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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Colonizing Space

You’ve made it to a new world—but how do you make a living when Earth is light-years away? We chart how colonies bootstrap markets, money, and meaning—from scrip and rationing to trade networks and post-scarcity systems.

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Colonial Economies - How Do You Make Money on a New Planet?
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Colonial Economies - How Do You Make Money on a New Planet?

3I/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object we’ve ever seen — but could it really be an alien artifact, or just another comet with unusual traits?

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Is 3I/ATLAS an Alien Artifact?
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Is 3I/ATLAS an Alien Artifact? (Narration Only)

The discovery of 2017 OF201 reminds us that even small worlds can hold vast potential — not just as frozen orbs, but as stepping stones for interstellar civilization.

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New Dwarf Planet Discovered: A Minor Planet With a Major Future?
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:11 What Counts as a Dwarf Planet?
3:47 The New Arrival: 2017 OF201
4:47 From Iceball to Megastructure
6:03 Waypoint to the Stars
8:38 Lessons from Pluto and the Dwarf Planet Census
9:43 Engineering Challenges & Opportunities
10:50 Extrapolating the Frontier

New Dwarf Planet Discovered: A Minor Planet With a Major Future? (Narration Only)

Could life thrive in seas of methane instead of water? We explore Titan-like worlds and the alien ecosystems they might harbor.

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Life in Methane Oceans: Could Aliens Evolve on Titan-like Worlds?
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Life in Methane Oceans: Could Aliens Evolve on Titan-like Worlds? (Narration Only)

Mars may be humanity’s next great home—but it’s not the finish line. From floating cities above Venus to mining Mercury and the Asteroid Belt, to building bases on the Jovian moons and Titan, we explore which destinations might follow Mars and how each could shape our future in space.

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
2:02 Why the Moon Should Come First
3:47 Candidate #1: Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs)
7:52 Candidate #2: Venus
11:35 Candidate #3: Mercury
15:16 Candidate #4: Lagrange Points & Earth-Orbit Infrastructure
17:51 Candidate #5: Jovian Moons
20:26 Nebula
22:06 Candidate #6: Titan (Saturn’s Moon)
23:46 Candidate #7: The Asteroid Belt
25:44 Candidate #8: Comet Mining & Outer System Expansion
27:56 Cross-Support: Who Helps Whom?

After Mars - 8 Candidates For Where Humanity Should Go Next (Narration Only)

From safety protocols to philosophy, AI alignment asks a hard question: can we build artificial intelligence that truly serves humanity?
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AI Alignment - Can We Make AI Safe?
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AI Alignment - Can We Make AI Safe? (Narration Only)

Colonies won’t always last forever—sometimes planets revert, habitats decay, and entire worlds are left in ruins. Join us as we examine the life cycle of abandoned space settlements.

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Abandoned Space Colonies - How Worlds Can Unterraform Themselves
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
4:13 Why Colonies Fail
9:31 Ecological Collapse in Non-Earth Environments
12:39 Case Study – Kaluga-4, Oxygen Depletion
14:34 Unterraforming – How a World Reverts or Mutates
16:45 Abandonment Timelines
19:08 Case Study – Proxima B
22:00 Nebula 
Restoration & Resettlement
23:43 Case Study – Valhalla
25:22 System-Level Context
29:05 Long-Term Patterns in a Galactic Civilization


Abandoned Space Colonies - How Worlds Can Unterraform Themselves

Before we plant flags on alien worlds, we’ll build homes that can cross the void. This episode explores how humanity’s first interstellar colony might be born inside the ship itself.

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The First Interstellar Colony Humanity’s Leap Beyond Sol
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The First Interstellar Colony Humanity’s Leap Beyond Sol (Narration Only)

From cyborgs to hive minds and civilizations of pure thought, we trace the possible futures of our species through the next trillion tomorrows.

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The First Interstellar Colony Humanity’s Leap Beyond Sol
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The Future of Humanity - What Will We Become? (Narration Only)

Explore the roadmap to building an economy between Earth and the Moon—fuel depots, tugs, and industries that will launch humanity into a solar-wide civilization.

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Developing a Cis-Lunar Economy
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0:00 Intro
3:41 The Map: Key Orbit & Chokepoints
12:41 The Stack (Infrastructure Layers)
17:40 A Day in the Life of a Space Tug Pilot
18:29 Imprint
19:28 Putting It Together 
20:42 What We Sell
23:40 From Cis-Lunar to Solar Civilization

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