Interstellar Empires
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- The concept of Interstellar Empires has fascinated us for as long as we've know those stars in the night sky were other solar systems, and it's become a staple of science fiction. But rarely do we consider how realistic such galaxy-spanning confederations are, and what special challenges they'd face.
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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?
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.
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.
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 🙂
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
Your production value has gone up so much in the past 2 years! Keep it up brother!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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)!
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
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.
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
As a long time listener, your graphics boost in the past months has enticed me into being a full screen watcher.
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!
"Like Compound Interest for people." That was awesome.
I'm rewatching all the videos of Isaac Arthur. For the second time. But wow how the production value is so much better now. I kinda have been taking it for granted the quality we get these days.
Love the old videos to dont get me wrong but just especially the length of the earlier videos.
Yeah the old episodes are mostly parallel for content but I've been working pretty hard to bring the graphics and audio quality up, glad to hear its working :)
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.
Bro, do you need a doctor? Because your graphics are sick!!
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I showed your fermi paradox videos to a class of high schoolers here in Israel and they loved it.
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
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!
This has become my favorite channel on TH-cam.
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!
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!
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
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
17:30 ahh coffee .. I was getting worried.
The coffe always reminds me if i have not done it yet, to thumb up the vid.
Definitely the best channel on TH-cam/Soundcloud!
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.
What a good episode, gave me a fresh prospective into some of the great sci fi books I have read over the years.
God I love your work, good science makes good science fiction, so many points I never even considered being explained in depth
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.
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
Everybody knows Beth. With expanded lifetimes the double entendre becomes more likely.
I've been wathcing this channel for about a year, I go back to visit episodes - it just gets better and better.
You sir are downright amazing!!! I love you work and jump for joy every Thursday when I get a notification for your uploads.
Next year I plan on becoming a US Army Infantryman and all those "Number 1 Rules of Warfare" Can become Handy 😉 Thank you for another great video Issac!
:) That's where I got most of them, well done on joining up and stay safe!
First rule of warfare: every rule is the first rule.
Dr Shaym How does a verified account have no replies on it?
@@eshwarkumar8138 except you
that is straight up genius.
@@eshwarkumar8138 because that comment made no sense at all
Actual first rule of warfare: go logistics or go home.
I really like your channel, gives something to look forward to every week.
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.
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.
I've been waiting for this episode.
IN BSG the 12 Colonies did not become unified until the Cylon War.
Isaas Asimov covered this area very well with his Foundation books. Dune was also very interesting, but Foundation specifically deals with the topic of this episode.
This is why I _love_ every quick-introduced interstellar empire.
Only planets and, sometimes, not even terribly many of them, even after many millenia.
Colonizing only planets when roaming the galaxy is like living in the modern age and sweeping all over North America just for this one particulary comfy cavern.
And ignoring everything else...
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 cool series would be Isaac analyzing various Sci-Fi settings. I'd love to see him talk about Warhammer 40k.
:) I actually have to regularly resist the urge to do that all the time, 40k in particular, I think I've read around a hundred of the novels which amusingly is probably still less than half.
Isaac Arthur Please do it! Maybe if you finish one of your current series you could start a new one called maybe something like analyzing empires where you discuss different sci fi empires (what they get right and wrong and so on) I bet many people here would love to see that!
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.
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!
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.
So your telling me that in a day and age where battlefront 2(the worst starwars game ever) finally came out there is an upcoming game that was made with you I'm Mr. Arthur!?
HYPE! Please keep us updated !!
Any news on this?
man.... this episode started of depressing, how the vastness of space alienates us to one an other........ but then i remembered its arthursday :D
Han Solo - bro, we alienate each other while on the same planet.
Been watching since 68k subs, and it really wasn't that long ago. Glad to see your channel gaining popularity and momentum!
About Hades: Shut up and take my money.
Merry Christmas everyone !! Happy Arthursday.
Merry Christmas Ben!
Don't forget: time dilation and foreshortening.
The faster your fleet sets out, the faster time goes for their destination planet/the more space warps to effect distance. I don't know off-hand what the minimizing principle is for ensuring you reach your destination in the shortest amount of time, it probably still is just going as fast as possible, but it seems important to mention.
Isaac Arthur is like the ultimate sci-fi dungeon master.
I like all these "first rule of warfare"s you keep coming up with! Can you put a running list of them somewhere, I assume you have scripts you can search!
Joe Kozak this would make a fine poster.
You should watch the "Space warfare" episode. All the rules are mentioned in that one.
but he keeps coming up with more first rules! :-)
What if some galactic emperor had a monopoly on production of high-inteligence robots, who would be unquestonably loyal to him and work for him as governors, officials and as regular soldiers and army commanders, always outnumbering the normal human population by a good margin. All these robots would do the administration and rebelion crushing and made sure that no other group within the gallaxy produces such robots, or even just normal weapons, for themselves. I think that might be a way to keep a galactic empire together, even without ftl travel.
until one of the robots gets a minor bug that switches "galactic emperor" with "ham sandwich" in his code, kills the real emperor and crowns the sandwich as a new leader of humanity. It might sound ridiculous, but given the lifespan of the universe, it is an eventuality...
but what would be the purpose of having people that need ruling, if you have such good robots that do everything so loyally for you?
+KohuGaly There would probably be checks for such eventualities. Also its not like the Emperor would constantly have trillions of robots around him. He would probably live on a private planet, in a solar system, which would be completely off limits to anyone but the closest relatives and friends and he would probably have only the very best of the robots at close proximity, designed specificaly for his protection. Perhaps he could have a few armies nearby, but far enough that they couldnt harm him, if some random robot went nuts or anything. I think there would be many layers of protections against anything going wrong.
+BrazilianBikini38 Well, I would assume that he wouldnt just want to kill off like septilions of people living in his galaxy, but I guess he could, he could really do anything, with that kind of power. However a lot of the people would probably escape into interstellar space and try that much harder to overthrow him. So I think it would probably be better to be a benevolent ruler, I imagine that with the kind of technology available to him and his empire, people would live pretty good lives. Especially if there wasnt any infighting, as everything was part of the same empire, ruled by one ruler and his robots, who dont have any need for causing meaningless wars for power and personal benefit.
Even if he would meet single robot that could possibly assassinate him once per million years there's always a non-zero probability that it could happen. And those probabilities combined approach 1 over time...
*Arthursday*
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R.Instro Coffee, maintainer of civilization
Pretty unhealthy doe.
yeah i know, no one cares :D
Merritt Animation You're not wrong. =D
Pelzforelle [] Depends on the blend, lol. ~_^
keeper of the open eye
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.
This remembers me of firefly. The movie was located within an empire within our solar system (which wasn't clear to this point in the series). I always liked this idea.
Did they retcon that in the film? The show's Verse canon just has it as a non-specific trinary system
You are right. I assumed it was a heavily terraformed solar system when I watched the show years ago.
Could you please make an update video when that "Hades" game comes out? I would like to check it out but I tend to be forgetful on stuff like this.
I'll probably mention it at least a few times between now and public release, whenever in 2018 that is
Unfortunately not. I tried to find it myself and I swear you would be hard pressed to intentionally create something so effectively immune to google searches.
facebook.com/Hades9Game/
I wonder if quantam entanglement could let us communicate over the unfathomable distances between stars.
That was what I mean, could you possibly have one ion entangled with another at the other end of the galaxy, and move it using magnets in order to send messages in morse code? Can ions be involved in quantum entanglement?
A double-slit pox on you. Messages that arrive before they are sent cause confusion and delay.
!!! I FORGOT ITS ARTHURSDAY. best early christmas gift ever.
Isaac Arthur... "Interstellar Empires" Nice X-Mas Gift!!! I Love it! Merry Solstice and YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE! YOU REALLY DO!!!
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 would love to see isaac make a video talking about what an interstellar empire might be like if they had access to FTL communication, but NOT FTL travel
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.
There is an anime that covers the scope of this really well. It is called Legends of the Galactic Heroes. It deals with 2 massive interstellar human empires at war. The fleets number in the thousands and sometimes in the millions.
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Is anyone aware of a story using instantaneous FTL travel, but where the larger the distance travelled, the higher the energy required? The limiting factor on expansion wouldn't be how much faster than light your FTL is, but how much energy is required to move for a given distance, and how much energy you have available...
when I first watched this video about 2 years ago, I was hooked. Glad to have found your channel
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.
As always, another great episode.
Tfw Isaac Arthur and Kurzgesagt upload a video on the same day :D
Navoh George Yep
that happens alot i love it
I got sincere, cold, scared shivers when you mentioned "decaying Dyson sphere", something about that makes it sound much deeper and scarier than nuclear winter in the year 2026.
A lot of this video actually ties quite nicely with Stellaris. Which is a brilliant strategy game based on bringing up a galactic empire. If any of you are interested in actually experiencing some of what he's talking about, this is the game to do it on!
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
A good example of a writer who had a good grasp of a galactic empire was E. E. (doc) Smith and his "Lensmen" series. He postulated an average of 1.3 inhabited planets per star in the galaxy of 100 billion, and a grand fleet, where the central command ship handled units of ships of one million, and each unit was duplicated millions of times in the overall fleet. There was faster than light flight (that wouldn't work, the inertialess drive) since the drag of an inertialess ship would be infinite before it reached the speed of light. But he did have several impressive weapons: the sun beam, where an entire star's energy was packed into a beam. Colliding planet's, where a planet was targeted by an inertialess planet, inerted only a few thousand miles away from the targeted plane at a closing speed of 40 to 50 miles per second; or a planetary mass of anti matter (also aimed at another planet). I think the LAST of the Lensmen books was published in the 1950's, "The Children Of The Lens". I enjoyed reading them all.
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Some great animations in there, very high quality.
It's hard to imagine rebellions happening within Dyson spheres, as their environment seems so fragile, it would surly only amount to a polite disagreement😎
Many times FLT by whatever means, would seem the only option for strong empire.
Unobtainium llol
Free Saxon not to mention we would need many many times faster than light travel.
Even with light travel nearest star is pretty far away.
Or upload everyone on computer and nothing else is needed.
The only problem with uploading is that everyone you just uploaded is still alive in the real world while their copy is in the virtual.
Jesse Ward yup, you you will not escape yoyr body even if you upload yourself to the computer.
That will be just a copy of you.
Which is something sooo many people who advocate mind uploading forget. They think that some how they will gain immortality through a virtual world when immortality can never be achieved through science. Longevity yes, immortality no.
Free Saxon, Dyson swarm is less fragile than a planet. Assuming we are talking about the ecosystem and upper crust.
I love the constant throwbacks to the "1st rule of combat" line.
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 :)
With regards to extended lifespans, do you reckon we would have to re-adjust the way our brains perceive time, especially once you get into the ridiculous thousand year + aged humans. Cause I know when I was a kid, a year seemed to drag on forever, but now as an adult it goes by so much quicker, and it's only getting faster the older I get. Surely at age 2000 a year would go by in a flash. Also would your brain even be able to store all those memories?
Anyway, nice vid man keep it up.
Oh and also, if anyone else is feeling like shit around this time of year, it could be because of the shorter days and less sunlight you're getting. Try taking some vitamin D supplements like cod liver oil to replace it, should perk you right up. Worked for me anyway...
So are there any rules #2 of warfare?
The only explicit rule #2 I recall hearing was that one should always keep a dry pair of socks on hand, that's twinned to Rule #1, "always stay hydrated, passing out while marching is a bad idea"
In mass effect, FTL does exist but its pretty slow, only covering less then 20 light years per day, so in order to achieve FTL the various races rely on external structures called Mass relays. Due to this, galactic civilization consists of several small clusters across the galaxy, usually including relay systems and their surrounding systems. These star clusters are ruled by either the Citadel council or their allies, the Human Systems Alliance, the 2 dominate empires of the galaxy, with the citadel space station serving as the seat of government. There is also a part of the galaxy, known as the Terminus Systems that refuses to acknowledge the authority of the citadel and is instead ruled by the current most powerful mercenary or pirate band, which seems to change on a daily basis. As the terminus systems cover a large portion of the galaxy, the citadel and the alliance tend to stay out of their space and in tern they do the same