Colonizing Pluto (Narration Only)

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Isaac Arthur

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🗓️ 6 June 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Pluto and it's largest moon, Charon, are so far from the Sun and so tiny that they would not seem like promising options for interplanetary colonization. However, they may turn out to be excellent prospects precisely because the double dwarf planet offers some unique options, like space elevators right from surface to surface. Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/TNRQFKVV68I Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur SFIA Merchandise available: https://www.signil.com/sfia/ Social Media: Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Isaac_A_Arthur on Twitter and RT our future content. SFIA Discord Server: https://discord.gg/53GAShE Credits: Outward Bound: Colonizing Pluto Episode 189 Season 5 E23 Written by: Isaac Arthur Jerry Guern Mark Warburton Editors: Evan Schultheis Darius Said Keith Blockus Matthew Acker Cover Art: Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier Graphics by: Fishy Tree https://www.deviantart.com/fishytree/ Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana Katie Byrne Ken York https://www.facebook.com/YDVisual/ Kristijan Tavcar https://www.miragedereve.com Sam McNamara Sergio Botero https://www.artstation.com/sboterod?fref=gc The Ashdale Regiment https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvIoDwtY8FVw35xgDU0-yMQ Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Music Manager: Luca DeRosa - [email protected] Music: Markus Junnikkala, "Hail the Victorious Dead" https://www.markusjunnikkala.com/ Aerium, "The islands moved while I was asleep" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRnUJY3l5vIJFGsY3XvW4dQ Kai Engel, "Endless Story About Sun and Moon" https://www.kai-engel.com/ Markus Junnikkala, "We Roam the Stars", https://www.markusjunnikkala.com/ Paradox Interactive, "Faster than light" https://www.paradoxplaza.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello, SFIA audio listeners. In this month's Nebula exclusive, big alien theory,
0:05.2	we're asking the reason alien civilizations might be rare is because most aliens are huge.
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0:20.1	This episode is sponsored by Brilliant.
0:23.3	There's been a lot of discussion over the years about whether Pluto should be categorized as a planet or a dwarf planet.
0:31.1	But all of that talk misses the fact that Pluto is something unique in our solar system, a binary planet, and someday it will
0:40.4	be a landmark tourist trap.
0:44.0	Today we're talking about colonizing Pluto and also other icy dwarf planets and various
0:50.1	Kuiper Belt and trans-Neptunian bodies. Throughout this video, I'm going to refer to Pluto as a planet, so I want to say up
0:58.7	front that I'm not defying the International Astronomical Union or trying to restart
1:04.1	an old argument.
1:06.0	Remember, a dwarf planet or minor planet is still a planet, just as our sun is called a dwarf star,
1:13.8	but is in arguably still a star.
1:16.9	Category names in astronomy have always been a little muddled because astronomers have almost
1:22.0	always had to invent categories without knowing all the things they'd eventually have
1:26.7	to categorize.
1:28.4	Pluto's not the first planet to get reclassified, as we discussed in colonizing series
1:33.4	and the asteroid belt, in the first decade of the 19th century, long before we found Pluto,
1:39.8	we found Ceres, Vesta, Pallas, and Juno, and dubbed them planets because they orbited
1:45.5	the Sun.
1:47.0	As we were able to see smaller objects, we noticed far more of them and in an area we called
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