As we continue to scan the heavens for signs of intelligent life, we must contemplate what it might mean if we are the first civilization to ever arise.

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Damaged Spacecraft & Shipwrecked Saucers
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 366, October 27, 2022
Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Produced, Written
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Humanity: Firstborn Space Civilization

Wars in the future may involve vast interplanetary conflicts or civil wars sprawling over an entire world or more, but what will those wars look like?

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Planetary Civil WarScience & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 372a, December 11, 2022
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Planetary Civil War (Narration Only)

One day humanity might settle the Red Planet, but how will we grow food on world more barren than any desert or tundra on Earth?

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Farming On Mars
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 373, December 15, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
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Evelyn Orwell
Jason Snyder

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Farming On Mars (Narration Only)

Could our entire Universe be one enormous Black Hole? And is it possible to live inside a black hole?

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Do We Live Inside A Black Hole… And Could We?
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 374, December 22, 2022
Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Lukas Konecny

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Do We Live Inside A Black Hole… And Could We? (Narration Only)

Asteroids may serve as future bases and colonies for humanity as we travel into space, but could they also be converted into spaceships to take us strange new worlds around distant stars?

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Using Asteroids As Spaceships
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 379, January 26, 2023
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Using Asteroids As Spaceships (Narration Only)

We often see stories of invincible warriors with superhuman abilities combating monstrous threats, but are the days of super soldiers nearly upon us, and could they be the biggest threat of all?

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Super Soldiers
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 381a, February 12, 2023
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Super Soldiers (Narration Only)

If travel to other realities and multiverses is possible, then so is conflict between them, but how would a multiversal war be fought?

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Multiverse Warfare and Quantum Mania
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 382, February 16, 2023
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Multiverse Warfare & Quantum Mania (Narration Only)

Alpha Centauri may be the closest star system to us, but reaching it will be the voyage of a lifetime.
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Journey to Alpha Centauri
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 383, February 23, 2023
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Journey to Alpha Centauri (Narration Only)

If the end of the world is nigh, it may be too late to avert a catastrophe. So what can we do to mitigate the damage or recover after a cataclysm comes?

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Surviving An Apocalypse 
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 385a, March 12, 2023
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Surviving An Apocalypse (Narration Only)

Many speculate that the world isn't real, that it a dream or simulation, but if it is, how to we get out of it or control it?

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Hacking The Simulation 
Episode 387, March 23, 2023
Produced & Narrated by:
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Written by:
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Mikael Lampiranta

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Kari Alatolo
Luis Jorge de Luna
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Hacking The Simulation (Narration Only)

In order to reach the stars we will need vastly more powerful engines for our spacecraft than modern rockets offer. Fortunately, when it comes to possible ship drives, the sky is not the limit.
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Advanced Spaceship Drive Compendium
Episode 385, March 9, 2023
Produced & Written by: Isaac Arthur

Narrated by:
Isaac Arthur
Sarah Fowler Arthur

Editors:
Darius Said
David McFarlane
Sarah Fowler Arthur

Music Courtesy of:
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Markus Junnikkala, "A Memory of Earth" https://markusjunnikkala.com
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Aerium, "Fifth Star of Aldebaran" https://aeriumambient.bandcamp.com

▬ Spaceship Drive Index  ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:00 Intro
3:12 Alcubierre Drive
4:10 Antimatter Ablated Light Sail
5:06 Antimatter Catalyzed Fusion
6:13 Antimatter Rocket
8:12 Arcjet Rocket
9:15 Bias Drive
10:02 Black Hole Drive
11:23 Bussard Ramjet
14:04 Caplan Thruster
14:39 Chemical Rockets
16:24 Clarketech
17:30 Diametric Drive
18:51 Disjunction Drive
19:31 Electric Solar Wind Sail
21:26 Electrodynamic Tethering
22:59 EM Drive
24:15 Exhaust Velocity
26:03 Field Propulsion
26:34 FTL or Faster Than Light Drives
27:20 Fuel
27:59 Fusion Torch Drive
30:02 Gravitational Dipole
31:31 Gravitic Propulsion
32:58 Hall Effect Thruster
34:46 Hawking Radiation Drive
36:45 Helicon Double-Layer Thruster
37:22 Helios Drive
38:41 Hyperspace Jump Engine or Hyperdrive
40:09 Inertia Reduction Drive
41:39 Ion Drive
43:15 Krasnikov Tube
44:52 Laser Sail
47:21 Magnetic Solar Wind Sail
48:03 Magnetoplasmadynamic Thruster
49:41 Matter Beam
51:09 Medusa Drive
51:43 Microwave Electrothermal Thruster
52:57 Negative Mass Propulsion
54:25 Neutrino Rocket
56:08 Nova Drive
57:41 Nuclear Electric Ion Drive
57:11 Nuclear Lightbulb
58:09 Nuclear Pulse Drive
1:00:40 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
1:02:19 Orion Drive
1:02:40 Oxidizer
1:03:10 Photon Rocket
1:05:48 Pitch Drive
1:06:38 Propellant

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