It's been over half a century since we first went to the Moon, and nearly as long since we last went. To Return to the Moon we need a base with a purpose, and we'll look at what purposes we have in mind and what the bases might be like as we head back to establish a Lunar Colony.

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Return to the Moon
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 258; October 1, 2020
Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Written by:
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Keith Blockus

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Return To The Moon (Narration Only)

Science Fiction delights in showing us grim, dark, giant, and dystopian future cities of covered in garbage and where life is cheap, but how realistic are such metropolises and how can we avoid living in them?

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Mega-Cities
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 259; September 17, 2020
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Mega-Cities (Narration Only)

We typically imagine interstellar civilizations as vastly superior in technology to modern times, but could the future see planets colonized by spaceships little better than our modern ones? Could some alien worlds allow space travel to develop far sooner and easier than it did on Earth? Or could civilizations abandon more advanced technology?

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Low-Tech Spacefaring Civilizations
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 260; October 15, 2020
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Keith Blockus
Konstantin Sokerin

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Low-Tech Spacefaring Civilizations (Narration Only)

To become an Interplanetary Species we need to colonize another planet, and Mars will be our first target. To establish a base there, and a future settlement, we need to get their first, so we will also examine the Aldrin Cycler, a type of spacecraft that may make traveling to other worlds far easier.

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Becoming an Interplanetary Species: Mars Base
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 261; October 22, 2020
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Keith Blockus
Matthew Acker

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Mars Base (Narration Only)

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Aliens are portrayed in Science Fiction both as our potential saviors and best friends, as well as the stuff of nightmares. Would an extraterrestrial civilization be benevolent or terrifying, and how would we seem to them?

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Terrifying Aliens
Episode 62; October 29, 2020
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Mark Warburton
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Terrifying Aliens (Narration Only)

The Kardashev Scale measures how powerful a high-tech civilization is, with K-1 indicating a advanced society able to call on all the power of their planet, which we often envision as a Post-Scarcity Utopia. Is this the future of Humanity? And if so, how can we achieve it?

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Becoming a Kardashev-1 Post-Scarcity Civilization
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 263; November 5, 2020

Produced, Written, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Becoming a Kardashev- 1 Post-Scarcity Civilization

Becoming a Kardashev- 1 Post-Scarcity Civilization (Narration Only)

Establishing Interstellar Trade and Commerce in the future will require an entirely new approach to moving cargo, as years if not centuries might pass for shipments to arrive by even the fastest spaceships, but may be aided by the use of vast interstellar Cycler Castles traveling on century long trade routes.

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Interstellar Trade & Cyclers
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 254; November 12, 2020
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Interstellar Trade & Cyclers (Narration Only)

One solution to the Fermi Paradox, the big question of where all the aliens are, is that extraterrestrials might hide from us to avoid altering our society, a concept we see in Star Trek called the Prime Directive. Is such a policy ethical, and if so, should we follow it?

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The Fermi Paradox: The Prime Directive
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 264a; November 15, 2020
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Fermi Paradox: The Prime Directive (Narration Only)

Asteroids represent a threat to Earth, but in the future they may be a boon, serving as sources of vast wealth and resources, and as orbital settlements and keystones of interplanetary trade.

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Asteroid Mining & Orbital Settlements
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 265; November 19, 2020
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