@@isaacarthurSFIA Considering that the oceans will boil in the next 400 years due to waste heat; I doubt humanity will be able to make airline flights, let alone intergalactic travel. What's your take on how we should deal with rising temperature problems caused by climate change? How will heating up a planet 3 degrees affect rocket launches and take off?
Isaac, I’ve been watching you since my freshman year of high school, I am finishing my second year of college now, and it is absolutely remarkable how you have developed and improved your content and community, without watering it down. Huge congratulations for the new position, I can’t think of a better science educator for the role. God bless, and keep it up sir.
Indeed I remember the after the first few episodes I though “this guy is great, I wonder how long it will be until he runs out of Fermi Paradox questions to write about and the channel slows down?” But, I’ve been so fortunately surprised with its longevity and ever improving quality!
Congrats on your new role Isaac! With you at the helm, a future like this is more likely to come sooner rather than later. And another wonderful and informative video.
Amazing how much progress you’ve made speaking, Isaac! I didn’t know it was even possible to bootstrap your way out of a speech impediment, but hearing you say “mirror arrays” perfectly compared to videos you made 5 years ago - it’s incredible. I didn’t know it was even possible. Thanks for bringing such great content! You’ll never meet all of us, but I hope you know that the numbers are real people, you’ve educated and sparked interest in science in literally millions of people by now!
This is the first time in forty years I've seen an *understandable* synoptic description of the galactic neighborhood. Add my congratulations and THANKS for your service.
Congratulations! I'll take this opportunity to say that people like you keep the dream of the stars alive in a time when all too many people have become defeatist about humanity's prospects. It is no wonder the NSS wanted you. You are a much-needed voice of optimism. Thank you for that!
Congratulations on your new title, Mr. President! We are all happy for you as our online Sci-Fi, Physics and Astronomy teacher with the best and easiest to understand videos about our Universe.
When he brought into the idea the expansion of the universe making intraglactic spacelanes subject to being torn apart by the expansion of the universe... That's right, right? I don't know I just dropped right back into a speculative space without emotional investment.
They impress me, I love the graphics! But that's all we have, seriously. I think the comment-section is depressing as HELL, it just slays me that anyone can think any of us is going ANYWHERE in this context!!! It's really not sane.
Wow! Congratulations on the new NSS position! It's downright neat seeing one of my favourite modern futurist voices take the helm of one of the more futurist organizations in town. The more people across the lands who take the long view, the better.
Always loved your videos ❤️ extremely insightful and easy to understand when you break down certain topics for us. We are truly blessed to have such an amazing and informative content creator 🌏
It’s weird how inspiring this stuff is when it’s almost certain that none of us will live to see it, but I guess that kind of thing what makes us human.
We can be the ones that lay the foundation, that build the groundworks for this brave new future. Or we can be the ones that lounge in obscurity and if anything make sure it never happens. Never underestimate the impact you can have.
That’s what really inspires, is the things we leave behind, and the things we help bring into being, even if, and I would say especially if, we don’t see the ending.
Imagine moving a whole bunch of red dwarfs with your stellar engine of choice, and using them plus tons of relay stations to setup the ultimate laser highway between galactic regions. Very well might wind up with billions of people living at each "way station", acting as ports of call on the long trip between galaxies, as well as homes for those that want to live in a more "rural" environment. Congrats on the role there as well!
Followed this channel for years, can't think of anyone better for that role. You create accessable, knowledgeable and inspiring science content, as a layman I love it. Congrats! From a brit and fellow vet of the other sand pit, Issac🤟
I've been watching your videos for quite awhile now and I can't think of even one that was not exceptionally interesting and informative. I'm happy for your new role and am sure you will be just as exceptional at the helm of the NSS! Well deserved, sir, well deserved.
Piers Anthony's _Macroscope_ (the ambitious novel that didn't sell) has a peaceful galaxy with an information economy based on ftl communication becoming a warlike galaxy when ftl travel is discovered.
This channel goes great with Fraser Cain. Arthur is imaginative and inspiring while cain is pragmatic and informative. They go together like a drink and a snack.
Congrats on the NSS presidency! I have some concerns about the aluminum intergalactic tunnel, durability wise. If any high speed dust damaged it, it could make an area of intergalactic space far more populated with particles than it would have been otherwise, right? I'm no expert, but it seems like the mass and complexity cost of cleaning and maintaining that system would outweigh the benefits compared to our usual laser highway systems. Also, just wanted to say how much I love watching a channel where we use phrases like "interstellar laser highway" on a regular basis:)
With the potential of the future, I wonder if some civilization millions if not billions of the years in the future will build a, idk, gigastructure not around a star, but around an entire galaxy. I remember that the Nicoll-Dyson megastructure could move a star by reflecting the light in one direction. I wonder if this gigastructure could move an entire galaxy, therefore turning the intergalactic voyage from a "Go from Galaxy A to Galaxy B", to "Move Galaxy A to Galaxy B / Move Galaxy A and Galaxy B closer"
God I love this channel lol, nowhere else will you find someone casually discussing the pros and cons of building tunnels through space light years long while also calculating the weight of the materials needed hahaha. Fantastic stuff, please never stop!
My god we are so alone and the universe is so unimaginably vast and the depth of time so infinitely deep. 2 million years journey. Imagine a thousand years. Now imagine a thousand of those. And double that. Words can’t express the sense of eternal insanity that entails.
ALL HAIL our Starship Captain and Intergalactic President, Sir Isaac! Long Live El Presidente! Proof that meritocracy isn't completely dead! Congratulations, sir!
Fantastic video! Amazingly comprehensive look at our local environment - though I personally love thinking of the Sombrero galaxy as the next level of waypoint, so I was disappointed that you didn't go one more intermediate level out before the supercluster. Thanks so much for this and all your other videos 🍻
I would have never in a million years guessed that Saturn had enough material in it to make a pipe stretching from the Milky Way to Andromeda. That's nuts!
Magnificent. Congratulations on your election. The coming episodes are exciting and I may consider joining the NSS, and Nebula. I hope everyone has a great day.
Another thought-provoking episode, thanks for that. Also, huge congratulations on your new role! Hope it goes well. I know you'll be a huge asset for them.
Thank you for your videos, they are the only things that keep me from having complete nervous breakdown. you seem to be the only person to have quite a lot of hope for the future.
I love the videos with massive scales like this one! They really give you a lot to think about, and they challenge you to try to comprehend space on scales we never had before a century ago. Also congrats on your appointment!
They're my favorite. I love the idea that in some galaxy, possibly outside our observable universe, there are giant advanced civilizations like this. We'll never even know they exist but it's cool to imagine what beings, lives, and civilizations could be active right now.
You've talked of distant futures in which we digitize human minds and then can "clock" those minds at whatever speeds our energy needs would allow. That seems like a useful thing to have in one of these intergalactic journeys of millions of years, since you could have a large population of uploaded minds, and most of them would be "clocked" to experience the entire trip as if it were only a few weeks or months at most. Then they would take shifts in which several of them were clocked at a perspective that would view a year as a minute, and one or two more would be on a shift in which they view a year as taking a day, perhaps, so that they could respond )relatively_ quickly to an emergency and clock themselves up to a realtime speed (or faster) to handle the problem, and then the other shifts could catch up as their perceptions allowed them to notice the alerts. If all goes well, nobody would perceive an unreasonable amount of time spent in transit, no more than sailors of old doing global trips, but there would always be at least a few people working as close to real time as would be needed to respond to emergencies.
The way I like to think of the speed of light is not as the maximum amount of speed but as the minimum amount of slowness. "Moving at the speed of light" is the default state of existence--it is your zero--and adding mass to things slows them down. That may not be technically accurate but it helps me conceptualize it
I just imagine what you'd be able to do with readings of the CMB and CGB from a bunch of different galaxies' POV. Would take a long, long time to harvest the data unless FTL; but what an impressive thing. Multi-millions of years of trillions symbolized in a map.
imagine a catastrophe happening in a Systemship, and a few million years later new intelligence evolves on the untouched zoo planet, industrializes and builds telescopes, just to figure out that their entire system is artificial, and hurling through the intergalactic void, with life as they know it barely protected from deadly radiation and dust-storms by aging, unmaintained shielding systems and structures.
I absolutely love certain aspects of Vernor Vinge's _Zones of Thought_ series, particularly how he deals with truly alien races of life. But this episode reminded me of the time(s) some in that fictional universe spent building interstellar empires at sublight speeds: absolutely brilliant how trades in materials and cultures might be able to happen across thousands of light years even at sub-light. Not intergalactic, of course, and the difference between even those far-flung realms and traveling between whole galaxies just further drives home how massive the scale of intergalactic travel would have to be to be in any way practical. =)
Total respect, Brother !!! (Except for anything related to Mars, a total waste of time and resources, even training and science). I subscribe top-level, like, share to text and posted this! Keep it up! I love your work!
Hello, Issac First of All congratulations on becoming president of NSS this is the high time of your life. I have a few questions 1)Will your youtube routine change 2)What will you do now as president 3)Would you now be speaking at some events.
Thanks, Isaac, for a thought provoking episode on a big topic. There is another way to travel between galaxies that you didn't mention. Look for technosignatures in distant galaxies - or even just biosignatures if the galaxy is distant enough - and include the blueprint of your ecosystem along with those of the colonists with your initial "hello" message. Of course you can only reach galaxies that are already occupied, and you will be relying on the unconfirmed ability and willingness of those occupants to both receive your message and act on it. And it also depends on overcoming philosophical hangups surrounding the distinction between "copying" and "teleporting". But you could shave hundreds of millions of years off your travel time, and it may indeed be the only way to reach some of the more distant parts of the universe. I only know of one sci-fi novel where this is used as a method of intergalactic travel - and I wrote it.
I love that you mentioned that Earth and the Sol System are most likely to remain the center of a human galactic empire. Mainly because I am reading The Expanse right now and am at the part where Earth and Sol have been booted out of its position of center of the human civilisation and replaced with a new colony called Lakonia, but the Head of State had to play a very long game to systematically destabilise Earth and then later Sol's hold over the empire. First he starts a war between the main factions in the Sol system and makes the Belt toss a bunch of meteors at Earth to screw up its climate and weaken its position as control of the Sol system. He then flees for a new system where they found alien ship building platforms and fortifies the new system again people from other systems coming in. They spend 30 years building up a massive force with technology far beyond any other human system, then destroy the control of every local government in the 1300 systems humans live in and make them all join the Lakonian Empire with Lakonia as its center; he even forces all Universities, Unions, and Guilds move their HQs to Lakonia to keep all officials under his thumb and with in arms reach when he needs a puppet.
@@shubhamkumar6689 Sadly they cancelled the show. We aren't getting anything further; but in terms of the books Earth falls as the leader of humanity after the belt starts tossing rocks at them, the trade union becomes the new de facto government over humanity in all 1300 systems over a couple decades between Lakonia isolating and coming in to take over. Avasarala is long retired when Lakonia attacks and the UN and Earth have very little power, Holden is in his late 50's and has just been a errand boy for the trade union. It is actually both Avasarala and Holden that tell Drummer who is head of the trade union during the invasion to surrender to save Sol System and Holden ends up surrendering himself to Lakonia since he knows what is going on with the aliens that killed the gate builders and are now coming after humans. The final 2 books pick up 5 years after Sol surrenders at Avasurela's funeral on Lakonia where Holden and Avasurela had been political prisoners with free range of Lakonia and the Lakonian head of state pretending making them look like they were honoured transplants and advisors from the Sol system. The final epilogue was AMAZING though since not only does it tie up a lot of loose ends; it goes 1000 years into the future from the final events to give you a glimpse of what has become of Sol System as a result of everything that happened with the Protomolecule.
@@CartoonHero1986 Wow! I wouldn't have predicted that. Story is amazing. I would love to see a happy ending of 'The Expanse' because it was one of my favourite shows. One of the writer and Amos are on TH-cam, 'Ty and that guy' is the name of the channel. I think they'll make one more season in future.
@@shubhamkumar6689 I mean... the ending of the books isn't exactly a "happy ending" so much as it is a satisfying one that ends the story well and all the main characters accept and are for the most part at peace with... but it still ends in a lot of deaths in terms of named characters and humanity in general, but it could have ended in extinction or something far creepier.
Dude huge huge huge congrats. You’re videos are amazing; realistic but also willing to think outside the box. Can’t wait to see what you can accomplish in the future 👊🏾
Congratulations, Isaac! And thank you for your channel. Your content has always provided me with ideas and inspiration for my personal sci-fy writing. I don't publish or at least yet. But if I ever do, you will certainly get credit. Even today's episode gave me a good idea.
Congrats on the new role Isaac, it's incredibly well deserved! Thank you for all your hard work!
Our pleasure!
@@isaacarthurSFIA Considering that the oceans will boil in the next 400 years due to waste heat; I doubt humanity will be able to make airline flights, let alone intergalactic travel.
What's your take on how we should deal with rising temperature problems caused by climate change? How will heating up a planet 3 degrees affect rocket launches and take off?
We could just block 2-3% of the sunlight that hits the Earth, but that would require trillions of these things humans call monies.
@Jack Sparrow I doubt the oceans will boil in 400yrs
@@jimboscooter432 And I doubt you can do math, or know how bad the climate is getting.
Isaac, I’ve been watching you since my freshman year of high school, I am finishing my second year of college now, and it is absolutely remarkable how you have developed and improved your content and community, without watering it down. Huge congratulations for the new position, I can’t think of a better science educator for the role. God bless, and keep it up sir.
Indeed I remember the after the first few episodes I though “this guy is great, I wonder how long it will be until he runs out of Fermi Paradox questions to write about and the channel slows down?” But, I’ve been so fortunately surprised with its longevity and ever improving quality!
Congrats on your new role Isaac! With you at the helm, a future like this is more likely to come sooner rather than later.
And another wonderful and informative video.
Same.
Amazing how much progress you’ve made speaking, Isaac! I didn’t know it was even possible to bootstrap your way out of a speech impediment, but hearing you say “mirror arrays” perfectly compared to videos you made 5 years ago - it’s incredible. I didn’t know it was even possible.
Thanks for bringing such great content! You’ll never meet all of us, but I hope you know that the numbers are real people, you’ve educated and sparked interest in science in literally millions of people by now!
This is the first time in forty years I've seen an *understandable* synoptic description of the galactic neighborhood. Add my congratulations and THANKS for your service.
Congratulations Isaac! Your videos inspired me and even helped me go through hard times. I'm happy for your success. Well deserved.
Thank you so much!
Congratulations! I'll take this opportunity to say that people like you keep the dream of the stars alive in a time when all too many people have become defeatist about humanity's prospects. It is no wonder the NSS wanted you. You are a much-needed voice of optimism. Thank you for that!
Congratulations on your new title, Mr. President! We are all happy for you as our online Sci-Fi, Physics and Astronomy teacher with the best and easiest to understand videos about our Universe.
Wow, I can never decide if these kinds of episodes are awe-inspiring, or depressing. A galaxy-wide aluminum tunnel, indeed.
This is how the paperclip optimizer got created. But instead of paperclips, aluminum. :D
When he brought into the idea the expansion of the universe making intraglactic spacelanes subject to being torn apart by the expansion of the universe... That's right, right? I don't know I just dropped right back into a speculative space without emotional investment.
They impress me, I love the graphics! But that's all we have, seriously. I think the comment-section is depressing as HELL, it just slays me that anyone can think any of us is going ANYWHERE in this context!!! It's really not sane.
Wow! Congratulations on the new NSS position! It's downright neat seeing one of my favourite modern futurist voices take the helm of one of the more futurist organizations in town. The more people across the lands who take the long view, the better.
Always loved your videos ❤️ extremely insightful and easy to understand when you break down certain topics for us. We are truly blessed to have such an amazing and informative content creator 🌏
It’s weird how inspiring this stuff is when it’s almost certain that none of us will live to see it, but I guess that kind of thing what makes us human.
We can be the ones that lay the foundation, that build the groundworks for this brave new future. Or we can be the ones that lounge in obscurity and if anything make sure it never happens. Never underestimate the impact you can have.
I think there’s a decent chance some of us may well live to see this future. As Isaac said, live forever or die trying!
That’s what really inspires, is the things we leave behind, and the things we help bring into being, even if, and I would say especially if, we don’t see the ending.
@@mj6463 yeah, it’s not that we won’t live to see it, we’re seeing it right now, we just won’t see how it will end
Yes, I agree! In the same way that our children represent our immortality, the tangible items and ideas we leave behind do as well.
oh algorithm gods! hear your servants' plea and spread this video!
We worship science here, sir. Hide your shame!
i have no shame and the only thing i worship is the cosmos itself.
@Dados, Ciência e Sustentabilidade It seems well hidden, then. I accept this, for now....
🙏
Hail, the algorithm
Congrats Issac 👏. Your channel is awesome. Thanks for the hard work.
Imagine moving a whole bunch of red dwarfs with your stellar engine of choice, and using them plus tons of relay stations to setup the ultimate laser highway between galactic regions. Very well might wind up with billions of people living at each "way station", acting as ports of call on the long trip between galaxies, as well as homes for those that want to live in a more "rural" environment. Congrats on the role there as well!
Followed this channel for years, can't think of anyone better for that role. You create accessable, knowledgeable and inspiring science content, as a layman I love it. Congrats! From a brit and fellow vet of the other sand pit, Issac🤟
Thanks Joe, I really appreciate that :)
Wow I've literally been enthralled lately by what could be in other galaxies and traveling to them, perfect timing.
I've been watching your videos for quite awhile now and I can't think of even one that was not exceptionally interesting and informative. I'm happy for your new role and am sure you will be just as exceptional at the helm of the NSS! Well deserved, sir, well deserved.
Piers Anthony's _Macroscope_ (the ambitious novel that didn't sell) has a peaceful galaxy with an information economy based on ftl communication becoming a warlike galaxy when ftl travel is discovered.
I loved that book. I read it back in the 70s, and I still think about the concepts covered in the novel quite often.
THIS content is why I subscribe to this channel.
Congrats on your new role, Isaac, I know I have no business feeling vicarious pride - but I do.
Excellent video good sir and hats off to the crew!
Thank you kindly!
This channel goes great with Fraser Cain. Arthur is imaginative and inspiring while cain is pragmatic and informative. They go together like a drink and a snack.
Congrats on the NSS presidency! I have some concerns about the aluminum intergalactic tunnel, durability wise. If any high speed dust damaged it, it could make an area of intergalactic space far more populated with particles than it would have been otherwise, right? I'm no expert, but it seems like the mass and complexity cost of cleaning and maintaining that system would outweigh the benefits compared to our usual laser highway systems.
Also, just wanted to say how much I love watching a channel where we use phrases like "interstellar laser highway" on a regular basis:)
Thank you for the videos Issac! Congratulations on your recent appt!
Really liked this video. I hope that humanity gets that far out into space.
Man I love this channel. I find myself excited everytime I see a new episode in my queue. Not that I ever receive notifications.
With the potential of the future, I wonder if some civilization millions if not billions of the years in the future will build a, idk, gigastructure not around a star, but around an entire galaxy. I remember that the Nicoll-Dyson megastructure could move a star by reflecting the light in one direction. I wonder if this gigastructure could move an entire galaxy, therefore turning the intergalactic voyage from a "Go from Galaxy A to Galaxy B", to "Move Galaxy A to Galaxy B / Move Galaxy A and Galaxy B closer"
God I love this channel lol, nowhere else will you find someone casually discussing the pros and cons of building tunnels through space light years long while also calculating the weight of the materials needed hahaha. Fantastic stuff, please never stop!
DUDE!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!! What a great honor but I can't say you don't deserve it.
I love this video, you always shine New Light on topics that i have been interested in since childhood
Awesome show. Kudos to the artists, writers, helpers and sound producer. Top notch content.
Congratz Isaac! Well deserved. Thank you for your Work.
Much appreciated!
What at treat to have a brand-new sfia vid pop up. Congratulations on your appointment, Mr. President.
Super congrats Isaac!! Nobody better for the role!!!
WOOOW!!! Congratulations Isaac!! I can think of no one else better suited to the role of President of the NSS.
Sending gratitude from a Daoist meditation center near Seattle (USA)!
My god we are so alone and the universe is so unimaginably vast and the depth of time so infinitely deep. 2 million years journey. Imagine a thousand years. Now imagine a thousand of those. And double that. Words can’t express the sense of eternal insanity that entails.
Yes, I missed your beautiful voice, sir Isaac and your scenic narrative
ALL HAIL our Starship Captain and Intergalactic President, Sir Isaac! Long Live El Presidente! Proof that meritocracy isn't completely dead! Congratulations, sir!
Congratulations! Can't wait to hear more about it in your future vids. Adding an 'updage on stuff' to each vid would be great!
I lost it a bit when you started discussing tunnels between galaxies. Indeed, this is very SFIA XDXD
Fantastic video! Amazingly comprehensive look at our local environment - though I personally love thinking of the Sombrero galaxy as the next level of waypoint, so I was disappointed that you didn't go one more intermediate level out before the supercluster. Thanks so much for this and all your other videos 🍻
Congratulations Isaac, that is great news that you are trusted with such a responsibility. We all know you will serve above expectation!
Yes!! Finally!!!
I would have never in a million years guessed that Saturn had enough material in it to make a pipe stretching from the Milky Way to Andromeda. That's nuts!
Magnificent. Congratulations on your election. The coming episodes are exciting and I may consider joining the NSS, and Nebula. I hope everyone has a great day.
WooHoo! This looks like a great one. Saving this one for tonight. Thanks, Arthur.
36:30 Buce Banner is giving a talk? The public indemnity insurance for that event must be HUGE!
;)
Congratulations on your new chair, Isaac!
Another thought-provoking episode, thanks for that. Also, huge congratulations on your new role! Hope it goes well. I know you'll be a huge asset for them.
You have come a long way from apologizing about your speech to definitely my favorite narrator thank you!
To Andromeda and Beyond!!!
Thanks for the video Isaac.
I have not nor will I EVER "grab a drink and a snack" before watching your episodes!!
Thank you for your videos, they are the only things that keep me from having complete nervous breakdown. you seem to be the only person to have quite a lot of hope for the future.
President Arthur has a fitting ring to it! Kudos!!
Congratulations, Isaac, on your new position. Well deserved!
Congratulations on your new post, Arthur!
This is absolutely mind blowing. The time-scale is immense but not compared to the age of the "known universe". Is this our destiny?
So happy you got such an amazing position! Great work my man!
Keep up all the hard work I appreciate everything you give us.
Congratulations on your new role with the NSS - We could all use your optimistic take on the future..
"we look beyond the Earth, to greater worlds" yeeees, let us extend our reach to the stars above
Daaang, isaac, congratulations! I mean, considering all the talks you give, deserved.
I am friends with a For executive Director of the NSS, Your position should be very rewarding.
I love the videos with massive scales like this one! They really give you a lot to think about, and they challenge you to try to comprehend space on scales we never had before a century ago. Also congrats on your appointment!
They're my favorite. I love the idea that in some galaxy, possibly outside our observable universe, there are giant advanced civilizations like this. We'll never even know they exist but it's cool to imagine what beings, lives, and civilizations could be active right now.
You've talked of distant futures in which we digitize human minds and then can "clock" those minds at whatever speeds our energy needs would allow. That seems like a useful thing to have in one of these intergalactic journeys of millions of years, since you could have a large population of uploaded minds, and most of them would be "clocked" to experience the entire trip as if it were only a few weeks or months at most. Then they would take shifts in which several of them were clocked at a perspective that would view a year as a minute, and one or two more would be on a shift in which they view a year as taking a day, perhaps, so that they could respond )relatively_ quickly to an emergency and clock themselves up to a realtime speed (or faster) to handle the problem, and then the other shifts could catch up as their perceptions allowed them to notice the alerts. If all goes well, nobody would perceive an unreasonable amount of time spent in transit, no more than sailors of old doing global trips, but there would always be at least a few people working as close to real time as would be needed to respond to emergencies.
I cannot imagine a better person to lead NSS. Congratulations.
That "Welcome to SFIA" line never gets old :)
11:35 for reference
you do such a good job at these. perfect score and visuals
Happy ArthursDay from Germany 🖖😎
Congratulations Isaac! You really deserve this honor!
The way I like to think of the speed of light is not as the maximum amount of speed but as the minimum amount of slowness. "Moving at the speed of light" is the default state of existence--it is your zero--and adding mass to things slows them down. That may not be technically accurate but it helps me conceptualize it
Thank you for your optimism. It’s refrshing
Dude, You rock. Happy Arthursday man!
Congrats, Isaac!!!!!!
I just imagine what you'd be able to do with readings of the CMB and CGB from a bunch of different galaxies' POV. Would take a long, long time to harvest the data unless FTL; but what an impressive thing. Multi-millions of years of trillions symbolized in a map.
I'm so glad this channel is still going ☺️
wow! Congratulations Isaac! I'm sure you'll do a wonderful job. I would love to see a panel with you and Zubrin one of these days.
Isaac makes my drink and snack so much better
Congratulations Isaac!
Congrats, sir. I couldn't think of a better person for that.
This episode is especially amusing.
imagine a catastrophe happening in a Systemship, and a few million years later new intelligence evolves on the untouched zoo planet, industrializes and builds telescopes, just to figure out that their entire system is artificial, and hurling through the intergalactic void, with life as they know it barely protected from deadly radiation and dust-storms by aging, unmaintained shielding systems and structures.
Thank you for the episode!
I absolutely love certain aspects of Vernor Vinge's _Zones of Thought_ series, particularly how he deals with truly alien races of life. But this episode reminded me of the time(s) some in that fictional universe spent building interstellar empires at sublight speeds: absolutely brilliant how trades in materials and cultures might be able to happen across thousands of light years even at sub-light. Not intergalactic, of course, and the difference between even those far-flung realms and traveling between whole galaxies just further drives home how massive the scale of intergalactic travel would have to be to be in any way practical. =)
Great series
Total respect, Brother !!! (Except for anything related to Mars, a total waste of time and resources, even training and science).
I subscribe top-level, like, share to text and posted this! Keep it up! I love your work!
Yes! Congrats Isaac. That was exciting news
Hello, Issac First of All congratulations on becoming president of NSS this is the high time of your life. I have a few questions 1)Will your youtube routine change 2)What will you do now as president 3)Would you now be speaking at some events.
Thanks, Isaac, for a thought provoking episode on a big topic.
There is another way to travel between galaxies that you didn't mention. Look for technosignatures in distant galaxies - or even just biosignatures if the galaxy is distant enough - and include the blueprint of your ecosystem along with those of the colonists with your initial "hello" message. Of course you can only reach galaxies that are already occupied, and you will be relying on the unconfirmed ability and willingness of those occupants to both receive your message and act on it. And it also depends on overcoming philosophical hangups surrounding the distinction between "copying" and "teleporting". But you could shave hundreds of millions of years off your travel time, and it may indeed be the only way to reach some of the more distant parts of the universe.
I only know of one sci-fi novel where this is used as a method of intergalactic travel - and I wrote it.
I love that you mentioned that Earth and the Sol System are most likely to remain the center of a human galactic empire. Mainly because I am reading The Expanse right now and am at the part where Earth and Sol have been booted out of its position of center of the human civilisation and replaced with a new colony called Lakonia, but the Head of State had to play a very long game to systematically destabilise Earth and then later Sol's hold over the empire. First he starts a war between the main factions in the Sol system and makes the Belt toss a bunch of meteors at Earth to screw up its climate and weaken its position as control of the Sol system. He then flees for a new system where they found alien ship building platforms and fortifies the new system again people from other systems coming in. They spend 30 years building up a massive force with technology far beyond any other human system, then destroy the control of every local government in the 1300 systems humans live in and make them all join the Lakonian Empire with Lakonia as its center; he even forces all Universities, Unions, and Guilds move their HQs to Lakonia to keep all officials under his thumb and with in arms reach when he needs a puppet.
Avarsarla and holden allowed this to happen? I haven't read the books but i have seen the show and I'm waiting for the next season.
@@shubhamkumar6689 Sadly they cancelled the show. We aren't getting anything further; but in terms of the books Earth falls as the leader of humanity after the belt starts tossing rocks at them, the trade union becomes the new de facto government over humanity in all 1300 systems over a couple decades between Lakonia isolating and coming in to take over. Avasarala is long retired when Lakonia attacks and the UN and Earth have very little power, Holden is in his late 50's and has just been a errand boy for the trade union. It is actually both Avasarala and Holden that tell Drummer who is head of the trade union during the invasion to surrender to save Sol System and Holden ends up surrendering himself to Lakonia since he knows what is going on with the aliens that killed the gate builders and are now coming after humans. The final 2 books pick up 5 years after Sol surrenders at Avasurela's funeral on Lakonia where Holden and Avasurela had been political prisoners with free range of Lakonia and the Lakonian head of state pretending making them look like they were honoured transplants and advisors from the Sol system. The final epilogue was AMAZING though since not only does it tie up a lot of loose ends; it goes 1000 years into the future from the final events to give you a glimpse of what has become of Sol System as a result of everything that happened with the Protomolecule.
@@CartoonHero1986 Wow! I wouldn't have predicted that. Story is amazing. I would love to see a happy ending of 'The Expanse' because it was one of my favourite shows. One of the writer and Amos are on TH-cam, 'Ty and that guy' is the name of the channel. I think they'll make one more season in future.
@@shubhamkumar6689 I mean... the ending of the books isn't exactly a "happy ending" so much as it is a satisfying one that ends the story well and all the main characters accept and are for the most part at peace with... but it still ends in a lot of deaths in terms of named characters and humanity in general, but it could have ended in extinction or something far creepier.
@@CartoonHero1986 satisfying end is better than extinction of humanity, so I'll take it. Lol
Congratulations! that's amazing. I met you there last year, and hope i can make it to the next one too!
Congratulations on your new role! I know you'll do great things for the National Space Society!
Congratulations Isaac!
Dude huge huge huge congrats. You’re videos are amazing; realistic but also willing to think outside the box. Can’t wait to see what you can accomplish in the future 👊🏾
Glad I prepped my drink and snack before *this* epic journey ♥ x
Wowwww! Congrats on the new role! Happy for you!
Oh wow, congratulations, Isaac! That's fantastic news, man!
Congratulations Isaac! Love your videos...
Yup. It really makes ya think.
Congratulations, Isaac! And thank you for your channel. Your content has always provided me with ideas and inspiration for my personal sci-fy writing. I don't publish or at least yet. But if I ever do, you will certainly get credit. Even today's episode gave me a good idea.
Awesome video and narration