? And if so, how can we achieve it?

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Becoming a Kardashev-1 Post-Scarcity Civilization
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 263; November 5, 2020

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Becoming a Kardashev- 1 Post-Scarcity Civilization

Becoming a Kardashev- 1 Post-Scarcity Civilization (Narration Only)

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 shipments to arrive by even the fastest spaceships, but may be aided by the use of vast interstellar Cycler Castles traveling on century long trade routes.

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Interstellar Trade & Cyclers
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 254; November 12, 2020
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Interstellar Trade & Cyclers

One solution to the Fermi Paradox, the big question of where all the aliens are, is that extraterrestrials might hide from us to avoid altering our society, a concept we see in Star Trek called the Prime Directive. Is such a policy ethical, and if so, should we follow it?

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The Fermi Paradox: The Prime Directive
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 264a; November 15, 2020
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Fermi Paradox: The Prime Directive (Narration Only)

Fermi Paradox: The Prime Directive

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 keystones of interplanetary trade.

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Asteroid Mining & Orbital Settlements
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 265; November 19, 2020
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Asteroid Mining and Orbital Settlements

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 as a pioneer to the alien frontier?

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Life as a Space Colonist
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 266; November 26, 2020
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Life As A Space Colonist

The last century has been one of awesome and often terrifying technological progress, and the next century offers as many wonders and terrors for us to navigate into our future. 

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Becoming a Kardashev-1 Post-Scarcity Civilization
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 267; De3cember 3, 2020

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Surviving The Next Century

As we venture out into space to colonize new planets, moons, and asteroids, how will these new settlements grow from simple outposts in to developed worlds with cities and civilizations all their own?

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Life as a Space Colonies: From Outpost to Cities
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 268; December 10, 2020
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