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Our galaxy likely contains trillions of worlds, and perhaps none we could live on without great effort to make them like Earth. To colonize these worlds, to make them settlements for our descendants in the future, we must first terraform them.

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Terraforming: Forging New Worlds
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 268a: December 13, 2020
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Terraforming: Forging New Worlds (Narration Only)

Navigating the vast ocean of the galaxy to reach distant stars will be no easy matter, but future spaceships may find many new difficulties finding their way throughout space, and also throughout time.

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Interstellar Navigation
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 269; December 17, 2020
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Jerry Guern
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Interstellar Navigation

Interstellar Navigation (Narration Only)

Kardashev-2 Civilizations are hypothetical empires which encompass entire stars, with access to billions of times the energy Earth has, often seen as builders of megastructures like Dyson Spheres. But could civilizations with only the technology we have become Kardashev-2?

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Low-Tech Kardashev-2 Civilizations
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 270: December 24, 2020
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Low-Tech Kardashev-2 Civilizations

Low-Tech Kardashev-2 Civilizations(Narration Only)

As we move into space we prepare not just to settle the Moon and Mars, but stretch our reach out to other stars and settle the galaxy, becoming an interstellar species.

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Becoming an Interstellar Species
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 271; December 31, 2020
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Matthew Campbell
Jason Burbank
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Becoming an Interstellar Species

Our Universe is billions of years older than our planet, and we often contemplate alien civilizations that might have arisen early than us in our galaxy, but just how early could life have arisen?

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Civilizations at the Beginning of Time
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 272; January 7, 2021
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Civilizations At The Beginning Of Time

Civilizations At The Beginning Of Time (Narration Only)

Cryonic freezing offers a pathway to reap future medical technologies today by preserving someone for future restoration, but what would the impact of this technology be on civilization?

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Interstellar Navigation
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Episode 269; December 17, 2020
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Cryonics: Frozen Civilizations

Machines may help bring about a Post-Scarcity Utopia, assuming they don't take over instead, and we dream of a future that is a Post-Scarcity Utopia, but its dark reflection is the Post-Discontent society, one where through deception or brainwashing people do not even known how they are being deprived or oppressed. 

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Machine Overlords & Post-Discontent Societies  
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 273a; January 17, 2021
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Machine Overlords & Post-Discontent Societies

Water is one of the most common substances in the Universe, and Earth has far more seas than land and life arose in the ocean first. Planets covered entirely in water may be common and abundant with life, including intelligence extraterrestrial life.

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Alien Civilization: Oceanic Aliens
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 274; January 21, 2021
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Oceanic Aliens

For every yellow star like our own there are ten times as many smaller stars. Red Dwarfs are the most common type of star, outnumbering all the others combined, and as we head out into interstellar space to colonize the galaxy, the exoplanets around these red alien suns may be the most common home for settlers.

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Colonizing Red Dwarfs
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 275, January 27, 2021
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Colonizing Red Dwarfs

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Colonizing space and settling the minor planets and asteroids may mean adjusting to much lower levels of gravity, or micro-gravity, what sort of biological and cultural adaptations might that require of humanity?

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Zero-Gravity Civilizations
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 276; February 4, 2021

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Zero-Gravity Civilizations

They say you should always attack from the high ground, and there's no higher ground than from orbit. Today we'll examine orbital strikes, asteroid bombardment, kinetic weapons, dropships, and how to defend from them.

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Scramble for the Skies: The Great Power Competition to Control the Resources of Outer Space https://www.amazon.com/dp/1498583113/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_HK0PTVKG08VM0GK11J7Z
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Orbital Bombardment
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 278; February 18, 2021
Produced, Written, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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