Terraforming: Forging New Worlds

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Isaac Arthur

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

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🗓️ 13 December 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Our galaxy likely contains trillions of worlds, and perhaps none we could live on without great effort to make them like Earth. To colonize these worlds, to make them settlements for our descendants in the future, we must first terraform them. Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/C2jh7dCwGRs National Space Society Roadmap: https://space.nss.org/nss-roadmap-to-space-settlement-3rd-edition-2018-contents/ 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: Terraforming: Forging New Worlds Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur Episode 268a: December 13, 2020 Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur Editors: Jerry Guern Jason Burbank Keith Blockus S. Kopperud Cover Art: Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier Graphics: Bryan Versteeg http://spacehabs.com Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana Ken York https://www.facebook.com/YDVisual/ Sergio Botero https://www.artstation.com/sboterod?fref=gc Udo Schroeter Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator 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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0:20.0	This episode is brought to you by Brilliant.
0:22.9	There are all trillions of planets in this galaxy, but nature probably didn't hand us
0:27.4	any other pre-made worlds we could just move into, so we will have to forge them into
0:31.4	livable worlds.
0:32.7	But as they say, if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.
0:43.0	So today we return to our Becoming Interplanetary Species series to look at terraforming and
0:47.9	para-teroforming.
0:49.7	In the previous five episodes we follow the National Space Society Roadmap to Space Settlement,
0:54.5	which is linked in the episode description and which breaks it into six parts.
0:58.5	We cover the first five in each of the previous five episodes, however, part six is a bit
1:03.4	broader, consists of more separate topics and I felt the topic of terraforming needed
1:07.7	its own episode.
1:09.3	It's a topic we have looked at before, but I want to discuss our available techniques
1:13.0	for terraforming along with what certain advanced technologies might permit, as well as to
1:17.5	discuss the motivation for doing it.
1:20.2	Terraforming is changing a planet to be livable for Earth-based life forms, it literally
1:24.9	means to form a world to be Earth-like. Alternatively we have bioforming, which is the adaptation of life to live on a new planet,
1:32.3	rather than altering the planet.
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