Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episodes
The Fermi Paradox: Galactic Habitable Zones (Narration Only)
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our galaxy is a dangerous place for life. A vast storm of stars in which new ones are born and die in deadly displays. How much of the galaxy is truly...
Advanced Spaceship Drive Compendium (Narration Only)
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In order to reach the stars we will need vastly more powerful engines for our spacecraft than modern rockets offer. Fortunately, when it comes to poss...
Advanced Spaceship Drive Compendium
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In order to reach the stars we will need vastly more powerful engines for our spacecraft than modern rockets offer. Fortunately, when it comes to poss...
SFIA Monthly Livestream Q&A: Sunday, March 26, 2023
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join Nebula: https://go.nebula.tv/isaacarthurSupport the stream: https://streamlabs.com/isaacarthurVisit our Website: https://www.isaacarthur.netSFIA ...
Hacking The Simulation (Narration Only)
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many speculate that the world isn't real, that it a dream or simulation, but if it is, how to we get out of it or control it?To get started planning a...
Hacking The Simulation
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many speculate that the world isn't real, that it a dream or simulation, but if it is, how to we get out of it or control it?To get started planning a...
The Future of Archeology (Narration Only)
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Powerful new technologies are helping us learn more about our past, uncovering lost cities and recreating documents that time destroyed.🌏 Get Exclu...
The Future of Archeology
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Powerful new technologies are helping us learn more about our past, uncovering lost cities and recreating documents that time destroyed.🌏 Get Exclu...
Surviving An Apocalypse (Narration Only)
12 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If the end of the world is nigh, it may be too late to avert a catastrophe. So what can we do to mitigate the damage or recover after a cataclysm come...
Surviving An Apocalypse
12 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If the end of the world is nigh, it may be too late to avert a catastrophe. So what can we do to mitigate the damage or recover after a cataclysm come...
Intergalactic Voyages (Narration Only)
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Far beyond our Moon and Mars and the other planets is our greater galaxy and its billions and billions of stars. And yet it is but a flyspeck compared...
Intergalactic Voyages
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Far beyond our Moon and Mars and the other planets is our greater galaxy and its billions and billions of stars. And yet it is but a flyspeck compared...
Space Habitats (Narration Only)
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For humanity to explore space and distant worlds, we will need to construct enormous artificial habitats in space with diverse ecologies.Visit https:/...
Space Habitats
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For humanity to explore space and distant worlds, we will need to construct enormous artificial habitats in space with diverse ecologies.Visit https:/...
SFIA Monthly Livestream Q&A: Sunday, February 26, 2023
26 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A recording of SFIA's monthly livestream Q&A session [#52] from February 26, 2023Join Nebula: https://go.nebula.tv/isaacarthurSupport the str...
Journey to Alpha Centauri
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alpha Centauri may be the closest star system to us, but reaching it will be the voyage of a lifetime.To get started planning a career that works on o...
Journey to Alpha Centauri (Narration Only)
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alpha Centauri may be the closest star system to us, but reaching it will be the voyage of a lifetime.To get started planning a career that works on o...
Multiverse Warfare & Quantum Mania (Narration Only)
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If travel to other realities and multiverses is possible, then so is conflict between them, but how would a multiversal war be fought?Go to https://no...
Multiverse Warfare and Quantum Mania
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If travel to other realities and multiverses is possible, then so is conflict between them, but how would a multiversal war be fought?Go to https://no...
Super Soldiers (Narration Only)
09 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We often see stories of invincible warriors with superhuman abilities combating monstrous threats, but are the days of super soldiers nearly upon us, ...
Super Soldiers
09 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We often see stories of invincible warriors with superhuman abilities combating monstrous threats, but are the days of super soldiers nearly upon us, ...
Hycean Planets & Ice Worlds (Narration Only)
09 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our telescopes find new exoplanets and reveal deeper details about them everyday, unveiling massive hydrogen-rich atmosphere planets and icy worlds wh...
Hycean Planets & Ice Worlds
09 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our telescopes find new exoplanets and reveal deeper details about them everyday, unveiling massive hydrogen-rich atmosphere planets and icy worlds wh...
Planetary Terraforming Strategies (Narration Only)
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Once we journey out to the stars, we will need to forge new worlds to live on. Choosing the best terraforming techniques for each planet and star syst...
Planetary Terraforming Strategies
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Once we journey out to the stars, we will need to forge new worlds to live on. Choosing the best terraforming techniques for each planet and star syst...
SFIA Monthly Livestream Q&A: Sunday, January 29, 2023
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A recording of SFIA's monthly livestream Q&A session [#51] from January 29, 2023.Join Nebula: https://go.nebula.tv/isaacarthurSupport the str...
Using Asteroids As Spaceships (Narration Only)
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Asteroids may serve as future bases and colonies for humanity as we travel into space, but could they also be converted into spaceships to take us str...
Using Asteroids As Spaceships
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Asteroids may serve as future bases and colonies for humanity as we travel into space, but could they also be converted into spaceships to take us str...
The Omega Point (Narration Only)
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Omega Point Cosmological Theory argues that it may be possible to continue existing until the End of Time itself.Sign up for a Curiosity Stream su...
The Omega Point
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Omega Point Cosmological Theory argues that it may be possible to continue existing until the End of Time itself.Sign up for a Curiosity Stream su...
The Dark Forest, Aliens, And A Hostile Galaxy (Narration Only)
15 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When we look up into the night skies, all we see is absence and silence, but could our galaxy be a dark forest full of hidden predators waiting to con...
The Dark Forest, Aliens, and a Hostile Galaxy
15 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When we look up into the night skies, all we see is absence and silence, but could our galaxy be a dark forest full of hidden predators waiting to con...
What If We Never Become Post-Scarcity? (Narration Only)
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A day may come when our technology permits vast prosperity for everyone, with robots and other automation producing plenty, but if that day never come...
What If We Never Become Post-Scarcity?
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A day may come when our technology permits vast prosperity for everyone, with robots and other automation producing plenty, but if that day never come...
Interstellar Colonization Strategies (Narration Only)
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As we seek to travel vast distances to claim the galaxy, we will need to develop strategies and methods for voyaging through deep space and reaching s...
Interstellar Colonization Strategies
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As we seek to travel vast distances to claim the galaxy, we will need to develop strategies and methods for voyaging through deep space and reaching s...
SFIA Monthly Livestream: December 31, 2022
01 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our monthly livestream Q&A session. Join us on New Year's Eve in the Afternoon, at 4pm EST, Saturday, December 31, and get your questions about th...
Transhumanism & Humanity’s Future (Narration Only)
29 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the future, humanity may embrace genetic engineering and cybernetic augmentation of mind and body, but what does this Transhuman future look like? ...
Transhumanism & Humanity’s Future
29 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the future, humanity may embrace genetic engineering and cybernetic augmentation of mind and body, but what does this Transhuman future look like? ...
Do We Live Inside A Black Hole… And Could We? (Narration Only)
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Could our entire Universe be one enormous Black Hole? And is it possible to live inside a black hole?Go to https://nordvpn.com/isaacarthur to get a 2-...
Do We Live Inside A Black Hole… And Could We?
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Could our entire Universe be one enormous Black Hole? And is it possible to live inside a black hole?Go to https://nordvpn.com/isaacarthur to get a 2-...
Farming On Mars (Narration Only)
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One day humanity might settle the Red Planet, but how will we grow food on world more barren than any desert or tundra on Earth?Visit https://brillian...
Farming On Mars
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One day humanity might settle the Red Planet, but how will we grow food on world more barren than any desert or tundra on Earth?Visit https://brillian...
Planetary Civil War
11 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Wars in the future may involve vast interplanetary conflicts or civil wars sprawling over an entire world or more, but what will those wars look like?...
Planetary Civil War (Narration Only)
11 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Wars in the future may involve vast interplanetary conflicts or civil wars sprawling over an entire world or more, but what will those wars look like?...
Humanity: Firstborn Space Civilization (Narration Only)
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As we continue to scan the heavens for signs of intelligent life, we must contemplate what it might mean if we are the first civilization to ever aris...
Humanity: Firstborn Space Civilization
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As we continue to scan the heavens for signs of intelligent life, we must contemplate what it might mean if we are the first civilization to ever aris...
The Plan For After SETI Is Successful
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One day we may get a signal from beyond Earth, positive proof of the Existence of Extraterrestrial Life... but what comes next?Sign up for a Curiosity...
The Plan For After SETI Is Successful (Narration Only)
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One day we may get a signal from beyond Earth, positive proof of the Existence of Extraterrestrial Life... but what comes next?Sign up for a Curiosity...
SFIA Monthly Livestream 49 - November 27, 2022
27 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our monthly livestream Q&A session for Sunday, November 27, 2022, where we take questions live from the audience.Support the stream: https://strea...
Reasons To Be Optimistic About The Future (Narration Only)
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As we head through hard times things can seem rather bleak, but there's lots of amazing and beneficial technologies on the horizon.Compare news covera...
Reasons To Be Optimistic About The Future
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As we head through hard times things can seem rather bleak, but there's lots of amazing and beneficial technologies on the horizon.Compare news covera...
Living Planets: The Gaia Hypothesis
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many have believed Earth might have a spirit, but Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis contemplates this as a scientific possibility. Could our world be alive i...
Living Planets: The Gaia Hypothesis (Narration Only)
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many have believed Earth might have a spirit, but Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis contemplates this as a scientific possibility. Could our world be alive i...
Stranded On An Alien World (Narration Only)
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As we reach out to explore the stars, could we find our explorers getting lost on new worlds, inhabited or otherwise. What should we do if stranded on...
Stranded On An Alien World
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As we reach out to explore the stars, could we find our explorers getting lost on new worlds, inhabited or otherwise. What should we do if stranded on...
Automated Economies & Unemployment (Narration Only)
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many fear that future automation may turn out to be the bane of civilization rather than its liberator. How do we ensure we take the path to a prosper...
Automated Economies & Unemployment
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many fear that future automation may turn out to be the bane of civilization rather than its liberator. How do we ensure we take the path to a prosper...
Refueling Our Sun: Holding Back Eternity
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One day our Sun will die, and consume our world in fire, but is it possible to refuel our Sun so that it might live trillions and trillions of year to...
Refueling Our Sun: Holding Back Eternity (Narration Only)
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One day our Sun will die, and consume our world in fire, but is it possible to refuel our Sun so that it might live trillions and trillions of year to...
SFIA Monthly Livestream 48 - October 30, 2022
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our monthly livestream Q&A session for Sunday, October 30, 2022, where we take questions live from the audience.Support the stream: https://stream...
Damaged Spacecraft & Shipwrecked Saucers (Narration Only)
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Spaceships getting damaged or crashing is common story in science fiction but it's also terrifyingly common with real spaceships. So what do we if our...
Damaged Spacecraft & Shipwrecked Saucers
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Spaceships getting damaged or crashing is common story in science fiction but it's also terrifyingly common with real spaceships. So what do we if our...
Your Own Personal Spaceship (Narration Only)
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many of us dream of one day owning our on spacecraft, of traveling to space and other worlds when we choose to. What technologies must the future deli...
Your Own Personal Spaceship
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many of us dream of one day owning our on spacecraft, of traveling to space and other worlds when we choose to. What technologies must the future deli...
Alien Environments (Narration Only)
16 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Among the uncounted stars in this Universe there may be unnumbered strange new worlds, many of which may have environments unlike anything we've ever ...
Alien Environments
16 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Among the uncounted stars in this Universe there may be unnumbered strange new worlds, many of which may have environments unlike anything we've ever ...
What Happens If We Can't Leave Earth? (Narration Only)
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One day our destiny may take us to the stars, but what happens if we find we are unable, or unwilling, to journey to new worlds, and remain only on Ea...
What Happens If We Can't Leave Earth?
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One day our destiny may take us to the stars, but what happens if we find we are unable, or unwilling, to journey to new worlds, and remain only on Ea...
Colonizing Planetary Rings
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Saturn's Moon Titan captures our attention as a future colony, but might the majestic rings of Saturn and other planetary rings be better places to tr...
Colonizing Planetary Rings (Narration Only)
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Saturn's Moon Titan captures our attention as a future colony, but might the majestic rings of Saturn and other planetary rings be better places to tr...
Grabby Aliens & The Fermi Paradox
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The new Grabby Aliens model proposes that the Universe may already contain several thousand immense alien empires... and that we may soon be one of th...
Grabby Aliens & The Fermi Paradox (Narration Only)
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The new Grabby Aliens model proposes that the Universe may already contain several thousand immense alien empires... and that we may soon be one of th...
SFIA Monthly Livestream 47 - September 25, 2022
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our monthly livestream Q&A session for Sunday, September 25, 2022, where we take questions live from the audience.Support the stream: https://stre...
Post Science Civilizations (Narration Only)
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For centuries now science has unlocked ever more mysteries, but could we one day run out of discoveries or abandon further research?Visit https://bril...
Post Science Civilizations
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For centuries now science has unlocked ever more mysteries, but could we one day run out of discoveries or abandon further research?Visit https://bril...
Barriers to Becoming a Kardashev Civilization (Narration Only)
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kardashev Civilizations are beyond immense, with even the first tier of them making any modern nation look miniscule, and there are many barriers to b...
Barriers to Becoming a Kardashev Civilization
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kardashev Civilizations are beyond immense, with even the first tier of them making any modern nation look miniscule, and there are many barriers to b...
Alien Impostors & Doppelgangers
11 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The idea that some mimic might steal your identity and replace you, or takeover your mind, is terrifying. But could we encounter aliens that were able...
Alien Impostors & Doppelgangers (Narration Only)
11 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The idea that some mimic might steal your identity and replace you, or takeover your mind, is terrifying. But could we encounter aliens that were able...
Tethered Ring Space Launchers
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To get into space in a big way we need to be able to move vast amounts of people and cargo to space at a fraction of modern costs; tethered rings offe...
Tethered Ring Space Launchers (Narration Only)
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To get into space in a big way we need to be able to move vast amounts of people and cargo to space at a fraction of modern costs; tethered rings offe...
Staying Sane in Space (Narration Only)
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Space is deadly and our spaceships and stations are cramped and thin-protected environments, placing enormous stress on those who journey there. So ho...
Staying Sane in Space
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Space is deadly and our spaceships and stations are cramped and thin-protected environments, placing enormous stress on those who journey there. So ho...
SFIA Monthly Livestream 46 - August 28, 2022
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our monthly livestream Q&A session. Join us on 4pm EST, Sunday, August 28, 2022, and get your questions about the channel and episodes on chat to ...
The First Space Settlement (Narration Only)
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One day humanity will settle space, but what will that first settlement be like and where will it be? In Orbit? The Moon? Mars? Or somewhere else enti...
The First Space Settlement
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One day humanity will settle space, but what will that first settlement be like and where will it be? In Orbit? The Moon? Mars? Or somewhere else enti...
Time Wars & Alternate Timelines (Narration Only)
18 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Temporal Paradox and Time Travel delight us in science fiction, but what would a war across time really look like?Click the link in the description bo...
Time Wars & Alternate Timelines
18 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Temporal Paradox and Time Travel delight us in science fiction, but what would a war across time really look like?Click the link in the description bo...
Dumbest Alien Invasions (Narration Only)
14 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An Alien Invasion of Earth is a terrifying scenario, yet science fiction rarely has good reason for those invasions. Today we'll discuss the worst rea...
Dumbest Alien Invasions
14 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An Alien Invasion of Earth is a terrifying scenario, yet science fiction rarely has good reason for those invasions. Today we'll discuss the worst rea...
The Fermi Paradox: Technological Timebombs (Narration Only)
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We often wonder where all the aliens are out in the galaxy, but could it be that the technologies needed to get to space and travel the stars lead to ...
The Fermi Paradox: Technological Timebombs
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We often wonder where all the aliens are out in the galaxy, but could it be that the technologies needed to get to space and travel the stars lead to ...
Alien Refugees [Narration Only]
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Aliens may one day visit Earth not to invade us but to seek refuge from an invasion or other calamity, how can we respond and should we?Sign up for a ...
Alien Refugees
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Aliens may one day visit Earth not to invade us but to seek refuge from an invasion or other calamity, how can we respond and should we?Sign up for a ...
SFIA Monthly Livestream 45 - July 31, 2022
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our monthly livestream Q&A session for July 31, 2022Visit our Website: www.isaacarthur.netSFIA Discord Server: discord.gg/53GAShESupport us on Pat...
Black Holes & Dark Matter (Narration Only)
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Black Holes and Dark Matter are two of those mysterious things in the Universe, but could black holes be the key to unlocking the secrets of Dark Matt...
Black Holes & Dark Matter
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Black Holes and Dark Matter are two of those mysterious things in the Universe, but could black holes be the key to unlocking the secrets of Dark Matt...
The Fermi Paradox: Absent Megastructures (Narration Only)
22 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The great mystery of where all the aliens are in our vast Universe contemplates ancient interstellar civilizations building enormous megastructures th...
The Fermi Paradox: Absent Megastructures
22 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The great mystery of where all the aliens are in our vast Universe contemplates ancient interstellar civilizations building enormous megastructures th...