A video series looking at concepts for truly huge structures that we might see in the future. We begin with ground-based and Low Orbit structures to help us get up into space and proceed up through artificial habitats and planets to structures which encompass stars and can even move them. 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:
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Megastructures

Isaac Arthur

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

MS04 Rotating Habitats

MS03 Launch Loops And Mass Drivers

MS02 Skyhooks

MS01 Orbital Rings And Space Elevators

MS00 Intro

The Habitable Planets series continues with a look at Rogue & Steppenwolf planets in the Interstellar Void. This video considers both the possibility of life arising on such planets and the prospects for colonizing them.

HP04 - Rogue Planets

Continuing our look at Habitable Planets we look at worlds entirely covered in water, and how they are both harder and easier for life to develop and thrive on than we might expect.

HP06 - Water Worlds And Ocean Planets

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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CS09 - Black Hole Farming

CS06 - Interstellar Colonization

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

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.

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

This episode continues our team up with Fraser Cain to look at Colonizing the Solar System, we move from the inner solar system to the Asteroid Belt and beyond, all the way out to the Oort Cloud.

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Part 1: The Inner Solar System, can be watched here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALBMdY9-SZs

Article: "COULD WE TERRAFORM JUPITER?"
http://www.universetoday.com/121691/could-we-terraform-jupiter/

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Colonizing The Outer Solar System [Narration Only]

This episode focuses on the basic concepts and misconceptions of wars fought in space and examines the notions of weapons, defenses, stealth in space, and the distance involved.

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Project Rho: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/index.php
Military Science Fiction: http://www.milsf.com

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Space Warfare (Narration Only)

This episode  is the second of a three-part series focusing more on the specifics of colonization including human aspect of it. Having laid the groundwork last time, we now ask ourselves what the ships carrying people to new worlds would be like, and what life aboard them would be like.  

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Life In A Space Colony Episode 2 (Narration Ony)

This episode concludes a three-part series focusing more on the specifics of colonization including human aspect of it. Today we journey to the Tau Ceti System after a 120 year voyage to join our colonists in the early days of the colony.

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Music by:
Dexter Britain
“Seeing the Future”
Kai Engel
“Endless Story about Sun and Moon”
Koalips
“Kvazar”
Kai Engel
“December”
Martin Rezny
“Tempus Fugit”
Frank Dorittke
“Morninglight”
Phase Shift
“Forest Night”
Kevin MacLeod
“Spacial Winds”
Brandow Liew
“Into the Storm”

Life In A Space Colony Episode 3

This episode ends Year 2, not with predictions for the future, but rather a discussion of concepts of Black Swan Events and Outside Context Problems, highly unpredictable events which massively impact civilization.

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Unpredictability - Black Swans And OCPs (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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