Solar power has been promised for decades as bringing us a bright future, and at last is beginning to see widespread use. What new innovations and opportunities await Solar in the decade to come?

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Alien: Civilizations: Hibernating Aliens
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 325, January 13, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Keith Blockus
Sig’unnr
Yamagishi
Evan Schultheis

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The Future Of Solar Power

As we find more and more exoplanets, we glimpse enormous "Super Earths" worlds more massive than our own. Could these harbor life and would we be able to colonize or terraform them?

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Super-Earths
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 330, February 17 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Yamagishi

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Super-Earths

All we are made of comes from dying stars, those rare supernovae and other cosmic death throes that forge those scarce heavier elements, but could we learn true alchemy and mass manufacture those materials ourselves, and even others not found in nature?

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Nuclear Transmutation
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 332, March 3, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Jason Burbank
Mark Warburton
Yamagishi

Cover Art:
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Udo Schroeter

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"Mobilize the Fleets"
"We Roam the Stars"

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"The Earth is Blue"
"A Moment of Stillness"

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"Fifth Star of Aldebaran"

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"Strange New World"

Nuclear Transmutation (Narration Only)

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SFIA Monthly Livestream 41 - March 27, 2022

The future may see advancements in claytronics, memory metals, and catoms to allow shapeshifting materials that can take on any form and perform any job - possibly even taking on human form itself.

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Programmable & Smart Matter
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 336, March 31, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
David McFarlane

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Programmable & Smart Matter

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

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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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Mihail Yordanov
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Traveling Around Other Worlds

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SFIA Monthly Livestream 42 - April 24, 2022

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

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Is A Technological Singularity Inevitable?

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

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

Graphics:
Ervin Oprea
Fishy Tree
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Sam McNamara of Rapid Thrash
Sergio Botero https://www.artstation.com/sboterod?fref=gc
Stephen Huck
Udo Schroeter

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