Galactic Domination: Strip Mining the Galaxy

From Asteroid Mining to disassembling entire alien planets all the way out to the Galactic Rim, our galaxy has untold resources, but how can we get to them and what do we do if something is already living there?
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Galactic Domination: Strip Mining the Galaxy
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 298, July 8, 2021
Produced, Written, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur
Editors:
A.T. Long
Evan Schultheis
Jerry Guern • Paleontology - by Jerr...
Cover Art:
Jakub Grygier www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier
Graphics:
Darth Biomech www.artstation.com/darth_biomech
Jeremy Jozwik www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_...
Ken York / ydvisual
Sam McNamara
Sergio Botero www.artstation.com/sboterod?f...
Udo Schroeter
Music:
Miguel Johnson migueljohnson.bandcamp.com
Stellaris OST www.paradoxplaza.com
Lucas Van Bakel

[@zwerko]

I can't even imagine the scale of a civilization that needs to strip-mine a whole galaxy... This will be interesting!

[@wilberator9608]

The Strip Miner’s Guide to the Galaxy

[@corrosive_mongol1415]

"annoying aliens" sounds like every stellaris playthough

[@enta_nae_mere7590]

Honestly I'm kinda getting sick of "banned in China" as an excuse as it completely ignoreS the fact that it's the exact same things that were explicitly banned under US laws and moral codes. Not including open representation not only helps profits in the Chinese market but in the US market with its own conservative audiences

[@brianwong3441]

Let's be xenophobic, it's really in this year.

[@SolarCrossGames]

Greta Thumberg: "how dare you?"

[@Dark_Jaguar]

A neuron is essentially a whole "computer" unto itself, much more complicated than a single circuit in a machine, so it couldn't be simulated by a single atom unfortunately. Just be careful with this, planet cracking leads to finding markers.

[@mvalthegamer2450]

The talk about the Dyson Swarms raises the question, what if there are aliens, but almost everyone has started spaceflight roughly around the same time. If there are a 100 civilizations spread over the galaxy, and the first one started spaceflight a 1000 years ago, there is a pretty good chance that they are less than halfway through to Dyson Swarming their own system, and have colonies on the closest 500-1000 worlds. If such a civilization is 8000 LY away, we won't even know they exist yet

[@calvingreene90]

The last time I was this early the new world could be reached with a rowboat.

[@thatpersonyouknow3747]

Branch mining is slightly more efficient

[@RedwoodTheElf]

Halo: They're always after our water!

[@pauldickinson3961]

The galaxy: *exists *

[@rayceeya8659]

"Ugly Bags of mostly Water"

[@peterxyz3541]

“World domination is for the unambiguous & unimaginative” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@cannonfodder4376]

Isaac Arthur, thinking BIG with Science Fiction.

[@alluriman]

“The universe is big, but life is bigger!”

[@codyaimes4354]

I meet Orson Scott card at a book store while he saw me reading the ender's games. He asked me what I thought about the book, never telling me he was the author. 🙂 Just a funny interaction.

[@kingali1606]

1:25

[@sg_dan]

I love the concept of a self replicating factory or building machine of some kind, carrying blueprints to a far flung world to kickstart a colony before the humans arrive. Sounds a lot like 40K's STCs.

[@zacharybrown-silverstein5575]

What about an episode where you explore another option from