It drives me crazy when i talk to family and friends about our future in the stars. They give the 😐 😧😒 faces... I'm late to the party but i absolutely love science and futurism. Seeing where we as a race can theoretically reach if we can overcome our limitations is a beautiful thing. I just dont see how you are more amazed over a pair shoes than our future.. sorry for that lil rant.. Professor Arthur I thank you for this channel and opening my eyes.
Finn Maccool how we get to stars hasn't been worked yet but we are working on it and making headway. I believe if we would stop trying to be the first country and do it together as one global coalition, the goal to the stars can be realized.
I know what you mean. My friends wife told him off for teaching his kids about the ISS, because it isn't a real thing !!! Needless to say we have put her straight now and she is very embarrassed whenever we bring it up, which we do, often!
I thought the same thing. What's mind boggling to think about is that interdimensional travel is more likely to be a reality than FTL travel and time travel.
No I am not. Like I said, I realize that what I said is subjective. When looking at the cosmic microwave background there are theories that supervoids are created when we merge or bump in to another universe. It's all about folding through the dimension above which theoretically, is possible.
That was excellent video. And about the segment about Warhammer 40k was quite intriguing and enlightening. It would easily explain the Imperiums obsession of duty, honor and tradition. And for all the cultural and institutional differences that exists between the planets and organization, reverence to the Emperor is a unifying theme. It's the internal pressure that literally and metaphorically unites and keeps the rest of the Imperium going. And as you said, the galactic threats that keep attacking the Imperium also serve as the external threat to unite it as well. It's ironic that said threats are both what is destroying and gluing the Imperium together.
It is a parody of the actual Dark Fleet/ Solar Warden program on Earth. They are told they are defending mankind from aliens. In fact, they are working for the aliens: plot twist.
Promethium It's pretty cool that he's influencing people in that sort of way. If I think of the Science and Sc-fi greats, Isaac Arthur is definitely in my top three. It blows my mind that his channel doesn't have more than one million subs!??! What the Hell is everybody else watching?! It will get there and beyond I'm convinced. We are so lucky he does this for us! Jim
James Callahan when I first discovered IA channel he had about 30K subscribers. He deserves to be at V-Sauce level. Subtitles in other languages would be great, not everybody understands English. For instance Carl Sagan was on French TV in the 80's, in French language, which helped a lot back in the days.
Thank you so much for the vids! You present material in a way that is non-patronizing, not pretentious, extremely thorough, and very understandable to those of us with training in hard-science (biochem, in my case...) at least. There is something about your choice of wording, your impeded, yet really cool voice, the way you connect with your audience...I am not exactly sure...but, you make your audience feel as if we are THERE, personally part of an Elite Ruling Council of a K1 civilization, and you are the lead scientific adviser briefing us on how we are going to march towards K2 status! You are a badass! Your vids have helped my life in ways I should not mention on YT (like how watching your vids and how they make me feel as if I am part of the future helped me put down the rig and clean up). Please do not stop making videos! Some of us out there really need you!
Your channel is the best channel here on youtube regarding science because of the quality of the ideas presented, the fact that you're doing them every week, and I reached the point where I love even your voice. Regarding the Dune universe, I have a feeling that the first book was written as a standalone novel and the next two were kinda forced into but with other 3 properly written and expanding on the amazing universe. And I think you are right about the society in Dune beeing a multiverse one, at least for the navigators and the kwisatz haderach.
I'm not that old, but I live every day with this feeling like we're in the moment when science is becoming science fiction. And all the more so since I found your channel. Love listening to the playlists, man. Learning new stuff and sharpening my own thoughts & amateur sci-fi thereby. Thanks.
For folks asking about the game, that is Pre-Alpha footage from H.A.D.E.S. 9, you won't be able to google it yet, this is the first public mention of it anywhere. We've been working on it for almost a year, longer, that's just when I came onboard, with the 'no damn random planets' as part of my condition for writing the lore & tech up, which I cemented by obliterating every planet in the galaxy just to make sure :) I'll talk about it more as we get closer to release, this is 'yeah, the engine is working' footage. facebook.com/Hades9Game/
I am become Isaac, destroyer of random worlds! Good to see you branching out Isaac, oh and please do consider authoring some books, I imagine they would be fantastic. Keep up the good work!
@@sayedmohidulislam8102 you don't have to live on the planet -- just build a ring world around its orbit. You could also build an empire on an uninhabitable planet by constructing a string of floating cities in the planet's orbit.
I know this will sound cheesy, but I can't wait until I've got kids old enough to be into Sci-Fi. We're gonna have so much fun on rainy days crunching through Issac's work and letting our minds wander the universe!
There is an organization called "big brothers big sisters". They need volunteers. There is a shortage of childcare providers. If you are in a city it should not be hard to organize a sci fi fan club. A local librarian I know would prefer an adult talking to the kids in a conference room to chaos all over.
Another fantastic video from our esteemed professor of Science and Futurism, Isaac Arthur! Have a wondeful Holiday, Isaac, and thanks for all that you do!
I found your notion of a megaworld centred at the supermassive blackhole to hold promise for a coherent giant empire without massive communication lag. It would be great to revisit that concept in more detail. If we were going to send out fleets of von neumann probes, making them tow every uninhabited system into the galactic core would get my vote. Your channel makes my week!
Why? Plan for every situation is the cornerstone of every successful war and no plan survives contact is what keeps military personnel fluid and able to adapt
No, I mean that there are a million "Rule 1's". In warfare, everything is always "Rule 1". And Isaac has a way of very subtly bringing it back as an ongoing joke. I always find it funny.
I swear, your channel is making me a futurist elitist. I had a discussion with my sister about how it would be easier to technologically develop habitats for settling space and have most of the stars open up as viable places to live as a result. But she thought that was a stupid idea. why not just live on the planets she said. Space is boring, what would we do there? It really offended me. So much so that it surprised me.
I have had that problem too. How do you talk to someone about this stuff if they are sooooo far behind on the topic that they don't even know the simplest terms? "Fermi sounds like an Italian name" and "Dyson who?" and "What's an O'Neill cylinder?"
I have always had a science fiction leaning. When I was 10 years old I read my first sci-fi book "Skylark of Space", and not far behind was Larry Niven's "A Gift From Earth". But almost nobody I knew read that kind of material. And now thanks to Arthursdays, and this channel I am learning so much that I am leaving everyone around me way behind
This makes me desperate for a depiction, or visualization of what you're describing. It always blows me away on how utterly massive the universe is, and I'm always caught off-guard by its immensity and raw potential. The mention of interdimensional empires reminds me heavily of the Combine from Half-Life; and how, if you read the lore, you'll note how they essentially don't even register earth and our universe as a blip on their map, and that they really only wanted Xen and earth was just sort of a convenient bonus. Hell, they didn't even conquer us with anything really advanced, and only ever used assimilated or conquered species and it only took 7 hours. The only reason why humans are even still around 20 years later is because Dr. Breen was trying desperately to preserve the species; otherwise they would've just cannibalized the planet decades ago. And even then, Episode 3 ends with Freeman launching a time-travelling, quantum shifting boat off towards a Combine dyson sphere, and it doesn't even register as a hit to the Combine. All this to say; that's the only time in any sci-fi game I've played that anything came remotely close to depicting the concepts of the true possible scale of things.
Sorry to be so off topic but does someone know a trick to get back into an instagram account? I somehow forgot my password. I appreciate any assistance you can give me.
I don't think I've ever commented on any of your videos, but I have been with you since the first Dyson Dilemma videos, and I've always loved your work and will continue to for the foreseeable future! Thanks for blowing my mind every week!
G'day from Australia Issac. Good to hear about your audio channels. I do a lot of driving for my work, and I have always enjoyed Friday mornings since I know I have a new episode to look forward to. Keep up the good work.
Just started watching a couple months ago, the wife thinks your voice is soothing. I like the subjects, I'm almost 70 years old yet you give the chance to feed my brain, still unfamiliar with this computer but your lessons are a great motivation for me to learn this confounded machine. Glad I found you. Thank you very much.
Just got married today so missed two episodes. Just wanted to say that to my fellow science lovers. Thank you issac for your videos once again. Salamat
huge fan but I have to give you heck because as a ex-reading addict (at 17 I had a personal library of over 1500 novels, anything can be a sickness) you have seriously damaged my appreciation of science fiction... lol is ok can mostly separate. keep up the great work. Probably my biggest..."anger" in life is how slow we, as the human race, has been in fulfilling the promise of moving off this planet. I have lived longer then expected (and with health longer then wanted) but as I was saying to my children the only thing that could really get me to stick around a lot longer is it would be nice to see what the human race looks like in a few thousand years. We have so much potential but I often fear we are just going to sink in a morass of apathy and despair (course the uncomfortableness of my existence makes me somewhat negative at times... lol). thanks again and merry xmas to you and everyone else on this excellent channel.
this is easily my favorite channel. i have been watching since well before you started doing the episodes regularly, and have noticed how much you have improved an already excellent product.
I have always thought Interstellar Empires and Civilizations were a thing of sci-fi or reality with FTL technology. But after seeing this wonderful video and others before it. It is amazes me what we could do with the technology we have today and what we could get within just 100 years. You are making me look at sci-fi and the future in a new hopeful light. And I am certain you will blow my mind again with Intergalactic and Sun Colonization. Thank you for a wonderful early Christmas gift.
I have watched every single episode and have to say just WOW! Mr Arther, you are making a video encyclopedia of science and futurism - one that when its finished will be used for decades to come by anybody interested in science and futurism. This stuff should be used in educational institutions of all levels all around the world. Thank you for all your hard work and to all those that help you with this, it truly is remarkable. I wish I was in a position to support you financially - I will do when I can. Very best wishes Mr D.A.Mitchell Isle of Man.
One reason that I love the Warhammer 40k universe is that I find it to portrait an interstelar empire quite well, since the size of the armies and cities are colossal , it really feels like a universe with billions of trillions of humans.
Favourite ever series! The supporting readers and sound effects are used quite inconsistently which can be a bit jarring, more so later in the series, but Simon Vance is amazing in this version! He acts most of it, it almost seems as though there was an abridged radio production of the earlier books and Vance just fills in the rest but as you get deeper in the series it becomes annoying to hear any other actor speaking for Duncan Idaho or Teg because he just voices them so brilliantly! If you make it as far as God Emperor of Dune, conversations between the tyrant, duncan and moneo are just voice acting gold! If you have a spare 150 odd hours of ear time and you love sci fi there is no excuse for you not getting started on this epic saga immediately you will not regret it!
Meh, never really understood the like, let alone love of Dune, strangely enough I love, LOVE Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson's series. Then again, I never understood the love for Star Wars, not until I saw Star Wars: Clone wars (the original animated series - the one that's no longer cannon ironically) and fell in love with that universe.
Yes, the imperium of man is composed of a million worlds (probably?. You go to count them), and unknown amounts of settlements, mining operations, space stations, etc. I wouldnt say millions of ships, but thats because they are big, take many time to build, and constant war doesnt help them age well. Another thing they get right is how slow even ftl messages are in such scales, and how much bureocracy it needs to do anything. Like, entire cites dedicated to it. Planets, even. As such the control of the territory is split in large segmentums, divided in sectors, divided in subsectors. Single planet rebelions might take years to be dealed with, and invasions from external powers could need months to be responded to.
entZEROspawn for them to have billions of ships, would mean each and every single planet would get a defensive fleet of a million ships. And that's just not true, not even in the second war of Armageddon where there more than a thousand imperial ships. Of course, kilometric ships (an escort being the size of a star destroyer), but not millions.
5 Segmentums that have 20 sectors each, that then again is broken into sub sectors It varies a lot how many sub sectors there are but around 10 is a valid number. A sub sector fleet is around 4 Battleships, 27 Cruisers and 36 squadrons of Escorts (this can be anything from 12-24 ships per squadron) and we don't have numbers on ships smaller than 1 km or support ships/transports. These are aktive fleets, then there is Bastion Fleets and Planetary defense ships (not necessarily warp capable). 4.000 battleships, 27.000 cruisers 432.000 - 864.000 Escorts for the sub sectors fleets + strikecarfts, interceptors (70-100 meters) transports, support ships. Each Sector Battlefleet is assigned a number of Cruisers and Battleships, usually between 50 and 75 vessels. Each Sector Battlefleet is also assigned multiple squadrons of Escort starships, and is also in command of a large number of transports, messenger craft, orbital defences, space platforms and system patrol vessels. So if that has the same force buildup as sub sectors fleet, it would look like this in the low number. 25 Battleships 50 cruisers and 82 squadrons of Escorts or: 2.500 battleships, 7.500 cruisers and 98.400-196.800 Escorts for the sub sectors fleets + strikecarfts, interceptors (70-100 meters) transports, support ships. That give us a total of aktive fleet ships of: 571.400 - 1.200.000 Ships + strikecarfts, interceptors (70-100 meters) transports, support ships. That is without planetary defense, Bastion fleets and the numbers of support ships in it. Also if every planet had 1 million ships there would only be 1000 planets in 40k. Wiki: "The Imperium of Man is spread impossibly thin across an estimated two-thirds of the entire Milky Way Galaxy. The volume of space claimed in the name of the Emperor of Mankind contains hundreds of millions of stars, many host to their own planetary systems, and yet there are only an estimated million or so Planetary Governors occupying the thrones of the Imperium’s worlds" So there are at least 1 million populated words with a governor on it, so if they each should have an equal amount of ships they you only need between 8-4 squadrons of Escorts, the smallest size ships, and we know of many worlds that have whole fleets sitting in orbit all the time, and again this is without support and ships under 1 km counting.
I think the problem here was that a billion for you is 1.000.000.000, while in my country a billion is 1.000.000.000.000 :P. But i would agree that a million is a good estimate. I would say a bit less, but good
You and your analytical insight inspire me to write more stories and stay active in astronomy and science in general. (I've been a subscriber for a while and i've seen all your videos but I'm probably going to binge through all of them again before I write my next sci-fi book)
A New Upload ? *YES* 👌👌👌 This channel's seriously high-class, informative & interesting. Does a far much better work than both NationalGeographic & Discovery Channel
Isaac.... I found your channel thanks to a shout out by PBS Space Time... I absolutely love your channel. I have to admit.. rather ashamedly. At first I was put off by your speech impediment. But now it doesn't bother me at all as your content is just SO GOOD! Can't get enough. I'm ploughing through as much of your material as I can get. Keep making awesome videos and suggesting great books and other sci-fi resources. Love it.
I look forward to hearing more about Hades. It sounds like it'll have an interesting world, and I hope the rest of the team poured as much passion and expertise into their corners of the game as well.
They have, tons of energy and post-midnight brainstorming. Actually that's what drew me to work with them and stay on board after it switched from being a sequel to a popular game to a new one, even though I really loved that franchise, rewriting its lore was less fun than making a new one.
Isaac Arthur can I ask the name of the company making Hades? When I Google it, the search insists 'hades' and 'hardest' are synonyms, and it's making finding any information difficult.
rngwrldngnr, for now there are two possibilities: either the game is called "Hades Star" and it's a mobile game, or Isaac told us a little bit too much, almost breaking his NDA. Announcing a game is a big marketing event, which it timed by publishers and developers.
Has there been any update on the game shown in this video? I'd like to know more, and it's clearly not the isometric roguelike game "Hades" that came out the other year.
This is not a channel. Is a experience. Everything is so vivid and detailed that is easy to forget that is not a single narrative. Great job as usual, Isaac.
Dune, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, and Dune Messiah all rank without a doubt as some of the best science fiction to ever touch the printed page. I have read every book in the series and also The Godmakers, which although not part of the series does take place in the Dune universe. I don't believe audiobooks could truly do this series justice. The original movie and the newer miniseries were good, however they lack the descriptive imagery and emotion that the books elicit. Fantastic novels all, highly recommend anyone read them who hasn't...
Dune ranks as one of the worst sci-fi films I have ever seen, yet the book is one of the best. A recommendation would be "The Algebraist" by Iain m Banks.
Keep in mind the time period the original Dune movie was filmed in. For the time it was an amazing film, the effects for that period were cutting edge, and although it doesn't follow the story as closely as some would like it's still a fairly good adaptation for the day. I would love to see a modern reboot. The miniseries followed the books much more closely, and was fairly good in it's own right.
I'm impressed about all the knowledge you have about books and movies related to science and the universe. Thank you Isaac for sharing your knowledge with us in these great videos.
Absolutely thrilled I found you on TH-cam!! Love your work, Theories, explainations, analogies, and am so excited to watch the existing vids, as well as any new additions!!! Thank you so much! Cheers and Respect from NC! All the best, PVH
Maybe I'm too used to the more brief material of Arvin Ash because this seems to meander a little bit around the topic but great work delving so deep into it!
Happy holidays to all. i believe an interstellar civilization could exist if the neighboring systems were co-dependant. that way everyone in your area care about order and continuity for distance's sake. p.s. Beth likes coffee, we like coffee, we like Beth.
I love this channel, but this video in particular. I found you about a week ago, and a lot of your stuff really speaks to me as I've been writing my own more hard scifi for quite some time now. The idea of extremely long living engineered leaders is one I played with a lot, same for mega-structures and so many other concepts I've seen here. I'm not sure if you'll read this comment, but if you do, I'd like to thank you for all your content, it's great. I've also been sharing it around to all my friends and my few readers, as an educational aid to help explain and expand on my own points of view in terms of writing and world design. I love getting into the depths and nitty gritty, all the hows and whys, and playing with the balance of utopia and dystopia. (From my personal point of view, every utopia, looks like a dystopia from outside looking in.) In my personal writing, I like to explore ways in theoretical physics to get around the limitations of light speed. Though with some realistic limitations for those that use 'ftl' travel such as Alcubierre drives or large, stable Einstein-Rosen bridges, particularly in terms of sources of power to fuel the massive amounts of energy theoretically needed. but rather than using some hand-wavium for power needs, I like the K2 style of Dyson swarms fuelling an antimatter production industry, consolidating energy into small enough portable packages to feed an expanding empire. The trans-humanism is also another aspect I like, or trans organic at least (since I deal with more than just an expending human race.) One thing I would love to hear your views on though is a race or species much, much larger than humans. Showing the vast needs of some large earth species was rather interesting, but I often play with very large synthetic life forms, ones that on their own might need almost the entire output of a given star to feed their energy needs. Think self aware matryoshka brains or smaller but very powerful computational engines as the basis for a sapient intelligence. For the main setting I devote most of my free time to, the protagonist faction actually uses synthetic intelligences as their primary leaders, since they can live indefinitely, compute and understand so much more, and even be omnipresent and take in amounts of information so vast it would boggle the mortal mind, like the goings on across a massive empire that spans a good chunk of the galaxy. I tend to play with using quantum entangled particles for faster than light communications, having extremely important infrastructure points where data is sent between systems and planets, with the bottlenecks of being translated into something that can be sent via trillions of entangled particles. In a way, they're like current undersea cables, vastly important investments, and prime targets for sabotage. If a world was cut off like that, it could years to diagnose what happened, along with cutting off means of incoming FTL ships, forcing them to take the slow route. It makes for interesting plot points, especially for those regions entirely cut off from any FTL infrastructure, making frontier worlds almost their own isolated nations, with little contact to the home-world delayed by more significant bottlenecks and light-lag. But I digress, something else in common, I suppose. Great channel, you've definitely earned my sub!
I'm so glad you got a clip of someone drinking coffee in there! seriously, though, this is a fascinating topic and the video is, as always, really well done, thank you.
I got audible and listened to revenger, and I was a huge fan. Was wondering if had some science fiction you could recommend? Keep up the good videos man.
I've been following your channel since about March now and I really love your stuff. I'm working on a Sci Fi novel and watching your videos always gives me inspiration.
Hey I’m a new viewer and love your content. I’ve been binge watching these past few days. You have influenced me and lite a fire in my oven. I will start writing my own sci fi book.
There was a short story I read once, where a basic sci fi alien civilization tries to launch an attack on humanity, only to find a full, realistic K-2 civilization around the sun, with I think around a quintillion people inhabiting every orbiting body in the solar system out to the oort cloud. The attacking fleet pretty much died and nobody even noticed.
Amazing as always my sweet thinking sci fi mind. You create our future in thought and words. May more expand thought in now instead of falling in our steps forgotten. I emplore you to keep inspiring minds. For that i thank you, rare but pure mind.
Man, if this channel has taught me anything it's that gonzo as it is, the Imperium of Man is really slacking off. WIth the tech and resources they have available it should be a piece of cake to build Nicoll-Dyson beams around every star in the way of the Tyranids and crack open a few bottles of amasec as an ancient extragalactic terror hits them like a fly hits a bugzapper.
This channel is by far my favorite channel to go to for science videos. Also, is it possible you are going to do another episode of civilizations at the end of time? It is probably my favorite series.
Thanks for this fantastic video. When I was young a got a present from my uncle about interstellar travel. I was hooked on it and took the little book with me to bed. Later when I got my library card I read all the sci-fi classics. Now the young have the videos you create I wish I had them back when I was young. I'm halfway into Revenger btw, so thanks for no spoilers.
he refers to it as an impediment! first time he said it i was like "what?" it makes him so easy to understand, its a major plus. Been watching for 6 months, patron too. think how fast we could progress as humans, if we all had his mind!
Subject Suggestion: A civilization that has FTL/Fold Drive/Whatever would have a perspective gap. Oh, our galactic map shows "this", but because there is a lag in the light reaching the homeworld/cultural center, but in reality the stars are over here in real/time. Projecting the movement of stars based on their distance from the origin point would be a major component.
Fun fact, Kardashev 3 civilizations have mastered technology of space/matter manipulation down to quarks/gluons/leptons and have the ability to transform energy. They live in a 10m ball with slowed time while uploaded on computer. No spheres needed as there is no need for them.
Kardashev Scale isn't about tech level, its power level or kinda-sorta population size to conceptualize easier, a MAtrioshka Brain could have more people living on it that whole terraformed galaxy and is still K2
A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. This every sister of the Bene Gesserit knows. To begin your study of the life of Isacc Arthur, then take care that you first place him in his time: born in the 19XXth year of the CE. And take the most special care that you locate Arthur in his place: the nascent Internet. Do not be deceived by the fact that he was born before the Internet started becoming the main information tool, and lived his first years before it. The Net and its many sites and faces, also know back then as "TH-cam", is forever his place.
I have never been happier that it's Arthursday, my life has been a bit chaotic lately and I'm glad I can relax with a new video from you, thanks Isaac.
Well, it would be a good excuse to go into exobiology as it relates to alien societies, at the very least. Or acknowledge the existence of Rule 34 again.
Ah, writing. I've written some unpublished books... My philosophy in regard to technology (or magic for that matter. A lot of it is fantasy, or some hybrid ideas.), is not about physics... I'm not too bothered about violating any given law of physics, or even all of it. But I do strive for internal consistency. The story doesn't have to make sense in the real world, but it should make sense within itself. If you set a rule, even one that would be ridiculous in reality... Stick to it. Consider it's consequences. Follow through on it's implications. At least, insofar as you're capable of thinking through what it would imply, I consider it worthwhile to do so, That a fictional universe doesn't obey the rules of the real one is fine as far as I'm concerned, but consistency and consequences still matter...
Don't know if you will see this Isaac but do you have plans for a video explaining how FTL would affect interstellar empires? Something that is at least possible in math like Einstein-Rosen bridges could do it. Would really like to see how different the galaxy would be from one without FTL.
After watching this, I can never play a space 4 game the same way again...Master of Orion, Galactic Civilizations III, they all feel absurdly tiny now even on the largest map sizes.
Arthur I absolutely love your content. Would it be possible to do more story-type episodes like you did in the colonization series and the colony ships? I really loved those because it allowed me to sink into the science while getting a great little glimpse of what could be a great plot for a full length book or film. Thanks for all the work you put into these episodes!
The story episodes are a mixed bag, some folks love them, some folks hate them, we actually have one on that ship for next week but it will be a while before we do it again, I am doing a project right now that is sucking up that part of my creativity :)
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"Since better technology is, almost by definition, culturally disruptive"
*mind blown*
That's why a balanced approach is generally favorable.
@@sigma6656 No, if people don't like other people having better lives then they can just get over themselves.
@@kelbybrewer2038 Better is subjective, and one persons happiness may interrupt the happiness of another. This is not so simple a question.
Which is only a problem if your goal is cultural STASIS, as opposed to maintaining cultural integration.
@@kelbybrewer2038 Get over what, the Corona event killing humanity in 2020?
It drives me crazy when i talk to family and friends about our future in the stars. They give the 😐 😧😒 faces... I'm late to the party but i absolutely love science and futurism. Seeing where we as a race can theoretically reach if we can overcome our limitations is a beautiful thing. I just dont see how you are more amazed over a pair shoes than our future.. sorry for that lil rant.. Professor Arthur I thank you for this channel and opening my eyes.
How are we going to get there?
I completely understand you.
Finn Maccool how we get to stars hasn't been worked yet but we are working on it and making headway. I believe if we would stop trying to be the first country and do it together as one global coalition, the goal to the stars can be realized.
I know what you mean. My friends wife told him off for teaching his kids about the ISS, because it isn't a real thing !!! Needless to say we have put her straight now and she is very embarrassed whenever we bring it up, which we do, often!
zigzag duck 😂😂😂 it's funny how people discredit things when they have no evidence to discredit it in the first place. Just going by what you heard.
Isaac, you're the kind of guy I'd like to have a beer with and ponder on the future of mankind.
Based observations you are going to need a lot more than just 1
So are about 170K people... ^^
Maybe professor can make that happen. If you can, I want in!
If Elon Musk and this guy smoked weed together, then I'd bet they invent FTL before they came back down to earth.
@@krwiles I know just the weed strain for their trip "FTL Kush"
Inter-dimensional empires is a horrifyingly huge concept.
Almost so huge that it is nearly impossible to discuss.
I thought the same thing. What's mind boggling to think about is that interdimensional travel is more likely to be a reality than FTL travel and time travel.
Look in to string theory and M-theory friend.
And yes I realize that what I said is a bit subjective as well.
No I am not. Like I said, I realize that what I said is subjective. When looking at the cosmic microwave background there are theories that supervoids are created when we merge or bump in to another universe. It's all about folding through the dimension above which theoretically, is possible.
That was excellent video. And about the segment about Warhammer 40k was quite intriguing and enlightening. It would easily explain the Imperiums obsession of duty, honor and tradition. And for all the cultural and institutional differences that exists between the planets and organization, reverence to the Emperor is a unifying theme. It's the internal pressure that literally and metaphorically unites and keeps the rest of the Imperium going. And as you said, the galactic threats that keep attacking the Imperium also serve as the external threat to unite it as well. It's ironic that said threats are both what is destroying and gluing the Imperium together.
Ray Anthony Arnaiz bro, that was an ad.
And demons
Heretics FTW!
Excuse me sir, do you got time to talk about the greater good.
It is a parody of the actual Dark Fleet/ Solar Warden program on Earth. They are told they are defending mankind from aliens. In fact, they are working for the aliens: plot twist.
When my parents were young they had Carl Sagan, now I have Isaac Arthur :). Greetings from France!
Promethium I’m so glad I found this channel. Arthur you rock!!
Promethium It's pretty cool that he's influencing people in that sort of way. If I think of the Science and Sc-fi greats, Isaac Arthur is definitely in my top three. It blows my mind that his channel doesn't have more than one million subs!??! What the Hell is everybody else watching?!
It will get there and beyond I'm convinced. We are so lucky he does this for us! Jim
James Callahan when I first discovered IA channel he had about 30K subscribers. He deserves to be at V-Sauce level. Subtitles in other languages would be great, not everybody understands English. For instance Carl Sagan was on French TV in the 80's, in French language, which helped a lot back in the days.
I totally agree. But do not forget Neil deGrasse Tyson's Cosmos, it is well worth watching too :-)
Yes, and Ann Druyan was involved too.
Your production value has gone up so much in the past 2 years! Keep it up brother!
Warfare has only Rule #1, many rules #1...
It's quantum superposition. And it always collapses at first contact with the enemy.
This is of course, the first rule of warfare: Rules are made to be broken.
Every rule of warfare is rule #1
i or someone should go though and make a list of his number 1 rules or warfare
Rule #1 of warfare : all rules of warfare are rule #1 of warfare
Thank you so much for the vids! You present material in a way that is non-patronizing, not pretentious, extremely thorough, and very understandable to those of us with training in hard-science (biochem, in my case...) at least. There is something about your choice of wording, your impeded, yet really cool voice, the way you connect with your audience...I am not exactly sure...but, you make your audience feel as if we are THERE, personally part of an Elite Ruling Council of a K1 civilization, and you are the lead scientific adviser briefing us on how we are going to march towards K2 status! You are a badass! Your vids have helped my life in ways I should not mention on YT (like how watching your vids and how they make me feel as if I am part of the future helped me put down the rig and clean up).
Please do not stop making videos! Some of us out there really need you!
Your channel is the best channel here on youtube regarding science because of the quality of the ideas presented, the fact that you're doing them every week, and I reached the point where I love even your voice.
Regarding the Dune universe, I have a feeling that the first book was written as a standalone novel and the next two were kinda forced into but with other 3 properly written and expanding on the amazing universe. And I think you are right about the society in Dune beeing a multiverse one, at least for the navigators and the kwisatz haderach.
I think Dune MEssiah was a bit forced, I didn't get that feeling about CoD but yeah I suppose it has some element of that.
I'm not that old, but I live every day with this feeling like we're in the moment when science is becoming science fiction.
And all the more so since I found your channel. Love listening to the playlists, man. Learning new stuff and sharpening my own thoughts & amateur sci-fi thereby. Thanks.
For folks asking about the game, that is Pre-Alpha footage from H.A.D.E.S. 9, you won't be able to google it yet, this is the first public mention of it anywhere. We've been working on it for almost a year, longer, that's just when I came onboard, with the 'no damn random planets' as part of my condition for writing the lore & tech up, which I cemented by obliterating every planet in the galaxy just to make sure :) I'll talk about it more as we get closer to release, this is 'yeah, the engine is working' footage.
facebook.com/Hades9Game/
Judging by production value of pre-alpha footage - on every possible.
I recommend "Steam" good pre release platform to gain income I think.
I am become Isaac, destroyer of random worlds!
Good to see you branching out Isaac, oh and please do consider authoring some books, I imagine they would be fantastic. Keep up the good work!
This is the information I came scrolling trough comments for...
Thanks
If Earth wants to rule a galactic empire, it just has to monopolize coffee.
Wouldn't it be funny if coffee beans held the materials to warp space? Then it would be Dunebucks...
@@nias2631 Yorkshire Tea is the gateway to the Warp and Psychic Powers.
The East India Tea Company turns into the Northwest Naboo Coffee Company
The one who controls coffee...
Civets as sand worms? I can see it happening haha
And I thought Star Wars was big.
Their Galactic Senate is virtually a ghost town.
Imagine having thousands let alone millions of senators in the same building...
@@t.3465 unhabitable planets can't have senators that's why the number of senators is low in star wars
@@sayedmohidulislam8102 you don't have to live on the planet -- just build a ring world around its orbit. You could also build an empire on an uninhabitable planet by constructing a string of floating cities in the planet's orbit.
@@t.3465 well that's a great idea
@@sayedmohidulislam8102 Jupiter 🙂
As a long time listener, your graphics boost in the past months has enticed me into being a full screen watcher.
I know this will sound cheesy, but I can't wait until I've got kids old enough to be into Sci-Fi. We're gonna have so much fun on rainy days crunching through Issac's work and letting our minds wander the universe!
There is an organization called "big brothers big sisters". They need volunteers. There is a shortage of childcare providers. If you are in a city it should not be hard to organize a sci fi fan club. A local librarian I know would prefer an adult talking to the kids in a conference room to chaos all over.
Another fantastic video from our esteemed professor of Science and Futurism, Isaac Arthur! Have a wondeful Holiday, Isaac, and thanks for all that you do!
Gotta love that with Isaac, any rule of warfare is rule #1 of warfare.
Despertai Consciências thats not just isaac, thats just how it works
One day he will give us rule #2 of warfare and it will blow up our minds
rule number 2 is always carry toilet paper for number 2s
Burns haha🤣🤣🤣🤣
I found your notion of a megaworld centred at the supermassive blackhole to hold promise for a coherent giant empire without massive communication lag. It would be great to revisit that concept in more detail. If we were going to send out fleets of von neumann probes, making them tow every uninhabited system into the galactic core would get my vote.
Your channel makes my week!
I always crack up at the whole "First Rule of Warfare" thing. :)
Why? Plan for every situation is the cornerstone of every successful war and no plan survives contact is what keeps military personnel fluid and able to adapt
No, I mean that there are a million "Rule 1's". In warfare, everything is always "Rule 1". And Isaac has a way of very subtly bringing it back as an ongoing joke. I always find it funny.
I always thought the first rule of combat was that no plan survives contact with the enemy.
no, 1st rule of warfare is know your rules
The first rule is that all rules are the first rule
I never fail to find a new concept or rethink an old one when watching these videos. Truly a great channel thanks Isaac!
I swear, your channel is making me a futurist elitist. I had a discussion with my sister about how it would be easier to technologically develop habitats for settling space and have most of the stars open up as viable places to live as a result.
But she thought that was a stupid idea. why not just live on the planets she said. Space is boring, what would we do there?
It really offended me. So much so that it surprised me.
I have had that problem too. How do you talk to someone about this stuff if they are sooooo far behind on the topic that they don't even know the simplest terms? "Fermi sounds like an Italian name" and "Dyson who?" and "What's an O'Neill cylinder?"
use simplistic definitions for more cryptic terms?
Dinosaur Emperor with no disrespect intended some people seem to have a very limited imagination.
BrazilianBikini38 how did you learn?
I have always had a science fiction leaning. When I was 10 years old I read my first sci-fi book "Skylark of Space", and not far behind was Larry Niven's "A Gift From Earth". But almost nobody I knew read that kind of material. And now thanks to Arthursdays, and this channel I am learning so much that I am leaving everyone around me way behind
This makes me desperate for a depiction, or visualization of what you're describing. It always blows me away on how utterly massive the universe is, and I'm always caught off-guard by its immensity and raw potential.
The mention of interdimensional empires reminds me heavily of the Combine from Half-Life; and how, if you read the lore, you'll note how they essentially don't even register earth and our universe as a blip on their map, and that they really only wanted Xen and earth was just sort of a convenient bonus. Hell, they didn't even conquer us with anything really advanced, and only ever used assimilated or conquered species and it only took 7 hours. The only reason why humans are even still around 20 years later is because Dr. Breen was trying desperately to preserve the species; otherwise they would've just cannibalized the planet decades ago.
And even then, Episode 3 ends with Freeman launching a time-travelling, quantum shifting boat off towards a Combine dyson sphere, and it doesn't even register as a hit to the Combine.
All this to say; that's the only time in any sci-fi game I've played that anything came remotely close to depicting the concepts of the true possible scale of things.
Stop putting out so much quality content; you're making the rest of us look bad.
It's like paperclips... can't... stop... :)
Wait . Stop . Who is the girl in the crown at 16:07 . (no I don't get out much so be gentle)
@@isaacarthurSFIA You can't stop the signal Mal
All of the yes. ☝️
Sorry to be so off topic but does someone know a trick to get back into an instagram account?
I somehow forgot my password. I appreciate any assistance you can give me.
THE SPICE MUST FLOW
The spice melange
spice? S P I C E?
GEKOLONISEERD! HIER MET DIE SPECERIJEN!
Or Tylium... Or Hyperfuel... Or Dilithium... Maybe Energon and Vespene Gas, too.
I don't think I've ever commented on any of your videos, but I have been with you since the first Dyson Dilemma videos, and I've always loved your work and will continue to for the foreseeable future! Thanks for blowing my mind every week!
Wow, that is a long time!
G'day from Australia Issac. Good to hear about your audio channels. I do a lot of driving for my work, and I have always enjoyed Friday mornings since I know I have a new episode to look forward to. Keep up the good work.
I showed your fermi paradox videos to a class of high schoolers here in Israel and they loved it.
Bro, do you need a doctor? Because your graphics are sick!!
Bazinga
TH-cam pickup lines...
Just started watching a couple months ago, the wife thinks your voice is soothing. I like the subjects, I'm almost 70 years old yet you give the chance to feed my brain, still unfamiliar with this computer but your lessons are a great motivation for me to learn this confounded machine. Glad I found you. Thank you very much.
Just got married today so missed two episodes. Just wanted to say that to my fellow science lovers. Thank you issac for your videos once again. Salamat
Congratulations!
Warfare has a lot of first rules.
Rule 1 about Warfare every rule is the first rule
Rule 2 about Warfare dont talk about Warfare
Was it "warfare" or "combat" in other episodes? i remember combat, not sure if they are synonimous.
Rule 2 of Warfare is that all other rules are Rule Number One.
Rule One of Warfare - There are many Rule Ones of Warfare. In fact they all are Rule One.
First Rule of Warfare: Always have a different first rule
Administering an interstellar empire is easy, just blow up a planet if it starts to question your benevolent overlordship.
Inquisitor Thomas But if it takes 300 years to just get there you are blowing up people 6 generations removed.
every colonized planet has a secrect Neutronium bomb on it, if they ask too much... *BOOM*
That just made me think of the old rule about sins carrying over ten generations, and if some empire resurrected that :)
Isaac Arthur welcome to WH40K.
Fear will keep the systems in line. Fear of this battle station.
This has become my favorite channel on TH-cam.
huge fan but I have to give you heck because as a ex-reading addict (at 17 I had a personal library of over 1500 novels, anything can be a sickness) you have seriously damaged my appreciation of science fiction... lol is ok can mostly separate. keep up the great work. Probably my biggest..."anger" in life is how slow we, as the human race, has been in fulfilling the promise of moving off this planet. I have lived longer then expected (and with health longer then wanted) but as I was saying to my children the only thing that could really get me to stick around a lot longer is it would be nice to see what the human race looks like in a few thousand years. We have so much potential but I often fear we are just going to sink in a morass of apathy and despair (course the uncomfortableness of my existence makes me somewhat negative at times... lol). thanks again and merry xmas to you and everyone else on this excellent channel.
"Like Compound Interest for people." That was awesome.
We need a collected list of all of the rule #1s of warfare, though I'd wager such a list would be long.
imbored742 I'd buy that book.
Michael Winter Which of the first volumes though? I'd wager we could fill a decent sized library.
imbored742 First rule of war: capture or burn all knowledge repositories.
Rule number one: never volunteer
Rule number 1: make sure you always have more guns than the enemy, and instill a slow growth which is fillwed with patriotism, guns and vodka.
If you think your internet connection is slow today wait until it has to buffer across the galaxy!
Just imagine the views, 1000, 10000, 100000000000000000000000000000000
Only 100000000000000000000000000000000 views? How do I grow my channel?
Let's just build massive server satélites in dark space and orbit around planets.
The radiation? We can just fill space ships with water.
Last I've seen this channel had 90K, now it's almost 200K.
Ps. This is the only channel I've never missed an episode. Congrats and Happy Holidays.
"We need to build a dyson-sphere, and make the Oort-cloud pay for it!"
wadyagonnado, put tarrifs on icecubes?
Thank goodness Trump will be so dead by then his stench will be only a couple 100,000 more years from completely dissipating !
Well if you cover up the sun there'll be no more global warming .
Robots take those jobs too,
humans make great pets.
Especially as those Oort cloud objects keep coming here and stealing our land (when they impact)!
this is easily my favorite channel. i have been watching since well before you started doing the episodes regularly, and have noticed how much you have improved an already excellent product.
So great to see this channel evolve and improve so much. Tons of food for thought to be had here. Thank you, Isaac.
Yay Dune references and book recommendation! By far my favorite book series of all time! Happy Arthursday everyone!
I have always thought Interstellar Empires and Civilizations were a thing of sci-fi or reality with FTL technology. But after seeing this wonderful video and others before it. It is amazes me what we could do with the technology we have today and what we could get within just 100 years.
You are making me look at sci-fi and the future in a new hopeful light. And I am certain you will blow my mind again with Intergalactic and Sun Colonization. Thank you for a wonderful early Christmas gift.
I have watched every single episode and have to say just WOW! Mr Arther, you are making a video encyclopedia of science and futurism - one that when its finished will be used for decades to come by anybody interested in science and futurism. This stuff should be used in educational institutions of all levels all around the world. Thank you for all your hard work and to all those that help you with this, it truly is remarkable. I wish I was in a position to support you financially - I will do when I can. Very best wishes Mr D.A.Mitchell Isle of Man.
One reason that I love the Warhammer 40k universe is that I find it to portrait an interstelar empire quite well, since the size of the armies and cities are colossal , it really feels like a universe with billions of trillions of humans.
Yes, huge and old, it captures that feeling better than anyone else has, IMHO
It's still quite modest compared to what a real thing would be
The Dune audiobook with the full cast IS REALLY GOOD. Highly recommended.
it kinda doesn't work for me, just directs me to some free trial page without a free trial button, and i get no audiobook
Muad'dib..... MUAD'DIB!!
Favourite ever series! The supporting readers and sound effects are used quite inconsistently which can be a bit jarring, more so later in the series, but Simon Vance is amazing in this version! He acts most of it, it almost seems as though there was an abridged radio production of the earlier books and Vance just fills in the rest but as you get deeper in the series it becomes annoying to hear any other actor speaking for Duncan Idaho or Teg because he just voices them so brilliantly! If you make it as far as God Emperor of Dune, conversations between the tyrant, duncan and moneo are just voice acting gold! If you have a spare 150 odd hours of ear time and you love sci fi there is no excuse for you not getting started on this epic saga immediately you will not regret it!
Meh, never really understood the like, let alone love of Dune, strangely enough I love, LOVE Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson's series. Then again, I never understood the love for Star Wars, not until I saw Star Wars: Clone wars (the original animated series - the one that's no longer cannon ironically) and fell in love with that universe.
me too
Yes, the imperium of man is composed of a million worlds (probably?. You go to count them), and unknown amounts of settlements, mining operations, space stations, etc. I wouldnt say millions of ships, but thats because they are big, take many time to build, and constant war doesnt help them age well.
Another thing they get right is how slow even ftl messages are in such scales, and how much bureocracy it needs to do anything. Like, entire cites dedicated to it. Planets, even. As such the control of the territory is split in large segmentums, divided in sectors, divided in subsectors. Single planet rebelions might take years to be dealed with, and invasions from external powers could need months to be responded to.
Well they do have billions of ships, not all of them are warp traveling ships tough, defensive fleets don't need warp.
entZEROspawn for them to have billions of ships, would mean each and every single planet would get a defensive fleet of a million ships.
And that's just not true, not even in the second war of Armageddon where there more than a thousand imperial ships. Of course, kilometric ships (an escort being the size of a star destroyer), but not millions.
5 Segmentums that have 20 sectors each, that then again is broken into sub sectors It varies a lot how many sub sectors there are but around 10 is a valid number. A sub sector fleet is around 4 Battleships, 27 Cruisers and 36 squadrons of Escorts (this can be anything from 12-24 ships per squadron) and we don't have numbers on ships smaller than 1 km or support ships/transports. These are aktive fleets, then there is Bastion Fleets and Planetary defense ships (not necessarily warp capable).
4.000 battleships, 27.000 cruisers 432.000 - 864.000 Escorts for the sub sectors fleets + strikecarfts, interceptors (70-100 meters) transports, support ships.
Each Sector Battlefleet is assigned a number of Cruisers and Battleships, usually between 50 and 75 vessels. Each Sector Battlefleet is also assigned multiple squadrons of Escort starships, and is also in command of a large number of transports, messenger craft, orbital defences, space platforms and system patrol vessels.
So if that has the same force buildup as sub sectors fleet, it would look like this in the low number. 25 Battleships 50 cruisers and 82 squadrons of Escorts or:
2.500 battleships, 7.500 cruisers and 98.400-196.800 Escorts for the sub sectors fleets + strikecarfts, interceptors (70-100 meters) transports, support ships.
That give us a total of aktive fleet ships of:
571.400 - 1.200.000 Ships + strikecarfts, interceptors (70-100 meters) transports, support ships.
That is without planetary defense, Bastion fleets and the numbers of support ships in it.
Also if every planet had 1 million ships there would only be 1000 planets in 40k. Wiki:
"The Imperium of Man is spread impossibly thin across an estimated two-thirds of the entire Milky Way Galaxy. The volume of space claimed in the name of the Emperor of Mankind contains hundreds of millions of stars, many host to their own planetary systems, and yet there are only an estimated million or so Planetary Governors occupying the thrones of the Imperium’s worlds"
So there are at least 1 million populated words with a governor on it, so if they each should have an equal amount of ships they you only need between 8-4 squadrons of Escorts, the smallest size ships, and we know of many worlds that have whole fleets sitting in orbit all the time, and again this is without support and ships under 1 km counting.
I think the problem here was that a billion for you is 1.000.000.000, while in my country a billion is 1.000.000.000.000 :P. But i would agree that a million is a good estimate. I would say a bit less, but good
Ah, yes that would change things a bit, thought the short version was the standart.
You and your analytical insight inspire me to write more stories and stay active in astronomy and science in general. (I've been a subscriber for a while and i've seen all your videos but I'm probably going to binge through all of them again before I write my next sci-fi book)
Geoff Orendorff likewise
What a good episode, gave me a fresh prospective into some of the great sci fi books I have read over the years.
Definitely the best channel on TH-cam/Soundcloud!
A New Upload ? *YES* 👌👌👌
This channel's seriously high-class, informative & interesting.
Does a far much better work than both NationalGeographic & Discovery Channel
The things that become possible with much faster computation requiring less energy should not be underestimated.
Tom Jones
Why so *triggered* ?
I remember when those networks were actually about learning & discovery
Ghost Cookie
Good Times... they were good times
The DORUK Ah. You mean Discovery, and NatGeo? Even History dumped the "Channel" before going all alien bigfoot on us. Subtle but telling.
I love your stuff dude.
It's actually helpful to me, keeps me motivated and informed while I try to write.
I've been wathcing this channel for about a year, I go back to visit episodes - it just gets better and better.
Isaac.... I found your channel thanks to a shout out by PBS Space Time...
I absolutely love your channel.
I have to admit.. rather ashamedly. At first I was put off by your speech impediment. But now it doesn't bother me at all as your content is just SO GOOD!
Can't get enough.
I'm ploughing through as much of your material as I can get.
Keep making awesome videos and suggesting great books and other sci-fi resources.
Love it.
You sir are downright amazing!!! I love you work and jump for joy every Thursday when I get a notification for your uploads.
God I love your work, good science makes good science fiction, so many points I never even considered being explained in depth
I look forward to hearing more about Hades. It sounds like it'll have an interesting world, and I hope the rest of the team poured as much passion and expertise into their corners of the game as well.
They have, tons of energy and post-midnight brainstorming. Actually that's what drew me to work with them and stay on board after it switched from being a sequel to a popular game to a new one, even though I really loved that franchise, rewriting its lore was less fun than making a new one.
Isaac Arthur can I ask the name of the company making Hades? When I Google it, the search insists 'hades' and 'hardest' are synonyms, and it's making finding any information difficult.
rngwrldngnr, for now there are two possibilities: either the game is called "Hades Star" and it's a mobile game, or Isaac told us a little bit too much, almost breaking his NDA. Announcing a game is a big marketing event, which it timed by publishers and developers.
Has there been any update on the game shown in this video? I'd like to know more, and it's clearly not the isometric roguelike game "Hades" that came out the other year.
Been watching since 68k subs, and it really wasn't that long ago. Glad to see your channel gaining popularity and momentum!
This is not a channel.
Is a experience. Everything is so vivid and detailed that is easy to forget that is not a single narrative.
Great job as usual, Isaac.
Dune, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, and Dune Messiah all rank without a doubt as some of the best science fiction to ever touch the printed page. I have read every book in the series and also The Godmakers, which although not part of the series does take place in the Dune universe. I don't believe audiobooks could truly do this series justice. The original movie and the newer miniseries were good, however they lack the descriptive imagery and emotion that the books elicit. Fantastic novels all, highly recommend anyone read them who hasn't...
xTheRenegade666x I only saw the movies. Dune was great. I was disappointed in children of dune.
It is stilly my dream that Dune will one day get a proper movie series adaptation.
Dune ranks as one of the worst sci-fi films I have ever seen, yet the book is one of the best. A recommendation would be "The Algebraist" by Iain m Banks.
Keep in mind the time period the original Dune movie was filmed in. For the time it was an amazing film, the effects for that period were cutting edge, and although it doesn't follow the story as closely as some would like it's still a fairly good adaptation for the day. I would love to see a modern reboot. The miniseries followed the books much more closely, and was fairly good in it's own right.
Top notch Sci Fi I have got hold of Sandworms of Dune to give try.
I really like your channel, gives something to look forward to every week.
I'm impressed about all the knowledge you have about books and movies related to science and the universe. Thank you Isaac for sharing your knowledge with us in these great videos.
Absolutely thrilled I found you on TH-cam!! Love your work, Theories, explainations, analogies, and am so excited to watch the existing vids, as well as any new additions!!! Thank you so much! Cheers and Respect from NC!
All the best,
PVH
Maybe I'm too used to the more brief material of Arvin Ash because this seems to meander a little bit around the topic but great work delving so deep into it!
I am planning to build an interstellar Empire, advance the scientific progress of humanity and explore this complex universe of ours!
Cool...
@@linz8291 Thank you, I‘m still at it!
can barely wait till next Thursday
Happy holidays to all.
i believe an interstellar civilization could exist if the neighboring systems were co-dependant. that way everyone in your area care about order and continuity for distance's sake.
p.s. Beth likes coffee, we like coffee, we like Beth.
din80s Beth for president
and then berry feels left out , gets angry and beats beth to death....berry is now president ....LOL
we still like berry cause he likes our coffee, so nothing really changes
Beth and berry sitting in a tree, GM/r^2=g
Isaac, you revived my love for space, all things sci-fi, and futurism that I lost after my teen years. Thank you. You are awesome.
I love this channel, but this video in particular. I found you about a week ago, and a lot of your stuff really speaks to me as I've been writing my own more hard scifi for quite some time now. The idea of extremely long living engineered leaders is one I played with a lot, same for mega-structures and so many other concepts I've seen here. I'm not sure if you'll read this comment, but if you do, I'd like to thank you for all your content, it's great.
I've also been sharing it around to all my friends and my few readers, as an educational aid to help explain and expand on my own points of view in terms of writing and world design. I love getting into the depths and nitty gritty, all the hows and whys, and playing with the balance of utopia and dystopia. (From my personal point of view, every utopia, looks like a dystopia from outside looking in.)
In my personal writing, I like to explore ways in theoretical physics to get around the limitations of light speed. Though with some realistic limitations for those that use 'ftl' travel such as Alcubierre drives or large, stable Einstein-Rosen bridges, particularly in terms of sources of power to fuel the massive amounts of energy theoretically needed. but rather than using some hand-wavium for power needs, I like the K2 style of Dyson swarms fuelling an antimatter production industry, consolidating energy into small enough portable packages to feed an expanding empire.
The trans-humanism is also another aspect I like, or trans organic at least (since I deal with more than just an expending human race.) One thing I would love to hear your views on though is a race or species much, much larger than humans. Showing the vast needs of some large earth species was rather interesting, but I often play with very large synthetic life forms, ones that on their own might need almost the entire output of a given star to feed their energy needs. Think self aware matryoshka brains or smaller but very powerful computational engines as the basis for a sapient intelligence.
For the main setting I devote most of my free time to, the protagonist faction actually uses synthetic intelligences as their primary leaders, since they can live indefinitely, compute and understand so much more, and even be omnipresent and take in amounts of information so vast it would boggle the mortal mind, like the goings on across a massive empire that spans a good chunk of the galaxy. I tend to play with using quantum entangled particles for faster than light communications, having extremely important infrastructure points where data is sent between systems and planets, with the bottlenecks of being translated into something that can be sent via trillions of entangled particles.
In a way, they're like current undersea cables, vastly important investments, and prime targets for sabotage. If a world was cut off like that, it could years to diagnose what happened, along with cutting off means of incoming FTL ships, forcing them to take the slow route. It makes for interesting plot points, especially for those regions entirely cut off from any FTL infrastructure, making frontier worlds almost their own isolated nations, with little contact to the home-world delayed by more significant bottlenecks and light-lag. But I digress, something else in common, I suppose.
Great channel, you've definitely earned my sub!
Mr. Arthur continues to lay out his campaign plans. Isaac IS THE SENATE!
He should make it a monarchy.
This video is great if your plans include building the IMPERIUM OF MAN.
Despertai Consciências FOR THE EMPEROR!
FO THE EMPRAH'
If not, just PURGE IT.
FOR THE EMPRAH!
ALL SINNERS FEAR THE EMPEROR’S WRATH
When my grandchildren read their history books, your name will be mentioned as a visionary, and a guide to future generations. Love you, Isaac
JMG recommended your channel and I’m glad I’m here - you guys are great, thanks!
I'm so glad you got a clip of someone drinking coffee in there!
seriously, though, this is a fascinating topic and the video is, as always, really well done, thank you.
"...you can fix people who are morons or sociopaths...". We so need that technology now :(
"Do you swear fealty to the Emperor? ...No!? Another sociopath, 3rd one this week! Better get the lobotimiser warmed up."
Dune is one of my favourite books. It really is immense and so absorbing.
I got audible and listened to revenger, and I was a huge fan. Was wondering if had some science fiction you could recommend? Keep up the good videos man.
I've been following your channel since about March now and I really love your stuff. I'm working on a Sci Fi novel and watching your videos always gives me inspiration.
Hey I’m a new viewer and love your content. I’ve been binge watching these past few days. You have influenced me and lite a fire in my oven. I will start writing my own sci fi book.
There was a short story I read once, where a basic sci fi alien civilization tries to launch an attack on humanity, only to find a full, realistic K-2 civilization around the sun, with I think around a quintillion people inhabiting every orbiting body in the solar system out to the oort cloud.
The attacking fleet pretty much died and nobody even noticed.
Where did you read it? It sounds interesting.
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Amazing as always my sweet thinking sci fi mind. You create our future in thought and words. May more expand thought in now instead of falling in our steps forgotten. I emplore you to keep inspiring minds. For that i thank you, rare but pure mind.
Man, if this channel has taught me anything it's that gonzo as it is, the Imperium of Man is really slacking off. WIth the tech and resources they have available it should be a piece of cake to build Nicoll-Dyson beams around every star in the way of the Tyranids and crack open a few bottles of amasec as an ancient extragalactic terror hits them like a fly hits a bugzapper.
This channel is by far my favorite channel to go to for science videos. Also, is it possible you are going to do another episode of civilizations at the end of time? It is probably my favorite series.
Thanks for this fantastic video. When I was young a got a present from my uncle about interstellar travel. I was hooked on it and took the little book with me to bed. Later when I got my library card I read all the sci-fi classics. Now the young have the videos you create I wish I had them back when I was young. I'm halfway into Revenger btw, so thanks for no spoilers.
I've been waiting for this episode.
Am I the only one who finds Isaacs voice incredibly soothing? 😂 Ugh absolutely love this dude. Best channel on youtube by far 👌👌
he refers to it as an impediment! first time he said it i was like "what?" it makes him so easy to understand, its a major plus. Been watching for 6 months, patron too. think how fast we could progress as humans, if we all had his mind!
Subject Suggestion: A civilization that has FTL/Fold Drive/Whatever would have a perspective gap. Oh, our galactic map shows "this", but because there is a lag in the light reaching the homeworld/cultural center, but in reality the stars are over here in real/time. Projecting the movement of stars based on their distance from the origin point would be a major component.
I watch you videos while getting stoned in my garden, this is my favourite so far. I love your channel thank you for your hard work
This is the best channel on TH-cam. Love it! Keep it up until the end of time Isaac!
Fun fact, Kardashev 3 civilizations have mastered technology of space/matter manipulation down to quarks/gluons/leptons and have the ability to transform energy.
They live in a 10m ball with slowed time while uploaded on computer.
No spheres needed as there is no need for them.
Kardashev Scale isn't about tech level, its power level or kinda-sorta population size to conceptualize easier, a MAtrioshka Brain could have more people living on it that whole terraformed galaxy and is still K2
I love your videos, they are good to listen to while doing other things
Actually, IMO they are best enjoyed by sitting down with a cup of coffee, like I'm doing here down in Australia Friday morning!
shit man you scared me - for a second I thought it was friday but for me its Thursday 17:51
spykez spykez how do you even manage to buffer the video? Or comment?
A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. This every sister of the Bene Gesserit knows.
To begin your study of the life of Isacc Arthur, then take care that you first place him in his time: born in the 19XXth year of the CE.
And take the most special care that you locate Arthur in his place: the nascent Internet.
Do not be deceived by the fact that he was born before the Internet started becoming the main information tool, and lived his first years before it.
The Net and its many sites and faces, also know back then as "TH-cam", is forever his place.
I've watched a few of your videos now and I am very, very impressed with the amazing quality of content! Subscribed!
I have never been happier that it's Arthursday, my life has been a bit chaotic lately and I'm glad I can relax with a new video from you, thanks Isaac.
P.S. Still waiting for Sexy Aliens.
:) I don't know that we'll ever do that one, I'd probably giggle the whole way through the narration
Well, it would be a good excuse to go into exobiology as it relates to alien societies, at the very least. Or acknowledge the existence of Rule 34 again.
Ah, writing.
I've written some unpublished books...
My philosophy in regard to technology (or magic for that matter. A lot of it is fantasy, or some hybrid ideas.), is not about physics...
I'm not too bothered about violating any given law of physics, or even all of it.
But I do strive for internal consistency.
The story doesn't have to make sense in the real world, but it should make sense within itself.
If you set a rule, even one that would be ridiculous in reality...
Stick to it.
Consider it's consequences.
Follow through on it's implications.
At least, insofar as you're capable of thinking through what it would imply, I consider it worthwhile to do so,
That a fictional universe doesn't obey the rules of the real one is fine as far as I'm concerned, but consistency and consequences still matter...
Don't know if you will see this Isaac but do you have plans for a video explaining how FTL would affect interstellar empires? Something that is at least possible in math like Einstein-Rosen bridges could do it. Would really like to see how different the galaxy would be from one without FTL.
After watching this, I can never play a space 4 game the same way again...Master of Orion, Galactic Civilizations III, they all feel absurdly tiny now even on the largest map sizes.
Arthur I absolutely love your content. Would it be possible to do more story-type episodes like you did in the colonization series and the colony ships? I really loved those because it allowed me to sink into the science while getting a great little glimpse of what could be a great plot for a full length book or film. Thanks for all the work you put into these episodes!
The story episodes are a mixed bag, some folks love them, some folks hate them, we actually have one on that ship for next week but it will be a while before we do it again, I am doing a project right now that is sucking up that part of my creativity :)
Isaac Arthur well I’ll look forward to next week :)
Isaac Arthur... "Interstellar Empires" Nice X-Mas Gift!!! I Love it! Merry Solstice and YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE! YOU REALLY DO!!!