When the largest of stars dies, the supernova they produce can outshine a whole galaxy, and potentially sterilize vast swathes of space. Future civilizations will need to be able to prevent or mitigate such events, though some might seek to artificially ignite a nova.

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Killing Stars
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 281; March 11, 2021

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Killing Stars (Narration Only)

In the future we will rely ever more on Artificial Intelligence to run our civilization, but what role will AI and computers playing in governing?

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AI Run Government
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 284; April 1, 2021
Produced, Written, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Jerry Guern
Keith Blockus
Mark Warburton
Matthew Campbell, Defender of Earth
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AI Run Government (Narration Only)

Fictional portrayals of alien invasion or reports of alien sightings and abductions often imply motives which on inspection make little sense... unless perhaps the true purpose was mischief. 

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Alien Civilizations: Annoying Aliens
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 298a; July 11, 2021
Produced, Written, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Jason Burbank

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Annoying Aliens (Narration Only)

Current science and cosmology tell us the Universe will slowly die and ebb away countless trillions of trillions of years from now, but another model - the Big Rip - says that end may come far sooner, ripped apart by dark energy. Could civilizations survive the Universe itself being torn apart at the atomic scale?

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Civilizations at the End of Time: The Big Rip 
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 326; January 20, 2022
Produced, Written, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Darius Said
Yamagishi

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Civilizations at the End of Time: The Big Rip (Narration Only)

Kessler Syndrome is a scenario in which a cascade of orbital collisions could render low orbit a wasteland of dangerous debris. Will it happen to us, and what can we do if it does?

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Kessler Syndrome Planets
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 329, February 10, 2022
Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Kessler Syndrome Planets (Narration Only)

We contemplate colonizing planets, but what about the stars themselves?
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Containing virtually all the mass and resources of the solar system, the Sun, the Sun is the ultimate asset for a growing interplanetary civilization. While typically assumed too hot to touch and so out of our reach, we will challenge that notion today.

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Colonizing the Sun (Narration Only)

Space is an incredibly harsh and immense environment absent of everything we need to live, and abundant only in harsh radiation and dangerous micro-meteors. Today we will examine how those will impact humans who come to dwell on space ships or habitats.

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Surviving in the Expanse of Space
Season 4, Episode 15

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Isaac Arthur

Surviving In The Expanse Of Space (Narration Only)

Our future in space will require immense industry and infrastructure as we colonize out solar system and beyond. But how will those industries affect that colonization, and what form might an interplanetary civilization take from that influence?

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Industrial Belts in Space: How would regions of space industrially develop over time?
Episode 229; Mar 12, 2020

Writers:
Isaac Arthur

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Industrial Belts In Space (Narration Only)

The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, SETI, relies on looking for signals from distant alien worlds where even very powerful signals can weaken to near nothing. We'll explore today how we, or extraterrestrials, might get around this problem, be it by immense star-powered transmitters or by using laser communication beams.

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Talkative Aliens
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 249, July 30, 2020
Written, Produced, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Talkative Aliens (Narration Only)

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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Jason Burbank
Keith Blockus
S. Kopperud

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Terraforming: Forging New Worlds (Narration Only)

Giant Stars are often considered too hot and short lived to colonize, but it may be that they shall be the most powerful and pivotal systems in a future galaxy.

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Colonizing Giant Stars
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 279, February 25, 2021
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
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Jason Burbank
Keith Blockus

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Colonizing Giant Stars (Narration Only)

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