Planet Ships

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Isaac Arthur

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🗓️ 28 March 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Earth has often been compared to a spaceship, one that's successfully orbited our star and the galaxy many times over billions of years. So what about moving our planet or even converting it or another world into a spaceship? Can we use entire planets to cross the intergalactic void to settle planets in distant galaxies or superclusters? And what sort of engine and drive could move a whole planet? Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/oim7VvUURd8 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: Generation Ships: Planet Ships Episode 179, Season 5 E13 Written by: Isaac Arthur Editors: Andrew Norman Darius Said Gregory Leal https://www.gregschool.org/ Keith Blockus Sapioit D. Suicider Cover Art: Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier Graphics by: Fishy Tree https://www.deviantart.com/fishytree/ Jarred Eagley Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana Justin Dixon Katie Byrne Ken York https://www.facebook.com/YDVisual/ Kris Holland (Mafic Studios) www.maficstudios.com Kristijan Tavcar https://www.miragedereve.com Mihail Yordanov Sergio Botero https://www.artstation.com/sboterod?fref=gc Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Music Manager: Luca DeRosa - lucaderosa2@live.com Music: Markus Junnikkala, "Plotting a Course" https://www.markusjunnikkala.com/ Kai Engel, "Endless Story About Sun and Moon" https://www.kai-engel.com/ Paradox Interactive, "The March Of Profits" https://www.paradoxplaza.com NJ Mandaville, "Plagal" https://soundcloud.com/nj-mandaville AJ Prasad of Dark Future, "Cold Shadow" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA8-7qwaEPU Ross Bugden, "Beyond" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQKGLOK2FqmVgVwYferltKQ Chris Zabriskie, "Readers Do You Read" http://chriszabriskie.com Lombus, "Amino" https://lombus.bandcamp.com Markus Junnikkala, "We Roam the Stars" https://www.markusjunnikkala.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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0:20.3	This episode is sponsored by Brilliant.
0:23.4	We so often talk about building spaceships to visit and colonize new planets, but what
0:29.6	about making a spaceship out of a planet?
0:45.1	So today we're back to the Generation Ship series to discuss building spaceships that are of a planetary scale or even outright moving entire planets between stars or even galaxies.
0:52.7	And incidentally, if you're new to the channel, welcome to
0:55.9	S-FIA, probably the only place on the internet where a serious discussion about moving
1:01.4	entire planets would qualify as fairly mundane. Why would you ever want to move an entire
1:08.3	planet? That's a good question, but it turns out that we might have a few good reasons.
1:13.6	First, we might realize that something is about to go terribly wrong with our Sun, as will
1:19.0	happen when it begins to run out of fuel and slowly heats up and expands, and we'll want
1:24.0	to move Earth.
1:25.5	Even as early as about one billion years from now, the Sun's
1:28.6	luminosity may have increased sufficiently to render the Earth uninhabitable. We've talked
1:33.9	before about ways of extending a star's lifetime, but those are very time and labor-consuming
1:39.6	tasks. Moving a tiny rocky planet-like Earth is, comparatively, a weekend project, so you might
1:46.5	decide to just migrate Earth to a new, younger solar system.
1:51.0	Of course we could face a more immediate solar emergency, perhaps of an artificial variety,
1:56.7	such as an artificial black hole being dumped into the sun.
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