Explore the entire life story of the cosmos, from quantum flickers at the Big Bang to the distant eras of black holes and dark energy, and discover what kinds of civilizations might endure across these unimaginable spans of time.

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Spaceport Innovations - Designing the Next Generation of Launch Sites
July 31, 2025; Episode 744
Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur
Epochs of the Universe - The Cosmic Clock & Civilization (July 31, 2025)
Recorded: June 2025
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Epochs of the Universe - The Cosmic Clock & Civilization

What do snake oil, N-rays, and cold fusion have in common? They’re all cautionary tales reminding us why skepticism is essential to science—and to our future.


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The Great Scientific Scams - From Snake Oil to Cold Fusion

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The Great Scientific Scams - From Snake Oil to Cold Fusion (Narration Only)

Rogue planets wander the cosmos without stars, but could we still call them home? This episode dives into how humanity might transform these frozen giants into thriving outposts of civilization.

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Colonizing Rogue Planets
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Colonizing Rogue Planets

What happens after intelligence explodes beyond human comprehension? We explore a world shaped by superintelligence, where humanity may ascend, adapt — or disappear.

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After the Singularity - What Life Would Be Like If A Technological Singularity Happened?
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After the Singularity - What Life Would Be Like If A Technological Singularity Happened? (Narration Only)

The silence of the stars might be hiding more than an absence of life — it might conceal ancient machines, monuments, and traps from civilizations long vanished. Today, we explore these eerie cosmic echoes and the risks of unearthing them.

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Ancient Alien Artifacts - Cosmic Relics Of A Dangerous Past
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:42 The Cosmic Junkyard
3:56 What Survives When Civilizations Don’t
9:31 Dangerous by Design
12:04 False Gifts and Poisoned Knowledge
15:37 We Might Already Be Inside One
19:21 Detecting the Undetectable
21:34 The Human Reaction
23:31 The Million-Year Message
24:55 Galactic Cemeteries
26:53 The Ghosts We Might Meet
28:43 The Next Artifacts

Ancient Alien Artifacts - Cosmic Relics Of A Dangerous Past (Narration Only)

We often contemplate superintelligent entities, and advances in AI and human mind augmentation may soon bring them about. But how big could they get? What would they think about? And might you, or I, one day become one ourselves?

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Jupiter Brains & Mega Minds [2025 Extended Edition]
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Jupiter Brains & Mega Minds (Narration Only)

Jupiter Brains & Mega Minds

From O’Neill cylinders to spiral habitats, discover how humanity might build colossal, interconnected cities high above Earth.

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Orbital Arcologies - Mega Cities in Space
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Orbital Arcologies: Mega-Cities in Space (Narration Only)

From abiogenesis to AI, we rank the top Great Filter candidates and test them against the data to see which best explains the Fermi Paradox. Is the universe empty, or just dangerous? We explore ten filters—cosmic, biological, and civilizational—that could silence civilizations before they spread.

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Could We Accidentally Destroy the Universe?
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The 10 Best Great Filters That Could Explain the Fermi Paradox

The 10 Best Great Filters That Could Explain the Fermi Paradox (Narration Only)

What if the end of everything came not from cosmic fate, but from us? This episode examines the physics, probability, and peril of experiments that could, in theory, unravel the universe.

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Could We Accidentally Destroy the Universe?
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
2:38 Vacuum Decay (False Vacuum Collapse)
9:59 Strange Matter Conversion
13:09 Gray Goo Scenario (Nanotechnology Out of Control)
16:05 Runaway Energy Reaction
19:06 Altering the Constants of Nature
20:49 Brane Collision (M-Theory Catastrophe)
22:27 Time Travel or Causality Paradox
23:55 Nebula
25:20 Simulation Shutdown
27:21 Big Rip or Cosmological Instability
28:35 Baby Universe Creation or Collapse
29:51 Why It Hasn’t Happened Yet (Anthropic Principle & More)
31:49 Channel Updates