So many of hopes and dreams for colonizing space rely on faster than light travel, and yet the ability to move between stars in moment seems against the laws of reality... but perhaps we can break those rules.

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Faster Than Light Travel: Cheating Reality
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 297, July 1, 2021

Produced, Written, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Faster Than Light Travel: Cheating Reality (Narration Only)

As we continue to scan the heavens for signs of intelligent life, we must contemplate what it might mean if we are the first civilization to ever arise.

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Damaged Spacecraft & Shipwrecked Saucers
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 366, October 27, 2022
Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Humanity: Firstborn Space Civilization (Narration Only)

Our Universe is vast, ancient, and mysterious. It's no surprise that in our quest to explore and explain it, many misconceptions have arisen.
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 Misconceptions About Space, Time & The Universe 
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 394, May 11, 2023
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Briana Brownell
David McFarlane

Misconceptions About Space, Time & The Universe (Narration Only)

We often discuss our future in the Asteroid Belt, and the glorious civilizations we might one day build there. However, it is but a pale shadow of its larger twin, the Kuiper Belt, out at the edge of the solar system.
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Outward Bound: Colonizing the Kuiper Belt
Episode 397, June 1, 2023
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Colonizing the Kuiper Belt (Narration Only)

One day we may retire our rockets and instead reach the heavens by ascending towers so tall they dwarf mountains, and rise above the sky itself. 
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Space Towers
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 398, June 8, 2023
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Ken York (YD Visual)
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Space Towers (Narration Only)

The goal of science is to understand and master the Universe around us, but could our skill grow so great that we could learn to warp reality itself?

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▬ Reality Warping Concepts  ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:00 Intro
2:06 Warping Spacetime
4:58 Negative Mass
5:25 Spaceship Propulsion
8:41 Forcefields & Shields
11:07 Reversing Universal Expansion
12:17 Matter Creation
12:49  Super Strong Materials
14:14 Cloaking
15:17 Hammerspace
19:07 Tractor Beams
20:11 Time Manipulation & Stasis
24:20 Ultra-fast Communication
25:08 Vacuum Energy
25:48 Universe Creation
26:40 Probability Manipulation & Luck
27:47 Perpetual Civilizations

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Warping Reality
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 396, May 26, 2023
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
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Warping Reality (Narration Only)

We often think that one day the world will come to an end and humanity with it, and possibly with us causing it, but what would our world be like if life persisted after humanity was gone?
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---- Chapters -----
0:00 Intro
01:48 Natural Catastrophe 
07:03 Humanity Wrecks Earth
12:07 Super Plague
15:19 Artificial Intelligence Kills Us
20:33 Aliens Kill Us
25:22 Humanity Abandons Earth

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Life in 2323 A.D.
Episode 400, June 22, 2023
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Donagh Broderick
Dillon Olander 
Konstantin Sokerin
Merv Johnson
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Earth After Humanity (Narration Only)

As we search the heavens for signs of alien life, is it possible that the easiest place to find aliens is to look in the mirror?

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Credits: Human Aliens
Episode 420a; November 12, 2023
Written, Produced & Narrated by:
Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Donagh Broderick

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Miguel Johnson, "Strange New World", "Night Forever"

Human Aliens

In the grand theater of the cosmos, amidst a myriad of distant suns and ancient galaxies, the Fermi Paradox presents a haunting silence, where a cacophony of alien conversations should exist. Where is Everyone? Or are we alone?
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The Fermi Paradox Compendium of Solutions & Terms
Episode 420; November 9, 2023
Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur
Editors: Donagh Broderick

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Taras Harkavyi, "Alpha and..."

The Fermi Paradox Compendium of Solutions & Terms (Narration Only)

Visions of a settled Mars always seem to have vast domes, but is a future on the Red Planet a domed one? And how should they be built?

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Credits: Domes Of Mars
Episode 421; November 16, 2023
Written, Produced & Narrated by:
Isaac Arthur

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Konstantin Sokerin

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Domes Of Mars

Giant Stars are often considered too hot and short lived to colonize, but it may be that they shall be the most powerful and pivotal systems in a future galaxy.

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Colonizing Giant Stars
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 279, February 25, 2021
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Darius Said
Jason Burbank
Keith Blockus

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The Fermi Paradox Compendium of Solutions & Terms (Narration Only)

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