Hi Isaac, thanks for videos. Can you surmise our civilization alternate course or an alien civ on a planet without coal, oil & gas? (Would it be from charcoal to nuclear or solar?, maybe we needed millions of years of dead things in order to get the energy step to a future great filter advancement?)
@@Brian67588 Probably not, remember we had ethanol and wood long before we were pumping oil up, it's handy but it like steel, it's better to have a hammer made out of it and nails made out of it, but you can use iron or something else if you need to, so houses still get built. We also discovered the basic pholtovoltaic effect before veroyne had cars everywhere, and batteries, so we probably would have just take n a different course to get to a more solar economy, maybe longer, maybe shorter, but you get there fairly quickly in galactic terms
Thanks very much for reply, I suppose ethanol could have been enough to fill any gaps in the 20th century progression. We might have been better off now actually, lol.
Your raycon insert made it past my ad-skipper, and though honestly I thought AirPod Pro 2's though nice although far too immature, and at the moment I was considering going back to the last generation of wired ANC Bose since I owned half a dozen of their older MIE2i earphones and you could fall asleep wearing them, wake up, and not notice you were wearing them until you looked in a mirror. I'm not sure the latest generation of any bluetooth earbuds are nearly that comfortable, stable, or small and light-weight enough yet, but hearing more than 8 hours sounds like they're at least improving...
I come across poetry all the time, accidental poetry can be more beautiful than intentional poetry. Well, Isaac Arthur's "until their badly programed, patchworked, mutated coding drives them into non-functional states of psychosis" is, in my opinion, beautifully evocative. Incredible.
Isaac is such a wonderful writer and narrator. I have been enjoying his content for many years (starting back when he had less than 100K subscribers). I'm looking forward to when he crosses the 1 million subscriber mark!
I have to say this seems like one of the darker more pessimistic episodes of SFIA in some parts. It's not a bad thing, its a fascinating thought experiment. One of the amazing aspects of SFIA is how we are always presented with different viewpoints and ways of looking at the future. I find it great that Isaac is an optimist and yet still presents the idea that things may not be all cheers and glorious adventure. The balance is really fantastic!
A lot of concepts listed here are also applicable to Civilizations in the Great Void - life arising from lone stars ejected from galaxies and could be 100,000 light years away from its neighboring star or more.
Strange to hear you anything approaching pessimistic, Isaac. Strange but refreshing. The episode was beautifully worded and performed and I really felt stirred by the potential nobility of intelligence facing the inevitable end. Thank you!
Ah, the pleasure of Thursday morning! The last sunset would be quite a thing to see together with Isaac Arthur, as two uploaded entities running on computronium powered by our individual black holes, visiting each other in virtch, perhaps at the restaurant at the end of the universe.
I have watched every single one of your episodes on TH-cam for the last 6 years. For some reason the first few minutes of this video sounded like beautiful and terrifying poetry. Wonderful job on the scriptwriting for this one sir. A giant amongst Giants.
Haven't watched every single one. Some just not that interesting to me, for example on future of warfare, use of robots in combat, etc. On the other hand, some of my favorite episodes i watched more than a dozen times and will continue to rewatch again.
I agree, beatiful writing and storytelling in this one. Galactic melancholy. It sticks to the conceit of limited powers across all civilizations to maintain a tone of moody decay, the decline and fall (or fade) of all civilizations. But interestingly, piling it on only increases the feeling that life will find more ways to live long and prosper than we can imagine. And even if not, as Isaac reminds us, few trillion years is a pretty good run. Let's just get through this century first!
This has truly become my favorite channel, and a great source of inspiration, and comfort during my writings. Nearly nine years worth of content for me to scout through for countless concepts to wrap my brain around. Thank you Isaac Arthur.
I can imagine the summary for this episode. “Opening, 30 minutes of making everyone damned grateful I’m an optimist”. And grateful I truly am in these trying times.
@@cosmictreason2242Its subreddit with sf stiries. "Humanity fuck yea!" Story he propably mean is "why humans avoid war", wher galaxy is filled with bunch of silly allien civilisations, and humanity is one off the weakest in their eyes, but have some tricks under their sleves
Another brilliant episode! I know this is essentially an optimistic vision, but I can't help but get a lovecraftian vibe ... The last living(existing?), godlike beings in the unimaginable vast darkness of an universe forgetting what it once had been ... but hey, with strange aeons even death may die.
My fault, I couldn't resist putting it in there, I'm a optimist but enjoy cosmic horror and dystopian fiction, so it's worked in a lot to our topic today as it felt theme-appropriate :)
@@N3ur0m4nc3r it's the result of ignorance. When humans organize their society in a way that erases their natural habitat due to pollution and depleption of limited resources. You can ignore natures laws, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring them.
I really wish I get to see this... Anyway I have a strong feeling that life extension will be within my lifetime, I really wish I could show my own parents and grandparents the wonders of the future They're still alive, don't get me wrong, but everytime I see them getting older, it kinda makes me feel sad, I just wanna see them healthy again...
no one's settling the new planets because there's always someone is closer and more willing to fight for it, sounds just like the reason people say no one drives in nyc: too much traffic
I honestly think that there are likely multiple universes out there and escaping this one won't be an issue to a species that's been around for trillions of years. Or maybe with that level of science they'll simply make universes to suit them.
Until the last paragraph of positivity (which nearly moved me to tears being so beautiful) I thought you where writing this episodes script from the waiting line at the DMV lol. So gloom, soon doom. It made the optimistic turnaround at the end so much more impactful.
thank you for yet another interesting episode. but now i have to conquer the "great depression", born from these visions of such a grim and dark future . and the darkest and maybe even saddest part of it is the always looming realisation that we will never be able to see any kind of such a far away future. but even this "dpressing" dark story is part of one of my most favorite series on your YT-Channel: episodes about a far distant future and the possibilities in it. visions and possibilities most of us might never even dreamt of.
Charles Stross portrays interstellar colonization as a pyramid scheme where each planet founds new colonies in order to pay off the loan they took out. "Neptune's Brood"
I love listening to Isaac, I'm not sure whether his speech has gotten better or I just don't notice it any more, but I think its probably why he spends so much time choosing his language so deftly, hope he doesn't get hung up on it, he's one the very few people on here who hasn't dripped into awful clickbait and nefarious adverts. The guy has my upmost respect.
This is beautiful. Science, sci-fi and poetry and wrapped together with amazing art. I found this out of the blue and was spellbound from moment one. You have a new subscriber!
Incidentally, turning colonists into a different species is going to be a very slow process, much slower then the timescale of interstellar travel. The average time to fix a new mutation by drift is 4Nt on average where N is population size and t is generation time. Several mutations are needed for a proper speciation and assuming the colony's population is a billion it might take even 300 billion years for that. If there are megastructures in the system instead of a planet and there is some population flow among the space habitats the time of a colony to stop being human can become trillions of years and higher. The only reason humans could noticeably evolve was because they were hunter gatherers with very small population.
@@seanhewitt603 chances are there would only ever be an impetus to be more than human not less. Also doesn't get much more human than the exploratory/pioneer spirit. To not venture forth would be about the least human thing we could do
"...but I'm betting that if it looks human, it's mostly a conceit of the oldest surviving post-humans who might still be kicking around at that point." Made me think of the Asimov short story Eyes Do More Than See. (Which I really like.) Thanks for this episode. I found it a very interesting new angle. And yes, I do particularly enjoy your "story" episodes.
What a beautiful episode! This series has instilling the believe in me that Starlifting tech will bring a long life to the Earth as we train our sun to last trillions and trillions of years. Maybe enough time to discover other universe or reverse entropy or see a universe dying with dignity.
I'm beginning to discover that I am a unique creature that dwells on the surface of a spherical object hurdling thru space. I am here but for only a brief moment in time. Tens of thousands of generations before me have accrued so much knowledge and laid the groundwork. Truly an amazing story. What I find interesting though is that for all that we know, we are undoubtedly still so "in the dark" when it comes to the biggest questions, and in the grandest of schemes.
My comic series' lore has a LONG history that includes several case of empires spreading out so far that there was enough variation that they became multiple species, through 2 galactic empires collapsing, there are many species but only 10 discovered. Most were descendants but one came from a pet species.
2:30's 'All planets will be tidally locked' makes me wonder. Will everything be so spread out that collisions are near-nonexistant? This would be a fascinating setting for a story - a world spun like a top by some ancient collision, populated by creatures evolved under a blue sun and blue stars. Graveyards and artifacts anywhere they point a telescope. The universe - one giant but lonely galaxy. I vote that A Reynolds ahows us the end of his universe through this lens.
I wonder if aliens restrict their expansion to avoid making their own competitors as offshoots. Alpha Centauri might be close enough that colonies there might be able to share a culture with the solar system, but if you had idea of extending humanity to the Magellanic Clouds, if they went at relativalistic speeds, by the time they got there they might be the only ones left as recognizably human.
The human genome is already really flexible and rich. Imagine, there are 8 billion people, all different in shape, size and capabilities. They come in all shades of hair-, eye-, and skin-color, have different cultures, religions and languages. Just like different living conditions in different regions on earth created different ethnicies of humans, people living in space colonies or on solar system megastructures will form distinct ethnicies over thousands of years, if left alone. But their genome, their language and culture, all of it will originate from here, earth. It will never be as alien as a civilisation that didn't originate on earth.
@@barryon8706 since we mostly escaped natural selection, my guess is that the significant, noticable changes to our species will occur due to bio-engeneering. No idea were that might take us. Regarding how different ethnicies, cultures and nations get along... same as today. Xenophobes and xenophiles both exist, so there will be conflicts and cooperation.
Even if aliens limited us to a 1 LY sphere, we only need to wait long enough for a star to pass by within 1 LY and jump onto that star system like a tick jumping from dog to another.
I'm reminded of a 'wonderful' scene in "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" where to paraphrase "Give up, there is no hope... Enjoy your diner and drinks"
I'm a big fan of this channel for many years now. My Girlfriend isn't so far but i told her a bunch of the concepts that are discussed here and a couple years back, while tripping on LSD, i told her that i could imagine eternity with her. That part about the last Person in a Personal Dome on some far of planet is what i imagined, with the hope of Biological life extension overtaking aging to the point where mechanical Life extension, e.g. mechanical neurons slowly replacing your normal ones gets viable, all in a timespan where the smoking doesn't get me. This picture of some old prepper, with some person really like after they spent a billion trillion years with them, is how i wish my story to end, as said in the black-hole civilization video 'a bon-fire at the end of time'
Maybe I'm an optimist, but I find it unlikely that, if we survive to the end of the universe, we wouldn't find some way to either restart a new universe or defeat entropy. For all we know, multiverse theory could be correct, and we would just have to find a way to travel between them. Or maybe we find a way to travel through time, and we jump back to a new timeline at the early stages of the universe and just do that every time we make it to the end.
25:30 I am reminded of a sci-fi story that I can't quite remember what it was, where there was a certain prediction of the Earth's destruction in about 200 years, I think it was the solar system being surrounded by a bubble of energy that was slowly contracting, and how people reacted to it.
I like to believe that someone will find a way. Life is nothing if not persistent, so far as we can tell. Intelligent life seems like it should be VERY hard to kill given enough time and opportunity.
Red Sister by Mark Lawrence (and the other 5 books in the series) is set on a "last dying planet in the light cone". I consider it peak "grimdark" fantasy.
I hope someone will notice this comment and answer it, because this has done my head in since first subscribing. What the hell is this channel's signature music from? I recognised it the moment I heard it but for the life of me cannot place where I know it from. It's not free music, it's literally from something. Does anyone know?
Imagine being the last generation of students in the universe, learning about how the bleak, black sky was once a colorful and vibrant universe full of virtually infinite resources and opportunities, and coming to the somber and existentially dreadful realization that that will never be the case again as you drift ever further into eternity under the light of a fading stellar ember.
"the last planet" >90% is justifying why life hasn't lasted long enough to stop that eventuality from coming i dont know why i expected anything else lmao
My feelings are SO ambivalent towards this episode! On one hand, I LOVE these imaginative storytelling episodes. They are my favourite. But on the other, this one didn't feel like my weekly fix of optimism towards the far future. I'm so torn. xD
Hi Isaac! great work, as always. Some time ago you advised the book The Integral Trees of Larry Niven, and i found it great.. i had looked around youtube for some modeling, 3d representation and counterintuitive thinking that solar system setup would bring, and found nothing... does not seem interesting to cover in detail? maybe enough to put it in a pool for future videos? thanks again
Such unusual darkness from Issac today - sounds like a Fromsoft game - fallen/forgotten greatness, decay everywhere, a few elites holding onto what they can of what's left while going progressively more insane. I can hear the opening crawl: "The stars fade, the Lords of Ages have left their thrones..."
Hey Isaac, there are a couple of thoughts I had while watching this episode that I wanted to put to you. 1) Instantaneous interstellar communications. Is this not something that is possible, if not now, at least in the near future? With the knowledge of quantum entanglement, will we not be able to devise some kind of mega-scale morse code? That is a starting point we can possibly build from surely? 2) Have you ever read any Iain M Banks? Namely, his series based in a far future, human civilisation called, The Culture? Any thoughts on it if you have? Cheers.
Ruhtra Caasi checked the numbers again. He sipped his coffee. It would work. All he needed to do was switch on the the transmitter, utter the phrase which was coded into a hundred trillion years of spent time. He sipped his coffee. He made a small change in the program and smiled. The next run of time would also have coffee. He finished his coffee. He stood up, and walked over to the dais at the center of the transmitter. He uttered the phrase. Let there be light...
It seems to me that any civilization which has endured it's own long history of internal wars and dances with self-destruction to the point where it's able to venture out and make contact, has probably gotten to the point of appreciating co-operation, trade, exchange of ideas, etc. over hostile destruction. I don't think we'll be 'duking it out' with anyone.
One of the benefits of thinking over how we might survive trillions of years in the future: it makes surviving to the end of this century seem less daunting.
I woke up this morning inspired to start a new project. But what's the point, the universe is going to end anyway..... Thanks Isaac, your work is incredible.
7:09 "there is no official plan and date yet for a second or more permanent presence on the moon" says the author just a few hours before Roskosmos sent Luna-25 that's whole purpose is in checking wether the location for the permanent lunar presence is chosen right. 🤷🏻
I remember a philosophical thought experiment to explain why we likely will NEVER leave our solar system......imagine you live in a desert environment where resources and water are scarce yet are completely surrounded by ocean. The only way off is by boat/ship. Small oak trees grow, but are stunted due to lack of water and good soil. Could you convince those people to dedicate their entire lives to water a few trees and fertilize them so they grow tall, with the taller they grow, the more resources they need to reach a point that they can he cut down, used to build a ship and THEN risk their lives to sail off to an unknown land that may or may not be able to sustain them when they get there.....and it's a journey they themselves won't take because it will take 200 years for the tree they might plant today to get big enough. Would you be able to convince them to dedicate two-three lifetimes towards this goal? No. And the same is true of extrasolar space travel. Unless there's a guaranteed payoff within the prime span of a human life (20-30 years) you'd never get the funding and effort generated to make that dream a reality.
At minute 28:00 I am thinking about dark matter. I imagine a time, a Dream Time when instead of “dark matter” there was a more useful energy which propelled vehicles and pointed out civilizations. When it cooled down people without understanding or galactic neighbors were forced to invent explanations. Maybe a local nova could drench us in this stuff, or it is only imagination. Gravity increases by a square, area and resources follow a similar rule. You see we are possibly in a trap, on the other hand, LoL.
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Hi Isaac, thanks for videos. Can you surmise our civilization alternate course or an alien civ on a planet without coal, oil & gas? (Would it be from charcoal to nuclear or solar?, maybe we needed millions of years of dead things in order to get the energy step to a future great filter advancement?)
@@Brian67588 Probably not, remember we had ethanol and wood long before we were pumping oil up, it's handy but it like steel, it's better to have a hammer made out of it and nails made out of it, but you can use iron or something else if you need to, so houses still get built. We also discovered the basic pholtovoltaic effect before veroyne had cars everywhere, and batteries, so we probably would have just take n a different course to get to a more solar economy, maybe longer, maybe shorter, but you get there fairly quickly in galactic terms
Thanks very much for reply, I suppose ethanol could have been enough to fill any gaps in the 20th century progression. We might have been better off now actually, lol.
Your raycon insert made it past my ad-skipper, and though honestly I thought AirPod Pro 2's though nice although far too immature, and at the moment I was considering going back to the last generation of wired ANC Bose since I owned half a dozen of their older MIE2i earphones and you could fall asleep wearing them, wake up, and not notice you were wearing them until you looked in a mirror. I'm not sure the latest generation of any bluetooth earbuds are nearly that comfortable, stable, or small and light-weight enough yet, but hearing more than 8 hours sounds like they're at least improving...
@@zyme5998 They are nice in that regard, battery life is great for audiobooks especially since I tend to run those quieter
I come across poetry all the time, accidental poetry can be more beautiful than intentional poetry. Well, Isaac Arthur's "until their badly programed, patchworked, mutated coding drives them into non-functional states of psychosis" is, in my opinion, beautifully evocative. Incredible.
Romantic.
"May your weapon be guarded against malfunction, as your soul is guarded from impurity. The Machine God watches over you."
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Isaac is such a wonderful writer and narrator. I have been enjoying his content for many years (starting back when he had less than 100K subscribers). I'm looking forward to when he crosses the 1 million subscriber mark!
He definitely has a poetic way of writing/speaking. One of the many reasons I love this channel
I have to say this seems like one of the darker more pessimistic episodes of SFIA in some parts. It's not a bad thing, its a fascinating thought experiment. One of the amazing aspects of SFIA is how we are always presented with different viewpoints and ways of looking at the future. I find it great that Isaac is an optimist and yet still presents the idea that things may not be all cheers and glorious adventure. The balance is really fantastic!
A lot of concepts listed here are also applicable to Civilizations in the Great Void - life arising from lone stars ejected from galaxies and could be 100,000 light years away from its neighboring star or more.
That's basically what happened in The Sojourn audio book
Strange to hear you anything approaching pessimistic, Isaac. Strange but refreshing. The episode was beautifully worded and performed and I really felt stirred by the potential nobility of intelligence facing the inevitable end. Thank you!
Ah, the pleasure of Thursday morning! The last sunset would be quite a thing to see together with Isaac Arthur, as two uploaded entities running on computronium powered by our individual black holes, visiting each other in virtch, perhaps at the restaurant at the end of the universe.
I had to wait till Thursday afternoon😂
Make sure to bring a drink and megastructure sized snack
I have watched every single one of your episodes on TH-cam for the last 6 years. For some reason the first few minutes of this video sounded like beautiful and terrifying poetry. Wonderful job on the scriptwriting for this one sir. A giant amongst Giants.
I’m the same way. Absolutely loved it.
Haven't watched every single one. Some just not that interesting to me, for example on future of warfare, use of robots in combat, etc. On the other hand, some of my favorite episodes i watched more than a dozen times and will continue to rewatch again.
I agree, beatiful writing and storytelling in this one. Galactic melancholy. It sticks to the conceit of limited powers across all civilizations to maintain a tone of moody decay, the decline and fall (or fade) of all civilizations. But interestingly, piling it on only increases the feeling that life will find more ways to live long and prosper than we can imagine. And even if not, as Isaac reminds us, few trillion years is a pretty good run. Let's just get through this century first!
And don’t forget we stand on the shoulders of giants!
the first few minutes of this video sounded like beautiful and terrifying poetry.........
Did you come to naked in a field too?
Happy to be here to hear Isaac on this, a beautiful 1,659,330,750th day on earth!
This has truly become my favorite channel, and a great source of inspiration, and comfort during my writings.
Nearly nine years worth of content for me to scout through for countless concepts to wrap my brain around.
Thank you Isaac Arthur.
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I can imagine the summary for this episode.
“Opening, 30 minutes of making everyone damned grateful I’m an optimist”.
And grateful I truly am in these trying times.
Ahh, this feeling… It’s very much like the classic stellar episode, Iron Stars. Well done, good sir!
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Seems like a great premise for a story. Especially an HFY in which humanity finds a way to subvert that galactic empire somehow.
HFY?
@@cosmictreason2242Its subreddit with sf stiries. "Humanity fuck yea!"
Story he propably mean is "why humans avoid war", wher galaxy is filled with bunch of silly allien civilisations, and humanity is one off the weakest in their eyes, but have some tricks under their sleves
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'Humanity F Yeah'. Mostly reddit stories.
Yeah, not happening
Another brilliant episode!
I know this is essentially an optimistic vision, but I can't help but get a lovecraftian vibe ... The last living(existing?), godlike beings in the unimaginable vast darkness of an universe forgetting what it once had been ... but hey, with strange aeons even death may die.
My fault, I couldn't resist putting it in there, I'm a optimist but enjoy cosmic horror and dystopian fiction, so it's worked in a lot to our topic today as it felt theme-appropriate :)
Your ideas make me forget the polycrisis for a moment, dreaming about life in the universe not ending with ourself hitting a great filter 😊
oh no! what's a polycrisis?
Is it contagious? or like weather related; Is it the new weapon Russia has deployed?
@@N3ur0m4nc3r it's the result of ignorance. When humans organize their society in a way that erases their natural habitat due to pollution and depleption of limited resources. You can ignore natures laws, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring them.
@@N3ur0m4nc3rthe megacrisis of modernity, each crisis feeds into another, downward spiral 🌀
@@N3ur0m4nc3rmany crisis in unison
I really wish I get to see this...
Anyway I have a strong feeling that life extension will be within my lifetime, I really wish I could show my own parents and grandparents the wonders of the future
They're still alive, don't get me wrong, but everytime I see them getting older, it kinda makes me feel sad, I just wanna see them healthy again...
no one's settling the new planets because there's always someone is closer and more willing to fight for it, sounds just like the reason people say no one drives in nyc: too much traffic
I honestly think that there are likely multiple universes out there and escaping this one won't be an issue to a species that's been around for trillions of years. Or maybe with that level of science they'll simply make universes to suit them.
Until the last paragraph of positivity (which nearly moved me to tears being so beautiful) I thought you where writing this episodes script from the waiting line at the DMV lol. So gloom, soon doom. It made the optimistic turnaround at the end so much more impactful.
thank you for yet another interesting episode. but now i have to conquer the "great depression", born from these visions of such a grim and dark future .
and the darkest and maybe even saddest part of it is the always looming realisation that we will never be able to see any kind of such a far away future.
but even this "dpressing" dark story is part of one of my most favorite series on your YT-Channel: episodes about a far distant future and the possibilities in it. visions and possibilities most of us might never even dreamt of.
Charles Stross portrays interstellar colonization as a pyramid scheme where each planet founds new colonies in order to pay off the loan they took out. "Neptune's Brood"
A book title comes to mind here. "Against the Fall of Night" by Arthur C. Clarke which mentions the last cloud in the sky.
I love listening to Isaac, I'm not sure whether his speech has gotten better or I just don't notice it any more, but I think its probably why he spends so much time choosing his language so deftly, hope he doesn't get hung up on it, he's one the very few people on here who hasn't dripped into awful clickbait and nefarious adverts. The guy has my upmost respect.
He's had work done
Eh, Raycon is kinda scammy company (horribly overpriced generic buds preying on people caught by ads) but whatever pays the bills, I guess
This is beautiful. Science, sci-fi and poetry and wrapped together with amazing art. I found this out of the blue and was spellbound from moment one. You have a new subscriber!
Honestly, those scenarios you conceive on the fly are amazing, and each could easily give birth to a whole franchise's of content.
So glad I subbed to your channel ❤️love the content
Incidentally, turning colonists into a different species is going to be a very slow process, much slower then the timescale of interstellar travel. The average time to fix a new mutation by drift is 4Nt on average where N is population size and t is generation time. Several mutations are needed for a proper speciation and assuming the colony's population is a billion it might take even 300 billion years for that. If there are megastructures in the system instead of a planet and there is some population flow among the space habitats the time of a colony to stop being human can become trillions of years and higher.
The only reason humans could noticeably evolve was because they were hunter gatherers with very small population.
I personally think , no matter the cost we need to push into the stars.
If it costs humanity it's soul, the cost is too high. It would be better to die a human than live as something Less.
@@seanhewitt603 chances are there would only ever be an impetus to be more than human not less. Also doesn't get much more human than the exploratory/pioneer spirit. To not venture forth would be about the least human thing we could do
Seriously one of the best episodes I've listened to it for a long time amazing job my man
"...but I'm betting that if it looks human, it's mostly a conceit of the oldest surviving post-humans who might still be kicking around at that point." Made me think of the Asimov short story Eyes Do More Than See. (Which I really like.)
Thanks for this episode. I found it a very interesting new angle. And yes, I do particularly enjoy your "story" episodes.
One thing is absolutely certain: somewhere on that last planet, Dylan Hunt will protect the last cocroach from Tyr Anasazi.
What a beautiful episode! This series has instilling the believe in me that Starlifting tech will bring a long life to the Earth as we train our sun to last trillions and trillions of years. Maybe enough time to discover other universe or reverse entropy or see a universe dying with dignity.
Nice to know no one has finished this video yet
I don't know what it is, but I always love these kinds of episodes. Civilizations at the End of Time are videos I've watched many times.
I'm beginning to discover that I am a unique creature that dwells on the surface of a spherical object hurdling thru space. I am here but for only a brief moment in time. Tens of thousands of generations before me have accrued so much knowledge and laid the groundwork. Truly an amazing story. What I find interesting though is that for all that we know, we are undoubtedly still so "in the dark" when it comes to the biggest questions, and in the grandest of schemes.
We shall open a restaurant at the end of the…last planet! 😂😂😂😝😝😝😝😝😝👍🏼
I don't know what is more terrifing no one is out there or there is someone out there and they didn't reach out.
Great episode and I hope it is included amongst the great Civilizations At the End Of Time series.
My comic series' lore has a LONG history that includes several case of empires spreading out so far that there was enough variation that they became multiple species, through 2 galactic empires collapsing, there are many species but only 10 discovered. Most were descendants but one came from a pet species.
Oh boy, here comes the existential dread.
I love your voice so much I could listen to you all day. Your videos are so interesting to listen to and insightful too. Thank you for sharing!
2:30's 'All planets will be tidally locked' makes me wonder. Will everything be so spread out that collisions are near-nonexistant? This would be a fascinating setting for a story - a world spun like a top by some ancient collision, populated by creatures evolved under a blue sun and blue stars. Graveyards and artifacts anywhere they point a telescope. The universe - one giant but lonely galaxy. I vote that A Reynolds ahows us the end of his universe through this lens.
I wonder if aliens restrict their expansion to avoid making their own competitors as offshoots. Alpha Centauri might be close enough that colonies there might be able to share a culture with the solar system, but if you had idea of extending humanity to the Magellanic Clouds, if they went at relativalistic speeds, by the time they got there they might be the only ones left as recognizably human.
The human genome is already really flexible and rich. Imagine, there are 8 billion people, all different in shape, size and capabilities. They come in all shades of hair-, eye-, and skin-color, have different cultures, religions and languages. Just like different living conditions in different regions on earth created different ethnicies of humans, people living in space colonies or on solar system megastructures will form distinct ethnicies over thousands of years, if left alone. But their genome, their language and culture, all of it will originate from here, earth. It will never be as alien as a civilisation that didn't originate on earth.
@@UnfollowYourDreams But how alien do you have to be to get alien? And how well do all those ethnicities get along on one planet now?
@@barryon8706 since we mostly escaped natural selection, my guess is that the significant, noticable changes to our species will occur due to bio-engeneering. No idea were that might take us.
Regarding how different ethnicies, cultures and nations get along... same as today. Xenophobes and xenophiles both exist, so there will be conflicts and cooperation.
Even if aliens limited us to a 1 LY sphere, we only need to wait long enough for a star to pass by within 1 LY and jump onto that star system like a tick jumping from dog to another.
Wow this one makes me feel so down. I have to go find that one you did a few months back that was super positive now.
was waiting for this one, it was great as always Isaac :)
Happy Arthursday!
I come every week for this amazing content go on! One of the most influential futurists of our time is still making amazing content!
Excellent! Time to watch.
I don't want to live forever. I just want to live long enough to be the guy turning out the lights :)
I'm reminded of a 'wonderful' scene in "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" where to paraphrase "Give up, there is no hope... Enjoy your diner and drinks"
I have watched the majority of your videos, and this may well be my new favorite.
Wow, that was a good one Isaac. Thanks.
I'm a big fan of this channel for many years now.
My Girlfriend isn't so far but i told her a bunch of the concepts that are discussed here and a couple years back, while tripping on LSD, i told her that i could imagine eternity with her.
That part about the last Person in a Personal Dome on some far of planet is what i imagined, with the hope of Biological life extension overtaking aging to the point where mechanical Life extension, e.g. mechanical neurons slowly replacing your normal ones gets viable, all in a timespan where the smoking doesn't get me.
This picture of some old prepper, with some person really like after they spent a billion trillion years with them, is how i wish my story to end, as said in the black-hole civilization video 'a bon-fire at the end of time'
Maybe I'm an optimist, but I find it unlikely that, if we survive to the end of the universe, we wouldn't find some way to either restart a new universe or defeat entropy. For all we know, multiverse theory could be correct, and we would just have to find a way to travel between them. Or maybe we find a way to travel through time, and we jump back to a new timeline at the early stages of the universe and just do that every time we make it to the end.
Thanks for making my day Arthur 👍
25:30 I am reminded of a sci-fi story that I can't quite remember what it was, where there was a certain prediction of the Earth's destruction in about 200 years, I think it was the solar system being surrounded by a bubble of energy that was slowly contracting, and how people reacted to it.
I like to believe that someone will find a way. Life is nothing if not persistent, so far as we can tell. Intelligent life seems like it should be VERY hard to kill given enough time and opportunity.
Everything ends, so enjoy the ride while you can.🎉
Red Sister by Mark Lawrence (and the other 5 books in the series) is set on a "last dying planet in the light cone". I consider it peak "grimdark" fantasy.
I hope someone will notice this comment and answer it, because this has done my head in since first subscribing. What the hell is this channel's signature music from? I recognised it the moment I heard it but for the life of me cannot place where I know it from. It's not free music, it's literally from something. Does anyone know?
they can't think of space anymore without remembering the atrocities committed by alielon musk
Imagine being the last generation of students in the universe, learning about how the bleak, black sky was once a colorful and vibrant universe full of virtually infinite resources and opportunities, and coming to the somber and existentially dreadful realization that that will never be the case again as you drift ever further into eternity under the light of a fading stellar ember.
Great video isaac!
"the last planet"
>90% is justifying why life hasn't lasted long enough to stop that eventuality from coming
i dont know why i expected anything else lmao
My feelings are SO ambivalent towards this episode!
On one hand, I LOVE these imaginative storytelling episodes. They are my favourite. But on the other, this one didn't feel like my weekly fix of optimism towards the far future. I'm so torn. xD
just as i make a fresh coffee... perfect! ☕✌
We don't know nearly as much as we think we do about the universe.
Space is the gateway to a trillion, trillion lifetimes.
You said it perfectly, sir. Thank you!
you can not imagine the impossible...
SIR! Thanks for the video, got my snack ready
Hi Isaac! great work, as always. Some time ago you advised the book The Integral Trees of Larry Niven, and i found it great.. i had looked around youtube for some modeling, 3d representation and counterintuitive thinking that solar system setup would bring, and found nothing... does not seem interesting to cover in detail? maybe enough to put it in a pool for future videos? thanks again
Happy Isaac Arthur day the best content creator on TH-cam.
Thank you good Sir.
This was beautiful you’ve out done yourself Isaac.
Great narration, gives me thoughts fr wriing. Short story far inthe future
Such unusual darkness from Issac today - sounds like a Fromsoft game - fallen/forgotten greatness, decay everywhere, a few elites holding onto what they can of what's left while going progressively more insane. I can hear the opening crawl: "The stars fade, the Lords of Ages have left their thrones..."
Space travel being possible but incredibly difficult is what I fear the universe will end up being.
"why do it?" Me: why the heck not what else are you doing? Staring at TV all day? Let's go!
Hey Isaac, there are a couple of thoughts I had while watching this episode that I wanted to put to you.
1) Instantaneous interstellar communications. Is this not something that is possible, if not now, at least in the near future? With the knowledge of quantum entanglement, will we not be able to devise some kind of mega-scale morse code? That is a starting point we can possibly build from surely?
2) Have you ever read any
Iain M Banks? Namely, his series based in a far future, human civilisation called, The Culture? Any thoughts on it if you have?
Cheers.
Nicely done Isaac.
Why are you mowing the lawn with a spaceship?!?
I'm awake now.
Ruhtra Caasi checked the numbers again. He sipped his coffee. It would work. All he needed to do was switch on the the transmitter, utter the phrase which was coded into a hundred trillion years of spent time. He sipped his coffee. He made a small change in the program and smiled. The next run of time would also have coffee. He finished his coffee. He stood up, and walked over to the dais at the center of the transmitter. He uttered the phrase. Let there be light...
I think one can collect and use recycled material to create new stars or somehow keep stars living longer than they were suppose to.
Woohoo!, New episode!
It seems to me that any civilization which has endured it's own long history of internal wars and dances with self-destruction to the point where it's able to venture out and make contact, has probably gotten to the point of appreciating co-operation, trade, exchange of ideas, etc. over hostile destruction. I don't think we'll be 'duking it out' with anyone.
Any chance of a space warfare episode on just using high energy space tech rather than dedicated weapons?
One of the benefits of thinking over how we might survive trillions of years in the future: it makes surviving to the end of this century seem less daunting.
I woke up this morning inspired to start a new project.
But what's the point, the universe is going to end anyway.....
Thanks Isaac, your work is incredible.
7:09 "there is no official plan and date yet for a second or more permanent presence on the moon" says the author just a few hours before Roskosmos sent Luna-25 that's whole purpose is in checking wether the location for the permanent lunar presence is chosen right. 🤷🏻
Stargazing while listening to issac is going to be my new thing
I still do not believe that Humanity will allow either Terra or Sol to die.
'For anyone that thinks me saying FTL wont be possible means I am a pessimist'
Man, this is a grim future, really hope its not the one we rolled.
one of your best
Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim darkness of the far future there is only war.
(when galaxies get to big the split into more galaxies, galaxies are constantly fed by cosmic radiation )
Blind Aliens. Make it a thing.
I love that our national debt is 30x more dollars than the number of times the sun has ever risen on this planet lol
I remember a philosophical thought experiment to explain why we likely will NEVER leave our solar system......imagine you live in a desert environment where resources and water are scarce yet are completely surrounded by ocean. The only way off is by boat/ship. Small oak trees grow, but are stunted due to lack of water and good soil. Could you convince those people to dedicate their entire lives to water a few trees and fertilize them so they grow tall, with the taller they grow, the more resources they need to reach a point that they can he cut down, used to build a ship and THEN risk their lives to sail off to an unknown land that may or may not be able to sustain them when they get there.....and it's a journey they themselves won't take because it will take 200 years for the tree they might plant today to get big enough. Would you be able to convince them to dedicate two-three lifetimes towards this goal? No. And the same is true of extrasolar space travel. Unless there's a guaranteed payoff within the prime span of a human life (20-30 years) you'd never get the funding and effort generated to make that dream a reality.
At minute 28:00 I am thinking about dark matter. I imagine a time, a Dream Time when instead of “dark matter” there was a more useful energy which propelled vehicles and pointed out civilizations. When it cooled down people without understanding or galactic neighbors were forced to invent explanations. Maybe a local nova could drench us in this stuff, or it is only imagination. Gravity increases by a square, area and resources follow a similar rule. You see we are possibly in a trap, on the other hand, LoL.
can you speculate on if the Earth and other spherical rocky planets might be dead stars?