A look at various Cataclysmic Scenarios in terms of how they factor into the Fermi Paradox. We'll look at everything from Biowarfare and AI to Nukes and Grey Goo


FP03 - Apocalypse How

This series takes a look at concepts for everything from Terraforming Planets and Interstellar Colonization to more down to Earth matters like Arcologies and Planet Wide Cities before examining using black holes as power sources for starships.We then leap into the far distance future at the end of time to examine civilizations surviving around black holes after all the stars have died out.
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CS03 - The Impact Of Nuclear Fusion

Could the cold outer reaches of the solar system ever be called home?
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Far beyond even Pluto and the Kuiper Belt is a vast and mostly empty region of space that we theorize may contain trillions of comets and other icy bodies. Frozen and barren though they would be, we will consider how they might one day become thriving and comfortable habitats for us.

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Colonizing The Oort Cloud (Narration Only)

A new paper has come out discussing how the Fermi Paradox might be explained by the rigors of traveling space for interstellar colonization, causing settlements to be rare and and possibly not long-lived. We'll look at this model for spreading humanity out across the galaxy and see what insights or flaws it might have.

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The Fermi Paradox and the Aurora Effect: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04450
Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson (KSR):
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Credits - The Fermi Paradox: The Aurora Effect
Episode 176a, Season 5 E10a

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Darius Said
Isaac Arthur
Mark Warburton

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Gloria Meadows
Keith Blockus
Matthew Campbell
Sigmund Kopperud

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The Fermi Paradox & the Aurora Effect (Narration Only)

Colonizing Mars and terraforming it to be a comfortable future home for humanity is quite the challenge. How would we go about it and how close is close enough for our purposes? How would we let life grow on the open surface of Mars and how would we give air and water and potentially even alter its day, year, and gravity?

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Springtime on Mars
Episode 203, Season 5 E37

Written by:
Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Darius Said
Jerry Guern
Keith Blockus
S. Kopperud

Cover Art
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Dan MacLeod, "Lucky" https://soundcloud.com/neptuneuk
Markus Junnikkala, "The men would love a good fight" https://www.markusjunnikkala.com/
Lombus, "Doppler Shores" https://lombus.bandcamp.com
Paradox Interactive, "In Search of Life" https://www.paradoxplaza.com
Ross Bugden, "Revelation" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQKGLOK2FqmVgVwYferltKQ

Springtime On Mars (Narration Only)

An Introduction to our Upward Bound Series looking at launch vehicles and megastructures for getting into Space, as well as some awesome projects we might engage in while up there.

Upward Bound Series Intro

The big question of why life exists has challenged minds for countless centuries, but what does science have to say on this matter? Could life arise on other worlds and in other Universes, and what is the reason for it?

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Alien Civilizations: Conspiratorial Aliens
Episode 220, Season 6 E02

Written by:
Isaac Arthur
Jerry Guern

Editors:
Darius Said
Keith Blockus
Matthew Campbell

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Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier

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Why Life Exists (Narration Only)

We often speculate that the reason we can't hear aliens civilizations is because our SETI efforts (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) relies on radio and telescopes to weak to hear them. But how plausible is that? and what would it tell us about our own future?

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The Fermi Paradox:Whispers in the Night
Episode 230; Mar 19, 2020

Writers:
Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Jerry Guern

Produced & Narrated by:
Isaac Arthur

Cover Art:
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The Fermi Paradox: Whispers In The Night (Narration Only)

In the future we might see the rise of minds entirely on computers, be it uploaded humans, transhumans, or artificial intelligence. But what would such an existence be like? Would they interact with our world or live in entirely virtual realities or simulated universes?

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Life as a Digital Being
Episode 237; May 7, 2020

Writers:
Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Darius Said
Jerry Guern
Keith Blockus

Produced & Narrated by:
Isaac Arthur

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Life As A Digital Being (Narration Only)

Parallel Universes, Multiverses, Alternate Timeline & Realities are the focus of many theories of physics and popular science & science fiction.  

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Parallel Universes & Alternate Realities
Episode 238; May 14, 2020

Writers:
Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Jerry Guern
Keith Blockus
Matthew Acker

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Isaac Arthur

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Parallel Universe & Alternate Realities (Narration Only)

Ancient cultures long thought the Sun had a mind of it's own, but could life form in stars by nature or exist by artificial origins, and what would star with a mind of its own be like?

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Conscious Stellar Objects
Episode 238a, Season 6E20a

Written, Produced, and Narrated by:
Isaac Arthur

Editors
Andy Nelson
S. Kopperud

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Music by Aerium
"Visions of Vega"
"Fifth Star of Aldebaran"
"Waters of Atlantis"
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