This series looks at a number of concepts in science and technology that challenge our fundamental notions of Life, the Universe, and Everything... including our own existence.

Existentional Crisis Series

Isaac Arthur

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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

By contemplating the idea of what true Kardashev 2 and 3 civilizations might look like, in the context of Megastructures, we re-assess the Fermi Paradox and come up with a new question, no longer "Why can't we see any alien civilizations?" but why we can see any stars in the night sky at all.

FP02 - Dyson Dilemma

A in-depth look at KIC 8462582, also known as Tabby's Star. We'll explore how this star became famous for an anomaly, what that anomaly was, and the various theories for what might be causing it.

FP04 - Tabby's Star

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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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

This videos covers two topics, the Anthropic Principle, which uses the idea that your own existence might skew the odds of events you witness, and the basic concepts of Super-Intelligence, and what we might expect of humans or artificial intelligence that achieve that.
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EC04 The Anthropic Principle And Super Intelligence

A look at the Carter Doomsday Argument, which is uses a probabilistic argument and Anthropic Reasoning to estimate that humanity is running out of time.
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EC03 The Doomsday Argument

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

EC00 Intro

A look at Dark Matter, what it is, what it isn't, and what it might be used for.

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Dark Matter as Primordial Black Holes discusses:
http://www.space.com/33122-dark-matter-black-hole-connection.html

Dark Matter

This episode continues our look at Colonizing Space by examining the idea of Asteroid Mining and setting up colonies on Asteroids. We explore the science as well as practical issues of engineering, economics, legality, and psychology of such distant outposts.

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CS04b - Asteroid Mining

The concept of a Technological Singularity, an accelerated rush in processing speed improvements culminating in a super-mind, has captivated people for decades. Today we will examine this idea and look at some misconceptions about it.

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Music by: 
Dexter Britain "Seeing the Future" 
Frank Dorittke "Morninglight"
Dexter Britain "After The Week I've Had"
Kai Engel "Snowfall"
Kevin MacLeod “Spacial Winds”
Phase Shift “Forest Night”
Brandon Liew "Into the Storm" 

EC06 Technological Singularity

A look at Dark Energy, explaining and simplifying the concept around it, the Cosmological Constant, the Lambda-CDM model, and Vacuum & Zero-Point Energy.

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Music by:
Dexter Britain
"Seeing the Future"
Frank Dorittke
"Morninglight"
Dexter Britain
"After The Week I've Had"
Kai Engel
"Snowfall"
Kevin MacLeod
“Spacial Winds”
Phase Shift
“Forest Night”
Brandon Liew
"Into the Storm"

Dark Energy

A look at Dark Energy, explaining and simplifying the concept around it, the Cosmological Constant, the Lambda-CDM model, and Vacuum & Zero-Point Energy.

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Dark Energy (Narration Only)

This episode is an in-depth look at stars, from the common kinds and basic terminology to exotic stars, some which are entirely hypothetical. We'll look at Stars bigger than solar systems or tinier than a pinhead, and some stars that no longer exist or cannot exist till long after all other stars have died.

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the-stellar-compendium
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Music by:
Dexter Britain
“Seeing the Future”
Kai Engel
“Endles Story about Sun and Moon”
Koalips
“Kvazar”
Kai Engel
“December”
Martin Rezny
“Tempus Fugit”
Chris Zabriskie
“Mario Bava sleeps in a little later than he expected to”
Frank Dorittke
“Morninglight”
Phase Shift
“Forest Night”
Kevin MacLeod
“Spacial Winds”
Brandow Liew
“Into the Storm”

The Stellar Compendium

In this episode we examine the concept of a Space Elevator, a popular piece of developing technology designed to lift people and cargo into space at a fraction of normal launch costs. We will look at technology as well as many of the misconceptions about Space Elevators which have emerged.

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"The physics of the space elevator", P. K. Aravind:
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d402/ba5f97884b7398ae2a1ff79136f9c1a03993.pdf

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Upward Bound: Space Elevators (Narration Only)

In this episode we explore Quantum Computers, from the basic theory to the potential applications, as well as many myths and misconceptions this groundbreaking technology has accumulated.

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