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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CS06 - Interstellar Colonization

CS05 - Terraforming Techniques

CS04 - Moon Base Concepts

CS03 - The Impact Of Nuclear Fusion

A look at how emerging concepts in science & technology could disrupt our most our understandings of identity, consciousness, and free will. This is the 5th episode of the Existential Crisis series which looks at concepts like Transhumanism, Life Extension, the Simulation Hypothesis, the Doomsday Argument, and the Anthropic Principle. 

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EC05 Consciousness And Identity

In this Episode we examine the concept of the Simulation Hypothesis, which proposes a mathematical argument that we are almost certainly simulations running on a computer.
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EC02 The Simulation Hypothesis

A look at concepts of transhumanism and life extension
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EC01 Transhumanism And Immortality

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

Written by:
Darius Said
Isaac Arthur
Mark Warburton

Editors:
Gloria Meadows
Keith Blockus
Matthew Campbell
Sigmund Kopperud

Graphics by:
Bryan Versteeg http://spacehabs.com
Fishy Tree https://www.deviantart.com/fishytree/

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Isaac Arthur

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Lombus, "Cosmic Soup" https://lombus.bandcamp.com
A.J. Prasad, "Staring Through, pt1" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA8-7qwaEPU
Markus Junnikkala, "Memory of Earth" https://www.markusjunnikkala.com/

The Fermi Paradox & the Aurora Effect (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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Credits:
The Fermi Paradox:Whispers in the Night
Episode 230; Mar 19, 2020

Writers:
Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Jerry Guern

Produced & Narrated by:
Isaac Arthur

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Lombus, "Cosmic Soup" https://lombus.bandcamp.com
Aerium, "Waters of Atlantis" & "Fifth Star of Aldebaran" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRnUJY3l5vIJFGsY3XvW4dQ
Markus Junnikkala, "A Memory of Earth" https://www.markusjunnikkala.com/