There are also a lot of other objects with overlapping orbits, including Haumea, which is also pretty cool. It's possible that none of the other places are as cool as Pluto and Haumea, though, unless you mean literally, though we can't really know until we see them up close.
I'm not sure about the deep cone city though, considering that there's quite possibly a single, huge liquid water ocean deep - but not that deep - beneath Pluto's surface.
Given that Pluto and Charon are tidally locked to each other, have low gravity and are close together, a space bridge between them would be a no brainer!
18:06 When I heard you say that, the first thought that popped into my head was "How is that a mega-engineering project, exactly?". Then I realsied that it's a 20,000km long habitat, and that is actually pretty big. Issac, I think your videos may have skewed my views on what constitutes mega-engineering.
This is probably your best episodes, it is also a great episode to showcase your chanel. It has everything: A great story, colonization, a mega structute, discusion of ship propulsion, extended lifespan, life aboard a ship, discusion of alien life, uploded minds and interplanetary trade. Somehow it manages this in 30 minutea without feeling rushed!
I'm totally not borrowing it for my sci-fi work... Not at all. Not one bit. Though considering how little my current work focuses on the solar system, I'll probably save this for a different story.
@@wilowhisp If the film adaptations are done right. And then no bad changes or unbelievable changes happen. Then probably will watch them. A book series though does not sound bad. Definitely, might read them.
"Face are not real." ** "We still have no idea what motivated the ancient Plutonians to forge the gigantic "Smyle Fazes" unto the surfaces of their world and the Moon, but apparently it correlates to an ancient prophecy regarding their founding ..."
Omg, this was just 28 minutes? It felt like an entire chapter of a book. I literally lied down and got absorbed by the little story you told at the end. The world building, the way it was told, the images that accompanied it, it was just a magical experience. Please if you ever feel like it and have the time, make a sci novel or 2 lol. I would buy in a heartbeat!
You know what I want to seriously commend the art team, the river Achron is amazing. Also should we call the unifying stories illustrating the concepts the Arthurverse?
I came here for an ordinary discussion of Pluto. Came away with tears and inspiration. Carried on an unexpected current of worldbuilding and imagination. It's so precious. I can't thank you enough.
Teacher: OK kids, Pluto is now a planet again. Kids: Yeah! We love Pluto! Teacher: Unfortunately, this means that hundreds of other objects are now planets too. Your next test is going to be a killer. Kids: OMG. You suck, Pluto.
Yep. This is the very reason I think it called a Dwarf Planet. I still view Dwarf Planets as planets. Just a specific subcatagory of planet. But I am pretty happy that I did not have to memorize all of them. Even if I know a lot of them.
@@Cythil Technically, planets, dwarf planets, rogue planets, and round moons are all types of planemos, but dwarf planets or rogue planets are not planets, because of historical naming schemes. It's generally easier to not mess with terminology more than you need to.
@@alexandruianu8432 Well historically all moving object in the sky are planets. Yep this include the Sun and Moon to. But this did not really make much sense as a definition when we started to understand how the solar system really worked. Both the Sun and the Moon where clearly different from the other wandering objects on the sky. And later we found out that those fixed starts we see in the sky also move. Just very slowly. It is like Arthur said. We came out with classifications that made sort of sense at the time. But as we learn more these classifications become problematic. If you in antiquity and just looking up on the sky it make sense to order thing base of if they move around or if they seemed fixed to a sky dome as that is what it looks like.
Another less liked comment: Solar panels thinner than paper, will be useful on pluto: www.spacefuture.com/archive/early_commercial_demonstration_of_space_solar_power_using_ultra_lightweight_arrays.shtml
So many high budget 'Sci-Fi' films lack quality world building like this. Often the visuals are nifty but the science is drenched in cliche and 'rule of cool' space magic, rather than the properly realized concept like this Pluto/Charon structure. Even something as silly as 'The Wandering Earth', won some points from me, because at least they were trying to play with an interesting premise, rather than a tired trope. Hollywood writers could desperately stand to familiarize themselves with a fresh set of futuristic ideas to furnish their visions, rather than producing garbage like 'Ad Astra.'
@@alisaiterkan Ad Astra was a lazy bit of work. It was a star vehicle with a father/son story core with a 'First Man' style look to it. The world building was terrible - not remotely of the quality Isaac Arthur wove into his travel narrative in this Pluto/Charon vision.
In one of Scott Manley's recent videos in which he talked about the fact that someone named an asteroid after him he mentioned that some of the pending names for approval were Skywalker and Galefrey.
In plant genetics there are genes called Yoda, as well as Clark Kent and Lex Luthor: Yoda got its name from the form of the plant embryo after a mutation in that gene -> Yoda's ear And Lex Luthor codes for the antagonist of the Clark Kent protein... obviously 😅
Issac, this one is beautiful. You make that river sound something like Treasure Planet, but with gothic/mythological overtones :-) Also the giant, unmoving moon of Charon is something I would definately love to see
It's one of the better ones lately, but it's defiantly not on a level above the classics. Such as: Infinite Improbability Issues Tips from Kardashev 2 Engineers Dead Aliens Colonizing Mars Black Hole Farming Life In A Space Colony ep.2@ ep.3 The Simulation Hypothesis Conciseness And Identity Orbital Rings
Scientific videos on youtube are marvellous. Scientific videos concerning space exploration, rocket technology are amazing. But your channel... it is a true gem. You are bringing it all to the new level. Discussing and deeply analyzing topics, that others would not even mention about. With every single video I'm amazed how come It has already ended, while I just started watching it a minute ago... oops :) Congratulations and thanks for the most interesting channel on the whole youtube! I wish I had some more time to prepare Polish translations for your videos so that younger ones here could also get enriched with your output...
@@mill2712 a tether between the planets to connect each other to facilitate travel and interlink their economies, or cute faces facing each other, hmm...
Again I am tempted to use the general excuse fiction outline for your scenerios as framework to write things with. Today is a good day. Thank you for posting.
Listening to this commentary I hear a slight speech impediment but I actually like the way it sounds better than normal speech. The video was bar none awesome but what made it better than any other ever were the smiley faces on Charon and Pluto. Funny and makes a good point as to what tidal locking is and shows how the rotation is around a gravitational center that is not inside Pluto. Fantastic video all around and a great start to my day! Highly recommended.
Awesome video and love the visuals and animation. You bring world building to life in a practical and enjoyable way. Makes the solar system an incredible place to live.
I like the dwarf star-like planets that orbit in the arbitrary zone between planet orbitals that only has other dwarf star-like planets despite the fact that we already claimed that it's between planet orbitals already and thus cannot contain other planets :D
There have been well over 100 billion people on our planet, and there are only 365 days in a year. (366 next year.) I'd be more surprised if it _wasn't_ anyone's birthday.
It's always a good day, when you get the notification about a new Isaac Arthur video, one of THE best and most enjoyable ways to escape this crazy world for a wee while! I think this calls for a Isaac Arthur marathon this weekend! Keep up the good, no....the phenomenal, work my friend! 👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻😎
17:45 I have to ask, are there really craters named Spock, Kirk, Ripley and Kubrick on Pluto? Astronomers are nerds and sci fi fans so it's not completely ridiculous. If so that is going to make for some interesting future speculation about our religious beliefs. And if not, then maybe just not yet. ;-) Great episode :-)
This episode seems like it could be a pitch for a space trading game. Create your captain and freighter and travel around the outer solar system trading goods, stopping at the various colonies and meeting with potential clients to negotiate prices to buy and sell cargo.
I love pluto. I always have. Ever since I did a report on it back in grade school and saw it as the underdog of the solar system. Now we know it's cute and has several moons and is a binary planet, it just gets cooler and cooler in my eyes.
I believe Isaac has addressed Interstellar comms before several times in passing, but I don’t believe he’s ever dedicated an episode solely to the topic. General gist from what I can tell is giant lasers. For established links, the lasers would be best as part of a repeater relay system to minimize data loss, probably built alongside or as an alternate use of the giant push laser relays for fast interstellar highways. For frontiers, a single very large laser and even larger receiver dish (since they can’t exactly correct the angle quickly with lightyears between transmitter and receiver, the receiver will have to be able to “catch” it wherever it’s pointing). Unfortunately, while this can send tremendous amounts of data, without a clarketech FTL communicator system interstellar communications will always have years-long transmission delays, and as such will never be useful for casual phone/text/IM conversation or video games, relegating it to major “pay-data” that will be useful even with that delay and the target system is willing to trade for, like scientific discoveries, news, updates to the encyclopedia galactica, and major works of art, or longer-form communications like snail-mail letters or video/audio messages of similar length and importance. Isaac hasn’t talked *as* much on intrastellar/interplanetary, but a laser-based tightbeam network is still the way to go unless and until we figure out a way to break our current understanding of physics. With a communication timescale of between minutes and weeks, it could be made to work much more like the internet we know and love (though some protocol changes need to happen to account for delays and service interruptions), you just probably would care a lot more about whether the site in question has a local server, biasing you towards local sites and sites big enough to have server farms everywhere-and ruling out action titles where lag matters as possible system-wide MMOs, though instancing & matchmaking systems heavily biased towards local players could hide a lot of that.
I knew tidally locked bodies always showed each other the same face, but I didn't know that in the case of Pluto & Charon it was a smiley face. That's so nice!
@@7lllll I agree. I think people use the term Planet as a static term. I don't think a lot of people realize that they come in all different shapes sizes and types. When I'm more excited for is in the future will we actually have more distinct classifications for planets. I do like how some sci-fi either channels or books or games that have extensive categories for all the different types of planets based off of their terrain and chemical makeup
Just discovered your channel and I am hooked! The only other guy that talks about space is nothing but speculation of what event will cause the end of the world. Interesting, but you get sick of it eventually. Great video and keep up the AWESOME work!
At 01:14, I think the caption should say "they'd" instead of "they've" because it's a past tense thing? (I might be completely wrong on that one though) Great episode with some awesome graphics. I think for a few transitions between the Pluto Orbit bit and the River Acheron habitat, there was a slight visual bug where you could see the other one for a split-second, like at 8:25 in the video. That Mordor joke got me chuckling. Would've been even funnier if the ship was called an "Imperial Eagle" or something like that. Maybe people use cybernetics/genetic modifications -- or just, y'know, improved costuming materials over the last 700 years -- to cosplay as orcs, with self-sharpening blades to boot, and trying to mimic their Black Speech. And if you can't quote the all of (six?) lines of dialogues the Orcs and Uruk Hai have verbatim, you can't join their Sauron club. I know it's been mentioned a bunch of times, but the music for these episodes are fantastic, as is the inclusion of various Stellaris songs. Your narration is very well-done, both in the scriptwriting, and the audio quality itself. I could fall asleep to it, so maybe you could try narrating audiobooks?
That bridge colony would certainly be something to behold. And I thought the chandelier cities of Neptune were an absolutely beautiful concept to ponder at.
Gotta watch this one later my brutha. Think of how we can create a program that when hackers try to steal from you they incur ones debts instead. Hmmmh
Awe inspiring as always! I admire the ease with which you flesh out these mega-engineering scenarios with truly human flavor, using character and story to bring all that **S** **P** **A** **C** **E** down to earth for all of us....
The memory of my hive-mind assimilator society jumped into my brain as soon as "Faster than light" began to play. Nice episode. Thanks for the work you put in on them.
Already subbed some time ago, but love how you're using place names from everything beginning with Greek[and not just Roman] mythology to popular culture.
I never thought I’d say it, but Star Trek’s universe looks so pitifully small compared to the concepts Isaac addresses in detail.. and most of the time Isaac doesn’t even need to leave the solar system.
I think of Pluto as the New Zealand of the Solar System - a fun little place at the edge of everything that everybody likes
There are also a lot of other objects with overlapping orbits, including Haumea, which is also pretty cool. It's possible that none of the other places are as cool as Pluto and Haumea, though, unless you mean literally, though we can't really know until we see them up close.
It’s probably bigger than that
Pluto: **squeals of happiness ‘cause it’s finally achieved the love it deserves**
and sometimes they forget to place on the maps
It will probably be the penal colony of the system then
Absolutely love the colony connecting Pluto and Charon, that scene looks amazing.
www.artstation.com/artwork/v1xZqE
My wife thought this was so cool and she usually just gets annoyed at my spacey banter
I'm not sure about the deep cone city though, considering that there's quite possibly a single, huge liquid water ocean deep - but not that deep - beneath Pluto's surface.
Given that Pluto and Charon are tidally locked to each other, have low gravity and are close together, a space bridge between them would be a no brainer!
Agreed. That artist did an amazing job. @Petrino, thanks for the link to his work!
18:06 When I heard you say that, the first thought that popped into my head was "How is that a mega-engineering project, exactly?". Then I realsied that it's a 20,000km long habitat, and that is actually pretty big. Issac, I think your videos may have skewed my views on what constitutes mega-engineering.
This is probably your best episodes, it is also a great episode to showcase your chanel.
It has everything: A great story, colonization, a mega structute, discusion of ship propulsion, extended lifespan, life aboard a ship, discusion of alien life, uploded minds and interplanetary trade.
Somehow it manages this in 30 minutea without feeling rushed!
it went by so fast i want more XD loved it
I am taking notes!
The world building in this episode is absolutely stunning. 10/10
I'm totally not borrowing it for my sci-fi work... Not at all. Not one bit.
Though considering how little my current work focuses on the solar system, I'll probably save this for a different story.
Isaac needs to write a sci-fi novel asap.
@@kaiservilhelm7731I second that motion. I'd be on board for a book series and I'd show up for all the film adaptations.
@@wilowhisp If the film adaptations are done right. And then no bad changes or unbelievable changes happen. Then probably will watch them. A book series though does not sound bad. Definitely, might read them.
@@BoisegangGaming me neither buddy, me neither
"Face are not real."
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"We still have no idea what motivated the ancient Plutonians to forge the gigantic "Smyle Fazes" unto the surfaces of their world and the Moon, but apparently it correlates to an ancient prophecy regarding their founding ..."
Legends say that the Cult of the Arthur built them here.
LOL!
@@rojaws1183 LMAO!
Love how you worked “the captain will not simply walk into Mordor” into the script - and delivered it deadpan. 😂
Credit should go to people in the jet propulsion laboratory who decided to name the region Mordor.
stefan r JPL set it up, Isaac knocked it down. Collaboration!
Yeah that line was absolute gold :D
@@stefanr8232nerds be nerdy
Omg, this was just 28 minutes? It felt like an entire chapter of a book. I literally lied down and got absorbed by the little story you told at the end. The world building, the way it was told, the images that accompanied it, it was just a magical experience. Please if you ever feel like it and have the time, make a sci novel or 2 lol. I would buy in a heartbeat!
You know what I want to seriously commend the art team, the river Achron is amazing. Also should we call the unifying stories illustrating the concepts the Arthurverse?
I came here for an ordinary discussion of Pluto. Came away with tears and inspiration. Carried on an unexpected current of worldbuilding and imagination. It's so precious. I can't thank you enough.
Soooo....
Will there be a Flat Pluto society then?
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I'm sorry, I couldn't resist :-)
What about habitats then? It's either everything is flat, or nothing is flat. PS No Isabel for you, Raelag
Yes, probably, as there's no bottom to human stupidity. Though I'd expect colony worlds to develop Earth-origin deniers.
If not I’m going to make it
“Pluto is flat!”
“HAVE YOU EVER GONE ANYWHERE IN SPACE TRAVEL?!”
"Yeah but the Earth isn't?"
"We know that because we've observed that the Earth isn't flat. Pluto though?"
I love the videos where you give us a story the most. This one was fantastic.
Has anyone tried asking Pluto itself what it is, instead of assuming its planetary status?
Yes. It gave me the cold shoulder.
I'm sure the Plutonians think of their world as a planet.
Teacher: OK kids, Pluto is now a planet again.
Kids: Yeah! We love Pluto!
Teacher: Unfortunately, this means that hundreds of other objects are now planets too. Your next test is going to be a killer.
Kids: OMG. You suck, Pluto.
Said no one.
Yep. This is the very reason I think it called a Dwarf Planet. I still view Dwarf Planets as planets. Just a specific subcatagory of planet. But I am pretty happy that I did not have to memorize all of them. Even if I know a lot of them.
@@Cythil Technically, planets, dwarf planets, rogue planets, and round moons are all types of planemos, but dwarf planets or rogue planets are not planets, because of historical naming schemes. It's generally easier to not mess with terminology more than you need to.
@@alexandruianu8432 Well historically all moving object in the sky are planets. Yep this include the Sun and Moon to. But this did not really make much sense as a definition when we started to understand how the solar system really worked. Both the Sun and the Moon where clearly different from the other wandering objects on the sky. And later we found out that those fixed starts we see in the sky also move. Just very slowly.
It is like Arthur said. We came out with classifications that made sort of sense at the time. But as we learn more these classifications become problematic. If you in antiquity and just looking up on the sky it make sense to order thing base of if they move around or if they seemed fixed to a sky dome as that is what it looks like.
@@Cythil only the objects moving in epicycles are planets
"the captain will not simply walk into mordor"
oh U
To quote Ian Malcolm "you did it, you crazy son of a bitch, you did it"
His jokes are simply Mordor, aren't they? lol
@@jasontoddman7265 "if you love your planet, put a ring on it"
THE ONE RING TO RULE THEM ALL
@@jetflaque8187 One tether to connect them both and in the darkness unite them
. In the Land of the Kuiper Belt where the Shadows lie.
+Jet flaque - ROFL
4:42 "Faces are not real"
You lost me xD
But the love is real
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Solar panels thinner than paper, will be useful on pluto:
www.spacefuture.com/archive/early_commercial_demonstration_of_space_solar_power_using_ultra_lightweight_arrays.shtml
@Joe Average they also kinda look like a middle school/highschool students what with all the craters and hills/mountains.
I was JUST about to write that in a comment and then I saw yours!
SOMEWHERE IN THIS VAST UNIVERSE, THERE IS A PLANET WITH A FACE.....
5:00
Isaac: (distance not to scale) (faces are not real)
Viewers: awwwwww :(
SOMEWHERE IN THIS VAST UNIVERSE, THERE IS A PLANET WITH A FACE.....
I enjoyed this immensely. It's much better than so many high-budget sci-fi movies. Thank you.
True, so true. And the science is right.
Hes secretly sinking millions of trillions into this channel
So many high budget 'Sci-Fi' films lack quality world building like this.
Often the visuals are nifty but the science is drenched in cliche and 'rule of cool' space magic, rather than the properly realized concept like this Pluto/Charon structure.
Even something as silly as 'The Wandering Earth', won some points from me, because at least they were trying to play with an interesting premise, rather than a tired trope.
Hollywood writers could desperately stand to familiarize themselves with a fresh set of futuristic ideas to furnish their visions, rather than producing garbage like 'Ad Astra.'
@@jasonp.1195 After watching 'Ad Astra', I wasn't just disappointed, I was actually sad. _This_ is the most they could do, with all their budget?
@@alisaiterkan Ad Astra was a lazy bit of work. It was a star vehicle with a father/son story core with a 'First Man' style look to it. The world building was terrible - not remotely of the quality Isaac Arthur wove into his travel narrative in this Pluto/Charon vision.
Isaac Arthur. The only Science communicator who can call Pluto a Planet.. and get away with it
It is, it's a dwarf planet
@@ENCHANTMEN_ BLASPHEMY!
Get away with it? Only on petty human time scales...
He just got through explaining that a dwarf planet is still a planet, like how all squares are rectangles but not all... yeah, never mind.
@@austin4855 In the quite words of Heath Ledgers joker....
Those are absolutely amazing graphics for the "river" between Pluto and Charon. Hats of to the artist.
Everyone: Is Pluto a planet or and dwarf planet
Isaac: Let's talk about colonize Pluto
maybe start learning English before going to space ?
@@xl000 Why? For all we know, English could be a dead language by the time we're colonizing Pluto.
Delete self
@@kevincrady2831 POOp
@@kevincrady2831 stinki butt
It’s funny how this comes at a time when Pluto is making news about new evidence for subsurface oceans. Great work, Isaac & team!
Had to take a screen capture of the Pluto-Charon Colony for my desktop - great stuff Isaac!
It's good that you tuned down the speed a bit. It makes it easier to follow the narration.
When you let scientists name things...you get really awesome overly complicated or straight nerdy names xD gotta love it
In one of Scott Manley's recent videos in which he talked about the fact that someone named an asteroid after him he mentioned that some of the pending names for approval were Skywalker and Galefrey.
Was there a doctor who had to tell some parents their kid's illness was caused by the pikachu gene or something like that.
@@smith22041 The Sonic Hedgehog gene is what you're thinking of ;)
Beats celebrities naming their kids, defo
In plant genetics there are genes called Yoda, as well as Clark Kent and Lex Luthor:
Yoda got its name from the form of the plant embryo after a mutation in that gene -> Yoda's ear
And Lex Luthor codes for the antagonist of the Clark Kent protein... obviously 😅
“The captain will not simply walk into Mordor”! Wonderful. And the Macula, which of course is part of the Eye...I love it.
Oh man the Mordor reference had me DECEASED!!! GOOD SHOW! EXCELLENT! FIVE STARS BRO!
Issac, this one is beautiful. You make that river sound something like Treasure Planet, but with gothic/mythological overtones :-)
Also the giant, unmoving moon of Charon is something I would definately love to see
The animation for Acheron is just...stunning. I love the design of the structure.
I gotta say, I love all these hellscape/underworld themed names.
this is by far the best episode of SFIA yet! Well done to everyone involved!
there's no such thing as "the best" SFIA episode
Certainly one of the best. Excited for the future of these episodes!
It's one of the better ones lately, but it's defiantly not on a level above the classics.
Such as:
Infinite Improbability Issues
Tips from Kardashev 2 Engineers
Dead Aliens
Colonizing Mars
Black Hole Farming
Life In A Space Colony ep.2@ ep.3
The Simulation Hypothesis
Conciseness And Identity
Orbital Rings
@@mikezeitgeist2 You skipped my favorite "The Kardashev Scale" - which finally made me see the scale of a K2 and what they could do
Happy Arthursday fellow travellers.
And a happy Arthursday to you good sir!
meaning
You should write a Modern COWBOY BE-BOP!!!
He could definitely do good work as an advisor for sci fi films/series making sure concepts are believable and technically sound.
you really should brother!
I thought that too, that he would make an excellent Sci-fi writer.
COWBOY MMMBOP
He basically just read the screenplay of an episode :D
Thanks again for another awesome video Issac.
Scientific videos on youtube are marvellous.
Scientific videos concerning space exploration, rocket technology are amazing.
But your channel... it is a true gem. You are bringing it all to the new level. Discussing and deeply analyzing topics, that others would not even mention about.
With every single video I'm amazed how come It has already ended, while I just started watching it a minute ago... oops :)
Congratulations and thanks for the most interesting channel on the whole youtube!
I wish I had some more time to prepare Polish translations for your videos so that younger ones here could also get enriched with your output...
Ah! Feezing atmosphere snowfall! The perfect plutonic wheater to watch some Isaac Arthur :)
Where the hell are you, you lucky bastard? It's blazingly hot in Poland. 30 degrees in shade and I'm sweating like a pig right now.
Wow, as someone who watched all of your videos im blown away how good your animations are nowadays. great vid as usual
"Faces are not real..." ohhh thats s bummer thought 🤣🤣😉...
Great video...like all you make , love your channel !!
Well done !!
Unless someone has the bright idea to build faces there.
@@mill2712 a tether between the planets to connect each other to facilitate travel and interlink their economies, or cute faces facing each other, hmm...
They are not real yet. After this video I'm sure it's just a matter of time.
8:04
Oh yesssssss......
That is the best wallpaper ever!!!!
Again I am tempted to use the general excuse fiction outline for your scenerios as framework to write things with.
Today is a good day. Thank you for posting.
Listening to this commentary I hear a slight speech impediment but I actually like the way it sounds better than normal speech. The video was bar none awesome but what made it better than any other ever were the smiley faces on Charon and Pluto. Funny and makes a good point as to what tidal locking is and shows how the rotation is around a gravitational center that is not inside Pluto. Fantastic video all around and a great start to my day! Highly recommended.
Awesome video and love the visuals and animation. You bring world building to life in a practical and enjoyable way. Makes the solar system an incredible place to live.
(Distance not to scale)
(faces are not real)
Good I was worried.
SOMEWHERE IN THIS VAST UNIVERSE, THERE IS A PLANET WITH A FACE.....
But I see faces everywhere.
I love how you are contextualizing the content from older episodes on the end in these more narrative episodes
I didn't expect much from Pluto, but this is amazing. Imagine all those death-related puns and mythology references.
I like the dwarf star-like planets that orbit in the arbitrary zone between planet orbitals that only has other dwarf star-like planets despite the fact that we already claimed that it's between planet orbitals already and thus cannot contain other planets :D
ok at the 5:00 mark I read the caption "faces not real" and I lost it. that made my day.
Issac is in the pocket of big Pluto, those faces are as real, as the one on Mars!
I love this sort of episode where you tell a story to convey the message :-)
It’s always some ones birthday when he’s video comes out
There have been well over 100 billion people on our planet, and there are only 365 days in a year. (366 next year.) I'd be more surprised if it _wasn't_ anyone's birthday.
Timothy McLean
Let me reframe people won’t stop saying it’s there birthday in he’s comment section
@16:36 "Vader Crater", "Skywalker Crater", "(Leia) Organa Crater", "Spock Crater", "Tardis Chasma", "Gallifrey Macula" etc
lol reference galore.
new favorit picture of planets Pluto and Charon smiling at each other
The opening music alway give me goosebumps...
It's always a good day, when you get the notification about a new Isaac Arthur video, one of THE best and most enjoyable ways to escape this crazy world for a wee while!
I think this calls for a Isaac Arthur marathon this weekend!
Keep up the good, no....the phenomenal, work my friend! 👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻😎
17:45 I have to ask, are there really craters named Spock, Kirk, Ripley and Kubrick on Pluto? Astronomers are nerds and sci fi fans so it's not completely ridiculous.
If so that is going to make for some interesting future speculation about our religious beliefs.
And if not, then maybe just not yet. ;-)
Great episode :-)
This episode seems like it could be a pitch for a space trading game. Create your captain and freighter and travel around the outer solar system trading goods, stopping at the various colonies and meeting with potential clients to negotiate prices to buy and sell cargo.
I love pluto. I always have. Ever since I did a report on it back in grade school and saw it as the underdog of the solar system. Now we know it's cute and has several moons and is a binary planet, it just gets cooler and cooler in my eyes.
Great video I never thought about colonizing space like this, enjoying my Sunday watching your content.
This is so good but can you do ways of interstellar communication next
Smoker I’ve has talked about it in several episodes.
I believe Isaac has addressed Interstellar comms before several times in passing, but I don’t believe he’s ever dedicated an episode solely to the topic. General gist from what I can tell is giant lasers. For established links, the lasers would be best as part of a repeater relay system to minimize data loss, probably built alongside or as an alternate use of the giant push laser relays for fast interstellar highways. For frontiers, a single very large laser and even larger receiver dish (since they can’t exactly correct the angle quickly with lightyears between transmitter and receiver, the receiver will have to be able to “catch” it wherever it’s pointing). Unfortunately, while this can send tremendous amounts of data, without a clarketech FTL communicator system interstellar communications will always have years-long transmission delays, and as such will never be useful for casual phone/text/IM conversation or video games, relegating it to major “pay-data” that will be useful even with that delay and the target system is willing to trade for, like scientific discoveries, news, updates to the encyclopedia galactica, and major works of art, or longer-form communications like snail-mail letters or video/audio messages of similar length and importance.
Isaac hasn’t talked *as* much on intrastellar/interplanetary, but a laser-based tightbeam network is still the way to go unless and until we figure out a way to break our current understanding of physics. With a communication timescale of between minutes and weeks, it could be made to work much more like the internet we know and love (though some protocol changes need to happen to account for delays and service interruptions), you just probably would care a lot more about whether the site in question has a local server, biasing you towards local sites and sites big enough to have server farms everywhere-and ruling out action titles where lag matters as possible system-wide MMOs, though instancing & matchmaking systems heavily biased towards local players could hide a lot of that.
IONATVS really? What did he said?
I love when the video follows a character on a journey, it's why Colonizing Ceres is my favorite video on youtube. Now this is neck 'n' neck with it.
I stopped watching porn for this, and as always it was worth it
even this channel is hard to choose from RedTube vs Isaac Author
This has been been one of my favorite videos of yours thank you!
The fact that there are regions in our solar system named Mordor and Cthulhu makes me happy
I''m obsessed with this episode.
I knew tidally locked bodies always showed each other the same face, but I didn't know that in the case of Pluto & Charon it was a smiley face. That's so nice!
Thank you Issac. Just because something is a "dwarf" or "giant" doesn't mean it's not a planet
yeah, people should stop saying pluto is "not a planet," dwarf planets are a subcategory of planets
@@7lllll I agree. I think people use the term Planet as a static term. I don't think a lot of people realize that they come in all different shapes sizes and types. When I'm more excited for is in the future will we actually have more distinct classifications for planets. I do like how some sci-fi either channels or books or games that have extensive categories for all the different types of planets based off of their terrain and chemical makeup
Just discovered your channel and I am hooked! The only other guy that talks about space is nothing but speculation of what event will cause the end of the world. Interesting, but you get sick of it eventually. Great video and keep up the AWESOME work!
Thursday already??? YEAH BABY
"One can not simply walk into Mordor" brilliant
At 01:14, I think the caption should say "they'd" instead of "they've" because it's a past tense thing? (I might be completely wrong on that one though)
Great episode with some awesome graphics. I think for a few transitions between the Pluto Orbit bit and the River Acheron habitat, there was a slight visual bug where you could see the other one for a split-second, like at 8:25 in the video.
That Mordor joke got me chuckling. Would've been even funnier if the ship was called an "Imperial Eagle" or something like that. Maybe people use cybernetics/genetic modifications -- or just, y'know, improved costuming materials over the last 700 years -- to cosplay as orcs, with self-sharpening blades to boot, and trying to mimic their Black Speech. And if you can't quote the all of (six?) lines of dialogues the Orcs and Uruk Hai have verbatim, you can't join their Sauron club.
I know it's been mentioned a bunch of times, but the music for these episodes are fantastic, as is the inclusion of various Stellaris songs. Your narration is very well-done, both in the scriptwriting, and the audio quality itself. I could fall asleep to it, so maybe you could try narrating audiobooks?
It must be my memories of Blackadder that make me want to hear Brian Blessed bellow "Sedna!".
One of the best videos! Visuals and narration are so awesome and funny :D
Sailor Pluto lives Arthur! Hopefully you see this! Lol
This channel is amazing. Only been subbed for a short while but it's already my favorite.
That bridge colony would certainly be something to behold. And I thought the chandelier cities of Neptune were an absolutely beautiful concept to ponder at.
Gotta watch this one later my brutha. Think of how we can create a program that when hackers try to steal from you they incur ones debts instead. Hmmmh
Awe inspiring as always! I admire the ease with which you flesh out these mega-engineering scenarios with truly human flavor, using character and story to bring all that **S** **P** **A** **C** **E** down to earth for all of us....
8:04 absolutely majestic, my new wallpaper. forever reminding me that i won't ever see it...
Hmm. Offering high quality wallpapers for a few bucks might be a good revenue stream.
Very fascinating concept, connecting Pluto and Charon !
That massive space bridge between Pluto and charon was awsome in the literal sence of the world
The Stellaris music in this really adds to the immersion.
it's crazy to think of pluto and charon as some ready made planetary scale space habitat. thank you for the video.
The shot at 13:53 ish is really awesome another cool episode Isaac I love how you add a narrative to the concepts.
FINALLY UPDATED YOUR TVDB AGAIN!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!
The worst part about Pluto being colonized will be the, "oh, you think you know cold, huh?!" people from Tartarus.
Arthur has become a kind of hero to me. What an inspiration this man is.
The memory of my hive-mind assimilator society jumped into my brain as soon as "Faster than light" began to play.
Nice episode. Thanks for the work you put in on them.
My favorite channel. Thank you sir!
(Faces are not real)
I love that this launches with a "chill out about the dwarf planet thing, people"
heh.
Isaac, make a mistake now and then, just to prove you are human.
Modern chat bots are capable of making mistakes to cheat the Turing test. Just saying.
i think there was a mistake at one of the charts shown in the iron stars episode
Nobody perfect even waifu lol
Already subbed some time ago, but love how you're using place names from everything beginning with Greek[and not just Roman] mythology to popular culture.
A happy Arthursday, as always.
This actually gave me some hope for the future.Fantastic world building.
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What a sad and pathetic life you must lead. You have my sympathy.
I never thought I’d say it, but Star Trek’s universe looks so pitifully small compared to the concepts Isaac addresses in detail.. and most of the time Isaac doesn’t even need to leave the solar system.
Love the graphics and story format for explaining the science. Awesome.
New favourite episode, great work!
This is one of my absolute favorite long format channels.
Awesome!!
Love the narrative style!