Search Results: "Futurism"
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Spacesuits & Extreme Environment Gear
Added 19 Views / 0 LikesGet a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthurThere's many dangerous places on Earth, and everywhere off Earth is downright lethal, from the emptiness of space to the airless and radiation soaked Moon to the smoldering infern
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Synthetic Meat
Added 39 Views / 0 LikesVisit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/There are many reasons not to eat meat, or at least less of it: medical, ethical, economical, or ecological, but the stuff is quite tasty. Today we'll look at how artificial meat technologies
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Superpowers
Added 42 Views / 0 LikesVisit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/The dream of having superhuman abilities is as old as humanity, and appeared in everything from mythology to comic books, but the future might offer technologies that turn these dreams into r
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Weaponizing Black Holes
Added 51 Views / 0 LikesStart listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook plus two Audible Originals are free. Visithttp://www.audible.com/isaac or text "ISAAC" to 500-500.Black Holes are often considered the most dangerous objects in the Universe, especially
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Colonizing Pluto
Added 66 Views / 0 LikesVisit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/Pluto and it's largest moon, Charon, are so far from the Sun and so tiny that they would not seem like promising options for interplanetary colonization. However, they may turn out to be exce
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Spaceplanes
Added 48 Views / 0 LikesGet a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthurSpaceplanes long seemed like the logical next step for getting into orbit after the Space Shuttle, but have seemingly fallen to the wayside in recent years in favor of reusable ro
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Colonizing Black Holes
Added 58 Views / 0 LikesVisit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/Black Holes are amongst the most destructive things in the Universe, but it may be that properly utilized, they might be the best places in the galaxy to live around in the future, and possib
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Sky Platforms
Added 289 Views / 0 LikesThe option of using floating platforms, balloons, or cargo air planes to launch rockets into space and save fuel is often discussed but rarely employed. Today we'll look at stratostations, rockoons, and other suggested methods for getting into space using
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Post-Apocalyptic Civilizations
Added 179 Views / 1 LikesTry Dashlane here: https://www.dashlane.com/isaacarthurGet 10% off now with my promo code: isaacarthurThe End of the World is a popular topic in science fiction and a source of serious worry for modern civilizations. If Doomsday comes, what can a Prepper
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Matrioshka Worlds
Added 188 Views / 0 LikesVisit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/The galaxy contains countless billions of planets we might colonize, and we may build far more living area as space station habitats and megastructures, but Earth will always be unique and li
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Clarketech: Anti-Gravity
Added 194 Views / 0 LikesGet a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthurPerhaps one of the most common technologies seen in science fiction is anti-gravity and gravity manipulation. Today we'll examine if there's an scientific pathways in physics to p
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Techno-Primitivism
Added 103 Views / 0 LikesSign up with Skillshare for 2 months of Free classes: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur9Fears about technology and it's impact on our civilization, or on individuals even when new tech is net benefit, are often shown to us in fiction as giving rise to technophob
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Planet Ships
Added 225 Views / 0 LikesVisit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/Earth has often been compared to a spaceship, one that's successfully orbited our star and the galaxy many times over billions of years. So what about moving our planet or even converting it
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Subterranean Civilizations
Added 198 Views / 0 LikesVisit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/Historically humanity has often taken shelter in caves or underground, and it is often thought we might do so again, on other worlds, in event of disasters, or simply because we run out of ro
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Mind Uploading
Added 130 Views / 0 LikesUse my link http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "ISAAC" to 500-500 to get a free book including a copy of "The Singularity Trap" and a 30-day free trial of Audible. The ability to be able to copy or upload the mind has been discussed much in science fict
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Planetary Assaults & Invasions
Added 195 Views / 0 LikesUse my link http://www.audible.com/isaac or text code isaac to 500-500 to get a free book and 30 day free trialWe continue our look at Space Warfare by examining the notion of assaulting and invading planets. Often seen in fiction as vulnerable locations