Funny I read this when he was talking about christmas, made me remember Richard Attenborough's Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street. Also great dinosaur park builder ;)
Yeah I caught that in the afternotes discussing the prior episode on Panspermia. It's funny because we just recorded a Panspermia episode for the end of January a few days before it came out and a shout out to a different episode of theirs in early January for Population 3 stars. Now I'm wondering if I should tweak the Panspermia episode a bit, as while there isn't too much overlap, I do think Matt did a a better job explaining a couple of the points on the topic than I did. Though actually my favorite part of that episode was the after notes with him discussing over-hyped scientific journalism and the problems with it or with getting rid of it, never heard it said better.
@@isaacarthurSFIA You should definitely reach out to him if you haven't already. You guys cover a lot of similar topics just in different ways. A collaboration video between 2 of the best youtube channels almost sounds mandatory lol. Even having him as a guest on one of your end of the month live-streams would be awesome!
I just finished watching the PBS space time episode and immediately jumped over here to say the same thing... ya beat me to it! Still, congrats Mr Arthur! Keep making these amazing vids.
No way! I'm literally waiting in the airport to fly to Svalbard (island between Norway and the North Pole) to make a video on this same topic (but with a more modern-day perspective). Nice! I'll make sure to bring a drink and snack for the flight :)
@The Daily Squirrel So expensive!! Avoiding the worst of it by making my own food, but still might need to end up selling one of my kidneys once I get home :D
When you mentioned ice tunnels it jogged my memory. Back in the 60s the US Army tried tunneling into the Greenland ice sheet to establish a nuclear missile missile base. They called it Project Iceworm. Ultimately it was abandoned because the ice moved around too much.
@@km5405 from what I gather from the Wikipedia article, it sounds like it's still there. Everything is entombed in ice that theoretically shount melt until around 2100.
@@rayceeya8659 2100 is in 82 years. That's within my lifetime. I rather not have my pension disturbed by a nuclear meltdown below the ice of Greenland.
Step 1: Run "shutdown -s -t -2400" Step 2: Place laptop next to bed Step 3: Play the new SFIA video Step 4: Fade away into dreams about galaxies and sfy. Seriously Isaac, I have trouble falling asleep but every friday I can wake up rested. And then watch the video again because I cant remember anything from last night. Best, voice, ever!
Don't just run it, create a bat file that prompts you for how many minutes you want the computer to stay on and run that. You're watching Isaac after all, engineer solutions for greater future :)
welp, it's winter now and I don't do this this often but during the summer I COULDN'T SLEEp FOR ANYTHING ... Watching these certainly helped a lot ... but I would watch them on my phone though, in 144p so it doesn't overheat and at 0% brightness (cause YT won't let you turn the screen off completely)
There is a lake in Antarctica called Lake Vostok that might have interesting forms of life which we could find similarly in other icy planets so the investigation of frozen worlds is important not only to broaden the adaptability of human species but also to possibly encounter other forms of life.
Tales of the Torn Sock, maybe life in Lake Vostok is similar to life in Europa’s ocean since organisms in both bodies of water never receive any sunlight?
Unfortunately the Russians screwed that one up with their borehole coated with kerosene and freon that flooded with lake water and may have contaminated the lake itself. We have no idea what is and is not native to said lake, and the Russians refuse to drill another hole properly. I do know that Lake Whillans has been sampled and the sediments below it were collected back in 2013 by another group of scientists, so you might look into their research to see what has been found. They did it with a hot water drill so there is little risk of contamination.
@@mihailazar2487 Hey, Toto made a song that was so cool we named an entire _continent_ after it. The Russians could easily name a lake after an awesome rocket.
20:20 THANK GOD YOU MENTIONED IT! It's been a point of irritation to me how often people neglect to mention the methane issue for global warming; even the IPCC report everyone's been raising eyebrows over doesn't properly take it into account, thus drastically underestimating the severity of climate change in the near future :
building self sustaining domed communities in the arctic (or Antarctic) sounds like a reasonable prerequisite for any group planning on going to Mars or the Moon. you don't have the pressure differences but you could test the structure to see if it would hold up to that as well. afterward you would be able to say this system works we tested it for 4 years or whatever. you would also be able to do some serious prototyping of industrial scale green houses so funding should be fairly easy to get.
I've literally been watching your videos non stop for the last 3 weeks. I've fallen asleep (not because boring) so often to your videos your voice has becoming like a lullaby for me
I started the video and my cat jumped up on the desk and started watching. Everybody loves Isaac Arthur. At the part about greenhouses in the arctic I immediately thought of Frosty the Snowman and the greenhouse full of poinsettias at the north pole. Looks like Frosty was a trendsetter. Who knew?
We should discuss Arctic colonization more because in the future _we will have to_ and we don't need to be terraforming our own planet to do it because _we already are_ .
Love this new Earth 2.0 series!! Could not believe the final scenario of growing ice mountains in Antartica to help lower the sea level risen from climate change! So many "practical" solutions on this channel to help humanity survive extinction
Brilliant episode from a brilliant channel. Keep up the great work. I use your videos to teach/entertain my children on these concepts. My younger daughter has your same speech impediment too, and it's inspiring to her how confident you are in your intelligent and digestible delivery. My personal home library grows with your recommendations as well(I couldn't agree more with this epsiode's endorsement of Discworld series). Never stop doing what you do.
Because it doesn't need to netflix shows always get dumbed down in order to cater to a larger audience since it's a business, after all their goal is to make money This series is effectively crowdfunded , with the help of some sponsors, sure but the primary goal is to just PRODUCE the content in question ... there's no will making profit for a expansion of the business it's just making god content on a genre you don't find in abundence (at least not in video form) and having a great time with the community so, to answer your question : BECAUSE IT DOESN'T NEED TO
@@mihailazar2487 I would think it would be Isaacs call but I think his current videos would be super popular on netflix, just like they are..It would likely greatly slow down the series though in that most series there are 12 or less episodes it seems, and not necessarily annually, 12 episodes a year of IA just wouldnt be enough for me
As a Canadian, I should point out that the Arctic has been colonized by the Inuit for thousands of years, and I could only imagine what horrors such projects would impose on them.
I'm not so sure it would be "horrors" to Inuit peoples. Folks who want to maintain a traditional (or reconstructed traditional) way of life would be free to do so since there is a lot of territory available. Care would have to be taken with the ecology of course. BTW: Technology is readily embraced by an awful lot of Inuit people. The benefits are obvious and they aren't dumb. In fact, they often seem to have a more conscious appreciation of technology than many other peoples for the simple reason that they have always had to rely on technology (and develop/improve it) to survive. At least that is my limited experience impression.
love that the growth of your channel has coincided with a shift to a more near-future focus, nowadays your videos are like well researched versions of futurism tv shows. congrats on all the progress and if i may ask, are you doing this full time?
Did you see you got a shout out on PBS Space Time yesterday?!?! Anyway, got my coffee, and my daughter (School's out all week due to the snow here in NC). She's got her cocoa and she's telling me to stop commenting and start watching. Happy Arthursday!
Issac, I have to say I share with you a great love of Terry Pratchett books, the Hogfather being my absolute favorite (though all the Discworld books are at least GOOD)
You are missing the largest reason colder waters can support more biomass: The warmer water gets, the lower the solubility of oxygen in it. And oxygen is just really one of those things you want to deprive biotopes of if you want them to not die off. And considering that even biota as far away as the equator and beyond are connected to the sheer volume of Krill through whale fall, you could wreck the entire biosphere by messing with the Antarctic.
Wide awake, cuppa and watching some Isaac Arthur, christmas and improving ones knowledge....a win situation says I! Keep them phenomenal videos coming my friend!
@@joshperry7643 Not necessarily, but the game certainly comes with all the tech you need to build all of those things. Besides, if you can build a dyson swarm, an interstellar colony ship is childsplay
There kind of is one, its called Gigastructural engineering & more. It's got things like Nicoll-Dyson beams and Matrioska brains, but generally it isn't as realistic as what Isaac discusses.
As I watched this, I kept thinking of how nice the sun-warmed sand felt to my feet walking the beaches of southern California. I'm not cut out to be an arctic settler.
@@ronschlorff7089 Thousands of tons? Of course you need to take an extreme example, tells a lot about person. Yes I have shoveled snow and pushed snow a lot. I live in arctic circle and yes sun does not shine at this time of a year in here.
I think one of the greatest side-effects of the space colonization efforts is learning how humans can live in sustainable self-contained environments. We can then create new communities on Earth in more hostile areas of the planet (tundra, oceans, deserts, etc) without having to affect the ecology. At that point we can extend the ecology off planet.
I think you could, though you might need to go for the liquid phase at higher pressures, I'd have to check but I think the triple point is only around 5 atm at -60C or so. I think the average temp even at the pole is a bit above that, so you probably would have to store it as a liquid rather than dry ice, but a chemist could answer that better.
@@isaacarthurSFIA you would need to find some way to concentrate the carbon dioxide. If you managed to precipitate out the local CO2 it probably wouldn't lower the local pressure enough to start a wind pattern coming towards you. The carbon dioxide in the local area would be gone and you'd be depending on dispersion can bring you more. It would probably be easier just put up sales to block the infrared.
You do not need to make it colder. Carbon dioxide is liquid in deep water. Hotter than 31C but below 730 meters it becomes a supercritical fluid but that is still denser than water. It will, however, dissolve in water and water dissolves in carbon dioxide. If it gets loose we could suddenly have a lot of it. There is a volcanic lake (Nyos, cameroon) that sometimes belches huge clouds of carbon dioxide. Imagine a bottle of diet coke the height of a sky scraper. If the CO2 dissolves in the ocean and an abnormal current bringing it close to the surface it could fizz and draw more carbonated water up. If you have a reliable containment shell/bag then you can just dump carbon dioxide down a pipe. It is much much easier than what we do/did to extract oil in Ohio fields near Isaac's house. Ocean dumping is illegal under international law. There are already projects using carbon dioxide to dissolve oil. Some tar deposits do not flow toward oil wells. Carbon dioxide is a great solvent for petroleum. Pressurizing the oil field with CO2 simultaneously sequesters carbon and increases flow toward the wells. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage
@@isaacarthurSFIA storing co2 in the Antarctic has been proposed several times. Here's a typical proposal. journals.ametsoc.org/doi/10.1175/JAMC-D-12-0110.1
A few weeks ago I started writing a Christmas Season fan fiction based on Hogfather, so I was over the moon to see it as your book of the month. I can vouch to you all, it is a great and funny story (like all the Discworld books).
It's not just the rising seas that are a concern, but the loss of sea ice that protects coastlines from erosion by winter storms, combined with melting of the permafrost near the coast.
Isaac, tundra soil is actually very fertile. Lots of organic carbon and inorganic minerals. It doesn't leach out from rain nearly as fast as temperate or especially tropical soils.
Hay could you do a video on strong Materials like carbyne or graphyne or a metal that has all the same properties of titanium but 10 or 100 fold and as light as titanium
Antartica has a number of geothermal features, the hot springs at Deception Island being the best known. I passed taking a "summer" postion supporting scientists when they explained I couldn't build a hot-air engine/generator/pump using bits from the ever expanding scrap pile, since the current treaty prevents the use "any" natural resources. With heat and power, getting a small greenhouse up seemed like something fun to prevent boredom. Not even allowed to recycle from another nations scrap piles or allow your nations scrap pile to be recycled by others, so most of the unnatural resources off limits also.
One thing about the polar reasons it does get to the point that it is so cold that machines do not work, that is why one reason drilling up there is not a good idea, only have 1 or 2 months where a company can drill for oil before it gets to the point they cannot
Arthur's day my dudes!!! Just discovered you 3 days ago so this is my first arthurs day. Thank you for brightening my day. I do have a question tho. Are u English or is that your speech impediment?
Good to see there is still hardly any trolls in this awesome community ! With a handful of dislikes .Everyone here is just keen to learn some new science and what maybe possible in the future .
The Stellaris soundtrack? approved.
odd that with all the interesting content, some folks are stuck on loving the sound track!!
Interesting seeing you here, Aspec!
Well what are the odds?
oh hey @ASpec
@@albusvoltavern4500 It just so happened that the music manager (hey it's-a me!) loved stellaris quite a bit!
How David Attenborough makes me think about nature, you make me think about possibility. Cheers mate I love your videos and they keep getting better
Funny I read this when he was talking about christmas, made me remember Richard Attenborough's Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street. Also great dinosaur park builder ;)
PBS Space Time gave you a shout out in his last video. You guys should totally do a collaboration! Image how epic would that be!?
Yeah I caught that in the afternotes discussing the prior episode on Panspermia. It's funny because we just recorded a Panspermia episode for the end of January a few days before it came out and a shout out to a different episode of theirs in early January for Population 3 stars. Now I'm wondering if I should tweak the Panspermia episode a bit, as while there isn't too much overlap, I do think Matt did a a better job explaining a couple of the points on the topic than I did. Though actually my favorite part of that episode was the after notes with him discussing over-hyped scientific journalism and the problems with it or with getting rid of it, never heard it said better.
@@isaacarthurSFIA You should definitely reach out to him if you haven't already. You guys cover a lot of similar topics just in different ways. A collaboration video between 2 of the best youtube channels almost sounds mandatory lol. Even having him as a guest on one of your end of the month live-streams would be awesome!
I just finished watching the PBS space time episode and immediately jumped over here to say the same thing... ya beat me to it! Still, congrats Mr Arthur! Keep making these amazing vids.
We need a 4 way collab. Guess the channels lol we all watch em ;)
Yep, collab is mandatory now that both channels have acknowledged the existence of the other.
No way! I'm literally waiting in the airport to fly to Svalbard (island between Norway and the North Pole) to make a video on this same topic (but with a more modern-day perspective). Nice!
I'll make sure to bring a drink and snack for the flight :)
Nice channel dude. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Dave! I will!
@The Daily Squirrel So expensive!! Avoiding the worst of it by making my own food, but still might need to end up selling one of my kidneys once I get home :D
And two months later the video is finally finished! Check out "Farming the Arctic" over on my channel if you're interested :)
When you mentioned ice tunnels it jogged my memory. Back in the 60s the US Army tried tunneling into the Greenland ice sheet to establish a nuclear missile missile base. They called it Project Iceworm. Ultimately it was abandoned because the ice moved around too much.
wonder what they did with their reactor....
@@km5405 from what I gather from the Wikipedia article, it sounds like it's still there. Everything is entombed in ice that theoretically shount melt until around 2100.
@@rayceeya8659 2100 is in 82 years. That's within my lifetime.
I rather not have my pension disturbed by a nuclear meltdown below the ice of Greenland.
The reactor, PM-2A, was removed when the base was evacuated.
Ray Ceeya wow, thanks, that sounds almost, you know, classified!! Check your six man!!
Step 1: Run "shutdown -s -t -2400"
Step 2: Place laptop next to bed
Step 3: Play the new SFIA video
Step 4: Fade away into dreams about galaxies and sfy.
Seriously Isaac, I have trouble falling asleep but every friday I can wake up rested. And then watch the video again because I cant remember anything from last night. Best, voice, ever!
I cant sleep unless i put on one of his episodes
"You have the most soporific voice" is actually a compliment in this case :D
Yeah i mean no offense nor suggest anything is boring at all! Just helps me have best sleep.
Don't just run it, create a bat file that prompts you for how many minutes you want the computer to stay on and run that. You're watching Isaac after all, engineer solutions for greater future :)
welp, it's winter now and I don't do this this often but during the summer I COULDN'T SLEEp FOR ANYTHING ...
Watching these certainly helped a lot ... but I would watch them on my phone though, in 144p so it doesn't overheat and at 0% brightness (cause YT won't let you turn the screen off completely)
I have a sudden need to go play Stellaris, now...
Just checked my background, thought I'd left it running
It's boring and pretty schematic. Why would you play it?
@@tyalikanky Did you play the same game, we did
@@dapootisbird3608 That was actually more like checking the game.
Xeno scum have declared a war on each other!
This one might need a cup tea to acompany the cold themed episode :)
I was ready with my coffee!
I had a Twinings breakfast tea in a pint mug, plus a selection of classic biscuits, including: custard creams, bourbons and ginger nuts.
I am drinking reishi , turkey tail , artist conk, and false tinder fungus tea myself watching this. Great to keep you healthy.
@@IveJustHadAPiss True Brit
Don’t forget your snack :)
Working the night shift does have its privileges, watching this on my lunch break. :)
Same here.
"when it's the darkest, you can see the stars". that quote, by who? has nothing to do with his post, but I just thought of it, in another context!
There is a lake in Antarctica called Lake Vostok that might have interesting forms of life which we could find similarly in other icy planets so the investigation of frozen worlds is important not only to broaden the adaptability of human species but also to possibly encounter other forms of life.
Tales of the Torn Sock, maybe life in Lake Vostok is similar to life in Europa’s ocean since organisms in both bodies of water never receive any sunlight?
Unfortunately the Russians screwed that one up with their borehole coated with kerosene and freon that flooded with lake water and may have contaminated the lake itself. We have no idea what is and is not native to said lake, and the Russians refuse to drill another hole properly.
I do know that Lake Whillans has been sampled and the sediments below it were collected back in 2013 by another group of scientists, so you might look into their research to see what has been found. They did it with a hot water drill so there is little risk of contamination.
wait, is it actually called Vostok ? as in the russian rocket ?
or was the rocket named after the lake ....
wait, that actually makes more sense LOL
@@mihailazar2487 Hey, Toto made a song that was so cool we named an entire _continent_ after it. The Russians could easily name a lake after an awesome rocket.
What sort of life lives in kerosene and freon?
_"We have no idea what is and is not native to said lake,"_
Easy. genetics.
20:20 THANK GOD YOU MENTIONED IT! It's been a point of irritation to me how often people neglect to mention the methane issue for global warming; even the IPCC report everyone's been raising eyebrows over doesn't properly take it into account, thus drastically underestimating the severity of climate change in the near future :
eqlipse333 goddamn cows fart so mich
Stellaris soundtrack!!!
I seriously look forward to Thursday because it's Arthursday!
Shouldn't it be Arthursday, or Arthur's day?
@@fisharepeopletoo9653 Typo.
building self sustaining domed communities in the arctic (or Antarctic) sounds like a reasonable prerequisite for any group planning on going to Mars or the Moon. you don't have the pressure differences but you could test the structure to see if it would hold up to that as well. afterward you would be able to say this system works we tested it for 4 years or whatever. you would also be able to do some serious prototyping of industrial scale green houses so funding should be fairly easy to get.
Agree, yet might be a better structure to use rather than a dome.
Hey Isaac, when I see a new video, I get happy. What you do is providing joy to others lives. You should be proud of yourself.
Great episode! Also enjoyed the Stellaris OST in parts of the soundtrack
I've literally been watching your videos non stop for the last 3 weeks. I've fallen asleep (not because boring) so often to your videos your voice has becoming like a lullaby for me
I started the video and my cat jumped up on the desk and started watching. Everybody loves Isaac Arthur. At the part about greenhouses in the arctic I immediately thought of Frosty the Snowman and the greenhouse full of poinsettias at the north pole. Looks like Frosty was a trendsetter. Who knew?
Happy 300k subscribers, wish you get more :)
So good, the quality and breadth of this channel... and even Hogfather promotions...
Wonderful! I was waiting for this one!
We don't talk much about the Arctic from a colonising point of view, this will be interesting.
ask the Inuits and the polar bears if it's a good idea.
We should discuss Arctic colonization more because in the future _we will have to_ and we don't need to be terraforming our own planet to do it because _we already are_ .
Thank You Isaac Arctic
I'm calling the pun police as we speak
@@madhijz6846 Send him to the punitentiary!
Don't have much money, but really considering signing up to patreon just for you. The quality of the content is spectacular!
I've been working on this for months, and just today am blessed with this video.
Love this new Earth 2.0 series!! Could not believe the final scenario of growing ice mountains in Antartica to help lower the sea level risen from climate change! So many "practical" solutions on this channel to help humanity survive extinction
Brilliant episode from a brilliant channel. Keep up the great work. I use your videos to teach/entertain my children on these concepts. My younger daughter has your same speech impediment too, and it's inspiring to her how confident you are in your intelligent and digestible delivery. My personal home library grows with your recommendations as well(I couldn't agree more with this epsiode's endorsement of Discworld series). Never stop doing what you do.
This is the earliest I've ever been!
me too I think!
Another excellent episode Isaac. Thanks again for making Arthursday interesting.
I thought I had left Stellaris on in the background. You got me.
why doesn't this channel have a netflix documentairy series already exactly?
Because it's speculative and thoughtful rather than alarmist or preachy.
🤣
Because it doesn't need to
netflix shows always get dumbed down in order to cater to a larger audience since it's a business, after all
their goal is to make money
This series is effectively crowdfunded , with the help of some sponsors, sure but the primary goal is to just PRODUCE the content in question ... there's no will making profit for a expansion of the business
it's just making god content on a genre you don't find in abundence (at least not in video form) and having a great time with the community
so, to answer your question : BECAUSE IT DOESN'T NEED TO
@@mihailazar2487 I would think it would be Isaacs call but I think his current videos would be super popular on netflix, just like they are..It would likely greatly slow down the series though in that most series there are 12 or less episodes it seems, and not necessarily annually, 12 episodes a year of IA just wouldnt be enough for me
...you could print out a Netflix logo and hold it in front of your monitor for a few seconds before you watch Isaac's next video...😁
Netflix is too political, and Issac has enough on his plate. Better to keep it the way it is.
As a Canadian, I should point out that the Arctic has been colonized by the Inuit for thousands of years, and I could only imagine what horrors such projects would impose on them.
I'm not so sure it would be "horrors" to Inuit peoples. Folks who want to maintain a traditional (or reconstructed traditional) way of life would be free to do so since there is a lot of territory available. Care would have to be taken with the ecology of course.
BTW: Technology is readily embraced by an awful lot of Inuit people. The benefits are obvious and they aren't dumb. In fact, they often seem to have a more conscious appreciation of technology than many other peoples for the simple reason that they have always had to rely on technology (and develop/improve it) to survive. At least that is my limited experience impression.
Ooohhh the horrors of not being allowed to club baby seals. Ooohhh the horrors of vaccines. Ooohhh the horrors of central heating
They aren't zoo animals.
love that the growth of your channel has coincided with a shift to a more near-future focus, nowadays your videos are like well researched versions of futurism tv shows.
congrats on all the progress and if i may ask, are you doing this full time?
Dude stellaris music!!!!! Fantastic choice
As always, beautiful work, Isaac. You've really upped your game this year!
That poor polar bear, living in a tiny zoo enclosure, while in nature, a polar bear has a territory of over 1000 square miles!
I love the videos of squirrels you put in there when talking about squirrels like halfway through.
Brilliant and informative video...as usual..
Thank you for doing this video ! It would be cool if the arctic became like Iceland with super green moss and waterfalls
I LOVE YOU!!! I have been LONG waiting for a video like this on TH-cam!!! ;)
Did you see you got a shout out on PBS Space Time yesterday?!?!
Anyway, got my coffee, and my daughter (School's out all week due to the snow here in NC). She's got her cocoa and she's telling me to stop commenting and start watching. Happy Arthursday!
Happy Arthursday!
Ho ho ho! Santa's traditional territory, before he moved to the Neptune system!
Great episode, watching second time, more down to earth for a change :) I am liking the 60fps video quality as well. tks arthur.
BEST CHANNEL ON TH-cam
Love the content and quality of your vids, thanks!
Issac, I have to say I share with you a great love of Terry Pratchett books, the Hogfather being my absolute favorite (though all the Discworld books are at least GOOD)
Issac Arthur for president 2020!
You are missing the largest reason colder waters can support more biomass: The warmer water gets, the lower the solubility of oxygen in it. And oxygen is just really one of those things you want to deprive biotopes of if you want them to not die off. And considering that even biota as far away as the equator and beyond are connected to the sheer volume of Krill through whale fall, you could wreck the entire biosphere by messing with the Antarctic.
Awesome as always. Thank you. You rock!
@ 15:30 it sounds like the first chord to Prince's "Let's go crazy".
Wow! This one was early. Awesome thanks.
Wide awake, cuppa and watching some Isaac Arthur, christmas and improving ones knowledge....a win situation says I!
Keep them phenomenal videos coming my friend!
Im rewatching all of your vids
SFIA with Stellaris Music... I think we should have a community project to mod Stellaris to be more SFIA-like
Would you have to fill up your home system with habitats and a dyson sphere before you build your first colony ship?
@@joshperry7643 Not necessarily, but the game certainly comes with all the tech you need to build all of those things. Besides, if you can build a dyson swarm, an interstellar colony ship is childsplay
There kind of is one, its called Gigastructural engineering & more. It's got things like Nicoll-Dyson beams and Matrioska brains, but generally it isn't as realistic as what Isaac discusses.
As I watched this, I kept thinking of how nice the sun-warmed sand felt to my feet walking the beaches of southern California. I'm not cut out to be an arctic settler.
I feel like you wink every time you say "needless to say".
Can you make a video on colonizing the Antarctic? (South Pole)
Just watch this video upside down 😋
GAH! Issac! Why would you make me choose between listening to you and this amasing music!??! its not fair...
Great work from a very cool droid. None other than our host. Thank you very much. Stray frosty folks.
AWWWWW YAAAAA.....ISAAC THURSDAY!!!!!
Early video! Love the Stellaris theme in the background too.
Haha seeing an episode on the day it is released is a first for me!!!
ditto
Cool episode. It's time to Chill Out and RELAX!
9:50 I like how "fast ice" is actually the slowest type of sea ice.
I just love the way you use my favorite game soundtrack on your video
I would love to live in the Artic. I love cold weather & Snow.
Where do you live currently?
You and me both. No insects, clean fresh air and bacteria or viruses does not spread so easily in freezing cold weather. List can go on and on.
@@vaultdueller623 have you ever shoveled thousands of tons of snow? you'd think differently!
@@ronschlorff7089 Thousands of tons? Of course you need to take an extreme example, tells a lot about person. Yes I have shoveled snow and pushed snow a lot. I live in arctic circle and yes sun does not shine at this time of a year in here.
@@vaultdueller623 please don't get depressed, I was making a joke, which I guess you missed. And that "tells a lot about a person", eh?
YAAY!!! It's an early Christmas!!!! I thought I had blacked out and it was later in the day.
This was a fascinating video.
I think one of the greatest side-effects of the space colonization efforts is learning how humans can live in sustainable self-contained environments. We can then create new communities on Earth in more hostile areas of the planet (tundra, oceans, deserts, etc) without having to affect the ecology. At that point we can extend the ecology off planet.
Maybe the best way to save the ecology would be to largely immure ourselves in artificial habitats
love your content man keep it up.
Love you Isaac!
Do we have a contingency plan for dealing with The Thing?
Cutting/bloating its budget and turning it into bad CG so it dies of shame :D
How can I colonize Antarctica to build a nation there?
can you freeze Co2 and collect it, keep it pressurised in the antarctic? just make it a little colder
I think you could, though you might need to go for the liquid phase at higher pressures, I'd have to check but I think the triple point is only around 5 atm at -60C or so. I think the average temp even at the pole is a bit above that, so you probably would have to store it as a liquid rather than dry ice, but a chemist could answer that better.
@@isaacarthurSFIA you would need to find some way to concentrate the carbon dioxide. If you managed to precipitate out the local CO2 it probably wouldn't lower the local pressure enough to start a wind pattern coming towards you. The carbon dioxide in the local area would be gone and you'd be depending on dispersion can bring you more. It would probably be easier just put up sales to block the infrared.
You do not need to make it colder. Carbon dioxide is liquid in deep water. Hotter than 31C but below 730 meters it becomes a supercritical fluid but that is still denser than water. It will, however, dissolve in water and water dissolves in carbon dioxide. If it gets loose we could suddenly have a lot of it. There is a volcanic lake (Nyos, cameroon) that sometimes belches huge clouds of carbon dioxide. Imagine a bottle of diet coke the height of a sky scraper. If the CO2 dissolves in the ocean and an abnormal current bringing it close to the surface it could fizz and draw more carbonated water up. If you have a reliable containment shell/bag then you can just dump carbon dioxide down a pipe. It is much much easier than what we do/did to extract oil in Ohio fields near Isaac's house.
Ocean dumping is illegal under international law.
There are already projects using carbon dioxide to dissolve oil. Some tar deposits do not flow toward oil wells. Carbon dioxide is a great solvent for petroleum. Pressurizing the oil field with CO2 simultaneously sequesters carbon and increases flow toward the wells. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage
@@isaacarthurSFIA storing co2 in the Antarctic has been proposed several times. Here's a typical proposal.
journals.ametsoc.org/doi/10.1175/JAMC-D-12-0110.1
Stellaris music love it
Stellaris music!
I'm kinda sad that you didn't mention Anno 2205 in any way, so much of this episode reminded me of its Arctic Zone gameplay
A few weeks ago I started writing a Christmas Season fan fiction based on Hogfather, so I was over the moon to see it as your book of the month. I can vouch to you all, it is a great and funny story (like all the Discworld books).
the main reason the artic is so prolific is that cold water holds more oxygen per unit volume than warm water.
Carl Goodrhere are some huge crestuees underwater
Creatures
It's not just the rising seas that are a concern, but the loss of sea ice that protects coastlines from erosion by winter storms, combined with melting of the permafrost near the coast.
Wow, very beautifully presented and as always very comprehensive :)
Been excited for this one!
Funny you post this I’m headed back to Alaska on the 17th December
Isaac, tundra soil is actually very fertile. Lots of organic carbon and inorganic minerals. It doesn't leach out from rain nearly as fast as temperate or especially tropical soils.
That's Chicago at 14:55 sweet!
Oh man I'm really excited for the ice caverns episode!
Hay could you do a video on strong Materials like carbyne or graphyne or a metal that has all the same properties of titanium but 10 or 100 fold and as light as titanium
I'm quite sure that stuff is just sci-fi. Unless you have the sauce for it :3
Carlo Guerrero
Carbyne is 2700 or 2600 times
Stronger then steel I four get
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Carlo Guerrero
Al tho graphyne is theoretical
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Carlo Guerrero
Says yes if you watch the videos
Antartica has a number of geothermal features, the hot springs at Deception Island being the best known. I passed taking a "summer" postion supporting scientists when they explained I couldn't build a hot-air engine/generator/pump using bits from the ever expanding scrap pile, since the current treaty prevents the use "any" natural resources. With heat and power, getting a small greenhouse up seemed like something fun to prevent boredom. Not even allowed to recycle from another nations scrap piles or allow your nations scrap pile to be recycled by others, so most of the unnatural resources off limits also.
anno 2205 has your company set up a base in the arctic. And on the moon. By building a space elevator first.
Great game :).
7:50 The Blue Edge by Marcus Warner?! Editor's got taste for music :)
It is quite nice music, isn't it?
haa, stellaris music!
You are an extremely intelligent man and i am not easily impressed , great point about ice cubes in a glass
One thing about the polar reasons it does get to the point that it is so cold that machines do not work, that is why one reason drilling up there is not a good idea, only have 1 or 2 months where a company can drill for oil before it gets to the point they cannot
Arthur's day my dudes!!! Just discovered you 3 days ago so this is my first arthurs day. Thank you for brightening my day. I do have a question tho. Are u English or is that your speech impediment?
Good to see there is still hardly any trolls in this awesome community ! With a handful of dislikes .Everyone here is just keen to learn some new science and what maybe possible in the future .
My biggest disappointment with this channel is the utter lack of views. You're awesome, and you're probably my favorite.
The easiest way to live at the poles is to wait a few years and then refer to your colonizing oceans episode
I would like to offer a few suggestions as I study this overall STEM yet I will simply state, well done.
7:23 spray paint some green and blue in a planet... You have the best lines, you were cracking me up with that one.
Great video! Thank you:)
Another great work! Good one. This could be a good business proposal for large corporations out there.