Interstellar Colonization Compendium

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Isaac Arthur

Science, Futurism, Sci Fi, Future, Scifi, Technology, Space, Engineering

4.8 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Summary

Space is huge, immense beyond our wildest dreams. In order to explore and settle it, we’ll need to learn to dream a lot bigger and bolder than ever before.

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Interstellar Colonization Compendium

Episode 455; July 11, 2024

Produced & Written: Isaac Arthur

Narrated by: Isaac Arthur & Sarah Fowler Arthur

Editor: Donagh Broderick

Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator

Lombus, "Cosmic Soup"

Markus Junnikkala, "A Memory Of Earth"

Miguel Johnson, "So Many Stars"

Sergey Cheremisinov, "Sirius", "Labyrinth", "Seven Lights"

Stellardrone, "In Time", "Eternity", "Red Giant", "The Divine Cosmos"

Tara Harkavyi, "Alpha and..."

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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.
0:10.5	To hear it and every episode early and ad-free, plus hours of bonus content,
0:15.1	check out go.nebola.tv slash Isaac Arthur and use my code, Isaac Arthur.
0:21.1	Space is huge, immense beyond our wildest dreams.
0:26.1	In order to explore and settle it, we'll need to learn to dream a lot bigger and bolder than
0:31.7	ever before.
0:45.3	Welcome to Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur, and I am your aforementioned host, Isaac Arthur. And I've been writing and producing this show for almost 10 years now, and spent a lot of time talking about space settlement, so much so that I was elected president of the National
0:55.3	Space Society last year and received the Pioneer Award from the International Space
0:59.7	Development Conference a few years before that. During that time, between chatting with his
1:05.2	audience of space enthusiasts and all the folks from those organizations and events, I've
1:09.7	encountered even more excellent
1:11.4	ideas about how to settle space.
1:14.1	And I felt like it was time to try to summarize our discussion of interstellar colonization
1:18.4	into something thorough but concise.
1:21.4	For channel regulars, they know that my definition of concise is from the same dictionary
1:26.0	Peter Jackson or Zach Snyder presumably
1:28.5	use, so they are already grabbing a drink and a snack.
1:32.6	If you're new here, feel free to pause and go grab some yourself, because we're going
1:37.0	to be here for a bit.
1:39.4	Even as long as this episode is though, it will often only skim the surface of topics, and
1:43.8	we often have entire
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