Interstellar civilizations home to hundreds of peacefully cooperating alien species are a common theme in science fiction, but are such civilizations likely or would we instead see conquest and xenocide?

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Alien Civilizations: Multi-Species Empires
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 337a, April 10 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
David McFarlane

Cover Art:
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Music by:
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Denny Schneidemesser, "Bridge Ambience"
Stellardrone, "A Moment of Stillness"
Aerium, "Fifth Star of Aldebaran"
Miguel Johnson, "Strange New World"

Multi-Species Empires

Is it possible the Earth might be separated from the Sun or the Sun go out? And if so, could we survive under an eternally dark sky?

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What if Earth became a Rogue Planet?
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 338, April 14, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
A.T. Long
Darius Said
David McFarlane

Cover Art:
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Miguel Johnson https://migueljohnson.bandcamp.com

What If Earth Became A Rogue Planet?

In the future we will journey to new worlds, but how will we travel around on them?

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Traveling Around Other Worlds
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 339; April 21, 2022
Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur

Written by:
Isaac Arthur
Jason Snyder 

Editor:
Darius Said
David McFarlane

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Traveling Around Other Worlds

As computers have improved at an accelerating rate for generations now, fears of some emergent super intelligent computer mind have grown, but is such a Technological Singularity Inevitable, and can we survive it?

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Is a Technological Singularity Inevitable?
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 340, April 28, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
David McFarlane
Jason Burbank
Konstantin Sokerin

Cover Art:
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Is A Technological Singularity Inevitable?

Science Fiction often shows us alien civilizations so advanced they are godlike, but how realistic are they, and what would such entities be like?

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Alien Civilizations: Godlike Aliens
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 341, May 5, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Andrew Nelson
Curt Hartung
David McFarlane

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

Graphics:
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Martin Rezny, "Lifelight"
Denny Schneidemesser, "Bridge Ambience"
Stellardrone, "A Moment of Stillness", "Cosmic Sunrise", "Limbo"
Aerium, "Fifth Star of Aldebaran"
Miguel Johnson, "Strange New World"

Godlike Aliens

We believe Mars may once have had oceans and sky, but lost them from a lack of a magnetosphere. How does this happen, and how can we create a magnetosphere for Mars so we can terraform and live on it?

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Making a Magnetosphere for Mars
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 342, May 12, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
David McFarlane

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Stephen Huck
The Ashdale Regiment

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Making a Magnetosphere for Mars

One day humanity might journey to new worlds and settle them, or discover life already on them, but first we'll have to find those exoplanets under aliens suns.

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Surveying for Habitable Interstellar Star Systems
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 343, May 19, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Andrew Nelson
Curt Hartung
David McFarlane

Cover Art:
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Graphics:
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Udo Schroeter

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Surveying For Habitable Interstellar Star Systems

Many don't realize that most of our satellites and space stations aren't intended to be far from Earth, but rather, as close as we can get them and still maintain a stable orbit. How much lower can we go in the future?

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Dark Sky Stations, Stratospheric Satellites, and Ultra Low Orbit Infrastructure
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 344, May 26, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
David McFarlane

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Udo Schroeter

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Dark Sky Stations, Stratospheric Satellites, and Ultra Low Orbit Infrastructure (Narration Only)

Our capability to render virtual realities better and better makes it seem likely one day we could simulate our world flawlessly, and perhaps our minds too. If so, perhaps we will in the future... and perhaps we already did in the past.

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What are Ancestor Simulations... and are we living in one?
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 345, June 2, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
David McFarlane

Cover Art:
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Graphics:
Darth Biomech
Jeremy Jozwik
Udo Schroeter

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also featuring "Moonstead" by Eric Smith (Rak)

What Are Ancestor Simulations... And Are We Living In One (Narration Only)

What Are Ancestor Simulations... And Are We Living In One

The Silurian Hypothesis contemplates how long the ruins of a civilization would be detectable, on Earth or even other worlds, and if we could ever know if a world had once been inhabited by a technological civilization. 

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The Silurian Hypothesis: What Traces of Humanity will be Left 50 Million Years from Now?
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 346a, June 12, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
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Graphics:
Darth Biomech
Jarred Eagley

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

Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator