Science fiction delights in showing us brave adventurers boarding abandoned spaceships, exploring ancient alien worlds and space hulks, or surviving on planets turned into giant garbage dumps, but how realistic is this idea? And what sort of civilizations and cultures might spring up around such efforts?
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Space Derelicts & Trash Worlds
Episode 201, Season 5 E36

Written by:
Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Keith Blockus
S. Kopperud

Cover Art:
Jakub Grygier

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Scott Buckley, "Red" http://www.scottbuckley.com.au
Marcus Warner, "In Arcadia" 
Chris Zabriskie, "Unfoldment Revealment Evolution Exposition Integration Arson" http://chriszabriskie.com
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Space Derelicts

We often see science as an eternal march forward, but could a society stop advancing, either by choice or by running out own new things to discover.

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Technological Stagnation
Episode 233; Apr 9, 2020

Writers:
Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Darius Said
Jerry Guern
Keith Blockus
Konstantin Sokerin

Produced & Narrated by
Isaac Arthur

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Technological Stagnation

The other side of the coin to all the new & future wonders we produce is what to do with them when they're old or broken. Today we examine the future of garbage, waste, and recycling.

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Alien Civilizations: Non-Carbon Based Life
Episode 234, Season 6 E16

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The Future Of Garbage

The future of humanity might be one of unrivaled prosperity -  a post-scarcity civilization - of abundant power, advanced automation and robotics, and sophisticated artificial intelligence helping boost efficiency to all economic sectors. But what would such an economy look like, and what challenges might we face getting there?

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Economies of the Future
Episode 235; April 23, 2020

Writers:
Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Evan Schultheis
Keith Blockus
Dillon Olander

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Isaac Arthur

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Economies Of The Future

As humanity reaches out to the stars and make new homes on strange new worlds, how will our genetics & DNA change under those alien planets?

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Genetic Divergence & Civilization
Episode 236; April 30, 2020

Writers:
Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Jerry Guern
Keith Blockus
S. Kopperud

Produced & Narrated by:
Isaac Arthur

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

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Udo Schroeter

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Genetic Divergence & Civilization (Narration Only)

In the future we might see the rise of minds entirely on computers, be it uploaded humans, transhumans, or artificial intelligence. But what would such an existence be like? Would they interact with our world or live in entirely virtual realities or simulated universes?

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Life as a Digital Being
Episode 237; May 7, 2020

Writers:
Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Darius Said
Jerry Guern
Keith Blockus

Produced & Narrated by:
Isaac Arthur

Cover Art:
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Life As A Digital Being

Parallel Universes, Multiverses, Alternate Timeline & Realities are the focus of many theories of physics and popular science & science fiction.  

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Parallel Universes & Alternate Realities
Episode 238; May 14, 2020

Writers:
Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Jerry Guern
Keith Blockus
Matthew Acker

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Isaac Arthur

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

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Parallel Universes & Alternate Realities

Ancient cultures long thought the Sun had a mind of it's own, but could life form in stars by nature or exist by artificial origins, and what would star with a mind of its own be like?

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Conscious Stellar Objects
Episode 238a, Season 6E20a

Written, Produced, and Narrated by:
Isaac Arthur

Editors
Andy Nelson
S. Kopperud

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Tristan3D

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"Visions of Vega"
"Fifth Star of Aldebaran"
"Waters of Atlantis"
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Conscious Stellar Objects

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SFIA Monthly Livestream 19 - May 31, 2020

Jupiter is an enormous gas giant, more massive than all the other planets in the solar system combined... and yet small compared to our Sun and other Stellar Objects. Could Jupiter be turned into a second sun via advanced technology?

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Summer on Jupiter
Episode 241, June 4, 2020

Written by:
Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Darius Said
Jerry Guern

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

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Markus Junnikkala, "Hail the Victorious Dead" https://www.markusjunnikkala.com/
Aerium, "The Islands moved while I was asleep" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRnUJY3l5vIJFGsY3XvW4dQ
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Markus Junnikkala, "The Men Would love a good fight" https://www.markusjunnikkala.com/
Lombus, "Doppler Shores" https://lombus.bandcamp.com
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Summer On Jupiter: Making a Second Sun

Artificial Intelligence seems nearer everyday, and many people worry about a conflict between us and robots & computer minds, but what would life be like After AI?

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After AI
Episode 242a, June 14, 2020

Narrated & Produced by:
Isaac Arthur

Written by:
Isaac Arthur
Jerry Guern

Editors:
Keith Blockus
Naomi Kern

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

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