Arthur is an honest enigma to me, never met a single medium that manages to be both intriguing, terrifying and soothing at the same time. Doesn't help at all that the quality just gets better and better. A true national treasure.
Don't screw around with the _warship_ Rocinante, they have more than just plot armour, they have plot weapons, and four or five hero characters, they're always going to win.
I've never watched a show in my life weekly, I'm talking from cartoons as a kid, to online videos, or anything. This is the first 'show' I watch every episode when it comes out, and one of the very few I get excited to appear. Keep up the great work man.
Watching you, Isaac Arthur, is like being in a lecture at school. You learn a lot. Have a few moment where you get lost. But enjoy the voice of your Professor so much that you don't care how long you sit in that hard wooden chair.
:) I think that's why I always say I prefer doing this over return to Uni and picking up the prof-route again. I only have to give a discussion once and everyone can tune in when and where they want, rather than some stiff cramped desk.
And that why I tune in and watch your amazing videos every week. I plan to donate to your patreon now that I have a job now. "College life sucks" but thanks for everything. P.S. your the reason I passed my space science class my sophomore year at UCF
your videos are always so comprehensive. as you were talking about a crew returning to Earth with tons of gold and platinum, the first thing I thought was, "how long until that amount starts to affect market prices?" and the next words out of your mouth were regarding market prices! I love it!
I remember when I was watching your videos back when you had less than 100k subscriber and since then I'm still waiting your new video every time like a kid and still recommend your channel to friends who are in sciences !
This channel has made Thursday my favorite day of the week. If humanity accomplishes even one of the things you've discussed over the years... wow. Hope I live to see it.
Some things should be made, within 200 years. Most things would be done in 50 years if we actually tried to do stuff. I mean colonizing the moon wouldn't really take that much effort... I mean even hollowing out a large chunk of it to create a base wouldn't really be too hard, Even if modern day solar panels are quite crap, on the moon they would work better. I mean you could make vertical farms with red heat lamps easily, and seeing as hydroponics is 7 to 8 times more efficient than using soil, you could easily manage 5-6 million people on the moon, in about 20 years. Water wouldn't even be a problem, you can just turn hydrogen and oxygen directly into water, you can add basically recycle everything. Everything that a K-1 Civilization can do, we could do to, if we put effort into it. Everything K-2 and K-3 can do is off limit for now.
7:49 "since helium doesn't bond to anything, like all the Noble Gases it's very aristocratic and snobby." *shows images of aristocratic gases* I just laughed so hard. A great episode as always Isaac.
When I worked on a submarine I had to get used to gravity being variable. You would walk through the white tunnel and see a footprint on the wall. We would emergency blow and get a short roller coaster ride. Nothing as extreme as a space ship though.
I honestly don't know how anyone spends months on a ship let alone a sub, but it probably is the best analogy for a spaceship as opposed to a ship or plane.
Joseph Fox what kind of submarine did you work on? I'd love to work on a submarine like an Ohio or Virginia class sub but claustrophobia would probably kick in.
Sometimes they stick claustrophobic minds or tall bodies on subs, it's sadistic. I was on a fast attack.(Los Angeles-class but I had to look it up to be sure, yay memory). The Navy always needs more nukes (my job) so if you qualify they have a spot. It's not for everyone.
Joseph Fox that is sadistic, lol. The Los Angeles class sub was quite a good sub for it's time. If I'm not mistaken they still use them to this day upgraded of course. Not sure what role they are used for nowadays. Correct me if I'm wrong though.
Still feeding us gold entertainment Isaak! While we lazily and spoiled with it just watch and sometimes remember to like, not often posting comments… never doubt how many we are who love this!
I like the idea of adapting our culture to living in deep space. Imagine a nomadic culture in the Inner Asteroid Belt, where wanderers trade whatever they mine from asteroids, and gathering ice for fuel and/or water.
I can imagine that, some large roaming freighters - or a lot of small ones, or both - that spend a few days at each station, picking up and dropping off some standard cargo (ice, air, water, refined chemicals, food) and collecting some new long-term delivery contracts
I like this video. One point on contention about what the Expanse did with Ceres is they did live inside it while spinning it up. Down in Ceres was towards the surface and up towards the core. The spin was less that .3 G and the authors described the further up you went. The worse the coriolis was. Eros was the same.
You cannot be in a simulation. Beacuse it would mean that the REAL world is worst then this. In wich case you either don't have an option to be in a simulation or activly working on to fix the REAL world. The REAL world being borring is not an excuse either, beacuse in that case you get bored of being in a simulation too. So yeah. There is absolutelly no reason to be in a simulation like this.
"Yeah, let's build a computer simulation for this other species that's so shitty that they question whether or not it's a simulation within just a few decades of developing computer technology themselves. I mean, even though we could easily just prevent their programming from being able to contemplate the idea entirely, let's not, because of reasons." - some species more advanced that us Do you "simulation theory" believers ever actually think about anything before you speak? Just wondering.
You assume the simulation is built for us. It might just be a high fidelity simulation of star formation which happens to have physics complicated enough to allow life to emerge. Hell, it could be some 5th dimensional beings screensaver for all we know.
I like how Isaac pointed out that a ship will likely not worry about anything other then the fuel/energy usage. Remembering back to Star Trek: Voyager, I mentally cringed every time that they were worrying about anything other then fuel and energy. So many times a crewman would say something like, "Captain, energy reserves are down 10%." Janeway would then reply with something like, "That's it, no more coffee for breakfast." Like that cup of coffee would have gotten them one more system closer to earth if she did not drink it.
I would LOVE it if you could do an episode on future space suits. I've also thought a lot about suits being long-term wearing multi-function multi-environment things.
Your videos are intellectually rewarding, well-crafted and all the topics are really well covered. They should be translated into different languages by talented narrators like you, in order to benefit more communities. 😋
The interview with the Interplanetary Podcast mentioned at the end, and also a Legion Tech DevBlog episode www.interplanetary.org.uk/episodes th-cam.com/video/bxVKyQIsZ_I/w-d-xo.html
Can you do a video on radiation mining? Taking cosmic rays using the energy out of them and expelling infrared or radio waves seems like and ideal solution for deep space if only the ships were designed for such things.
I had a sci-fi idea where certain spaceships were built with pretty much everything covered in padding that was also handholds (think inflatable ladders) and the architecture was all small rooms, spiral hallways, and rooms with carefully placed pillars, etc. so there was never a danger of falling more than a certain distance.
It's my own favorite outro, no surprise there, but I think if we used it every time it might get stale and there a ton of songs we use that just sound better at full volume and rarely get that, so its nice to switch out occasionally.
Your topics never fail to interest me, although the Fermi Paradox ones are my favorites.. Thank you for sharing all your insights and brilliance into all these wonderful topics. And of course, Happy Arthursday!!! Peace.
Brilliant, yet again. You've really been improving your subtle sarcastic humour lately - made me laugh out loud several times, you've got such a way with words!
I picked on watching you videos in early June of 2019 and can honestly say I’ve watched them all more then once. They are extremely informative and get one to wondering what our future holds. I wasn’t great with Math in school but I always loved science, with you I’m back in school and I don’t want the bell to ring. Keep teaching Iaasc
Nowadays eagerly awaiting every episode on what is now called Arthursday and it always a pleasure to watch. Great content and beautifully narrated. Thanks a lot for the upload.
We cannot get you a drink at this time. Isaac used all the water in his multiple hour hot shower. The water supply needs to be processed through the recycling tanks.
It's only marginally related, but my car is old enough to have separate shoulder belts that button to the headliner. I find it amazing that there was a time when people didn't wear them. What's the point of the lap belt if you're going to smash your face into the steering wheel and die anyway? I love your videos, btw
Just remember that seatbelts are only god for head on impact. Wearing one in a side on impact can cause you more damage than not, and seatbelts themselves are likely to cause damage regardless. Humans have a long way to go before we've got a super safe harness system.
Adding to this, remember: people didn't trust their safety to others quite so much back then: people didn't want to wear their seatbelts because they were worried if something happened they'd be unable to get out of the vehicle fast enough. Their plan for disaster was to leap from the car. Nowadays this is both much more dangerous (higher-speed vehicles, more vehicles on the road, etc) and harder to do (opening the car door against oncoming atmosphere, etc), while the safety provided by staying in the vehicle during the wreck has improved miles and bounds thanks to crash testing and improved materials science.
Mr. Aurther you had me worried. Your video's are usually posted by my second break but this one wasn't posted until my last break. Good video as always. Have a great weekend
The Expanse is one of the best science fiction series I've seen in a long time! Just when you think decent sci-fi on tv is dead along comes The Expanse.
I'm glad you got in to Expanse. I remember few years ago you said that you are not particularly fond of the show but you are willing to give it another go. As always, a fantastic episode. I'm looking forward to next week's episode about O'Neill cylinders.
In Leviathan Wakes, Ceres is lived inside, not on, similar to how Eros is built. That's why in the series, S2E4 the railway they are on is upside down in relation to the surface and Miller's "Spoiler" falling away when he does a hard landing. And the gravity on those stations is not 1G, if I remember correctly.
Thats the problem though. Once you increase spin gravity on the inside to the point it's stronger than surface gravity, the surface of your asteroid starts flying into space.
The habitats are built on the surface and look pretty exposed, so it's likely that the material that would fly off has already flown off and the remaining material is stabilized and constructed on.
I can never fully predict the perspective and angle you will present, from the title and thumbnail -- after watching I will never think of the topic without including your perspective in my thoughts. Your logic is an example to everyone ever attempting to be logical. I hope you are an influence regarding how to think and use logic in all fields worldwide
Another lovely video! I think how the tech and what resources you have affects your culture is a terribly under-used aspect of worldbuilding. Many books start falling apart at that for me. As a newbie sci fi author, I really appreciate videos like these; the cultures different characters are from will affect everything.
David Barkland When looking at earth there is a multitude of cultures and even though improved communications streamline them towards a kind of global culture I find it likely that there will always be a great and distinct difference in how someone from India thinks and acts compared to someone from let's say Canada does. If we then also add terraformed planets, moons, comets, cylinders, dyson swarms and virtual realities then number of cultures and languages will grow to such a staggering amount that the UN of today might be seen as nothing more than a small family discussion.
Awesome episode. I just knew _The Expanse_ would get at least a mention the minute I saw the thumbnail. Awesome books, awesome series. Signed up to Amazon Prime just to be able to watch Season 4 this December.
There's a great series on Netflix (called Knights of Sidonia) where people are genetically modified to use photosynthesis (only having to eat normal once a week). There's a lot of other cool, practical elements the creator thought of to have people living in space, on a Giant spaceship, essentially on the run from predatory aliens. Edit: Oh, and sudden, deadly gravitational changes, when their poorly maneuverable ship has to evade, is a big part of the series. (Everyone has to wear rockclimbing hooks on their uniforms.)
Read the manga too, it is more detailed. The anime isn't half bad either, just maybe not for many, at some parts. If you love 3D anime such as Knights of Sidonia, i recommended to watch Godzilla, Kaijuu wakusei too. Im not Godzilla fan, but i quickly attached to it. Because it has better 3D animation than Sidonia, like less mouth stuttering. Also the story. About how humanity tried to leave earth living in spaceship and face difficulties in an effort to flee from giant aliens emerging from nowhere. They decided back to earth to stop the sleeping giant rather than trying to survive, let alone living at the harsh space. It has more scientifically accurate atomic breath too.
Admittedly I haven't seen Knights of Sidonia (yet!) but the concept of modifying human genes for photosynthesis has been theorized before and general consensus is it wouldn't actually contribute more than a few calories a day. Not even enough to fuel an immobile sleeping human body. Our brains alone require ridiculous amounts of energy just to carry out basic functions. I guess I have to watch the show to see the handwave about it and then see the other cool stuff. :P
+Edhi Kurniawan I actually just watched Netflix's Godzilla recently and I thought it was pretty good! I can tell things are going to pick up with the coming episode (which I'm glad I won't have to wait as long for as others have had to). :P Also, I agree there were parts of Sidonia (mainly relational drama) that won't appeal to many people, but I don't think those character interactions took away from the battles so much as heightened the stakes of them.
+Isaac Arthur I think you'd enjoy most of it (at least on a depicted conceptual level). Also, love your videos Isaac! They've been a great help to me in world-building for future stories of mine.
calling into Issac Arthur Central, from Cabin C21b in Sigma Quadrant, Another great video... any chance you could get in touch with maintenance... the replicator is getting weak, and can't make hot earl grey tea... I tried, but they aren't responding, just get a voice message... cheers
[The speakers of Hab Deck 32 at Arthur Central suddenly crackle to life, and after a brief period of seemingly melancholic claviature a message is blasted across the corridors] *HELLO!?* *IS IT ME YOU'RE LOOKING FOR?* *I CAN SEE IT IN YOUR EYES, DESPERATE FOR ALGAE PA-ASTE* *BUDGET CUTS WERE MADE, THE BOARD REPLACED US WITH A MUSIC INTERFACE* [The last lines echo across the Hab Module, causing the titanium structure to vigorously reverberate, until the silent humming of the life-support slowly reasserts itself.]
Some while ago I spent a lot of time thinking about how the clothes of an early-era zero-g space habitat would look like. Deployable membrane helmets and gloves stored in collar and cuffs in case of sudden depressurization/ filtering failure, micro-turbines for propulsion, wrist-harpoon for working near the habitat's outer shell. And puffballs everywhere. Not the mushroom, but engineered organisms that use their lungs as a rocket motor to float around the hab and catch any trash that isn't supposed to be floating around. To my shame though I never gave the furniture thought it deserved.
I recommend people to both read the books and watch the series if you love space operas. The books as always go in-depth to the characters, the plots and intrigue and the world building. However there's still value to watch the series if you've read the books as the space combat CG is the best space combat CG I've seen in my life, they get all the details right. If you want the audiobooks are great also since you can listen to the narrator speak in Belter creole which is lovely to listen to.
7:30 Ceres doesn't (or, didn't at least) lack water, all of the valuable materials were mined and sent straight back to Mars and Earth. And most of anything mined is taken, or sold to the Inner planets. 9:07 I don't know how fast Ceres would have to be spun to be broken apart, but it should be noted that their gravity is *no* where near as strong as Earth's of Mar's , and how would spinning Ceres to create centripetal force as a stand in for gravity going to decrease the gravity?
Really interesting episode. Especially being a huge fan of the Expanse series. Just one thing regarding what you said about the spinning. I understood it that they actually spun up Ceres (and other stations) to use the centrifugal force to create simulated gravity inside e.g. Ceres. Miller even mentions it when he goes on Ceres towards the end of the book that he has to watch out so as to not be flung of Ceres when standing on its surface. So Ceres and other objects are spun up for the same reason you'd spin up an O'Neill cylinder.
Amazing video AS ALWAYS please keep checking the comments it brings us closer to you than you can imagine and makes us viewers true fans not only to your content but you yourself. I hope one day you reach some type of fandom large enough to make a great living like you truly deserve. Keep the grind up and know we appreciate you and what you do bro!
Another possible direction humans may take for deep space travel is to breed or genetically engineer humans to be very short. If you cut the height of a person in half, you cut the mass of that person by at least half, as well as reduce the size of much of the ship significantly. The cost of space travel per head (literally the head of a person ) would be dramatically reduced.
Its great that your introduction sentences right before the music bit kicks in remind of something I would come across in the writing of Douglas Adams :D
Isaac, I love that your videos tend to feel almost like tutorials for space exploration. I feel like I could just save up a few paychecks, head down to the ol' rocket store and stake an asteroid.
That was my biggest problem when I started watching the Expanse last night. They have massive water and oxygen shortages on Ceres, despite water asteroids being common and or mostly being oxides.
Yeah this is a pseudo-series, some episodes that are specifically exploring post-scarcity issues and also some loosely related episodes where it plays a role, sort of a general theme for the spring and summer.
When Isaac started describing how a spacesuit would actually work in the future I was blown away. From where is this guy getting these ideas? My god, he should write sci fi novels or have Netflix create a miniseries. Just take the script and put over some insanely cool graphics and we are done.
I look forward to an in-depth rotating hab episode, because, in this particular channel, an in-depth rotating hab episode is really an *IN DEPTH* rotating hab episode! It is a supremely obvious next step after any degree of ISRU is achieved. And once the first one or two habs are built, A.) building them gets massively cheaper and B.) building them never stops, and becomes an entire new default mode of human existence and growth over half a millennium or more. But the more I think about it, the more I realize there's a *TON* of engineering to be done before we forge the first asteroid-sourced I beam destined for a kilo-hab. This is a worthy project of the next entire generation of engineers.
I love your channel, and I wanted to ask you, where did you obtain the footage for the spaceships that appear in minutes 3:44 to 4:09 (The "ISCA EOS Colony Titan" spaceship) and 20:49 to 21:02 (The "Unity" Spaceship), I loved the designs and I would like to see more of them. Thank you for your content and your time :3.
Katie made that first one for me for the Colonizing Titan episode, and Unity is our ship from the old Life in a Space Colony series, Legion Tech Studios whipped those clips up for me a few months back, the ship is a bit of an inside joke for the game (Hades 9) as the old version is displayed as a model in one of the bars there and sneaks into some of the lore.
Fish tank, Pushing Ice eh? Awkward when you realise the shortage on Crabtree was energy... as generated by the fusion reactor of the Rockhopper sitting atop a water ice cap on Janus. A pity the author had apparently overlooked electrolysis as a solution.
Stephen R. Donaldson's Gap series is another one that's lesser known but does a good job of describing the small course adjustments to avoid weapons fire in space, as well as the layout of a ship using spin to emulate gravity.
Arthur is an honest enigma to me, never met a single medium that manages to be both intriguing, terrifying and soothing at the same time. Doesn't help at all that the quality just gets better and better. A true national treasure.
Surviving in the expanse?
Rule one: don't mess with Avasarala.
*don't fuck with beltalowda
rule 2 : don't mess with amos
@@AuxenceF *Timmy
Where are you going with this?
Don't screw around with the _warship_ Rocinante, they have more than just plot armour, they have plot weapons, and four or five hero characters, they're always going to win.
I've never watched a show in my life weekly, I'm talking from cartoons as a kid, to online videos, or anything. This is the first 'show' I watch every episode when it comes out, and one of the very few I get excited to appear. Keep up the great work man.
Same I genuinely can't wait for Thursdays now.
Watching you, Isaac Arthur, is like being in a lecture at school. You learn a lot. Have a few moment where you get lost. But enjoy the voice of your Professor so much that you don't care how long you sit in that hard wooden chair.
:) I think that's why I always say I prefer doing this over return to Uni and picking up the prof-route again. I only have to give a discussion once and everyone can tune in when and where they want, rather than some stiff cramped desk.
And that why I tune in and watch your amazing videos every week. I plan to donate to your patreon now that I have a job now. "College life sucks" but thanks for everything. P.S. your the reason I passed my space science class my sophomore year at UCF
I LOVE what you do! Keep it up! I always look forward to a new video from you! 🙏
Jesus H Christ!
This is the funniest thing yet does Jesus Christ watch or did God say "Say you like dis or down to Satin"
It's about time you get your channel verified JC, what with all of the imposters out there.
I love it when Jesus Christ appears in the comment section of random videos
@@exittierone me too, especially since he's verified lmao
your videos are always so comprehensive. as you were talking about a crew returning to Earth with tons of gold and platinum, the first thing I thought was, "how long until that amount starts to affect market prices?" and the next words out of your mouth were regarding market prices! I love it!
NewGoldStandard ... Isaac always cover the bases.
I remember when I was watching your videos back when you had less than 100k subscriber and since then I'm still waiting your new video every time like a kid and still recommend your channel to friends who are in sciences !
This channel has made Thursday my favorite day of the week. If humanity accomplishes even one of the things you've discussed over the years... wow. Hope I live to see it.
Some things should be made, within 200 years. Most things would be done in 50 years if we actually tried to do stuff. I mean colonizing the moon wouldn't really take that much effort... I mean even hollowing out a large chunk of it to create a base wouldn't really be too hard, Even if modern day solar panels are quite crap, on the moon they would work better. I mean you could make vertical farms with red heat lamps easily, and seeing as hydroponics is 7 to 8 times more efficient than using soil, you could easily manage 5-6 million people on the moon, in about 20 years. Water wouldn't even be a problem, you can just turn hydrogen and oxygen directly into water, you can add basically recycle everything.
Everything that a K-1 Civilization can do, we could do to, if we put effort into it. Everything K-2 and K-3 can do is off limit for now.
colonize the moon?
the radiation, lack of gravity & its inner gases would kill humans?
7:49 "since helium doesn't bond to anything, like all the Noble Gases it's very aristocratic and snobby." *shows images of aristocratic gases*
I just laughed so hard. A great episode as always Isaac.
Have been using that description of Noble Gases when tutoring chemistry for years. It is one that everyone remembers.
yeah and at 13.34, "artificially synthesized gruel" for food, yum yum, sign me up!!
they really put on airs
When I worked on a submarine I had to get used to gravity being variable.
You would walk through the white tunnel and see a footprint on the wall.
We would emergency blow and get a short roller coaster ride.
Nothing as extreme as a space ship though.
I honestly don't know how anyone spends months on a ship let alone a sub, but it probably is the best analogy for a spaceship as opposed to a ship or plane.
Joseph Fox what kind of submarine did you work on? I'd love to work on a submarine like an Ohio or Virginia class sub but claustrophobia would probably kick in.
Sometimes they stick claustrophobic minds or tall bodies on subs, it's sadistic.
I was on a fast attack.(Los Angeles-class but I had to look it up to be sure, yay memory).
The Navy always needs more nukes (my job) so if you qualify they have a spot. It's not for everyone.
Joseph Fox that is sadistic, lol. The Los Angeles class sub was quite a good sub for it's time. If I'm not mistaken they still use them to this day upgraded of course. Not sure what role they are used for nowadays. Correct me if I'm wrong though.
Joseph Fox nevermind. The navy still uses them. They retired about 27 and about 35 are still active.
This is my favorite channel. It challenges my mind to fathom utter madness which be be a reality some day!
Thank you Mr. Arthur.
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Still feeding us gold entertainment Isaak! While we lazily and spoiled with it just watch and sometimes remember to like, not often posting comments… never doubt how many we are who love this!
Happy Arthursday! Yet another great video from Isaac and his hardworking team!
I like the idea of adapting our culture to living in deep space. Imagine a nomadic culture in the Inner Asteroid Belt, where wanderers trade whatever they mine from asteroids, and gathering ice for fuel and/or water.
-The migrant fleet
Beltalowda!
Assuming faster than light travels don't mess up the time between how much would it take to reach each other! 😅
I can imagine that, some large roaming freighters - or a lot of small ones, or both - that spend a few days at each station, picking up and dropping off some standard cargo (ice, air, water, refined chemicals, food) and collecting some new long-term delivery contracts
Beltalowda!
I like this video. One point on contention about what the Expanse did with Ceres is they did live inside it while spinning it up. Down in Ceres was towards the surface and up towards the core. The spin was less that .3 G and the authors described the further up you went. The worse the coriolis was. Eros was the same.
An Isaac video a day keeps the existential dread of probably living in a simulation awa.....oh wait, it actually enhances it
lol, I did the script for the May 24 episode a couple days back and we hit on simulated Universes there again too
Well, time to clear my schedule for May 24th then! :D
You cannot be in a simulation. Beacuse it would mean that the REAL world is worst then this. In wich case you either don't have an option to be in a simulation or activly working on to fix the REAL world.
The REAL world being borring is not an excuse either, beacuse in that case you get bored of being in a simulation too. So yeah. There is absolutelly no reason to be in a simulation like this.
"Yeah, let's build a computer simulation for this other species that's so shitty that they question whether or not it's a simulation within just a few decades of developing computer technology themselves. I mean, even though we could easily just prevent their programming from being able to contemplate the idea entirely, let's not, because of reasons." - some species more advanced that us
Do you "simulation theory" believers ever actually think about anything before you speak? Just wondering.
You assume the simulation is built for us. It might just be a high fidelity simulation of star formation which happens to have physics complicated enough to allow life to emerge.
Hell, it could be some 5th dimensional beings screensaver for all we know.
I like how Isaac pointed out that a ship will likely not worry about anything other then the fuel/energy usage. Remembering back to Star Trek: Voyager, I mentally cringed every time that they were worrying about anything other then fuel and energy. So many times a crewman would say something like, "Captain, energy reserves are down 10%." Janeway would then reply with something like, "That's it, no more coffee for breakfast." Like that cup of coffee would have gotten them one more system closer to earth if she did not drink it.
IDK mate, my replicator is always bitching when I ask it to produce coffee. Could be a lot more energy than you'd give it credit for.
Why not just turn all the lights off?
Hey, a large cup of coffee is like 4.086x10^16 J of energy!
I would LOVE it if you could do an episode on future space suits. I've also thought a lot about suits being long-term wearing multi-function multi-environment things.
Agreed! Been thinking about this a lot lately as well.
He recently did one. But you've probably seen it.
All week I look forward to your new videos and you never disappoint! Proud to be a patreon contributor.
Your videos are intellectually rewarding, well-crafted and all the topics are really well covered. They should be translated into different languages by talented narrators like you, in order to benefit more communities. 😋
Agreed.
The interview with the Interplanetary Podcast mentioned at the end, and also a Legion Tech DevBlog episode
www.interplanetary.org.uk/episodes
th-cam.com/video/bxVKyQIsZ_I/w-d-xo.html
love your stuff thanks for all the great videos
Isaac Arthur thanks 🙏
Aamzing
Can you do a video on radiation mining? Taking cosmic rays using the energy out of them and expelling infrared or radio waves seems like and ideal solution for deep space if only the ships were designed for such things.
"Space is a murderous death-pit."
Remember back when Isaac was all about coffee and staying positive?
Another great video. Thanks, Isaac!
Yet another wonderful episode. Thank you so much for feeding my daydreams of space Isaac :)
I had a sci-fi idea where certain spaceships were built with pretty much everything covered in padding that was also handholds (think inflatable ladders) and the architecture was all small rooms, spiral hallways, and rooms with carefully placed pillars, etc. so there was never a danger of falling more than a certain distance.
I really enjoyed this episode. Again your very practical engineering approach is much appreciated as opposed to the blue sky hand waving. Thank you.
This video got me hooked on Leviathan Wakes. One of the best books I've ever read. Incredible story and truly fantastic cosmic horror.
Thanks for wrapping up with “Into The Storm”. It makes me feel like I just watched an SFIA video. (And I miss it when you don’t play it.)
It's my own favorite outro, no surprise there, but I think if we used it every time it might get stale and there a ton of songs we use that just sound better at full volume and rarely get that, so its nice to switch out occasionally.
*great video!*
Thanks, ditto on your own, a nice overview on plausible interstellar spaceships
The Exoplanets Channel I subscribed to your channel as well. Very interesting videos.
justin biggs thanks!
The Exoplanets Channel no problem
Of course it's a great video, Isaac Arthur did it.
Your topics never fail to interest me, although the Fermi Paradox ones are my favorites.. Thank you for sharing all your insights and brilliance into all these wonderful topics. And of course, Happy Arthursday!!! Peace.
I love your videos. Found them a month ago and I've seen almost all of them. Keep it up!
Another 10 out of 10 episode !
Brilliant, yet again. You've really been improving your subtle sarcastic humour lately - made me laugh out loud several times, you've got such a way with words!
I picked on watching you videos in early June of 2019 and can honestly say I’ve watched them all more then once. They are extremely informative and get one to wondering what our future holds. I wasn’t great with Math in school but I always loved science, with you I’m back in school and I don’t want the bell to ring. Keep teaching Iaasc
Nowadays eagerly awaiting every episode on what is now called Arthursday and it always a pleasure to watch. Great content and beautifully narrated. Thanks a lot for the upload.
Isaac- know where I can get A Drink and A Snack?
I want snacks!
We cannot get you a drink at this time. Isaac used all the water in his multiple hour hot shower. The water supply needs to be processed through the recycling tanks.
On planet Dessert Paradise, A planet Terraformed into a Giant Candy Cane.
I want that planet!
But would you really want to drink urine recirq wine? This and other deep topics to ponder on #Aurthurdays.
It's only marginally related, but my car is old enough to have separate shoulder belts that button to the headliner. I find it amazing that there was a time when people didn't wear them. What's the point of the lap belt if you're going to smash your face into the steering wheel and die anyway?
I love your videos, btw
Way to make my night, Isaac! Haha
Just remember that seatbelts are only god for head on impact. Wearing one in a side on impact can cause you more damage than not, and seatbelts themselves are likely to cause damage regardless. Humans have a long way to go before we've got a super safe harness system.
What about a five/six point harness?
Adding to this, remember: people didn't trust their safety to others quite so much back then: people didn't want to wear their seatbelts because they were worried if something happened they'd be unable to get out of the vehicle fast enough. Their plan for disaster was to leap from the car. Nowadays this is both much more dangerous (higher-speed vehicles, more vehicles on the road, etc) and harder to do (opening the car door against oncoming atmosphere, etc), while the safety provided by staying in the vehicle during the wreck has improved miles and bounds thanks to crash testing and improved materials science.
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We are on our way to being "surrounded" by airbags.
You're becoming the source of my dreams! Thanks for your videos, really!
Wow those must be some messed up dreams! :)
Mr. Aurther you had me worried. Your video's are usually posted by my second break but this one wasn't posted until my last break. Good video as always. Have a great weekend
The Expanse is one of the best science fiction series I've seen in a long time! Just when you think decent sci-fi on tv is dead along comes The Expanse.
Wait, the TV version Holden is even more reckless?
Is that even possible?
I'm glad you got in to Expanse. I remember few years ago you said that you are not particularly fond of the show but you are willing to give it another go. As always, a fantastic episode. I'm looking forward to next week's episode about O'Neill cylinders.
Thank you for what you do Issac.
Another happy Thursday at the end of a rough week. Thanks Issac.
In Leviathan Wakes, Ceres is lived inside, not on, similar to how Eros is built. That's why in the series, S2E4 the railway they are on is upside down in relation to the surface and Miller's "Spoiler" falling away when he does a hard landing.
And the gravity on those stations is not 1G, if I remember correctly.
Thats the problem though. Once you increase spin gravity on the inside to the point it's stronger than surface gravity, the surface of your asteroid starts flying into space.
The habitats are built on the surface and look pretty exposed, so it's likely that the material that would fly off has already flown off and the remaining material is stabilized and constructed on.
Brilliant insight thank you all who participated in this segment. Keep it going.
Loved it, thanks again Isaac.
Thanks for another great video, as always!
Oh, I can't wait to hear Isaac Arthur on void ecologies! :D
The Expanse is a fantastic show. Literally my favorite show
probably the most underrated channel right now! Keep it going!!!
Your content is amazing.
THANKYOU SO MUCH.. I love both science fiction and futurism, and The expanse Novels and novellas!!
I very enjoyed this one, they’re always good but I found this particularly entertaining
O'Neill cylinder is next!!
The future speculation videos don't really interest me much but when it starts to deal with space you have my full attention.
Great video isaac!
Amazing Amazing content as always man.
Thank you for the videos. Its folks like you who keep me from ditching TH-cam.
Thank you for the amazing video!
I can never fully predict the perspective and angle you will present, from the title and thumbnail -- after watching I will never think of the topic without including your perspective in my thoughts. Your logic is an example to everyone ever attempting to be logical. I hope you are an influence regarding how to think and use logic in all fields worldwide
OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG I LOVE Space Operas and The Expanse series is a great one! I've read all 8 books. I'm so glad you're into it also Isaac.
Your videos are always the best. I’ll continue to spread the word. Thank You
This episode needs more views. It's pretty good. It was pretty suspenseful when you described air-bags on space suits...
Another lovely video! I think how the tech and what resources you have affects your culture is a terribly under-used aspect of worldbuilding. Many books start falling apart at that for me. As a newbie sci fi author, I really appreciate videos like these; the cultures different characters are from will affect everything.
Can you help me with my comic? The theme is too complex to explain here tho so check out my channel because I'll be making a video about it soon!
Do you have discord or skype? If you want to talk no, I mean.
David Barkland When looking at earth there is a multitude of cultures and even though improved communications streamline them towards a kind of global culture I find it likely that there will always be a great and distinct difference in how someone from India thinks and acts compared to someone from let's say Canada does.
If we then also add terraformed planets, moons, comets, cylinders, dyson swarms and virtual realities then number of cultures and languages will grow to such a staggering amount that the UN of today might be seen as nothing more than a small family discussion.
Who dislikes this stuff? It’s amazing keep it up
22:56 My antique book collection is coming, so help me God!
Awesome episode. I just knew _The Expanse_ would get at least a mention the minute I saw the thumbnail. Awesome books, awesome series. Signed up to Amazon Prime just to be able to watch Season 4 this December.
Great video. I'll have to add the Expanse series to my to-read list! Looking forward to the habitat video next Arthursday
hey can you make a video about space suits next time , great video by the way
There's a great series on Netflix (called Knights of Sidonia) where people are genetically modified to use photosynthesis (only having to eat normal once a week). There's a lot of other cool, practical elements the creator thought of to have people living in space, on a Giant spaceship, essentially on the run from predatory aliens.
Edit: Oh, and sudden, deadly gravitational changes, when their poorly maneuverable ship has to evade, is a big part of the series. (Everyone has to wear rockclimbing hooks on their uniforms.)
Read the manga too, it is more detailed. The anime isn't half bad either, just maybe not for many, at some parts.
If you love 3D anime such as Knights of Sidonia, i recommended to watch Godzilla, Kaijuu wakusei too.
Im not Godzilla fan, but i quickly attached to it. Because it has better 3D animation than Sidonia, like less mouth stuttering.
Also the story.
About how humanity tried to leave earth living in spaceship and face difficulties in an effort to flee from giant aliens emerging from nowhere.
They decided back to earth to stop the sleeping giant rather than trying to survive, let alone living at the harsh space.
It has more scientifically accurate atomic breath too.
I'll have to give it a try, Netflix tends to be okay to great on scifi but does thankfully provide a lot of it
Admittedly I haven't seen Knights of Sidonia (yet!) but the concept of modifying human genes for photosynthesis has been theorized before and general consensus is it wouldn't actually contribute more than a few calories a day. Not even enough to fuel an immobile sleeping human body. Our brains alone require ridiculous amounts of energy just to carry out basic functions. I guess I have to watch the show to see the handwave about it and then see the other cool stuff. :P
+Edhi Kurniawan I actually just watched Netflix's Godzilla recently and I thought it was pretty good! I can tell things are going to pick up with the coming episode (which I'm glad I won't have to wait as long for as others have had to). :P Also, I agree there were parts of Sidonia (mainly relational drama) that won't appeal to many people, but I don't think those character interactions took away from the battles so much as heightened the stakes of them.
+Isaac Arthur I think you'd enjoy most of it (at least on a depicted conceptual level). Also, love your videos Isaac! They've been a great help to me in world-building for future stories of mine.
calling into Issac Arthur Central, from Cabin C21b in Sigma Quadrant,
Another great video... any chance you could get in touch with maintenance...
the replicator is getting weak, and can't make hot earl grey tea... I tried, but
they aren't responding, just get a voice message... cheers
[The speakers of Hab Deck 32 at Arthur Central suddenly crackle to life, and after a brief period of seemingly melancholic claviature a message is blasted across the corridors]
*HELLO!?*
*IS IT ME YOU'RE LOOKING FOR?*
*I CAN SEE IT IN YOUR EYES, DESPERATE FOR ALGAE PA-ASTE*
*BUDGET CUTS WERE MADE, THE BOARD REPLACED US WITH A MUSIC INTERFACE*
[The last lines echo across the Hab Module, causing the titanium structure to vigorously reverberate, until the silent humming of the life-support slowly reasserts itself.]
Some while ago I spent a lot of time thinking about how the clothes of an early-era zero-g space habitat would look like. Deployable membrane helmets and gloves stored in collar and cuffs in case of sudden depressurization/ filtering failure, micro-turbines for propulsion, wrist-harpoon for working near the habitat's outer shell.
And puffballs everywhere. Not the mushroom, but engineered organisms that use their lungs as a rocket motor to float around the hab and catch any trash that isn't supposed to be floating around.
To my shame though I never gave the furniture thought it deserved.
I recommend people to both read the books and watch the series if you love space operas. The books as always go in-depth to the characters, the plots and intrigue and the world building. However there's still value to watch the series if you've read the books as the space combat CG is the best space combat CG I've seen in my life, they get all the details right. If you want the audiobooks are great also since you can listen to the narrator speak in Belter creole which is lovely to listen to.
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Ceres doesn't (or, didn't at least) lack water, all of the valuable materials were mined and sent straight back to Mars and Earth.
And most of anything mined is taken, or sold to the Inner planets.
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I don't know how fast Ceres would have to be spun to be broken apart, but it should be noted that their gravity is *no* where near as strong as Earth's of Mar's , and how would spinning Ceres to create centripetal force as a stand in for gravity going to decrease the gravity?
Really interesting episode. Especially being a huge fan of the Expanse series. Just one thing regarding what you said about the spinning. I understood it that they actually spun up Ceres (and other stations) to use the centrifugal force to create simulated gravity inside e.g. Ceres. Miller even mentions it when he goes on Ceres towards the end of the book that he has to watch out so as to not be flung of Ceres when standing on its surface.
So Ceres and other objects are spun up for the same reason you'd spin up an O'Neill cylinder.
Amazing video AS ALWAYS please keep checking the comments it brings us closer to you than you can imagine and makes us viewers true fans not only to your content but you yourself. I hope one day you reach some type of fandom large enough to make a great living like you truly deserve. Keep the grind up and know we appreciate you and what you do bro!
Sadly TH-cam conspires to prevent me seeing most these days, it seems to randomly notify me of about 1 in 10
Isaac Arthur probably from how many comments, still they need to fix that.
Another possible direction humans may take for deep space travel is to breed or genetically engineer humans to be very short. If you cut the height of a person in half, you cut the mass of that person by at least half, as well as reduce the size of much of the ship significantly. The cost of space travel per head (literally the head of a person ) would be dramatically reduced.
Happy Arthursday! A great episode, as always. A shorter one was a refreshing change tot he usual! :)
Looking forward to this Isaac
Can't wait for next week! One of my favorite topics
The Expanse-books were definitely better than the series - but by a smaller margin than the majority of book-to-video adaptations.
Another excellent episode Mr. Arthur. I look forward with eager anticipation to O'Neil Cylinders.
11:22 Wohoo! \o/ High five for the Gateway Foundation!
Funny that you say we need good construction bots since thats their current focus.
Thanks Isaac. Very informative and detailed, I really enjoy your work thanks for taking the time to make these.
What a well researched and narrated video! you've earned a subscriber!
Happy Arthursday everyone!
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Happy arthurthursday everyone !
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Looking forward to the discussion of the habitats.
I am a big fan of Peter F Hamilton and the Night's Dawn trilogy.
Its great that your introduction sentences right before the music bit kicks in remind of something I would come across in the writing of Douglas Adams :D
Great video Isaac. Love your content.
Isaac, I love that your videos tend to feel almost like tutorials for space exploration. I feel like I could just save up a few paychecks, head down to the ol' rocket store and stake an asteroid.
That was my biggest problem when I started watching the Expanse last night. They have massive water and oxygen shortages on Ceres, despite water asteroids being common and or mostly being oxides.
Nothing like living in the present. Such a wounderful gift.
You already did a video on post scarcity societies. I really enjoyed that one, looking forward to the next.
Yeah this is a pseudo-series, some episodes that are specifically exploring post-scarcity issues and also some loosely related episodes where it plays a role, sort of a general theme for the spring and summer.
Thank you so much for making this.
I heard that a good red wine goes well with Isaac Arthur.
Good for the brain & heart.
When Isaac started describing how a spacesuit would actually work in the future I was blown away. From where is this guy getting these ideas? My god, he should write sci fi novels or have Netflix create a miniseries. Just take the script and put over some insanely cool graphics and we are done.
I look forward to an in-depth rotating hab episode, because, in this particular channel, an in-depth rotating hab episode is really an *IN DEPTH* rotating hab episode! It is a supremely obvious next step after any degree of ISRU is achieved. And once the first one or two habs are built, A.) building them gets massively cheaper and B.) building them never stops, and becomes an entire new default mode of human existence and growth over half a millennium or more. But the more I think about it, the more I realize there's a *TON* of engineering to be done before we forge the first asteroid-sourced I beam destined for a kilo-hab. This is a worthy project of the next entire generation of engineers.
I love your channel, and I wanted to ask you, where did you obtain the footage for the spaceships that appear in minutes 3:44 to 4:09 (The "ISCA EOS Colony Titan" spaceship) and 20:49 to 21:02 (The "Unity" Spaceship), I loved the designs and I would like to see more of them. Thank you for your content and your time :3.
Katie made that first one for me for the Colonizing Titan episode, and Unity is our ship from the old Life in a Space Colony series, Legion Tech Studios whipped those clips up for me a few months back, the ship is a bit of an inside joke for the game (Hades 9) as the old version is displayed as a model in one of the bars there and sneaks into some of the lore.
Fish tank, Pushing Ice eh?
Awkward when you realise the shortage on Crabtree was energy... as generated by the fusion reactor of the Rockhopper sitting atop a water ice cap on Janus. A pity the author had apparently overlooked electrolysis as a solution.
Stephen R. Donaldson's Gap series is another one that's lesser known but does a good job of describing the small course adjustments to avoid weapons fire in space, as well as the layout of a ship using spin to emulate gravity.