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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

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The Future Of Solar Power

In the future humanity will look to build new lives out among the stars, forging new worlds and megastructures for us to live on. But what about deep sea ecologies and aquatic life? What sort of habitats might we design for them?

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Oceans in Space: Marine Space Habitats & Preserves
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 331, February 24 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Jason Burbank
Ken York (YD Visual)
Yamagishi

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Oceans In Space: Marine Space Habitats & Preserves (Narration Only)

In order to build a future able to stretch across millions of years, we may need to be able to build machines able to endure the brutal erosion of deep time.

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The Million Year Machine
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 333; March 10, 2022
Produced, Written, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Jason Burbank
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The Million Year Machine (Narration Only)

We often discuss cybernetic, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, and hybrids of them, but what truly is synthetic life? And what is it like?

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Synthetic Life
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 333a, March 13, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
David McFarlane
Jason Burbank
Jerry Guern

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Synthetic Life

The Moon may one day be colonized and grow to be covered in domes and bases spanning the entire once-barren surface, a single mega-city sprawling not just over the surface, but deep below too.

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Moon: Mega-City
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 335; March 24, 2022
Produced, Written, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Jason Burbank
S. Kopperud
David McFarlane

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Tytus Grabowski
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Moon: Mega City

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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

In the future we will build outposts and bases in space and on distant worlds, but what if we could make it so they built themselves instead?

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Self-Growing Habitats & Space Bases
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 337; April 7, 2022
Produced, Written, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Christopher Maurer https://www.redhousestudio.net
David McFarlane

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Sam McNamara
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Self-Growing Habitats & Space Bases

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

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Martin Rezny, "Lifelight"
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Aerium, "Fifth Star of Aldebaran"
Miguel Johnson, "Strange New World"

Multi-Species Empires (Narration Only)

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

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A.T. Long
Darius Said
David McFarlane

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What If Earth Became A Rogue Planet?

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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

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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

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Ken York of YD Visual https://www.facebook.com/YDVisual/

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

Godlike Aliens (Narration Only)

Every known planet, moon, and asteroid in our solar system occupies a volume of space both enormous and yet tiny compared to the vast empty gulf between stars. But interstellar space isn't truly empty and may one day be home to countless billions of isolated deep space habitats.

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IDeep Space Habitats
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 350, July 7, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
David McFarlane
Konstantin Sokerin

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

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Jarred Eagley
Jeremy Jozwik
Sergio Botero
Udo Schroeter

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Stellardrone, https://stellardrone.bandcamp.com
"Red Giant", "Billions and Billions", "Cosmic Sunrise", "The Night Sky in Motion"
Miguel Johnson, https://soundcloud.com/migueljohnsonmjmusic
"Expedition" & "So Many Stars"

Deep Space Habitats

Saturn's Moon Titan captures our attention as a future colony, but might the majestic rings of Saturn and other planetary rings be better places to transplant life, and could life arise naturally among those orbital icefields?

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Colonizing Planetary Rings
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 363, October 6, 2022
Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Written by:
Isaac Arthur

Editors:
David McFarlane

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

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Stellardrone, "Red Giant", "Billions and Billions", "Cosmic Sunrise", "The Night Sky in Motion"
Miguel Johnson, "Expedition", "So Many Stars"

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