Totally bangin. You are in the enlightenment "business" though that word is too dirty to associate with your deal. I want to ask you. Isaac can you please explain to me here why this video I post here (the entity that designed our world speaks 🖖🐶. Why is it my second fave scene on screen ever. ROTJ when daddy says to his son "so.. you have a twin sister.. If you do not ........ ..... perhaps she.... etc... " always gets me... brrr. Anyway why is this so brilliant and how is it so relatable to our fragile and confusing condition? th-cam.com/video/-FhhFbtRAv4/w-d-xo.html Please. I'll never ask you again unless you say its ok. I 'll be hip. Thanks my fave modern frood. xoxo 🖖😎🌌🌄🌌🌄🌌💜🌍💜
@@kayondothomas7343 MCU doesn't even come close to this. And Isaac's ideas are actually backed by science. It's just a universe that's in the REALLY far future.
@@johnbash-on-ger ...lets see.. beautiful and hot but burn you to bits when you get close... wastefully expending its resources to shine ever brighter... when they get old they become more massive, some even into a black hole sucking every speck of light around.... ummm. Yup, stars are female ;)
My jaw often drops at the amazing concepts that Mr. Arthur proposes in this series. However, today took it to a new level when I watched him propose a Mega. Dyson. Swarm. Holy cow... Thank you so much Mr. Arthur for expanding our minds with such positivity about the future!
Aww... he missed the most obvous pun @8:05: "Typically, a dense cloud of gas is called a 'nebula' which are where many stars form, although that's a fairly NEBULOUS term..."
To think how great this is...to get videos like this on these channels. I remember as a kid I had to wait months to get a new documentary on Discovery channel or national geographic to get something interesting-space related like these. And often they were boring, repeating the same old things. And now, every other day, a new video about Isaac Arthur, Fraser Cain etc. We slowly got used to this, but If I had to move back 20 years in time, I think It would feel like I was cut off from the civilisation.
Galactic officer: sun do you know why I pulled you over? Solar mass: um... no officer Galactic officer: you were going fast enough to blow your mass off!
Are you asking me to explain the joke or the speed of light? Your post seems a bit random. For the joke you would need to actually hear what IA said to understand. I don't think I can help.
"Oops! Is not something you want to hear from you chief engineer, as moments later, you'll both be getting your atoms scattered by an explosion bright enough to outshine the whole galaxy for a while" Isaac arthur 2019
*cough* actually just coincidence, this episode was written before that shoutout last month. I usually do reciprocate those but in this case I didn't want to sidetrack discussing it and thought he did a really good job explaining the subject.
This makes me incredibly happy. Thank you for the hard work and effort to provide this content. You do more than you may think. Bad days turn good. Moods change. Thank you.
This is why I love your videos. By brain is imagining a solar system wide ballroom/barn dance of partner-planets being exchanged with other artificial suns in a solar system designed like a Swiss watch (ppwered by materiel stripped from a central solar mass, snuffed out to preserve resources while other stars get shipped nearer with solar lasers to keep the project to going indefinitely).
@@xy4chrizz585 been more or less like it after mom died at 8yo. After that nights provided the only relaxing period of day lol. But dont try this at home.. my job this week finish after one or two hours. And yes i got 30 mins between 03.30 and 04.00 c.a.. stopped the shade effect that comes in periffery when must rest some. I cant really explain it better than have also periods where I am closer to normality.. thats also nice but .. not fun always ... Jack said it best 🖖😊Ill try not scare ppl like this time again. Sry. I hope you are well ok m8. 🖖🐶🦆🐸🍀🌌🌄🌌💜🌍💜 haddock and veggie soup with leftover pizza 4tw! Spirulina and flax oil and sgark oil snd multivitamin and not too much processed etc etc. Basically i know i must now keep focus on something that helps me calm to get good worry free ish rest. You know what the summary of the summary of the summary D.N.A wrote (RIP champion and hero of life and common sense).. Donnie Darko mad world plays 🥊.. kidding. The summary said a funny but rather too true summary. It said. People are a problem 👏🐸 lol! Ah. But the coming genz deserve our best effort to be cool. th-cam.com/video/buqtdpuZxvk/w-d-xo.html This is my 3rd fave scene ever. And most helpful. Luckily in not a semi concious stage drifting in darkness for billions of years like Hactar did in THGTTG. th-cam.com/video/buqtdpuZxvk/w-d-xo.html Luckily Marvin and Hactar and many other individuals or things or events or physics are only in those books and plays and tv show and movie and game and probably more iterations or manifestations... pumping iron in english here.. keepin in shape too not only out of need. How is my english? Im using thumb and no comp assisted nonsense. Just Kidding. In the third book the following spoiler ddsigndd t b not too revealing. The guide pwns. 2nd saddest entity I know of (Marvin of course taking the cake). admitted to Tricia and Arthur everything and fulfilled its function and finally ended his existenze after 20 billion years of ... brrr yeah. No I have much to be thankful and helpful and cheerful for. I just forgot that isnt normal and literally forgot to hide... im slipping.. getting comfortable and soft.. lets see where this always improving lifestyle takes me. Peace. Fun. Love. Respect. Relax. Don't Panic 👊🐶 please. We got a civ to run and hopefully not stupidly fumble our best and only chance for the coming genz .. that is mostimportantthey find them selves in repsctable enough and ethically sound and beautiful world where people are as independant as they feel like and with a reliable legalnframeworks large well managed open and well functioning gov that is not acutely in constant cold war with all including self cuz one hand hides fromthemother and system wide mistrust and lies and atm unavoidably retarded byc corruption and lack of qualification. But USA is 90% cool at least and always daring to take the discussion. Ill zzzz now. Thanks for concern.. this is just normal me. You are allright?
THIS...this episode is more optimistic about the future than any other YT vid I’ve seen so far! A reality that spans quarter the distance to P.Centauri, I can almost see that reality! This episode is so good, I need a cold shower. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼❤️
You have a beautiful way of explaining the potential that the human race has. Keep doing what you are doing and my the gods bless your optimistic heart.
I'd bet they are, since enough fissionable material crammed tightly enough will lead to a chain reaction. No idea how long one could last though, I think to get one to exist for more than mere instants it would have to have the right composition and density of fissionable elements. Seems to me it would need to be far more unenriched uranium and thorium than say u238 or plutonium. something with a lower nuclear output or cross section would have to be used for the bulk of the matter to gain gravity and density. Perhaps it would even need to be doped with things that are lighter but will accept new particles to become larger, unstable particles to absorb some radiation. Seems that they would never form naturally, but I bet a k3 civ could make one for kicks.
@@hosmerhomeboy You generally don't want a chain reaction in a star, though. Stars are stable if they have a constant fusion speed that's in equilibrium with it's gravity (I believe isaac mentioned this). If you have a runaway chain reaction the imbalance is gonna tear the star apart pretty darn quick.
If you think about it, earth has one in its core. It has enough radioactive material to keep it pretty hot in the core. Now, we'd need a lot more to make earth glow, but either by decay, or by a nuclear chain reaction, it is possible. For the fission chain reaction, it would be controlled by the density, which would be controlled by the temperature. It should stabilize, as long as you had plenty of breeding fuel. Of course, I haven't experimented with that.
Damn, Isaac. The quality of sound and your narration has come so far, man! Absolutely love listening to you talk. It's like 2 am and I'm super drunk...hic! Gonna be the best. sleep. ever. No homo, love you, bro.
Now y'just HAD to go and spoil that lovely sentiment, didn't ya, XM?! LOL. Bro, NO ONE WHATSOEVER would have read your message and thought "Homo!" But you had to make sure that no one was in any doubt, didn't you? :(
I have a lisp. I have issues with s sounds. But watching you make content with your lisp, which, no offense meant, is worse than mine, is really inspirational. Its helped me accept my lisp, which had been a source of a lot of personal struggle. So thank you. Aside from being a huge fan of your content, its had a real personal impact on my life.
Oooh, Subterrainian Cities - cool! Have you read The Descent (book) by Jeff Long? It was great! The movie wasn't anything like it, although a good movie. The book and its sequel (Deeper) both contained underground cities. He also had a couple of other Sci-Fi books I enjoyed. I recommend The Descent as the "the book of the video" selection for underground cities/civilizations. (CS Lewis' A Horse and His Boy also had an interesting underground city/civilization.)
@@ronschlorff7089 The town of Rutgen is in Norway. On cloudy days the heliostats fail. If you are stuck near Germany this time of year you have no options.
@@stefanr8232 Please move here, it's sunny and warm, even in winter, all the time near the Mexican border in Arizona. We had a 1 week "winter", around New Year's; it's cloudy today though, so I'm inside, wasting time on my computer! :D
@Petrazenka It's ok here, for what you may think, since they are everywhere in our country anyway. But it's a very nice climate, not crowded, low costs, and a wonderful placed for amateur astronomy, or simple "star-gazing" as I do. Also, our National Astronomical Observatory is near here, Kitt Peak, and they have many interesting programs of observation for the public, with big telescopes. I've gone a few times and plan more this year!
@Petrazenka Yeah, we have our share of crime here, but most folks in this state are ready to "protect themselves", if you get my meaning. We sort of have a tradition here, being about 70 miles distant from the site of the most famous gun fight in Western history, October, 1881, at the O.K. Corral, in Tombstone, Arizona! :D
You're one of the best futurists nowadays. Most idiots be like "the sun will "eat" the earth in 5 billion years" and think that they sound smart, but you're one the very few who actually have a grasp on what could really be happening in the far future. Thank you.
man....genius episode..!^^ thats why i love your channel ;) ....one of the few persons who regularly blows my mind away its thoose episodes were iam forced to stop several times just to think about the incredible huge implications of the concepts you are sharing with us.... you really taught me that our "reality" is so much greater than almost any imagination...thank you so much^^
I first read this as Making Guns, nothing wrong with that but not the usual subject matter. Then I realized it was Suns, immediately the reaction was, that makes more sense. Its amusing in extreme that that makes more sense :).
A god-damned K3 stay at home civilization. That is both inspiring and terrifying. But I think you nailed it, a K3 seems unlikely to just be a scaled up K2 (Dyson swarms around virtually every star) because without ftl its not really a civilization, but this is the same population and energy (even if for a somewhat smaller galaxy) and its essentially local. It makes me wonder what kind of shift is needed to spark a K4 Civ.
Arthur you are so good at the smooth transition to your sponsor I actually went "yay it's Arthurday" and "I wonder how he's gonna bring up Audible in this one"
Thank you sir! You really must make a video on your ‘red globular galaxy’ concept from OA. I’m sure this was in your thoughts during the making of this video anyway, but it never hurts to ask! Oh and Happy new year by the way.
If turning supernova in black holes and balancing the forces exactly is good enough for the Galifreyians to become Time Lords it's surely good enough for us. So long as we don't turn our time stream inside out and erase the universe in the process. Though this might be appreciated by those who thought the creation of the universe was a mistake in the first place.😁😜✌
@@Ozzy_2014 You forgot that the 'time lords' were/are total incomponent failures that destroyed anything/everything on their path mercilessly comparable to Daleks D:
Wow! Great work as usual. This video for some reason stands out from the others I've watched. It is amazing how far and quick your work has progressed. It gives me hope for my future and the far far beyond.
Going into this video I was filled with a little trepidation-a recent story I wrote included a K2 machine-intelligence civilization building a ring of stars using the "gas giant smooshing" technique. They were farming said stars with Dyson swarms, of course, as well as using starlifting to gather the materials needed to build said swarms and more ships to send out to gather more giants. They were in it for the long haul. Surprise surprise, however, when I find you touch on exactly this method. Thank you for yet another wonderful episode and building this amazing resource for writers such as myself to "get things mostly right".
Now we just wait for the guy who screws up and derails red dwarf #758195 into red dwarf #257581 causing a chain reaction that makes a few billion stars fall into one another.
And here I was thinking that the max was a K3 civilization. Imagine a lattice of Matrioshka brains, stellar forges, and nicoll-dyson beams. Holy crappola. Onwards and upwards!
Watching this, it just clicked about why less massive stars last longer. Slight increase in mass for fuel and much more brightly burning that mass off. Mind ... blown
I wonder what a dyson swarm made up of red dwarfs used as the power source for a matryoshka brain would look like, I'd imagine it would be beautiful though. By the way I used this idea in a story of mine, one of the characters, a hivemind, made her own engineered solar system including building the suns to light it to live within away from the rest of the galaxy.
An idea to build up moons, planets, or a gas giant to a stars. Would be to send a telescopic RTG (squid) craft. Several hundred craft are sent out to attach to asteroids with spooled out metal bands. Dozens of Rovers attached to metal bands are sent out in all directions to collect regolith and return to craft body to launch the regolith out of it's telescopic body to launch to another celestial body(s) to add to it's mass. Depending, regolith could be selected, depending on it's composition. So somewhat only the material needed at another location are sent. Once enough of the asteroid is expended, the craft could relocate to another asteroid, to repeat the process again.
It's been four years since i began to watch your videos and i regularly go back to watch this video in particular because the idea of the empire of a trillion stars is, with your series about civilisation at the end of stars and more broadly your channel, what gave me hope about humanity and what greatly participated to the end of my depression. Mister Isaac Arthur, i don't have the words to say how much i am thankfull and admirative, so i will stay simple : Thank you.
"Yo dawg I heard you like Dyson Swarms, so we put a Dyson Swarm in your Dyson Star Swarm in your Dyson Swarm." - Feeder Chan from Spacebattles.com Another good video Isaac.
10:45 - some of those will just stop the fusion, never going "blue dwarf" but becoming brown instead and dead for good. 17:00 - false, stars never go *Black Hole* - the "supernova mechanism" is preventing that blowing an entire star with 1000 FOE.
> It's like tribe living next to a forest fire to stay warm. Hah, funny - I at first processed this as "It's like a child staying next to forest fire to stay warm." ..and immediately thought: "Someone's been playing Don't Starve."
Amazing content as always, it's fascinating how many different and interesting topics are covered on this channel and i love how in depth they go. I find it's much more engaging to listen to the videos at 1.5x speed, just putting it out there in case someone else might enjoy watching it this way as well. But i do understand that in normal speed it's just like a slow chill podcast, anyways great work and all the best!
Arthur, I really dig this episode, but the scene where you talk about a geocentric sun-moon really tickled me, especially with the flat Earth visuals. You have the uncanny ability to make normally preposterous ideas into something much more plausible, just one reason I've seen every episode you've made. Thank you for the great work you do!
I'm away traveling right now, hence the early release, and may be rather delayed replying to any comments
Safe travels. :-D
hehe traveling in space
One could say you might not have a stellar track record with your response times for this video. ;)
Totally bangin. You are in the enlightenment "business" though that word is too dirty to associate with your deal.
I want to ask you.
Isaac can you please explain to me here why this video I post here (the entity that designed our world speaks 🖖🐶. Why is it my second fave scene on screen ever. ROTJ when daddy says to his son "so.. you have a twin sister.. If you do not ........ ..... perhaps she.... etc... " always gets me... brrr.
Anyway why is this so brilliant and how is it so relatable to our fragile and confusing condition?
th-cam.com/video/-FhhFbtRAv4/w-d-xo.html
Please. I'll never ask you again unless you say its ok. I 'll be hip. Thanks my fave modern frood. xoxo 🖖😎🌌🌄🌌🌄🌌💜🌍💜
Still Arthursday here, you're neither late, nor are you early. You release precisely when you promised to!
"Oops is not something you want to hear when slamming planets into stars"
Only on Issac Arthur's channel
One of the many things i like about this channel , is that when i finish watching a video , it
always leaves me thinking bigger than before
Yeah, until you come back to the real world and realize you spent 34:46 minutes in a 'Marvel Studios' universe
@@kayondothomas7343 MCU doesn't even come close to this. And Isaac's ideas are actually backed by science. It's just a universe that's in the REALLY far future.
29:55: "An empire of a million suns" sounds like quite the title for a book
Indeed
Indeed
Indeed
Stars are a lot more sensitive about mass, so don't make any cruel jokes about their weight
Sooooo stars are female?
Better not make any cruel jokes about their age either.
@@johnbash-on-ger ...lets see.. beautiful and hot but burn you to bits when you get close... wastefully expending its resources to shine ever brighter... when they get old they become more massive, some even into a black hole sucking every speck of light around....
ummm. Yup, stars are female ;)
You dam well better believe if that was about daughters, SJW's would be triggered around the globe. 0_o
@@diGritz1 aren't all females daughters?
Nelson's TAS and Game Archive *smokes a joint* whoa youre like tearing down my reality man.
My mind was blown by the concept of a Mega Dyson Swarm.
That was shocking and I think it could really work. It was a great idea for a ridiculous sci-fi empire tho.
My jaw often drops at the amazing concepts that Mr. Arthur proposes in this series. However, today took it to a new level when I watched him propose a Mega. Dyson. Swarm. Holy cow...
Thank you so much Mr. Arthur for expanding our minds with such positivity about the future!
Yaaasss! This was the Ultimate Mind Blown for me, and there has been a LOT in all of the FSIA vids I've watched.
15 seconds until the first pun. I'm already sold.
Aww... he missed the most obvous pun @8:05: "Typically, a dense cloud of gas is called a 'nebula' which are where many stars form, although that's a fairly NEBULOUS term..."
Yuk yuk yuk.
17:02 No one:
PBS: _MetalicitY_
Early one today!
Love you videos Cody thx
I don’t have time to watch it yet. It’s making me anxious 😦
@KELLI2L2 Pretty sure I commented before the pinned comment was posted. ;)
@@theCodyReeder : love to see you have the same devotion to this channel like me ^^....whenever i watch a vidoe from isaac...cody was already here^^
Yo Cody could you make an Oneal cylinder on your next vid......use some scrap copper wire, mercury, and acid as raw materials
When you want to literally treat the universe like universe sandbox 2
The animation work is superb. The dark backdrop of space makes almost anything look amazing in contrast.
To think how great this is...to get videos like this on these channels.
I remember as a kid I had to wait months to get a new documentary on Discovery channel or national geographic to get something interesting-space related like these. And often they were boring, repeating the same old things. And now, every other day, a new video about Isaac Arthur, Fraser Cain etc. We slowly got used to this, but If I had to move back 20 years in time, I think It would feel like I was cut off from the civilisation.
Galactic officer: sun do you know why I pulled you over?
Solar mass: um... no officer
Galactic officer: you were going fast enough to blow your mass off!
So light speed is just a speed limit like on a highway?
Are you asking me to explain the joke or the speed of light? Your post seems a bit random. For the joke you would need to actually hear what IA said to understand. I don't think I can help.
@@Tinman97301 No it was just a joke about since light speed is as fast as you can go it'd be like a speed limit, and you were joking about speeding.
That makes sense.
you have to find something to do when your a K3 civilization I guess.
@ @@spaceman6463
Not everybody will accept fantasies no matter how realistic and pleasant when they can be doing real things.
calvingreene90
If your in the way why would you hinder a super intelligence ai
calvingreene90
So if you want to be in the way go ahead
you are all going to die down here.
Kevin Miedema
Maybe but I’ll take every one with me as I go
In a Type III civilization could you order a custom "Solar System " Package?
To go or home delivery?
On Amazon?
Some assembly required.
"Earth like planet now only 5.99!"
Oxygen not included
@@Texan.Insomniac Free shipping! Operators are standing by!
"Oops! Is not something you want to hear from you chief engineer, as moments later, you'll both be getting your atoms scattered by an explosion bright enough to outshine the whole galaxy for a while"
Isaac arthur 2019
"I'm a solar engineer. If you see me engage warp, you better do, too"
Issac Arthur returning the shoutout to pbs , love it
Ejosi Which episode did he get a shoutout in? I've been trying to find it but no luck so far.
*cough* actually just coincidence, this episode was written before that shoutout last month. I usually do reciprocate those but in this case I didn't want to sidetrack discussing it and thought he did a really good job explaining the subject.
This makes me incredibly happy. Thank you for the hard work and effort to provide this content. You do more than you may think. Bad days turn good. Moods change. Thank you.
20 seconds in and I know it's going to be a stellar show.
0:10 Stellar idea!
I see what you did there :P
Aaaaaah I missed it.. im noob again.. oh well. Snakes and ladders 4tw! 🖖😊
You mean dyson swarms? he's always talking about it in videos since 2016, so i dont get why you and 28 other people are excited about it
@@kayondothomas7343 You need to chill, its just a pun he made that I pointed out...
Wow, really cool concept at the end there!
This is why I love your videos.
By brain is imagining a solar system wide ballroom/barn dance of partner-planets being exchanged with other artificial suns in a solar system designed like a Swiss watch (ppwered by materiel stripped from a central solar mass, snuffed out to preserve resources while other stars get shipped nearer with solar lasers to keep the project to going indefinitely).
Are you stoned?
Oh no, I am super tired and just wanted to go to bed.
But I have no choice now ,
let's make a tea and get a snack, Isaac Arthur is back
Was working 4 days no sleep. I'm finally home and what a treat to find this. I'm happy you like.
@@xy4chrizz585 been more or less like it after mom died at 8yo. After that nights provided the only relaxing period of day lol. But dont try this at home.. my job this week finish after one or two hours. And yes i got 30 mins between 03.30 and 04.00 c.a.. stopped the shade effect that comes in periffery when must rest some. I cant really explain it better than have also periods where I am closer to normality.. thats also nice but .. not fun always ... Jack said it best 🖖😊Ill try not scare ppl like this time again. Sry. I hope you are well ok m8.
🖖🐶🦆🐸🍀🌌🌄🌌💜🌍💜 haddock and veggie soup with leftover pizza 4tw! Spirulina and flax oil and sgark oil snd multivitamin and not too much processed etc etc.
Basically i know i must now keep focus on something that helps me calm to get good worry free ish rest. You know what the summary of the summary of the summary D.N.A wrote (RIP champion and hero of life and common sense).. Donnie Darko mad world plays 🥊.. kidding.
The summary said a funny but rather too true summary. It said. People are a problem 👏🐸 lol! Ah. But the coming genz deserve our best effort to be cool.
th-cam.com/video/buqtdpuZxvk/w-d-xo.html
This is my 3rd fave scene ever. And most helpful. Luckily in not a semi concious stage drifting in darkness for billions of years like Hactar did in THGTTG. th-cam.com/video/buqtdpuZxvk/w-d-xo.html
Luckily Marvin and Hactar and many other individuals or things or events or physics are only in those books and plays and tv show and movie and game and probably more iterations or manifestations... pumping iron in english here.. keepin in shape too not only out of need. How is my english? Im using thumb and no comp assisted nonsense. Just
Kidding.
In the third book the following spoiler ddsigndd t b not too revealing. The guide pwns.
2nd saddest entity I know of (Marvin of course taking the cake). admitted to Tricia and Arthur everything and fulfilled its function and finally ended his existenze after 20 billion years of ... brrr yeah. No I have much to be thankful and helpful and cheerful for. I just forgot that isnt normal and literally forgot to hide... im slipping.. getting comfortable and soft.. lets see where this always improving lifestyle takes me. Peace. Fun. Love. Respect. Relax. Don't Panic 👊🐶 please. We got a civ to run and hopefully not stupidly fumble our best and only chance for the coming genz .. that is mostimportantthey find them selves in repsctable enough and ethically sound and beautiful world where people are as independant as they feel like and with a reliable legalnframeworks large well managed open and well functioning gov that is not acutely in constant cold war with all including self cuz one hand hides fromthemother and system wide mistrust and lies and atm unavoidably retarded byc corruption and lack of qualification. But USA is 90% cool at least and always daring to take the discussion. Ill zzzz now. Thanks for concern.. this is just normal me. You are allright?
@@xy4chrizz585 actually feeling better now. Expression is vital they say. Love
👊🐶💜🌍💜
@@xy4chrizz585Thank you. You too. 7 9 13 * * *
THIS...this episode is more optimistic about the future than any other YT vid I’ve seen so far! A reality that spans quarter the distance to P.Centauri, I can almost see that reality! This episode is so good, I need a cold shower. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼❤️
You have a beautiful way of explaining the potential that the human race has. Keep doing what you are doing and my the gods bless your optimistic heart.
Who are the sad people that dislike these videos?
This has to be one of the best channels on the whole of TH-cam.
I wonder if fission stars are possible.
I'd bet they are, since enough fissionable material crammed tightly enough will lead to a chain reaction. No idea how long one could last though, I think to get one to exist for more than mere instants it would have to have the right composition and density of fissionable elements. Seems to me it would need to be far more unenriched uranium and thorium than say u238 or plutonium. something with a lower nuclear output or cross section would have to be used for the bulk of the matter to gain gravity and density. Perhaps it would even need to be doped with things that are lighter but will accept new particles to become larger, unstable particles to absorb some radiation. Seems that they would never form naturally, but I bet a k3 civ could make one for kicks.
@@hosmerhomeboy You generally don't want a chain reaction in a star, though. Stars are stable if they have a constant fusion speed that's in equilibrium with it's gravity (I believe isaac mentioned this). If you have a runaway chain reaction the imbalance is gonna tear the star apart pretty darn quick.
If you think about it, earth has one in its core.
It has enough radioactive material to keep it pretty hot in the core. Now, we'd need a lot more to make earth glow, but either by decay, or by a nuclear chain reaction, it is possible.
For the fission chain reaction, it would be controlled by the density, which would be controlled by the temperature. It should stabilize, as long as you had plenty of breeding fuel.
Of course, I haven't experimented with that.
This is actually perfect!! Can listen on my way to work now... Thanks Isaac and SFIA contributors!!
Damn, Isaac. The quality of sound and your narration has come so far, man! Absolutely love listening to you talk. It's like 2 am and I'm super drunk...hic! Gonna be the best. sleep. ever. No homo, love you, bro.
I'll consider getting drunk and listening to this.
Now y'just HAD to go and spoil that lovely sentiment, didn't ya, XM?! LOL.
Bro, NO ONE WHATSOEVER would have read your message and thought "Homo!" But you had to make sure that no one was in any doubt, didn't you? :(
@@MarkMichalowski Forgot I even wrote this. Still stand by it 😊
I have a lisp. I have issues with s sounds. But watching you make content with your lisp, which, no offense meant, is worse than mine, is really inspirational. Its helped me accept my lisp, which had been a source of a lot of personal struggle. So thank you. Aside from being a huge fan of your content, its had a real personal impact on my life.
Oooh, Subterrainian Cities - cool! Have you read The Descent (book) by Jeff Long? It was great! The movie wasn't anything like it, although a good movie. The book and its sequel (Deeper) both contained underground cities. He also had a couple of other Sci-Fi books I enjoyed. I recommend The Descent as the "the book of the video" selection for underground cities/civilizations. (CS Lewis' A Horse and His Boy also had an interesting underground city/civilization.)
While you are at it, please also make a sun above Denmark. We seem to have lost ours.
don't you have special "happy lights" in Scandinavia to keep from getting too depressed and killing yourselves?
@@ronschlorff7089 The town of Rutgen is in Norway. On cloudy days the heliostats fail. If you are stuck near Germany this time of year you have no options.
@@stefanr8232 Please move here, it's sunny and warm, even in winter, all the time near the Mexican border in Arizona. We had a 1 week "winter", around New Year's; it's cloudy today though, so I'm inside, wasting time on my computer! :D
@Petrazenka It's ok here, for what you may think, since they are everywhere in our country anyway. But it's a very nice climate, not crowded, low costs, and a wonderful placed for amateur astronomy, or simple "star-gazing" as I do. Also, our National Astronomical Observatory is near here, Kitt Peak, and they have many interesting programs of observation for the public, with big telescopes. I've gone a few times and plan more this year!
@Petrazenka Yeah, we have our share of crime here, but most folks in this state are ready to "protect themselves", if you get my meaning. We sort of have a tradition here, being about 70 miles distant from the site of the most famous gun fight in Western history, October, 1881, at the O.K. Corral, in Tombstone, Arizona! :D
“You blow up one star, and everyone thinks you can walk on water" Samantha Carter, SG1
"I am a star engineer if you see me running it to late!" need to put that on a t shirt
yes do; but, please, Correctly say:.... "it's too late". LOL
@@ronschlorff7089 Doh.
More like: "If you see me putting on shades, start praying."
@@Alexander_Kale "all mighty sun god give me light."
"I am no mere sun god, worship me for I am (puts on shades) a star engineer"
@@shoootme stellar, old chap. absolutely stellar.
You're one of the best futurists nowadays. Most idiots be like "the sun will "eat" the earth in 5 billion years" and think that they sound smart, but you're one the very few who actually have a grasp on what could really be happening in the far future. Thank you.
Awesome birthday surprise. Thanks for another great video Isaac.
Happy birthday!
Happy 🎂 to you enjoy it.👋
Happy Birthday! Mine too. Live long and prosper bud
24:54 i love how he puts the SFIA logo on the back of the machine
"Ooops is not something you want to hear...." ha ha ha, so much understatement about such a mind boggling concept!
I believe we can all agree that we desperately need a good fiction book or series set in proper Dyson-Stapledon Sun-Swarm.
I always liked the idea of kickstarting brown dwarves. Especially if they're way more common in the universe than we know.
"playing tall"
"Pushing black holes is easy enough." I love this channel
11:51 is the funniest theoretical situation I've ever heard!
man....genius episode..!^^ thats why i love your channel ;) ....one of the few persons who regularly blows my mind away
its thoose episodes were iam forced to stop several times just to think about the incredible huge implications of the concepts you are sharing with us....
you really taught me that our "reality" is so much greater than almost any imagination...thank you so much^^
It’s only fair to create new suns, considering what they’ve done to birth planets and give life to them.
Nocturnus Schwartstein there’s something poetic about that; beings born of stars go on to give create new stars themselves.
Who are the people who dislike these videos?? You're doing awesome work, amazing presentations, very thorough yet not hard to understand.
I first read this as Making Guns, nothing wrong with that but not the usual subject matter.
Then I realized it was Suns, immediately the reaction was, that makes more sense.
Its amusing in extreme that that makes more sense :).
A god-damned K3 stay at home civilization. That is both inspiring and terrifying. But I think you nailed it, a K3 seems unlikely to just be a scaled up K2 (Dyson swarms around virtually every star) because without ftl its not really a civilization, but this is the same population and energy (even if for a somewhat smaller galaxy) and its essentially local.
It makes me wonder what kind of shift is needed to spark a K4 Civ.
Beautiful episode, and I'm so sorry for your loss.
Would you mind making an episode about colonizing black holes?
Done!
Arthur you are so good at the smooth transition to your sponsor I actually went "yay it's Arthurday" and "I wonder how he's gonna bring up Audible in this one"
Yay to journeying into intergalactic space by tagging a manufactured star along with a colony of space habitats
I used to envision that type of thing decades ago. Neat that that idea is kinda resurrected by this episode.
The Puppeteers in Larry Niven's Ringworld series migrate their civilisation with a cluster of 5 stars iirc
Have you ever talked about interstellar communication?
Good to hear from you Isaac!
Thank you sir! You really must make a video on your ‘red globular galaxy’ concept from OA. I’m sure this was in your thoughts during the making of this video anyway, but it never hurts to ask! Oh and Happy new year by the way.
Humans making super plasma/solar stars.
*What could possibly Go Wrong?* :D
11:55 "Ops!" :D
@@SETHthegodofchaos LoL ! :D
If turning supernova in black holes and balancing the forces exactly is good enough for the Galifreyians to become Time Lords it's surely good enough for us. So long as we don't turn our time stream inside out and erase the universe in the process.
Though this might be appreciated by those who thought the creation of the universe was a mistake in the first place.😁😜✌
@@Ozzy_2014 You forgot that the 'time lords' were/are total incomponent failures that destroyed anything/everything on their path mercilessly comparable to Daleks D:
Please! Just put a propperly proton torpedo shielded grid on that exhaust vent! (Tarkin)
AND THIS IS TO GO EVEN FURTHER BEYOND
one of my favorite episodes! loved it so much i'll watch it a few more times before next thursday. TY SFIA!
Wow! Great work as usual. This video for some reason stands out from the others I've watched. It is amazing how far and quick your work has progressed. It gives me hope for my future and the far far beyond.
I would like TH-cam to note most of us have two thumbs. Stop limit Isaac channel.
Most people talk about movie stars.
Isaac Arthur talks about MOVING stars.
Going into this video I was filled with a little trepidation-a recent story I wrote included a K2 machine-intelligence civilization building a ring of stars using the "gas giant smooshing" technique. They were farming said stars with Dyson swarms, of course, as well as using starlifting to gather the materials needed to build said swarms and more ships to send out to gather more giants. They were in it for the long haul.
Surprise surprise, however, when I find you touch on exactly this method. Thank you for yet another wonderful episode and building this amazing resource for writers such as myself to "get things mostly right".
mind blown.....................AGAIN!!
thanks Arthur
Yes, this is a super Nova episode!
A Klemperer Rosette swarm of Dyson Swarms. I think it's official, this has to be the biggest megastructure discussed on this channel before.
The Earth is a self powered recycling machine.
Now we just wait for the guy who screws up and derails red dwarf #758195 into red dwarf #257581 causing a chain reaction that makes a few billion stars fall into one another.
"Oops" is not something you want to hear from your Chief Engineer. (Of course, it has long been the most dreaded word in nuclear physics.)
This was one of the most interesting episodes so far!
And here I was thinking that the max was a K3 civilization. Imagine a lattice of Matrioshka brains, stellar forges, and nicoll-dyson beams. Holy crappola.
Onwards and upwards!
New Fermi Paradox solution: They're all living in a mega-swarm at the galaxy's center. Thanks Issac. :'(
Or, if radiation is the cause of death, then they are all living in intergalactic space...
Watching this, it just clicked about why less massive stars last longer.
Slight increase in mass for fuel and much more brightly burning that mass off.
Mind ... blown
I wonder what a dyson swarm made up of red dwarfs used as the power source for a matryoshka brain would look like, I'd imagine it would be beautiful though. By the way I used this idea in a story of mine, one of the characters, a hivemind, made her own engineered solar system including building the suns to light it to live within away from the rest of the galaxy.
What is the story called?
@@cheetored20 I haven't finished it yet unfortunately, I'm balancing writing it along with work, school and general life so it is slow going.
Great Episode Isaac! This one really blew my mind, I never even considered DySUN Spheres before!
I'm like a star, a hot ball of gas. More like a hot mess.
The information glows, and the positivity shows
An idea to build up moons, planets, or a gas giant to a stars. Would be to send a telescopic RTG (squid) craft. Several hundred craft are sent out to attach to asteroids with spooled out metal bands. Dozens of Rovers attached to metal bands are sent out in all directions to collect regolith and return to craft body to launch the regolith out of it's telescopic body to launch to another celestial body(s) to add to it's mass. Depending, regolith could be selected, depending on it's composition. So somewhat only the material needed at another location are sent. Once enough of the asteroid is expended, the craft could relocate to another asteroid, to repeat the process again.
I like your uploading schedule recently. This is a very deep thought to build suns!
It's been four years since i began to watch your videos and i regularly go back to watch this video in particular because the idea of the empire of a trillion stars is, with your series about civilisation at the end of stars and more broadly your channel, what gave me hope about humanity and what greatly participated to the end of my depression. Mister Isaac Arthur, i don't have the words to say how much i am thankfull and admirative, so i will stay simple : Thank you.
great video. This one feels different but good. thanks once again.
"building suns might be a stellar idea" Badum tss !
Awesome video. Love your stuff. Just want to throw this out there. Can you do a video on navigating in space? Thanks and keep up the great work!
Make video on stellerator vs tokamak fusion reactors.
I know its not really about atronomy but...i would love to see it
"Yo dawg I heard you like Dyson Swarms, so we put a Dyson Swarm in your Dyson Star Swarm in your Dyson Swarm." - Feeder Chan from Spacebattles.com
Another good video Isaac.
Thank you , Isaac. Your schedule of upcoming topics makes me want to stay alive even more.
Have a great holiday Isaac . I'm looking forward to this. Thank you again for all the hard work.
Sometimes I feel like you are a mad scientist, just doing things because you can....
"Why stop at making 1 sun...we could make 100s!!"
10:45 - some of those will just stop the fusion, never going "blue dwarf" but becoming brown instead and dead for good.
17:00 - false, stars never go *Black Hole* - the "supernova mechanism" is preventing that blowing an entire star with 1000 FOE.
> It's like tribe living next to a forest fire to stay warm.
Hah, funny - I at first processed this as "It's like a child staying next to forest fire to stay warm."
..and immediately thought: "Someone's been playing Don't Starve."
That precious tritium. But we need more if it this time!
I am a simple man.....I like SFIA videos before I've watched them.
Love the early release, I can at least listen to it while at work, thanks
Stellar episode, Isaac!
Amazing content as always, it's fascinating how many different and interesting topics are covered on this channel and i love how in depth they go. I find it's much more engaging to listen to the videos at 1.5x speed, just putting it out there in case someone else might enjoy watching it this way as well. But i do understand that in normal speed it's just like a slow chill podcast, anyways great work and all the best!
As usual, great food for thought.
Very thought-provoking. Kudos.
If you have the deuterium in masses, why wouldn't you use it for small scale fusion, getting a more efficient energy source?
I’m loving the graphics!
Excited by the Panspermia episode.
I would call it a Dyception Swarm
So many sun-puns, and even a whole section on Black Hole Suns, and yet not a single Soundgarden remark.
Arthur, I really dig this episode, but the scene where you talk about a geocentric sun-moon really tickled me, especially with the flat Earth visuals. You have the uncanny ability to make normally preposterous ideas into something much more plausible, just one reason I've seen every episode you've made. Thank you for the great work you do!