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Such a fleeting and ethereal thing, won't even survive being tightly held in one's grasp. And yet, while easily smothered, it never truly dies. It only becomes more real in its absence, and somehow, it always finds its way back to you again.

After all the worldly wealth and power will have crumbled to nothing, all the flames burnt out and all waters dried away, sit down on the last piece of rock, open your palm and close your eyes. It will be there, waiting for you.

Butterfly

Many technologies are greatly anticipated and predicted, and promise to change our lives. Today we will be looking at some that get less fanfare, but hold the promise to change our lives in profound ways.

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MolbOrg
Naomi Kern
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Sigmund Kopperud
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Tiffany Penner

Music:
Dexter Britain, "Seeing the Future"
Kai Engel, "Endless story about Sun and Moon"
Frank Dorittke, "Morninglight"
Lombus, "Hydrogen Sonata"
AJ Prasad, "Aether"
Kevin MacLeod, "Spacial Winds"

Quiet Revolution

It is often thought that if we cure aging or find out how to upload a human mind that humans will be immortal. Today we will examine that notion and see how well it holds up against astronomical timelines.

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Kris Holland of Mafic Stufios: www.maficstudios.com
Misho Yordanov
Pierre Demet
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Stefan Blandin

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Connor Hogan
Edward Nardella
Eustratius Graham
Gregory Leal
Jefferson Eagley
Luca de Rosa
Mark Warburton
Michael Gusevsky
Mitch Armstrong
MolbOrg
Naomi Kern
Philip Baldock
Sigmund Kopperud
Steve Cardon
Tiffany Penner

Music:
Markus Junnikkala, "Always Tell Me the Odds"
Lombus, "Hydrogen Sonata"
Aerium, "Waters of Atlantis"
Kai Engel, "January"
AJ Prasad, "Cold Shadows"
Sergey Cheremisinov, "Labyrinth"

Digital Death

Teleportation is a staple of science fiction, and today we will examine the idea to see if there are any ways under known science that might permit it, as well as discuss some novel uses for the technology that tend to be overlooked.

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Mark Warburton
Matthew Acker

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Music:
Markus Junnikkala, "Mobilize the Fleets" https://www.markusjunnikkala.com/
Markus Junnikkala, 
"A Proud and Noble People"
Dexter Britain, "The Stars Are Out Interlude" https://dexterbritain.com
Kai Engel, "Snowfall Intro" https://soundcloud.com/anton-stanislavovich-fedchenkov
Koalips, "Kvazar" https://myspace.com/koalipsrus
Denny Schneidemesser, "Across the Universe" https://soundcloud.com/denny-schneidemesser

Teleportation

Machine City - OST

The City of Machines

Machine City OST

Khylee

To see deeper into space, we will need much bigger telescopes.
As astronomy seeks to find and study distant planets and peer further and more accurately into space and time, the limitations of ground based telescopes, especially optical telescopes, represents our largest barrier. Today we will examine what those limitations are, and ways to make vastly more enormous telescopes and arrays

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Credits:
Megatelescopes Season 4, Episode 19  Writers: Isaac Arthur Mark Warburton  Editors: Darius Said Jerry Guern Keith Blockus  Producer: Isaac Arthur  Cover Artist:
Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/artist/jakub_grygier  
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Narrator: Isaac Arthur  Music Manager: Luca De Rosa  Music:  Stellardrone, "Billions And Billions" https://stellardrone.bandcamp.com  Aerium, “Waters of Atlantis" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRnUJY3l5vIJFGsY3XvW4dQ  Lombus, “Time Slip" https://soundcloud.com/lombusmusic  Markus Junnikkala, "A Memory Of Earth" https://www.markusjunnikkala.com/ 
Stellardrone, "Light Years" https://stellardrone.bandcamp.com

Megatelescopes

In order to get into space, we require either huge amounts of rocket fuel or dangerously powerful energy sources, making personal spacecraft a technology limited to science fiction. But by harnessing beamed power sources to run engines, we may be able to create a spaceplane cheap enough and safe enough that  anyone could have one in the future.
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Credits:
Upward Bound: Beam Powered Spaceships
Episode 192, Season 5 E27

Written by:
Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Evan Schultheis
Darius Said
Keith Blockus
Matthew Acker
S Graham https://beyondnerva.wordpress.com
S. Kopperud

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

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Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana
Katie Byrne
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Kris Holland (Mafic Studios) www.maficstudios.com
Sam McNamara
Sergio Botero https://www.artstation.com/sboterod?fref=gc

Produced & Narrated by:
Isaac Arthur

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Luca DeRosa - lucaderosa2@live.com

Music:
Sergey Cheremisinov, "Sirius" https://www.s-cheremisinov.com
Stellardrone, "In Time" https://stellardrone.bandcamp.com
Scott Buckley, "Titan" http://www.scottbuckley.com.au
Kevin MacLeod, "Morning Snowflake"  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSZXFhRIx6b0dFX3xS8L1yQ
Dan MacLeod, "Alpha Protocol" https://soundcloud.com/neptuneuk
AJ Prasad, "Staring Through (Part II)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA8-7qwaEPU

Beam Powered Spaceships

A Paperclip Maximizer is an example of artificial intelligence run amok performing a job, potentially seeking to turn all the Universe into paperclips. But it's also an example of a concept called Instrumental Convergence, where two entities with wildly different ultimate goals might end up acting very much alike. This concept is very important to preparing ourselves for future automation and machine minds, and we'll explore that today.

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Credits:
The Paperclip Maximizer
Episode 201a, Season 5 E36a

Written by:
Isaac Arthur
Mark Warburton

Editors
Darius Said
Keith Blockus
Konstantin Sokerin
Matt Campbell

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Tristan3D

Produced & Narrated by:
Isaac Arthur

Music:
Markus Junnikkala, "Fate of Our People" & "A Memory of Earth" https://www.markusjunnikkala.com/
Chris Zabriskie, "Cylinder 9" & "The Ocean Continue to Rise"  http://chriszabriskie.com
Denny Schneidemesser, "Novus Aeterno (Main Titles)" https://soundcloud.com/denny-schneidemesser

The Paperclip Maximizer

Isaac Arthur

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