Asteroids represent a threat to Earth, but in the future they may be a boon, serving as sources of vast wealth and resources, and as orbital settlements and keystones of interplanetary trade.

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Asteroid Mining & Orbital Settlements
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 265; November 19, 2020
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Asteroid Mining and Orbital Settlements (Narration Only)

In order to colonize space, we will need colonists willing to travel to desolate planets, moons, and asteroids to settle those worlds. What would life be like as a pioneer to the alien frontier?

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Life as a Space Colonist
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 266; November 26, 2020
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Life As A Space Colonist (Narration Only)

The last century has been one of awesome and often terrifying technological progress, and the next century offers as many wonders and terrors for us to navigate into our future. 

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Becoming a Kardashev-1 Post-Scarcity Civilization
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 267; De3cember 3, 2020

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Surviving The Next Century

As we venture out into space to colonize new planets, moons, and asteroids, how will these new settlements grow from simple outposts in to developed worlds with cities and civilizations all their own?

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Life as a Space Colonies: From Outpost to Cities
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 268; December 10, 2020
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Space Colonies: From Outposts To Cities (Narration Only)

Our galaxy likely contains trillions of worlds, and perhaps none we could live on without great effort to make them like Earth. To colonize these worlds, to make them settlements for our descendants in the future, we must first terraform them.

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Terraforming: Forging New Worlds
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 268a: December 13, 2020
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Terraforming: Forging New Worlds (Narration Only)

Navigating the vast ocean of the galaxy to reach distant stars will be no easy matter, but future spaceships may find many new difficulties finding their way throughout space, and also throughout time.

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Interstellar Navigation
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 269; December 17, 2020
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Interstellar Navigation

Interstellar Navigation (Narration Only)

Kardashev-2 Civilizations are hypothetical empires which encompass entire stars, with access to billions of times the energy Earth has, often seen as builders of megastructures like Dyson Spheres. But could civilizations with only the technology we have become Kardashev-2?

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Low-Tech Kardashev-2 Civilizations
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 270: December 24, 2020
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Low-Tech Kardashev-2 Civilizations

Our monthly livestream Q&A session for December 2020

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SFIA Monthly Livestream 26 - December 27, 2020

As we move into space we prepare not just to settle the Moon and Mars, but stretch our reach out to other stars and settle the galaxy, becoming an interstellar species.

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Becoming an Interstellar Species
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 271; December 31, 2020
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Matthew Campbell
Jason Burbank
Keith Blockus

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