If the end of the world is nigh, it may be too late to avert a catastrophe. So what can we do to mitigate the damage or recover after a cataclysm comes?

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Surviving An Apocalypse 
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 385a, March 12, 2023
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Surviving An Apocalypse (Narration Only)

Far beyond our Moon and Mars and the other planets is our greater galaxy and its billions and billions of stars. And yet it is but a flyspeck compared to the enormity of the Universe beyond. Could we every voyage to these distant galaxies?

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Intergalactic Voyages
Episode 385, March 9, 2023
Produced, Written & Narrated by:
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Intergalactic Voyages (Narration Only)

In order to reach the stars we will need vastly more powerful engines for our spacecraft than modern rockets offer. Fortunately, when it comes to possible ship drives, the sky is not the limit.
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Advanced Spaceship Drive Compendium
Episode 385, March 9, 2023
Produced & Written by: Isaac Arthur

Narrated by:
Isaac Arthur
Sarah Fowler Arthur

Editors:
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David McFarlane
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▬ Spaceship Drive Index  ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:00 Intro
3:12 Alcubierre Drive
4:10 Antimatter Ablated Light Sail
5:06 Antimatter Catalyzed Fusion
6:13 Antimatter Rocket
8:12 Arcjet Rocket
9:15 Bias Drive
10:02 Black Hole Drive
11:23 Bussard Ramjet
14:04 Caplan Thruster
14:39 Chemical Rockets
16:24 Clarketech
17:30 Diametric Drive
18:51 Disjunction Drive
19:31 Electric Solar Wind Sail
21:26 Electrodynamic Tethering
22:59 EM Drive
24:15 Exhaust Velocity
26:03 Field Propulsion
26:34 FTL or Faster Than Light Drives
27:20 Fuel
27:59 Fusion Torch Drive
30:02 Gravitational Dipole
31:31 Gravitic Propulsion
32:58 Hall Effect Thruster
34:46 Hawking Radiation Drive
36:45 Helicon Double-Layer Thruster
37:22 Helios Drive
38:41 Hyperspace Jump Engine or Hyperdrive
40:09 Inertia Reduction Drive
41:39 Ion Drive
43:15 Krasnikov Tube
44:52 Laser Sail
47:21 Magnetic Solar Wind Sail
48:03 Magnetoplasmadynamic Thruster
49:41 Matter Beam
51:09 Medusa Drive
51:43 Microwave Electrothermal Thruster
52:57 Negative Mass Propulsion
54:25 Neutrino Rocket
56:08 Nova Drive
57:41 Nuclear Electric Ion Drive
57:11 Nuclear Lightbulb
58:09 Nuclear Pulse Drive
1:00:40 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
1:02:19 Orion Drive
1:02:40 Oxidizer
1:03:10 Photon Rocket
1:05:48 Pitch Drive
1:06:38 Propellant

Advanced Spaceship Drive Compendium

Our galaxy is a dangerous place for life. A vast storm of stars in which new ones are born and die in deadly displays. How much of the galaxy is truly safe for life to emerge in? 
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The Fermi Paradox: Galactic Habitable Zones
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 389, April 6, 2023
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
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David McFarlane
Jerry Guern

The Fermi Paradox: Galactic Habitable Zones (Narration Only)

Our history has been one of inventing ever more devastating and unstoppable weapons, and yet they may pale in comparison to those made to wreck whole galaxies or tear asunder reality itself. 
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Super Weapons
Episode 390a, April 16, 2023
Produced, Written & Narrated by:
Isaac Arthur

Editors:
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Super Weapons (Narration Only)

Our history has been one of inventing ever more devastating and unstoppable weapons, and yet they may pale in comparison to those made to wreck whole galaxies or tear asunder reality itself. 
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Super Weapons
Episode 390a, April 16, 2023
Produced, Written & Narrated by:
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Super Weapons

Small Modular Reactors are a promising area of nuclear technology that may be the pathway forward to cheap, safe, and sustainable energy.

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Nuclear Power: Small Modular Reactors
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 390, April 13, 2023
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Nuclear Power: Small Modular Reactors

Small Modular Reactors are a promising area of nuclear technology that may be the pathway forward to cheap, safe, and sustainable energy.

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Nuclear Power: Small Modular Reactors
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 390, April 13, 2023
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Nuclear Power: Small Modular Reactors (Narration Only)

We often contemplate life on alien planets, but might giant moons orbiting distant immense worlds be a better candidate for where extraterrestrial life might be found?
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Life on Giant Moons
Episode 391, April 20, 2023
Written, Produced & Narrated by:
Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Anne Kristoffersen
Briana Brownell
David McFarlane

Life On Giant Moons (Narration Only)

Cities in the future will need to be increasingly clever in how they operate, by utilizing more data collection, automation, and artificial intelligence to serve its citizens and businesses. 
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Smart Cities
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 392, April 27, 2023
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
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Smart Cities (Narration Only)

For as long as we have had history and likely before, people have contemplated a life after this one, but might we one day create artificial afterlives? And if so, will we create heavens or hells?
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Artificial Afterlives 
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 399, June 15, 2023
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
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