Yea, same here. I think it's part of what got me into sfia. It makes me feel like it won't be long before I'm sitting in a mass driver ready to be shot into orbit
I might even be willing to say that Issac is my favorite, or at least consistently top 5. I don’t think I’ve consistently watched any other channel as long as I’ve watched SFIA
The moment Isaac said at the end that WE most likely will be alive to see some of this stuff come to life......made me feel a wonderful tingle through my bones that matches the feelings I felt when I was religious.
There's a similar concept in use in Greg Egan's novel _Incandescence,_ with a habitat orbiting in the accretion disk of a black hole. The locals add tunnels right through it to adjust its orbit once they realise it's getting dangerously low and then the need gets even more pressing once they get a jolt from a star being eaten by the black hole... If you like stories about characters figuring things out, it might be up your alley. The book actually has two stories in it in alternating chapters. One about some people from a high-tech galaxy-spanning civilisation investigating a meteorite with traces of DNA-based life and where it came from. The other about the low-tech Spliterites figuring out relativity and dealing with the hazards of living around a black hole. I found the main draw was the Splinterites' work on relativity.
The near future isn't the next 100 years, it's the next 2 - 5 years, and from the 2020's to 2030, and so on. Go to my channel, find Technology Research, go there. From the home page of my other channel, go to the "playlists" button near the top, click "created playlists". Find the playlist called "Videos with important info to get around my channel". And then find the "Graphene playlist". After that, check all the Graphene and Quantum Technologies on my channel. This should help to give people the big picture, and continue to update that big picture with even more playlists and updates, but also for awareness and learning in this way, to a whole other level of good innovation, with Graphene, emerging technologies and beyond, Quantum Technologies. Also subscribing to my other channel won't always show new videos, you will need to manually check each playlist by viewing all the playlists using the steps from my other comment, and check for updates with playlists that might have new videos or info and links.
I always think of the poor bastards on some earth-like planet that is ~25% bigger than Earth when they figure out the rocket equation. "Oh, oh, this says our rocket has to be 110% propellant by mass..." Would have made a great Far Side cartoon :)
Just commenting to appease the algorithm with increased interaction while helping spread the memetic of "let´s get at least some of this rock so we don´t all get annihilated at once etc.".
It's not more dystopian than our current state of the world. We just shown very dramatic cases in "The Expanse", there are probably billions of people who live their happy lives.
Well Done Isaac, you really deserve an award, for consistency, apart from everything else. Consistency is the easiest thing if you arent doing well, and the hardest thing if you are being creative and industrious. Kudos. ;)
Congrats for winning the award Isaac! Keep up the amazing work! Your channel has been such a huge source of knowledge and wonder for me during these tough times! Thank you so much for doing what you do!
Absolutely love this channel, it covers everything that I find interesting in a sensible and educational way, and a real person talking to us not some inadequate a.i. Thankyou for taking the time and putting in the hard work needed to share your knowledge Isaac, greatly appreciated.
It's not Thursday, but I have work to do and earbuds to fill with your videos. Also, love the intro song. I first heard it on "spaceship propulsion compendium" and it's been one of my favorites ever since.
I would give links, but this video hides my comments if I do, as the time of this message. Go to my channel, find Technology Research, go there. Find the playlist area with all the playlists, watch all videos from top to bottom in that order. Find the "Graphene Twistronics" playlist. Find a playlist called "Videos with important info to get around my channel". And then find my other channel's "Graphene playlist". After that, Graphene classical computers playlist. And then Graphene with Starships playlist. Also Graphene with cement playlist. Please remember to check out the playlist area on my other channel. Don't forget to scroll down through the playlist area to find more playlists. ------------------------------------------------------ Graphene magic angle can be a super conductor for more efficient power lines, also more powerful Quantum Computers and the list goes on. Also "Graphene super conductors and Graphene high field magnets for Fusion Energy", now imagine with Graphene Twistronics and Fusion Reactors. Also imagine Graphene Twistronics for super conductors, to be used on the outside of a spaceship to handle the heat "near the sun", now imagine Graphene high field magnets on the inside layer / inner wall of the space ship and it's pushing the heat off the Graphene super conductive outer wall of the space ship, which not only pushes the heat off the outer wall "which handles a lot of heat but the Graphene high field magnets push that heat off", and also protects the passengers / crew inside the space ship. Just use another inner layer of Graphene with cement as insulation, which will warm the room when cold, and cool the room when too warm. Check my "Graphene cement" playlist on that. And then add a 4th layer of Graphene as the inner wall away from the other layers, ask GrapheneCA about this with their concrete, they do manage to make it not look like concrete the way they make their 3D printed Graphene houses, that are 2,500 Sq. Ft., in 24 hours, for $8,000. Also GrapheneCA with that video can also be found in my "Graphene cement" playlist on my channel. Now imagine Graphene Twistronics to fit in somewhere for the space ship, this takes things to a whole other level, and we should do this now, first start testing with entering and exiting the atmosphere of Earth, and then Mars, and then get closer to the sun, but not inside it "like the example given for Stargate Universe, if you look at fan videos on youtube for that scene with the space ship called Destiny", this would be similar but don't go inside it, we don't know what Graphene can handle yet, as the time of this message, but supposedly it could handle the surface, though testing a ways from it would be wise, such as the distance from the sun with the Parker Solar Probe and so on, now to just figure out the radiation, maybe use the same material that's in another playlist for Nasa to 3D print Mars buildings / structures, on my channel, these buildings will supposedly handle the radiation with those materials, probably not as strong as Graphene, but that's what Nasa plans to use on Mars and on the Earth to make cities, now imagine that material inside the space ship walls as another layer against radiation. Also look at my Alcubierre - Froning warp drive playlist, about Photon Force Fields that supposedly we can do now, use those to also help. And place a Spintronics Twistronics Graphene Photonic - Quantum Computer in the space ship for navigation and many other things, think Star Trek to a whole other level. There are so many things that the Graphene magic angle in Twistronics can be used for. Imagine more efficient energy "Electrons" in electronics, hopefully for Photonics soon. This also means that we can manipulate the Electrons to stop, Electrons are already 100 times slower than light, though when they get the Electrons to stop, they are calling this "Quantum Phenomena", and so.. does this mean we have a new way for making Graphene optical / Transparent Transistors for our Processors / CPU's in our classical computers to turn on / off with the bits such as 1's and 0's? This possibly means that we can now make Graphene Transistors to replace silicon. And at the same time.. as super conductors? Imagine the possibility of a Graphene classical computer that can now be built for home use or anywhere, and as a super conductor for its own energy usage, but that also saves you energy on your bills, and lasts longer as an energy source. Check the other video for Graphene now being done with 4 layers in Graphene Twistronics. ------------------------------------ Also one other idea. There are large laser machines that the military has, imagine using those to point at Poxima B planet in the Alpha Centauri solar system, now imagine using those large lasers with Quantum Teleportation that is 3 times the speed of light to get there in a year to a year and a half, and back in a year to a year and a half, there and back in 3 years. Now imagine using Quantum Teleportation with data through that laser "think about Graphene lasers, there was a video on youtube about this, it's in my Graphene playlist and could be used for fiber optics and Photonic Computing, a long side Graphene optical / Transparent Transistors". Now imagine using Quantum Teleportation on those lasers to send all the way to Proxima B, have it it collect data of the planet and send it back as an Image or video, or even as a 3D volumetric hologram. Ok now imagine Quantum Teleportation as it matures to be faster, 20 times, 50 times, who knows, we can get there to Alpha Centuari to scan data with it and to other places much faster every time Quantum Teleportation matures. There is so much more to explain, we need to be creative to a "whole other level" of "good" innovation, with Graphene and Quantum Technologies.
The current outer space treaty basically amounts to communism anyway, signed by the US just to keep the Soviets from claiming the moon. Anyone who wants to set up a colony offworld will have to blow that treaty right off and then be ready to defend themselves, with force if necessary. Hence why it's a good idea to get backing from a powerful nation, such as the US.
That's the point though your claim is only as good as the amount of hardware and agents to operate said hardware you can field to the relevant theatre, if you can't enforce your claim then either the local population or a rival will enforce theirs instead. Note the deployment aspect is extremely vital here also there is a reason why there are only a few nations on Earth really capable of performing expeditionary wars in theatres on the other side of the globe let alone on another planet, a bluewater capable navy and the logistical supply chain to go with it is already immensely expensive a space navy and logistic corps would be even worse. Hell every military considered to have any bluewater power projection ability belongs to a country with a GDP of over a trillion dollars and only three of those are considered to have truly global reach (US, UK and France) and the UK and France are considered to only be capable of limited global operations. Granted China, India, Russia etc certainly could but have yet to invest the multi billion dollar a year investment in doing so not to mention the hundreds of billions of dollars worth of initial capital investments to build the initial fleet. So you can see that long-distance military power projection and logistics is hard even on Earth let alone in space.
@@ravenlasky5286 Mao Zedong, actually. But it's a truism that any political leader would agree with. If my forces can capture and hold that dilithium mine on the other side of that crater over there it doesn't matter what a treaty back on Earth says.
Dude I love these videos but it’s so crazy thinking about this stuff while there are humans living in the Stone Age, without contact with the modern world, and others who live in a strange mix of the ancient and new worlds.
I guess each population will progress at its own pace but I wonder whether this large disparity in wealth around the world will improve when we're extracting near unlimited resources from space or just get astronomically larger.
@Enclave Soldier You're probably right, hopefully starvation and extreme poverty will be eradicated at that point. But the wealth disparity within every country can only get so large before there is an uprising, hopefully we aren't heading towards dystopian future.
Evidently every occupation we humans have engaged in, someone somewhere is still doing. The stone age survivors are our ultimate ace in the hole the human can start over again if the worst happens.
A surprise video to be sure, but a welcome and positive one too. Its encouraging to see that we are already taking the steps up toward becoming an interplanetary civilization. Hopefully it continues and even accelerates.
next stop, life in a space colony, and then Colonizing Venus, then colonizing Titan, then colonizing Neptune, then colonizing Alpha Centauri, then intergalactic colonization. great vids as usual. B)
I think the biggest thing missing from this 12 step list is overcoming biology. We have the technology and the engineering capability to do most of these things on the list right now. We could be building habitats on the moon right now if we really had the desire and the national mandate from the president and the population, much like the initial space race. What we don't have is the ability to overcome the weakness of our biology in space environments. We don't know how to do anything but slow down the loss of bone density and muscle atrophy. Extended period in zero G would cripple a human being. Sure, we can create rotating habitats but that increases the level of engineering difficulty immensely. It would be far better to be able to absolutely stop these biological issues. The next issue is high energy cosmic rays. That could also be solved by engineering and some advanced materials science, but again, it would be far easier if we could repair damage from cosmic rays. The last, and perhaps the most difficult aspect of deep space, crew compatibility and mental health. Some of this would need to come from Naval research for submarine crews. Put a lot of people in a small space for an extended period of time and things could get very interesting very quickly. For biology, we need some advanced medicine in the science fiction realm of nanobots, nanocytes, or whatever you want to call it. They would need to be able to maintain bone density, muscle mass and health and repair DNA damage from high energy cosmic rays. I have no doubt we will eventually reach this level of biomedical technology. It seems inevitable at the rate of technological progress we've been enjoying for decades. That still leaves mental health and crew compatibility. The only real answer for extended interstellar voyages would be some sort of cryo-technology, freezing our travelers. This would be another aspect of the nanobots helping to recover after a voyage. Yeah, I think the engineering aspects of inhabiting and traveling through space are far easier obstacles than the medical and psychological hurdles we have to overcome.
Well you do live in the century where Idiots are allowed to wreak havoc upon cities, loot, murder, assault and destroy historical monuments, destroy city infrastructure and much more, without getting shot. So you can laugh at how shit reality is right now. I guess we should've never bought slaves from the King of the Yoruba tribe in the first place then... Did you know when the Yoruba tribe king became the king of Ghana and then collected so many slaves, that it was silly, he got extremely upset when the Brits and French wanted to Abolish Slavery, because he would lose his property, and like all socialists, think, if it's mine it's mine and if it's yours it's also mine, he got mad, unlike the Republicans during the US Civil War, bless their hearts for abolishing slavery, while the horrible Democrats wanted to keep slaves. I mean they still want slaves, after all they're democrats.
You know, the thing with future is that it is always exciting when it is in a future ;) I share you excitement towards the space, but if we actually lived in the age of massive space expansion it wouldn't be that thrilling. We would most likely be some asteroid miners or orbital office workers and it would just be regular life with regular job. People would complain on orbital traffic and government not taking care of that space pollution etc. It is so exciting only because at this moment it is kind of unreal.
Everyone always references certain reasons they where inspired to go to space mine is "Planetes". It's the most grounded realist look at how it will be for an early space traveling species for me. Isaacs video made me think of it today. We are so close to committing to space but something is missing. I dont think there is enough people willing to make the sacrifices of going into space especially with the recent generations.
Well that's good to know but I never mentioned either books or anime so I don't know why you're saying that. Can you please just tell me if it's written by a female author or not and can you tell me if you know of any books or anime written by female authors that are realistic science fiction such as the kind Isaac Arthur usually recommends?
@@numnut1516 The intro at 0:10 references HGttG's reference to "Blowin' in the Wind". And Jerry's comment was a reference to Captain America saying "I understood that reference" in Avengers. th-cam.com/video/YIp-0V6YKfQ/w-d-xo.html
Species is a curious word for any long lasting inhabitants. Given the mutations that would arise from even a 500-1000 year Martian colony (accelerated from radiation alone) not to mention adaptation (similar to Tibet's high-lung capacity from birth population) from low gravity - you'd eventually see a species fork inevitably. That means any off-worlders wouldn't be homo sapiens but something new like homo martian.
"When deep space exploration ramps up, the big corporations will own everything. The IMB stellar sphere. The Microsoft Galaxy. Planet Starbucks" - Fight Club
I hope Isaac will look closely to such form of government in his future video. It is pretty realistic btw. Something akin ancient Greece city-states, just in space and with corporate rule.
@Traditional 700 The reason we've not gone back to the moon is because it's too damn expensive. With launches to space, cost is based on weight. At about $18k per kg with a person averaging over 60kg, it's about a million dollars at the low end to send a person to space. That doesn't include the cost for the weight of all the food and drink they'll consume there. That's just the price for getting to LEO, it's going to be even more expensive to get to the moon. Mass exodus to space won't happen until another launch method is created. All the current designs are too expensive for companies to create (and won't have a short term payoff) and the only governments that could muster a $trillion or so won't spend that money on a public project like an orbital ring when there's bankers that need yet another bailout and brown people that need to be bombed. An orbital ring would cost half of the US military budget for 10 years. We could afford to make space accessible in our life times, but we won't because our species' priorities are completely wrong. "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." - George Orwell. Capitalism is the boot and the top 0.01% richest people are the foot in that boot.
@Traditional 700 The US government slashed taxes on the richest and then kept investing into new tanks and planes the Pentagon didn't ask for. The money is there, but NASA doesn't get it anymore, just the military industrial complex.
Good vid, Isaac. Next vid: a look at where we are on the journey to space, milestone by milestone, what is going right what is going badly and how that will affect where we go and what we do.
Our future God emperor outlining his first steps for galactic domination But seriously can I just say how I love these bonus episodes , helps me get through the week. Great work Issac
To Isaac Arthur... Ive been listening to you for years and I Love your content and I just wanted to comment on how much your speaking has improved over the years and compliment you on the continually improving content, as someone who has a speech impediment too you give me so much hope, almost as much hope as you have given me to escape the existential dread of the future death of our planet by escaping to the stars thank you for all that you do and keep on creating this amazing content
I think colonies on the moon & Mars for example would have to live in pressurised habitats inside lava tubes, or even bored underground. This would protect from radiation and also protect from asteroid strikes like what happens on the moon fairly often. Long term would be ICBMs on the moon
The easiest way to become an interplanetary species is to transcend into machine bodies. That would remove a vast number of restrictions such as gravity, oxygen, food water. We would only need energy and specific minerals.
Yes, I do agree but extensive non ethic experimentation will be needed. What if we go crazy from lack of human looks? What if we need to add tits and dicks to these new bodies to help cope with the fact we ain't human anymore. Or how will we make more humans when all organic life is gone
I really needed to hear something hopeful about the near future despite everything that we are seeing for our current present. Thank you for always shining the light of humanity out like a lighthouse.
_"We've no clear system for permitting anyone, if they found a bunch of gold on some asteroid, to actually mine it and sell it back here. Right now, nobody has a way to stake a claim on a crater on the moon or Mars and build a domed farm or mining and refining operation there."_ It's a common myth, but it's not true. Under the OST, you retain sovereignty of any equipment, facility or operation in space. Including facilities constructing in space. And others are forbidden from interfering with you. Material brought back from space has already been sold commercial (in tiny amounts, but the legal precedent has been set.) You simply cannot claim territory _that you aren't using_ . And you don't _need_ to claim territory that you _are_ using; the activity itself is already protected. That's a good thing. That helps future commercial development. And that's why I wish these myths would just go away. I fear that people are so desperate to blame the OST for the lack of commercial exploitation of space resources that we'll end up with the US and its rivals walking away from the OST. That would allow nations to claim sovereignty over territory that they have no intention of using, freezing out people who can and want to use that territory. You think there's "uncertainty" now? Try it when a dozen different nations, including three rival space-powers, all claim a critical region (such as the lunar polar ice, or entire asteroids.) IMO, the OST is the best treaty we could have for commercial activity in space. Any attempt to abandon it will only make things worse.
I was very happy to see that one of the upcoming topics is to examine whether cosmic voids are a natural occurrence or are a technosignature of another race..... I have wondered about that almost since they were first mentioned.......
I have a picture in my mind of Empyrean, the 58th or 60th state to join the Union, with counties defined by the orbits that the various townships, households and factories occupy: Glenn County in low Earth orbit. Clarke County in geosynchronous orbit Armstrong County in cislunar orbit, on the Lunar surface and in the Lagrange points. As has typically been the case, the large counties will gradually be subdivided as the population increases. Eventually Empyrean may even be divided into two separate states of Empyrean and Luna.
@@Maxi25554 John Glenn, U.S. astronaut, first to orbit Earth, a couple of years after Yuri Gagarin. Later a U.S. Senator who sought the Democratic Presidential nomination. Hence a logical choice for the name for the LEO county of the state of Empyrean.
I'd suggest that focus is shifted from moving things into space cheaply into producing things in space, then using those products to create more things in space. Creating a factory that makes the wire for the orbital ring in space would massively reduce the upfront costs, and the factory can be repurposed for some other space infrastructure once the ring is done. It costs 10,000 dollars to put a pound of anything in space (probably less now because of recent developments but still thousands) If you made a factory in space it wouldn't have to be as efficient as on earth to make things, it would just have to be cheaper than 10,000 dollars per pound of thing it makes to be worth it.
Milestone one: Cheaper launch costs. This one will never quit being a (possibly even THE) primary concern. Look at freight shipping here on earth, we'll say oceanic. Companies are actively researching more efficient engines, better anti-fouling coatings, and the like. Why? Because a company with a single super-tanker that shaves even .001 cents a Lb in shipping cost across the Atlantic nets millions of dollars of additional profits per trip. The same concern has, in my lifetime, doubled the miles per gallon a freight truck gets, and freight trains have improved by a multiple of just over 13.
Underrated, but great insight. Also: the goal of #1 isn't to make it dirt cheap, but to at least reduce it to reasonable amounts, where a decently sized company could reasonably have a(n) annual/monthly/weekly shipment of goods/staff/machinery up there. Automation can save you trips after sending your robots up, so the race doesn't even have to strictly be a deep pockets competition.
I imagine Mr. Arthur floating in his private space module around earth while creating the episodes. Like thatcrich guy in Contact movie. Just without terminal disease. Still loving your content. Greetings from earth.
As our economy becomes more automated, the need for us to retain money will drop. After all, money was originally invented to make the exchange of goods easier. If we go for full automation our entire economy might literally be a single actor, abolishing the need for money.
@@marcustulliuscicero5443 - You would need automated decision-making for that. Basically, a dictatorship. Full on 1984 style. Money is just a weighting system to help individuals weigh relative risks&rewards for cooperative options available to them. As long as there are free individuals they are going to need money.
Alexander Norman Money was create for deal with scarcity if there isn’t scarcity why have money. You wouldn’t need automated Big Brother either because people still have passion and will still want to do stuff just not in the name of a larger pay check, if anything they’ll be more people in the arts.
I believe you miss a 4th case in which interplanetary sovereignty might arise: technological imbalance. An off-world nation/group/organization/religion etc that was sufficiently technologically superior wouldn't require nation-scale manpower to maintain its independence, e.g: the Conjoiners.
Jamestown was founded in 1614 IRCC, by 1776, America was still restricted to a relatively thin strip along the Eastern Atlantic coast. Colonization takes time.
And that's when the colonized location had a breathable atmosphere, full Earth gravity, an abundant biosphere, and helpful (or exploitable) natives. Sterile rocks awash in hard radiation present a much bigger challenge.
Your timing threw me off. In this time of coronavirus and everything shut down and working at home, it is you who informs me when a week has passed by normally very punctually putting out new videos on Thursdays. I thought I had missed a bunch of days.
Railroads were built in the UK to move steel, coal & wood around by bulk. Likewise in the US, but the Gold Rush was the prime mover for getting the East-West railroads built. Until we see a gold rush or bulk materials needing moving from the moon, we won't get anything like a space elevator or orbital ring. Before all this we need communications arrays & a way to make a base on the moon self sufficient for extended periods of time.
@@craigmerryfull7704 Oh... It's like saying, " Damn it's hot!" The language here is a bit funny. English, Cajun French and Spanish. Hell, it's confusing to me and I live here. Lol
Becoming an interplanetary species is less likely than colonizing Antarctica which is many times easier. Spin gravity habitats in Earth orbit, sourced mainly from the Moon. This would lead to a Dyson swarm star-lifted from the Sun. Interstellar colonization fleets would follow as long ad there is desire and excess heavy elements in the Sun. Planets are interesting destinations for scientists, similar to science outposts on Antarctica.
Space elevator... Otis can't even make it affordable for most companies to keep their elevators maintained, (we're talking elevators only from 1-10 floors or less being "most", too) so getting an elevator to space would be like trying to build a house of cards, on the beach, in a hurricane. What might be a better idea is to build an extremely high platform to launch from, making any launch assured much less energy to achieve orbit. This structure might still need extreme engineering, but would offer a more stabilities for up keeping.
Mr. Arthur I've been following your presentations for some time and find them fascinating and informative. In this video you touched on the topic of DNA modifications. I think it would be interesting if you went more in depth on the idea of modifying humans to the demands of space versus the time and expense of providing habitat for humans as we exist now. It seems to me that the current human physiology will be limiting in the not too distant future.
There are actualy two countries that made first steps in the direction of asteroid mining: USA and Luxembourg. Both countries made laws to guarantie companies having a HQ in the respective country ownership of the resources they extract. Luxembourg has actually attracted some space companies with such a law (most of them dont have space mining as their core business but like the space friendly business envirenment). The logic behind this is, that the outerspace treaty only forbids you to have ownership over celestrial bodies, not the resources extracted from them. It will be interesting to see how this evolves in the future.
On November 21, 1783 the first free flight carrying a human occurred in Paris, France in a hot air balloon made of paper and silk made by the Montgolfier brothers. On December 1, 1783, just ten days after the first hot air balloon ride, the first gas balloon was launched by physicist Jacques Alexander Charles and Nicholas Louis Robert. The first flight of Giffard's steam-powered airship took place Sept. 24, 1852 - 51 years before the Wright Brothers’ first flight. It took 69 years between uncontrolled flight and controlled flight. It took 120 years to go from just flying with the wind to powered flight! Yuri Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. Yet here we are in 2020 just 59 years later fretting about not having a base on the Moon or a space station in Moon orbit and not have landed men on Mars. Perspective people!
The "Upward Bound" intro music always gets me so pumped.
I gave you a thumbs up for your name.
I've always watched his videos on 1.5x speed, and it sounds even more pumped.
Sergey Cheremisninov, "Sirius"
Yea, same here. I think it's part of what got me into sfia. It makes me feel like it won't be long before I'm sitting in a mass driver ready to be shot into orbit
Yup. But one thing in the intro bugs me every time: The exhaust of the rocket punching through the clouds should be going down, not up.
Ah yes, my favourite futurist TH-cam Creator
Hhan Lee what if isn’t futurist but kursegat yes
I might even be willing to say that Issac is my favorite, or at least consistently top 5. I don’t think I’ve consistently watched any other channel as long as I’ve watched SFIA
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I quite literally listen to Isaac Arthur for hours every night. Thank you for what you do buddy.🇺🇸
Me too
Same
Out of interest, why is the US flag relevant?
@@tibbyelliott2543 yes
We both need more sleep, according science but not sadghuru
Brain: Gotta sleep, you are so tired. Also Brain: NEW ISAAC ARTHUR VIDEO
Oh yea, yea
Me, 9 hours later at 10:30 PM my time. Lol
Even guys like me in construction watch these when we go to bed drunk to wake up in four and a half hours later for work 😂
The rats and cockroaches will find the way into the space stations , Becoming interplanetary species .
The idea, I hope, will be that we take all life on earth with us when we go out into space. Maybe we can leave the fleas and mosquitos behind though 😂
@@francois853 I know it was a joke but quite a few fish and bird species prey primarily on mosquitoes. Particularly fish that eat the larvae.
@@toki89666 We don't need to take such species of fish and bird into space either.
@@leandrog2785 All is fair when we leave mosquitos behind
@@francois853 agreed
The moment Isaac said at the end that WE most likely will be alive to see some of this stuff come to life......made me feel a wonderful tingle through my bones that matches the feelings I felt when I was religious.
But based on reality instead of fairy tales, which is cool in its own way
Lower satellites using the thin air as propellant to stay up. I had never heard that before. Nice✌️
There's a similar concept in use in Greg Egan's novel _Incandescence,_ with a habitat orbiting in the accretion disk of a black hole. The locals add tunnels right through it to adjust its orbit once they realise it's getting dangerously low and then the need gets even more pressing once they get a jolt from a star being eaten by the black hole...
If you like stories about characters figuring things out, it might be up your alley. The book actually has two stories in it in alternating chapters. One about some people from a high-tech galaxy-spanning civilisation investigating a meteorite with traces of DNA-based life and where it came from. The other about the low-tech Spliterites figuring out relativity and dealing with the hazards of living around a black hole. I found the main draw was the Splinterites' work on relativity.
Your videos concerning the near future (next 100 years) are my favorite!
The near future isn't the next 100 years, it's the next 2 - 5 years, and from the 2020's to 2030, and so on.
Go to my channel, find Technology Research, go there.
From the home page of my other channel, go to the "playlists" button near the top, click "created playlists".
Find the playlist called "Videos with important info to get around my channel".
And then find the "Graphene playlist".
After that, check all the Graphene and Quantum Technologies on my channel. This should help to give people the big picture, and continue to update that big picture with even more playlists and updates, but also for awareness and learning in this way, to a whole other level of good innovation, with Graphene, emerging technologies and beyond, Quantum Technologies.
Also subscribing to my other channel won't always show new videos, you will need to manually check each playlist by viewing all the playlists using the steps from my other comment, and check for updates with playlists that might have new videos or info and links.
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Every time I see this part with the music in the background it makes me awe at the power of rockets that transcends all comprehensibility!
Me Too
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I always think of the poor bastards on some earth-like planet that is ~25% bigger than Earth when they figure out the rocket equation. "Oh, oh, this says our rocket has to be 110% propellant by mass..." Would have made a great Far Side cartoon :)
Just commenting to appease the algorithm with increased interaction while helping spread the memetic of "let´s get at least some of this rock so we don´t all get annihilated at once etc.".
To infinity
And beyond
Good job.
I go to sleep listening to you and feel smarter in the morning. btw love the no ads cuz they always wake me up
I'm reminded a lot of the Amazon Prime series "The Expanse", which portrays a more Dystopian version of much of this.
Unfortunately our future is leaning far more towards the Expanse and not Trek.
The expanse is our future, there is no way around it. The only real way we can avoid the mass war bit is that nations states stay fractured.
i disagree with the dystopia. countries on earth have been much more hostile to each other. i think it would be a step up.
The most fictional thing in that series is the Un being able to run a somewhat functional government.
It's not more dystopian than our current state of the world. We just shown very dramatic cases in "The Expanse", there are probably billions of people who live their happy lives.
Well Done Isaac, you really deserve an award, for consistency, apart from everything else.
Consistency is the easiest thing if you arent doing well, and the hardest thing if you are being creative and industrious.
Kudos.
;)
Got my snack and drink ready before pressing play... ive aso found i never watch just one.. multipack supplies!!!
Our first rotating orbital habitat should be named the "Isaac Arthur".
Or what if and hear me out what if they used like a normal name?
Shouldn’t they name it after the man who invented it?
@@captainjackpugh6050 Isaac Arthur isn't a normal name?
Agreed
I'll keep that in mind when I'm building one. 😁
It's my favorite series on sfia because of the intro. And also how relevant the subject matter is to worldbuilding
I have the intro music on in another window.
Once again Issac brings the best material forth and presents it with excellence.
Congrats for winning the award Isaac! Keep up the amazing work! Your channel has been such a huge source of knowledge and wonder for me during these tough times!
Thank you so much for doing what you do!
Absolutely love this channel, it covers everything that I find interesting in a sensible and educational way, and a real person talking to us not some inadequate a.i. Thankyou for taking the time and putting in the hard work needed to share your knowledge Isaac, greatly appreciated.
It's not Thursday, but I have work to do and earbuds to fill with your videos.
Also, love the intro song. I first heard it on "spaceship propulsion compendium" and it's been one of my favorites ever since.
Issac, check out Made In Space, inc. they're working on building up manufacturing in space
Exciting.
I would give links, but this video hides my comments if I do, as the time of this message.
Go to my channel, find Technology Research, go there.
Find the playlist area with all the playlists, watch all videos from top to bottom in that order.
Find the "Graphene Twistronics" playlist.
Find a playlist called "Videos with important info to get around my channel".
And then find my other channel's "Graphene playlist".
After that, Graphene classical computers playlist.
And then Graphene with Starships playlist.
Also Graphene with cement playlist.
Please remember to check out the playlist area on my other channel.
Don't forget to scroll down through the playlist area to find more playlists.
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Graphene magic angle can be a super conductor for more efficient power lines, also more powerful Quantum Computers and the list goes on.
Also "Graphene super conductors and Graphene high field magnets for Fusion Energy", now imagine with Graphene Twistronics and Fusion Reactors.
Also imagine Graphene Twistronics for super conductors, to be used on the outside of a spaceship to handle the heat "near the sun", now imagine Graphene high field magnets on the inside layer / inner wall of the space ship and it's pushing the heat off the Graphene super conductive outer wall of the space ship, which not only pushes the heat off the outer wall "which handles a lot of heat but the Graphene high field magnets push that heat off", and also protects the passengers / crew inside the space ship.
Just use another inner layer of Graphene with cement as insulation, which will warm the room when cold, and cool the room when too warm. Check my "Graphene cement" playlist on that.
And then add a 4th layer of Graphene as the inner wall away from the other layers, ask GrapheneCA about this with their concrete, they do manage to make it not look like concrete the way they make their 3D printed Graphene houses, that are 2,500 Sq. Ft., in 24 hours, for $8,000.
Also GrapheneCA with that video can also be found in my "Graphene cement" playlist on my channel.
Now imagine Graphene Twistronics to fit in somewhere for the space ship, this takes things to a whole other level, and we should do this now, first start testing with entering and exiting the atmosphere of Earth, and then Mars, and then get closer to the sun, but not inside it "like the example given for Stargate Universe, if you look at fan videos on youtube for that scene with the space ship called Destiny", this would be similar but don't go inside it, we don't know what Graphene can handle yet, as the time of this message, but supposedly it could handle the surface, though testing a ways from it would be wise, such as the distance from the sun with the Parker Solar Probe and so on, now to just figure out the radiation, maybe use the same material that's in another playlist for Nasa to 3D print Mars buildings / structures, on my channel, these buildings will supposedly handle the radiation with those materials, probably not as strong as Graphene, but that's what Nasa plans to use on Mars and on the Earth to make cities, now imagine that material inside the space ship walls as another layer against radiation.
Also look at my Alcubierre - Froning warp drive playlist, about Photon Force Fields that supposedly we can do now, use those to also help.
And place a Spintronics Twistronics Graphene Photonic - Quantum Computer in the space ship for navigation and many other things, think Star Trek to a whole other level.
There are so many things that the Graphene magic angle in Twistronics can be used for.
Imagine more efficient energy "Electrons" in electronics, hopefully for Photonics soon.
This also means that we can manipulate the Electrons to stop, Electrons are already 100 times slower than light, though when they get the Electrons to stop, they are calling this "Quantum Phenomena", and so.. does this mean we have a new way for making Graphene optical / Transparent Transistors for our Processors / CPU's in our classical computers to turn on / off with the bits such as 1's and 0's?
This possibly means that we can now make Graphene Transistors to replace silicon. And at the same time.. as super conductors? Imagine the possibility of a Graphene classical computer that can now be built for home use or anywhere, and as a super conductor for its own energy usage, but that also saves you energy on your bills, and lasts longer as an energy source.
Check the other video for Graphene now being done with 4 layers in Graphene Twistronics.
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Also one other idea.
There are large laser machines that the military has, imagine using those to point at Poxima B planet in the Alpha Centauri solar system, now imagine using those large lasers with Quantum Teleportation that is 3 times the speed of light to get there in a year to a year and a half, and back in a year to a year and a half, there and back in 3 years.
Now imagine using Quantum Teleportation with data through that laser "think about Graphene lasers, there was a video on youtube about this, it's in my Graphene playlist and could be used for fiber optics and Photonic Computing, a long side Graphene optical / Transparent Transistors".
Now imagine using Quantum Teleportation on those lasers to send all the way to Proxima B, have it it collect data of the planet and send it back as an Image or video, or even as a 3D volumetric hologram.
Ok now imagine Quantum Teleportation as it matures to be faster, 20 times, 50 times, who knows, we can get there to Alpha Centuari to scan data with it and to other places much faster every time Quantum Teleportation matures.
There is so much more to explain, we need to be creative to a "whole other level" of "good" innovation, with Graphene and Quantum Technologies.
Liked as I start watching, never disappointed.
9:40 "Nobody has a way to state a claim to [...]." Have you heard of that thing called a gun? That's what it boils down to anyway.
The current outer space treaty basically amounts to communism anyway, signed by the US just to keep the Soviets from claiming the moon. Anyone who wants to set up a colony offworld will have to blow that treaty right off and then be ready to defend themselves, with force if necessary. Hence why it's a good idea to get backing from a powerful nation, such as the US.
That's the point though your claim is only as good as the amount of hardware and agents to operate said hardware you can field to the relevant theatre, if you can't enforce your claim then either the local population or a rival will enforce theirs instead. Note the deployment aspect is extremely vital here also there is a reason why there are only a few nations on Earth really capable of performing expeditionary wars in theatres on the other side of the globe let alone on another planet, a bluewater capable navy and the logistical supply chain to go with it is already immensely expensive a space navy and logistic corps would be even worse. Hell every military considered to have any bluewater power projection ability belongs to a country with a GDP of over a trillion dollars and only three of those are considered to have truly global reach (US, UK and France) and the UK and France are considered to only be capable of limited global operations. Granted China, India, Russia etc certainly could but have yet to invest the multi billion dollar a year investment in doing so not to mention the hundreds of billions of dollars worth of initial capital investments to build the initial fleet.
So you can see that long-distance military power projection and logistics is hard even on Earth let alone in space.
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
-- George Washington ?
@@ravenlasky5286 Mao Zedong, actually. But it's a truism that any political leader would agree with. If my forces can capture and hold that dilithium mine on the other side of that crater over there it doesn't matter what a treaty back on Earth says.
Guns require oxygen to work... I've never been there myself but I've heard from reliable sources that oxygen is a rare commodity in space.
The 4 requirements of a colony: food, ale, water and energy. 🎉🎉
Copious amounts of ale! Cheers Mate! Drink up!
Ale can be used as water, it has calories and can be used for food, and it can be burnt for energy. All you need is ale.
Hah I heard the same thing at first.
And toilet paper.
Aurinkohirvi Who needs toilet paper when there is ale! Ahrrrrrr!
Dude I love these videos but it’s so crazy thinking about this stuff while there are humans living in the Stone Age, without contact with the modern world, and others who live in a strange mix of the ancient and new worlds.
I guess each population will progress at its own pace but I wonder whether this large disparity in wealth around the world will improve when we're extracting near unlimited resources from space or just get astronomically larger.
There is no fixing that without enforcing mass genocides in 3rd world countries
@Enclave Soldier The poor will get poorer.
@Enclave Soldier You're probably right, hopefully starvation and extreme poverty will be eradicated at that point. But the wealth disparity within every country can only get so large before there is an uprising, hopefully we aren't heading towards dystopian future.
Evidently every occupation we humans have engaged in, someone somewhere is still doing. The stone age survivors are our ultimate ace in the hole the human can start over again if the worst happens.
A surprise video to be sure, but a welcome and positive one too. Its encouraging to see that we are already taking the steps up toward becoming an interplanetary civilization. Hopefully it continues and even accelerates.
Well done, Isaac! This video is incredible! I'm trying to complete these milestones in SFS
Every upload gives me more questions that I excitedly explore the answers to
Gwab a dwink and a sanck fools !!! Its time to get learnt !!! Go Isaac !!!
Perfect timeing I’m going to watch Isaac while I wash the dishes 😊
Same! I think we'll become interplanetary species before I finish though...
While im cooking
Jesus. Dude, that's exactly what I'm doing. That's crazy. We're both doing dishes on other sides of the world.
Same!
Same here!
Looking forward to this.
Congrats on the award.
next stop, life in a space colony, and then Colonizing Venus, then colonizing Titan, then colonizing Neptune, then colonizing Alpha Centauri, then intergalactic colonization. great vids as usual. B)
This channel's positivity really helps stave off all the doom and gloom that's occupying me right now.
I was expecting an hour-long TH-cam. but Your videos are always good!
Always love your videos Isaac! Looking forward to more on this topic and thanks for your hard work!
I think the biggest thing missing from this 12 step list is overcoming biology. We have the technology and the engineering capability to do most of these things on the list right now. We could be building habitats on the moon right now if we really had the desire and the national mandate from the president and the population, much like the initial space race. What we don't have is the ability to overcome the weakness of our biology in space environments. We don't know how to do anything but slow down the loss of bone density and muscle atrophy. Extended period in zero G would cripple a human being. Sure, we can create rotating habitats but that increases the level of engineering difficulty immensely. It would be far better to be able to absolutely stop these biological issues. The next issue is high energy cosmic rays. That could also be solved by engineering and some advanced materials science, but again, it would be far easier if we could repair damage from cosmic rays. The last, and perhaps the most difficult aspect of deep space, crew compatibility and mental health. Some of this would need to come from Naval research for submarine crews. Put a lot of people in a small space for an extended period of time and things could get very interesting very quickly. For biology, we need some advanced medicine in the science fiction realm of nanobots, nanocytes, or whatever you want to call it. They would need to be able to maintain bone density, muscle mass and health and repair DNA damage from high energy cosmic rays. I have no doubt we will eventually reach this level of biomedical technology. It seems inevitable at the rate of technological progress we've been enjoying for decades. That still leaves mental health and crew compatibility. The only real answer for extended interstellar voyages would be some sort of cryo-technology, freezing our travelers. This would be another aspect of the nanobots helping to recover after a voyage. Yeah, I think the engineering aspects of inhabiting and traveling through space are far easier obstacles than the medical and psychological hurdles we have to overcome.
@macsporan I would redirect him to his proper destination.
He did touch upon this subject at 7:15.
Keep at it
Wish i was born a few centuries later to explore the solar system and build the interstellar laser highway
and maybe have a chance to join the crew of 'Unity', yes, agreed.
Well you do live in the century where Idiots are allowed to wreak havoc upon cities, loot, murder, assault and destroy historical monuments, destroy city infrastructure and much more, without getting shot. So you can laugh at how shit reality is right now. I guess we should've never bought slaves from the King of the Yoruba tribe in the first place then... Did you know when the Yoruba tribe king became the king of Ghana and then collected so many slaves, that it was silly, he got extremely upset when the Brits and French wanted to Abolish Slavery, because he would lose his property, and like all socialists, think, if it's mine it's mine and if it's yours it's also mine, he got mad, unlike the Republicans during the US Civil War, bless their hearts for abolishing slavery, while the horrible Democrats wanted to keep slaves. I mean they still want slaves, after all they're democrats.
The Major that came wayy out of left field. I think you should go talk to a professional about how your feeling.
You know, the thing with future is that it is always exciting when it is in a future ;) I share you excitement towards the space, but if we actually lived in the age of massive space expansion it wouldn't be that thrilling. We would most likely be some asteroid miners or orbital office workers and it would just be regular life with regular job. People would complain on orbital traffic and government not taking care of that space pollution etc. It is so exciting only because at this moment it is kind of unreal.
@@livedandletdie you're an idiot or a child. Grow up or seek professional help.
Everyone always references certain reasons they where inspired to go to space mine is "Planetes". It's the most grounded realist look at how it will be for an early space traveling species for me. Isaacs video made me think of it today. We are so close to committing to space but something is missing. I dont think there is enough people willing to make the sacrifices of going into space especially with the recent generations.
hey that's cool. thanks for mentioning it. is it written by a female author by chance? I am looking for realist science fiction by female authors.
@@unmaskedandanonymous3660 It's not a book it's an anime.
Well that's good to know but I never mentioned either books or anime so I don't know why you're saying that. Can you please just tell me if it's written by a female author or not and can you tell me if you know of any books or anime written by female authors that are realistic science fiction such as the kind Isaac Arthur usually recommends?
A science fiction novel that has a female author no. No one specific pops into my head sorry.
@@fireeverything7224 what a disaster. i will let you know if i find anyone. my friend Adrienne Prince writes but i dont know if she uses a pen name.
0:30 that moment when you found an interplanetary species and everyone is still calling you "boy"
I understood that reference!
What is the reference? it seems like something right up my ally if it involves discovering interplanetary species and space shuttles
@@numnut1516 The intro at 0:10 references HGttG's reference to "Blowin' in the Wind". And Jerry's comment was a reference to Captain America saying "I understood that reference" in Avengers. th-cam.com/video/YIp-0V6YKfQ/w-d-xo.html
Species is a curious word for any long lasting inhabitants. Given the mutations that would arise from even a 500-1000 year Martian colony (accelerated from radiation alone) not to mention adaptation (similar to Tibet's high-lung capacity from birth population) from low gravity - you'd eventually see a species fork inevitably. That means any off-worlders wouldn't be homo sapiens but something new like homo martian.
"When deep space exploration ramps up, the big corporations will own everything. The IMB stellar sphere. The Microsoft Galaxy. Planet Starbucks" - Fight Club
I hope Isaac will look closely to such form of government in his future video. It is pretty realistic btw. Something akin ancient Greece city-states, just in space and with corporate rule.
@Traditional 700
The reason we've not gone back to the moon is because it's too damn expensive. With launches to space, cost is based on weight. At about $18k per kg with a person averaging over 60kg, it's about a million dollars at the low end to send a person to space. That doesn't include the cost for the weight of all the food and drink they'll consume there. That's just the price for getting to LEO, it's going to be even more expensive to get to the moon.
Mass exodus to space won't happen until another launch method is created. All the current designs are too expensive for companies to create (and won't have a short term payoff) and the only governments that could muster a $trillion or so won't spend that money on a public project like an orbital ring when there's bankers that need yet another bailout and brown people that need to be bombed. An orbital ring would cost half of the US military budget for 10 years. We could afford to make space accessible in our life times, but we won't because our species' priorities are completely wrong.
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." - George Orwell.
Capitalism is the boot and the top 0.01% richest people are the foot in that boot.
IMB, microsft and Starbuck do not have currents intentions of inhabiting space.
@Traditional 700
The US government slashed taxes on the richest and then kept investing into new tanks and planes the Pentagon didn't ask for. The money is there, but NASA doesn't get it anymore, just the military industrial complex.
Good vid, Isaac. Next vid: a look at where we are on the journey to space, milestone by milestone, what is going right what is going badly and how that will affect where we go and what we do.
Excellent Video for release on my birthday.
Our future God emperor outlining his first steps for galactic domination
But seriously can I just say how I love these bonus episodes , helps me get through the week. Great work Issac
To Isaac Arthur...
Ive been listening to you for years and I Love your content and I just wanted to comment on how much your speaking has improved over the years and compliment you on the continually improving content, as someone who has a speech impediment too you give me so much hope, almost as much hope as you have given me to escape the existential dread of the future death of our planet by escaping to the stars thank you for all that you do and keep on creating this amazing content
How awesome! Thank you! 🖤 👍🏻👍🏻
I think colonies on the moon & Mars for example would have to live in pressurised habitats inside lava tubes, or even bored underground.
This would protect from radiation and also protect from asteroid strikes like what happens on the moon fairly often.
Long term would be ICBMs on the moon
The easiest way to become an interplanetary species is to transcend into machine bodies. That would remove a vast number of restrictions such as gravity, oxygen, food water. We would only need energy and specific minerals.
Yes, I do agree but extensive non ethic experimentation will be needed.
What if we go crazy from lack of human looks?
What if we need to add tits and dicks to these new bodies to help cope with the fact we ain't human anymore.
Or how will we make more humans when all organic life is gone
I really needed to hear something hopeful about the near future despite everything that we are seeing for our current present. Thank you for always shining the light of humanity out like a lighthouse.
@Traditional 700 lol
_"We've no clear system for permitting anyone, if they found a bunch of gold on some asteroid, to actually mine it and sell it back here. Right now, nobody has a way to stake a claim on a crater on the moon or Mars and build a domed farm or mining and refining operation there."_
It's a common myth, but it's not true. Under the OST, you retain sovereignty of any equipment, facility or operation in space. Including facilities constructing in space. And others are forbidden from interfering with you. Material brought back from space has already been sold commercial (in tiny amounts, but the legal precedent has been set.)
You simply cannot claim territory _that you aren't using_ . And you don't _need_ to claim territory that you _are_ using; the activity itself is already protected.
That's a good thing. That helps future commercial development. And that's why I wish these myths would just go away. I fear that people are so desperate to blame the OST for the lack of commercial exploitation of space resources that we'll end up with the US and its rivals walking away from the OST. That would allow nations to claim sovereignty over territory that they have no intention of using, freezing out people who can and want to use that territory.
You think there's "uncertainty" now? Try it when a dozen different nations, including three rival space-powers, all claim a critical region (such as the lunar polar ice, or entire asteroids.)
IMO, the OST is the best treaty we could have for commercial activity in space. Any attempt to abandon it will only make things worse.
Authur you're soon hitting that 1million mark!! We are proud of you brotha!
I was very happy to see that one of the upcoming topics is to examine whether cosmic voids are a natural occurrence or are a technosignature of another race.....
I have wondered about that almost since they were first mentioned.......
Thanks Isaac, keep the great content coming
I have a picture in my mind of Empyrean, the 58th or 60th state to join the Union, with counties defined by the orbits that the various townships, households and factories occupy:
Glenn County in low Earth orbit.
Clarke County in geosynchronous orbit
Armstrong County in cislunar orbit, on the Lunar surface and in the Lagrange points.
As has typically been the case, the large counties will gradually be subdivided as the population increases. Eventually Empyrean may even be divided into two separate states of Empyrean and Luna.
Sorry to be ignorant but who is glenn again?
I put the playlist all the video on shuffle and sleep with my earphones in..... it’s like a guided meditation...
@@Maxi25554 John Glenn, U.S. astronaut, first to orbit Earth, a couple of years after Yuri Gagarin. Later a U.S. Senator who sought the Democratic Presidential nomination. Hence a logical choice for the name for the LEO county of the state of Empyrean.
@@johnburt7935 Ah thank you, I just didn't know who he was. He does seem like a good choice.
I don't think everyone living in those areas wants them to be US states.
Great video greetings from Croatia 👍
I love relaxing in a pitch black room while listening to Issac Arthur and other times JMG over at event horizon ❤️
I'd suggest that focus is shifted from moving things into space cheaply into producing things in space, then using those products to create more things in space. Creating a factory that makes the wire for the orbital ring in space would massively reduce the upfront costs, and the factory can be repurposed for some other space infrastructure once the ring is done.
It costs 10,000 dollars to put a pound of anything in space (probably less now because of recent developments but still thousands)
If you made a factory in space it wouldn't have to be as efficient as on earth to make things, it would just have to be cheaper than 10,000 dollars per pound of thing it makes to be worth it.
Milestone one: Cheaper launch costs. This one will never quit being a (possibly even THE) primary concern. Look at freight shipping here on earth, we'll say oceanic. Companies are actively researching more efficient engines, better anti-fouling coatings, and the like. Why? Because a company with a single super-tanker that shaves even .001 cents a Lb in shipping cost across the Atlantic nets millions of dollars of additional profits per trip. The same concern has, in my lifetime, doubled the miles per gallon a freight truck gets, and freight trains have improved by a multiple of just over 13.
Underrated, but great insight. Also: the goal of #1 isn't to make it dirt cheap, but to at least reduce it to reasonable amounts, where a decently sized company could reasonably have a(n) annual/monthly/weekly shipment of goods/staff/machinery up there. Automation can save you trips after sending your robots up, so the race doesn't even have to strictly be a deep pockets competition.
I imagine Mr. Arthur floating in his private space module around earth while creating the episodes. Like thatcrich guy in Contact movie. Just without terminal disease.
Still loving your content. Greetings from earth.
3:35 Abandoning invention of money makes as much sense as abandoning invention of wheel.
As our economy becomes more automated, the need for us to retain money will drop. After all, money was originally invented to make the exchange of goods easier. If we go for full automation our entire economy might literally be a single actor, abolishing the need for money.
@@marcustulliuscicero5443 and thus begins TRUE socialism
@@marcustulliuscicero5443 - You would need automated decision-making for that. Basically, a dictatorship. Full on 1984 style. Money is just a weighting system to help individuals weigh relative risks&rewards for cooperative options available to them. As long as there are free individuals they are going to need money.
Alexander Norman Money was create for deal with scarcity if there isn’t scarcity why have money. You wouldn’t need automated Big Brother either because people still have passion and will still want to do stuff just not in the name of a larger pay check, if anything they’ll be more people in the arts.
you need to increase your dose of science and futurism!
Your mom knew you'd become someone truly special when she named you, and if it's ok for me l to say so, you didn't disappoint! Thanks
I believe you miss a 4th case in which interplanetary sovereignty might arise: technological imbalance. An off-world nation/group/organization/religion etc that was sufficiently technologically superior wouldn't require nation-scale manpower to maintain its independence, e.g: the Conjoiners.
You are a blessing upon youtube Mr. Arthur
Watching isaac while doing my daily isaac run with some coffee. Life's good.
This is my first IA video, wish me luck, subscribed just based on Joe Scott’s channel.
8 views and 34 likes. This is because we know that the video will be great, and we like it before we watch.
Very breezy and digestible episode. Perfect for lunchtime
Love the way you talk.
Jamestown was founded in 1614 IRCC, by 1776, America was still restricted to a relatively thin strip along the Eastern Atlantic coast.
Colonization takes time.
And that's when the colonized location had a breathable atmosphere, full Earth gravity, an abundant biosphere, and helpful (or exploitable) natives. Sterile rocks awash in hard radiation present a much bigger challenge.
I really enjoyed this one
Great videos and how each episode beats the last episode
Surprise videos from Isaac are the best
Your timing threw me off. In this time of coronavirus and everything shut down and working at home, it is you who informs me when a week has passed by normally very punctually putting out new videos on Thursdays. I thought I had missed a bunch of days.
The intro music for this sub series slaps
Wonderful video, thanks Isaac!
thanks for this beautifull sunday isaac
Railroads were built in the UK to move steel, coal & wood around by bulk. Likewise in the US, but the Gold Rush was the prime mover for getting the East-West railroads built.
Until we see a gold rush or bulk materials needing moving from the moon, we won't get anything like a space elevator or orbital ring. Before all this we need communications arrays & a way to make a base on the moon self sufficient for extended periods of time.
Starts off with a HHGTTG reference? Immediate thumbs up 👍🏼
Whoo hoo! Just finished the grass. Poo yi! It's hot here in South Louisiana!
Same here in Mississippi! I have to mow at night lol
idk what you said m8, im aussie so yea bloody heat, its a b. maybe bout mowing the lawn?
@@craigmerryfull7704 Oh... It's like saying, " Damn it's hot!" The language here is a bit funny. English, Cajun French and Spanish. Hell, it's confusing to me and I live here. Lol
111° here in southern California, even hotter in the actual desert haha
Your videos help me sleep. I mean that in the most respectful way possible.
Becoming an interplanetary species is less likely than colonizing Antarctica which is many times easier.
Spin gravity habitats in Earth orbit, sourced mainly from the Moon. This would lead to a Dyson swarm star-lifted from the Sun. Interstellar colonization fleets would follow as long ad there is desire and excess heavy elements in the Sun.
Planets are interesting destinations for scientists, similar to science outposts on Antarctica.
Isaac Arthur's episode on orbital rings shows the obvious way to support mass emigration from Earth and regular travel to and from space.
Love the hyper-near stuff, Isaac!
1 and 2 would be transposed if it was me commenting. Probably many others would be moved in the ranking of prerequesits. Top marks as usual to IA.
Go Arthur go. You rock! 😙
Space elevator... Otis can't even make it affordable for most companies to keep their elevators maintained, (we're talking elevators only from 1-10 floors or less being "most", too) so getting an elevator to space would be like trying to build a house of cards, on the beach, in a hurricane. What might be a better idea is to build an extremely high platform to launch from, making any launch assured much less energy to achieve orbit. This structure might still need extreme engineering, but would offer a more stabilities for up keeping.
Great video!!!
SUNDAY SFIA!
Your thumbnail is the froggy or whomever climbing out of the water for the first time. Beautiful.
I’d love to check out what’s happening on earth, say 1000 years from now.
I just hope I live long enough to witness all this
Mr. Arthur I've been following your presentations for some time and find them fascinating and informative. In this video you touched on the topic of DNA modifications. I think it would be interesting if you went more in depth on the idea of modifying humans to the demands of space versus the time and expense of providing habitat for humans as we exist now. It seems to me that the current human physiology will be limiting in the not too distant future.
You really need to make nebula an app. Kinda ridiculous that it’s not. Love your vids!
Thanks for another great video!
Stellar content....cheap pun intended. Glad I found your channel!!!!
Good to see more Upward Bound videos. I've missed these.
There are actualy two countries that made first steps in the direction of asteroid mining: USA and Luxembourg. Both countries made laws to guarantie companies having a HQ in the respective country ownership of the resources they extract. Luxembourg has actually attracted some space companies with such a law (most of them dont have space mining as their core business but like the space friendly business envirenment). The logic behind this is, that the outerspace treaty only forbids you to have ownership over celestrial bodies, not the resources extracted from them. It will be interesting to see how this evolves in the future.
We will be interplanetary much faster. This growth is more in the note of exponential as our tech does
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On November 21, 1783 the first free flight carrying a human occurred in Paris, France in a hot air balloon made of paper and silk made by the Montgolfier brothers. On December 1, 1783, just ten days after the first hot air balloon ride, the first gas balloon was launched by physicist Jacques Alexander Charles and Nicholas Louis Robert.
The first flight of Giffard's steam-powered airship took place Sept. 24, 1852 - 51 years before the Wright Brothers’ first flight. It took 69 years between uncontrolled flight and controlled flight.
It took 120 years to go from just flying with the wind to powered flight!
Yuri Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961.
Yet here we are in 2020 just 59 years later fretting about not having a base on the Moon or a space station in Moon orbit and not have landed men on Mars.
Perspective people!