Generation Ships & Interstellar Colonization Series

A series looking at concepts for truly huge structures that we might see in the future. This is an audio-only compilation of videos created originally for Youtube, and is best watched rather than listened to, the video playlist can be found at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQLDwY-LT_o&list=PLIIOUpOge0LtW77TNvgrWWu5OC3EOwqxQ

MS10 Matrioshka Brains

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.

The Spaceship Propulsion Compendium

This episode focuses on many of the problems with travel between stars at relativistic velocities, like collision avoidance, radiation, ship geometry, armor, and point-defense. 

We will also look at some of the possible engine types and discuss realistic maximum speeds they offer.

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Music by: Dexter Britain "Seeing the Future", Kai Engel "December", Lombus "Hydrogen Sonata", Koalips "Kvazar", Frank Dorittke "Morninglight", Kai Engel "Endless Story about Sun and Moon", and Kevin MacLeod "Spacial Winds"

Interstellar Travel Challenges

Today we will begin our look at the spaceships we might use for colonizing interstellar space in the future. In order to cover the vast distances between even the nearest stars in our galaxy within the boundaries of known physics, we need vessels able to voyage at high speeds for very long periods of time while carrying everything they need to colonize another solar system, a concept typically known as a space ark or generation ship. We will explore the challenges and options for such a vessel, as well as some alternative approaches to the problem.

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Credits:
Generation Ships
142, Season 4 Episode 27

Writers
Isaac Arthur

Editors
A.T. Long
Darius Said
Evan Schultheis
Jerry Guern
Keith Blockus
Mark Warburton
Sigmund Kopperud

Producer
Isaac Arthur

Cover Artist:
Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier

Graphics Team: 
Jarred Eagley
Jeremy Jozwik
Katie Byrne
Kristijan Tavcar
Sam McNamara https://www.artstation.com/sboterod?fref=gc
Sergio Botero

Narrator:
Isaac Arthur

Music Manager: 
Luca De Rosa  - lucaderosa2@live.com

Music:
Markus Junnikkala, "Plotting a Course" https://www.markusjunnikkala.com/
Phase Shift, "Forest Night" https://www.last.fm/music/Phase+Shift/_/Enigmatic
Aerium, "The Islands moved while I was asleep" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRnUJY3l5vIJFGsY3XvW4dQ
Stellardrone, "Between the Rings" https://stellardrone.bandcamp.com
Denny Shneidemesser, "Constellations" https://soundcloud.com/denny-schneidemesser
Koalips, "Kvazar"  http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Koalips/
Ayreon, "The Theory of Everything" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCihO6uVisilu1mn4x2u-HOA

Generation Ships

A continued look at Generation Ships and Interstellar Colonization.
Check out Cheddar's video on the Sun: https://chdr.tv/youtue6886
In order to colonize the galaxy, we are going to have to spend huge times on board equally huge spaceships. To move thousands of people, and our ecosystem, to distant planets, will require not only giant ark-like starships, but entire fleets of them. Today we will examine how we could do this even if physics never offers us any superior methods in the future for covering the void of interstellar space faster.

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https://soundcloud.com/isaac-arthur-148927746/exodus-fleet
Episode's Narration-only version: https://soundcloud.com/isaac-arthur-148927746/exodus-fleet-narration-only

Credits:
Upward Bound: Power Satellites
Episode 145, Season 4 E31

Writers:
Isaac Arthur

Editors:
A.T. Long
Darius Said
Derek Hightower
Evan Schultheis
Gregory Leal
Keith Blockus
Mark Warburton
Sigmund Kopperud

Producer:
Isaac Arthur

Cover Artist
Jakub Grygier

Graphics Team
Fishy Tree
Gateway Foundation
Jarred Eagley
Jeremy Jozwik
Kristijan Tavcar
Kris Holland of Mafic Studios
LegionTech Studios
Sam McNamara of Rapid Thrash
Sergio Botero

Narrator
Isaac Arthur

Music Manager:
Luca de Rosa 

Music:
NJ Mandaville, "A Long Way Still to Go" https://soundcloud.com/nj-mandaville
Stellardrone, "The Edge of Forever" https://stellardrone.bandcamp.com
Kai Engel, "Endless Story About Sun and Moon"  https://www.kai-engel.com/
Chris Zabriskie, "Mario Bava Sleeps In a Little Later Than He Expected To" http://chriszabriskie.com
Aerium ft. Sieger, "Deiljocht" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRnUJY3l5vIJFGsY3XvW4dQ
Lombus, "Goldilocks Analemma" https://lombus.bandcamp.com
Sergey Cheremisinov, "Naive" https://www.s-cheremisinov.com
Ayreon, "Theory of Everything" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCihO6uVisilu1mn4x2u-HOA

Generation Ships: Exodus Fleet

In order to terraform new planets, we will need to be able transport entire ecologies & ecosystems through interstellar space in the future. Today we will examine how we could build and maintain such environments inside vast arks, generations ships able to colonize our galaxy, and the challenges these starships will face maintaining not just stores of DNA and genetic material but living organisms which depend heavily on other members of their species and other species to survive and thrive, not least of which is human ourselves.

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https://soundcloud.com/isaac-arthur-148927746/exporting-earth
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Credits:
Exporting Earth
Episode 150, Season 4 E36

Writers:
Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Darius Said
Gregory Leal https://www.gregschool.org/
Jerry Guern
Konstantin Sokerin
Laura Graham
Mark Warburton
Matthew Acker
Sigmund Kopperud
Stuart Graham https://beyondnerva.wordpress.com

Producer:
Isaac Arthur

Cover Artist:
Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier

Graphics Team:
Darth Biomech https://www.artstation.com/darth_biomech
Fishy Tree https://www.deviantart.com/fishytree/
Jarred Eagley
Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana
Katie Byrne
Ken York https://www.facebook.com/YDVisual/
Krisitijan Tavcar https://www.miragedereve.com
LegionTech Studios https://hades9.com
Sam McNamara
Sergio Boterio https://www.artstation.com/sboterod?fref=gc

Narrator:
Isaac Arthur

Music Manager:
Luca DeRosa  - lucaderosa2@live.com

Music:
Dracovallis, "Golden Meadows" https://dracovallis.bandcamp.com/
NJ Mandaville, "Intrumental Background 1" https://soundcloud.com/nj-mandaville
Kevin Macleod, "Infinite Wonder" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSZXFhRIx6b0dFX3xS8L1yQ
Chris Zabriskie, "Candlepower" http://chriszabriskie.com
Kai Engel, "Endless Story About Sun and Moon"  https://www.kai-engel.com/
Lombus, "Amino" https://lombus.bandcamp.com
Aerium, "Windmill Forests" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRnUJY3l5vIJFGsY3XvW4dQ
Epic Mountain, "Rising Sky" https://soundcloud.com/epicmountain

Exporting Earth

A Journey to the Edge of Time and Space
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As we continue our look at Generation Ships, vast vessels designed to carry many thousands of colonists to distant and alien worlds centuries away, we must ask just how far and how long such ships can be made to last? Can space ships be made that will endure even longer voyages of thousands or even millions of years in the void of interstellar or even intergalactic space? Will ships, and their crews, fall apart or turn into Cargo Cults who no longer remember how their technology functions or what their mission was?

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Credits:  
Generation Ships: The Million Year Ark
Episode 155, S4E41

Writers: 
Isaac Arthur  

Editors: 
Darius Said 
Derek Hightower 
Gregory Leal https://www.gregschool.org/
Jerry Guern 
Keith Blockus 
Mark Warburton 
Sigmund Kopperud  

Graphics: 
Fishy Tree https://www.deviantart.com/fishytree/
Jarred Eagley 
Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana
Justin Dixon 
Krisitijan Tavcar https://www.miragedereve.com
LegionTech Studios https://hades9.com
Sam McNamara 
Sergio Botero https://www.artstation.com/sboterod?fref=gc

Producer: 
Isaac Arthur  

Cover Artist: 
Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier

Narrator:
Isaac Arthur

Music Manager:
Luca De Rosa  - lucaderosa2@live.com

Music:
Markus Junnikkala, “Plotting a Course" https://www.markusjunnikkala.com/
Stellardrone, "Between The Rings" & "Edge of Forever" https://stellardrone.bandcamp.com
Chris Zabriskie, "Mario Bava Sleeps In a Little Later Than He Expected To" http://chriszabriskie.com
Koalips, “Kvazar"  http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Koalips/
Aerium, "Deiljocht" (ft. Sieger) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRnUJY3l5vIJFGsY3XvW4dQ
Ayreon, “The Theory of Everything Part 1" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCihO6uVisilu1mn4x2u-HOA

The Million Year Ark

An introduction and background on SFIA's Generation Ships & Interstellar Colonization Series

Generation Ships Series Introduction

download the full album at:
https://droneopt.bandcamp.com/album/space-kastles

D‐ring Interaction

Sunday night guitar loops. Unlike other recent guitar loop experiments I've tried out, this one has a live component. After the first minute or so (which I'd already layered in advance of hitting record), new material is added and then later deleted. This setup consists of electric guitar, reverb pedal, overdrive, and looper, plus an eBow on occasion for those extended notes. After recording (amp to phone, live in the room), I used Adobe Audition to implement a fade in and a fade out, and for a little additional reverb.

Night (There and Back)

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4E91iv6ciiQBtsyQaprtug

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Stay Forever

Even if you don't agree with all his ideas, his observations are thought-provoking, challenging, and to many of us, liberating. 

photo by Bob Cato

more Cage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcHnL7aS64Y(noted The source is the French documentary "Écoute (Listen)" (1992).)

Sounds Don't Talk (w John Cage)

Collaboration for the junto challenge 0473
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0473-placebo-effect/
Based on an original piano track by @ikjoyce
https://soundcloud.com/ikjoyce/disquiet0472-jamtimebacking

I added electric guitar improvisation over the original track, edited and augmented by a pitch shifted version of that same track
Performed on a borrowed Gibson Les Paul through a Hughes & Keltner amp and a Rodemberg 808 pedal..

Photo: La Fortuna, Costa Rica by DD 2019.

Improv Over Joyce 21012021(disquiet0473)

This is the last part of an asynchronous jam with halF unusuaL and Lake Forest Sound Machine.  I recorded some guitar melodies to https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual/half-robodub-disquiet0473-with-lake-forest-sound-machine

...which was a duet with https://soundcloud.com/lakeforestsoundmachine/robodub-disquiet0472

The original track was pretty tonally chaotic. I picked out a few frequencies and from that chose to jam (for the most part) in B melodic minor/harmonic minor but there's a lot of fourths which gives it kind of a goofy feel. There's also some chromatic moments.

More on this 474th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Police Action (3 of 3) / The Assignment: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians — at:

https://disquiet.com/0474/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0474-police-action/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project is by orangechallenger, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/cGSjx7

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Generation Ships: Exodus Fleet

Isaac Arthur

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