

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Isaac Arthur
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur explores humanity’s long-term future through space exploration, advanced technology, and big-picture science. Hosted by National Space Society President Isaac Arthur, each episode uses real science and careful speculation to examine space colonization, megastructures, artificial intelligence, post-scarcity economies, and the physics shaping civilization beyond Earth.
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Dec 3, 2020 • 26min
Surviving The Next Century
The last century has been one of awesome and often terrifying technological progress, and the next century offers as many wonders and terrors for us to navigate into our future.
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Becoming a Kardashev-1 Post-Scarcity Civilization
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 267; De3cember 3, 2020
Produced, Written, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur
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Matthew Campbell
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Dec 3, 2020 • 25min
Surviving The Next Century (Narration Only)
The last century has been one of awesome and often terrifying technological progress, and the next century offers as many wonders and terrors for us to navigate into our future.
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Becoming a Kardashev-1 Post-Scarcity Civilization
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 267; De3cember 3, 2020
Produced, Written, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur
Editors:
Jerry Guern https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxgArWbEhZg
Matthew Campbell
PhoneticFailure
Victoria Kelly
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Music Courtesy of Miguel Johnson https://migueljohnson.bandcamp.com
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Nov 29, 2020 • 1h 2min
SFIA Monthly Livestream 25 - November 29, 2020
Our monthly livestream Q&A session for November 2020
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Nov 26, 2020 • 26min
Life As A Space Colonist (Narration Only)
In order to colonize space, we will need colonists willing to travel to desolate planets, moons, and asteroids to settle those worlds. What would life be like as a pioneer to the alien frontier?
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Life as a Space Colonist
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 266; November 26, 2020
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur
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A.T. Long
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Nov 26, 2020 • 26min
Life As A Space Colonist
In order to colonize space, we will need colonists willing to travel to desolate planets, moons, and asteroids to settle those worlds. What would life be like as a pioneer to the alien frontier?
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Life as a Space Colonist
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 266; November 26, 2020
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur
Editors:
A.T. Long
S. Kopperud
Cover Art:
Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier
Graphics:
Fishy Tree https://www.deviantart.com/fishytree/
Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana
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Nov 19, 2020 • 22min
Asteroid Mining and Orbital Settlements (Narration Only)
Asteroids represent a threat to Earth, but in the future they may be a boon, serving as sources of vast wealth and resources, and as orbital settlements and keystones of interplanetary trade.
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Asteroid Mining & Orbital Settlements
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 265; November 19, 2020
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur
Editors:
Jerry Guern
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Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier
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Kristijan Tavcar
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Nov 19, 2020 • 22min
Asteroid Mining and Orbital Settlements
Asteroids represent a threat to Earth, but in the future they may be a boon, serving as sources of vast wealth and resources, and as orbital settlements and keystones of interplanetary trade.
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Asteroid Mining & Orbital Settlements
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 265; November 19, 2020
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Editors:
Jerry Guern
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Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier
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Bryan Versteeg http://spacehabs.com
Fishy Tree https://www.deviantart.com/fishytree/
Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana
Kristijan Tavcar
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SpaceResourcesCGI
Udo Schroeter
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Nov 15, 2020 • 26min
Fermi Paradox: The Prime Directive
One solution to the Fermi Paradox, the big question of where all the aliens are, is that extraterrestrials might hide from us to avoid altering our society, a concept we see in Star Trek called the Prime Directive. Is such a policy ethical, and if so, should we follow it?
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The Fermi Paradox: The Prime Directive
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 264a; November 15, 2020
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur
Written by:
Isaac Arthur
Editors:
Darius Said
Jerry Guern
Keith Blockus
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Nov 15, 2020 • 25min
Fermi Paradox: The Prime Directive (Narration Only)
One solution to the Fermi Paradox, the big question of where all the aliens are, is that extraterrestrials might hide from us to avoid altering our society, a concept we see in Star Trek called the Prime Directive. Is such a policy ethical, and if so, should we follow it?
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The Fermi Paradox: The Prime Directive
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 264a; November 15, 2020
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur
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Isaac Arthur
Editors:
Darius Said
Jerry Guern
Keith Blockus
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Nov 12, 2020 • 29min
Interstellar Trade & Cyclers
Establishing Interstellar Trade and Commerce in the future will require an entirely new approach to moving cargo, as years if not centuries might pass for shipments to arrive by even the fastest spaceships, but may be aided by the use of vast interstellar Cycler Castles traveling on century long trade routes.
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Interstellar Trade & Cyclers
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 254; November 12, 2020
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur
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Jerry Guern
Keith Blockus
S. Kopperud
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