One day humanity might make contact with an alien race, but will we be able to understand their languages? 

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Alien: Civilizations: Alien Languages
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 290, May 13, 2021

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Alien Languages

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Upcoming Advances in Material Science 
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 320; December 9, 2021
Produced, Written, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Upcoming Advances In Material Science

Telepathy and other psychic abilities have often been investigated by science, but could the future offer humanity such talents, and is science they key to unlocking or creating them?
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Telepathy
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 325a; January 16, 2022
Produced, Written, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Telepathy

Clandestine conspiracies and covert alien activity are popular theories involving UFO & UAP sightings as well as in science fiction, but what would covert alien activity look like?

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Alien Civilizations: Clandestine & Covert Aliens
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 334, March 17, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Israel Debro
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Aerium, "Fifth Star of Aldebaran"
Miguel Johnson, "Strange New World"

Covert Aliens

We continue our discussion of surveying for habitable exoplanets by touring our possible option for interstellar probes, dumb and smart, flyby and protracted orbital.
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Interstellar Probes
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 347, June 16, 2022
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Interstellar Probes

The Banks Orbital is a ring-shaped Space Habitat over a million miles across with hundreds of times more living area than the entire Earth.
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The Banks Orbital: God's Bracelet
Episode 445; February 29, 2024
Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur
Written by: Isaac Arthur & Mark Warburton
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The Banks Orbital: God’s Bracelet

We continue our look at hypothetical alien civilizations by discussing the various possible circumstances in which we might first contact them or be contacted by them. 

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"First Contact"
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“Mario Bava sleeps in a little later than he expected to”
Kevin MacLeod
“Spacial Winds”
Phase Shift
"Forest Night"

First Contact

The galaxy is an immense place, with billions of solar systems to colonize, and interstellar voyages to even nearby stars can take centuries. In order to explore and settle those new worlds, we may wish to take advantage of a type of generation ship that stops at planet after planet, colonizing each in turn, and entire colonial fleets that grow as they venture outward from Earth, creating new spaceships as often as terraforming new worlds.

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Generation Ships:Galactic Gardeners
Episode 172, Season 5 E06

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Edward Nardella
Gloria Meadows
Keith Blockus
Sigmund Kopperud

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Aerium, "Windmill forests" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRnUJY3l5vIJFGsY3XvW4dQ
AJ Prasad of Dark Future, "Staring Through (Part II)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA8-7qwaEPU
Markus Junnikkala, "We Roam the Stars" https://www.markusjunnikkala.com/

Galactic Gardeners

Interstellar travel is very time consuming, moving from star to star, but perhaps we could use stars themselves as spaceships, and move whole solar systems or even galaxies.
Today we'll look at how to use Shkadov Thrusters, novas, supernovae, black holes and quasars to move through space, literal starships.

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Generation Ships: Fleet of Stars
Episode 186, Season 5 E20

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Keith Blockus
Mark Warburton
Phonetic Failure
Sigmund Kopperud

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Sam McNamara
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Markus Junnikkala, "We Roam the Stars" https://www.markusjunnikkala.com/

Fleet Of Stars

Alien Invasions have been a staple of science fiction for years, with motherships and UFOs assaulting Earth, but how realistic is such a thing? We'll take a look at what might motivate an attack, how it might happen, what alternatives might make more sense, and what might prevent extraterrestrials from trying.

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Invasive Aliens
Episode 196, Season 5 E31

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Isaac Arthur

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Jerry Guern
Keith Blockus
Matthew Campbell 
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Ross Bugden, "City Lights" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQKGLOK2FqmVgVwYferltKQ

Invasive Aliens

Science Fiction often shows us aliens and human living among one another in space, but how realistic are such portrayals and what sort of accommodation would extraterrestrials need for their environments? We will also ask if humans and aliens could live together, possibly even marry and have hybrid offspring.

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Multi-Species Civilizations & Co-Alien Habitats
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 277a; February 14, 2021
Produced, Written, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
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Jerry Guern https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxgArWbEhZg
Keith Blockus
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