Interstellar Colonization Strategies
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Isaac Arthur
4.9 • 781 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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As we seek to travel vast distances to claim the galaxy, we will need to develop strategies and methods for voyaging through deep space and reaching strange new worlds.
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Interstellar Colonization Strategies
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 376, January 5, 2023
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur
Editors:
Donagh Broderick
Evan Schultheis
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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 asked at the reason alien civilizations might be rare is because most aliens are huge. |
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| 0:20.3 | Our destiny may lie among the stars, billions upon billions of new worlds, but what strategies |
| 0:27.6 | might we employ to claim that future? |
| 0:45.3 | Welcome to the first episode of our ninth season of Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur, and I am your forementioned host, Isaac Arthur. |
| 0:48.3 | Over the years our show has become known for many things, from my borderline jingle of get a drink and a snack before |
| 0:54.7 | we begin to my peculiar speech impediment and accent, but maybe most of all for the topic |
| 1:00.0 | of space colonization, and it seemed a good topic to start the year off with. |
| 1:05.3 | How to colonize the stars is a big topic, and the strategies depend a lot on your technologies |
| 1:10.5 | as well as your goals |
| 1:11.7 | and the current geopolitical or intracolar political situation. |
| 1:16.4 | Many of these topics are ones we have explored in greater detail in other episodes, so as we |
| 1:21.4 | usually do on the show, we'll put a thumbnail of the cover of the relevant episode or playlist |
| 1:26.1 | up on the screen and do an |
| 1:28.0 | in-video card for as many as YouTube lets us put up there, and you can watch those deeper |
| 1:32.8 | dives now or at your leisure, allowing us to keep things reasonably brief in today's episode. |
| 1:38.6 | That's still a lot to cover, so we'll be here for a bit, and you might want to grab a |
| 1:43.1 | drink and a snack, and if you want to grab a drink and a snack. |
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