Okay I'm using the forest torching quote next time someone asks why I say the universe is inefficient.

So the word for continuity of culture and intelligence is world. people from middle earth cannot contact us, so that is a different world from ours. same with American and European cultures.

Science Fiction has shown us humanity exploring the stars at hundreds of times faster than light speed, but what if the fastest ships we can make never even reach a hundredth of light speed? Can we still settle the galaxy and what will that colonization entail?

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Crawlonizing The Galaxy: Settling Space At Ultra-Low Speeds
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 348, June 23, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
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David McFarlane
Jason BurbankDavid McFarlane
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Crawlonizing The Galaxy: Settling Space At Ultra-Low Speeds (Narration Only)

We conclude our journey begun in Interstellar Probes by exploring an alien world and asking what life will be like as a Planetary Explorer.

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Life as a Planetary Explorer
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 350, June 30, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
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David McFarlane
Jason BurbankDavid McFarlane
Keith Blockus
Sig'Unnr

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Life As A Planetary Explorer

The galaxy is enormous, ancient, and mostly empty, but from a determined and powerful enemy seeker, even the galaxy may not contain a safe hiding place.

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Extragalactic Sanctuaries: Escaping to the Edge of Space and Time
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 351, July 14, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
David McFarlane
Konstantin Sokerin

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Fishy Tree
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Katie Byrne
Ken York
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Mike Munt
Segio Botero
Udo Schroeter

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Extragalactic Sanctuaries (Narration Only)

The great mystery of where all the aliens are in our vast Universe contemplates ancient interstellar civilizations building enormous megastructures that rival worlds or even stars in the immensity... and asks why we can't see these giant alien artifacts.

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The Fermi Paradox: Absent Megastructures
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 352, July 21, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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The Fermi Paradox: Absent Megastructures

Aliens may one day visit Earth not to invade us but to seek refuge from an invasion or other calamity, how can we respond and should we?

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Alien Civilizations: Alien Refugees
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 354, August 4, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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LegionTech Studios
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Alien Refugees

Alien Refugees (Narration Only)

To get into space in a big way we need to be able to move vast amounts of people and cargo to space at a fraction of modern costs; tethered rings offer a potentially practical path to do that using only modern technology.
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Tethered Ring Space Launchers
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 359, September 8, 2022
Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Written By:
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Phil Swan

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Ceana Prado Nickel

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Steve Bowers
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Tethered Ring Space Launchers

Kardashev Civilizations are beyond immense, with even the first tier of them making any modern nation look miniscule, and there are many barriers to becoming one.

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Barriers To Becoming A Kardashev Civilization
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 360, September 15, 2022
Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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David McFarlane
Jerry Guern
Konstantin Sokerin

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Barriers To Becoming A Kardashev Civilization (Narration Only)

Barriers To Becoming A Kardashev Civilization September 15 2022

The new Grabby Aliens model proposes that the Universe may already contain several thousand immense alien empires... and that we may soon be one of them.

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Alien Civilizations: Grabby Aliens
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 362, September 29, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Grabby Aliens & The Fermi Paradox

Many of us dream of one day owning our on spacecraft, of traveling to space and other worlds when we choose to. What technologies must the future deliver to make this dream a reality?

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Your Own Personal Spaceship
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 365, October 20, 2022
Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Isaac Arthur

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David McFarlane
Merv Johnson

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