The Fermi Paradox: Fallen Empires

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Isaac Arthur

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

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🗓️ 17 September 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The cosmos seem silent and empty of any great interstellar empires, but perhaps they once existed, and if so, what titanic ruins might they have left behind?

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The Fermi Paradox: Fallen Empires

Episode 412a, September 17, 2023

Produced, Written & Narrated by:

Isaac Arthur

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Jerry Guern

Konstantin Sokerin

David McFarlane

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0:00.0	Hello, SFIA audio listeners.
0:02.5	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.
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.
0:20.5	And on a pedestal these words appear.
0:23.6	My name is Azamandius, king of kings.
0:26.8	Look on my works ye mighty and despair.
0:30.3	Nothing beside remains, round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare.
0:35.6	The lone and levelands stretch far away.
0:45.5	Welcome to Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur, and I am your host, the aforementioned
0:50.7	Isaac Arthur, and I've been your host for nine years now as we celebrate
0:55.2	the 9th anniversary of our first show back on September 17th of 2014.
1:01.9	We'll talk about that more toward the end of the episode, but that original episode, and
1:06.1	its unplanned sequel some months later, we're focused on the idea that our image of
1:10.7	the future from
1:11.5	sci-fi, of being a civilization of thousands of planets, spread over a galaxy, was wrong.
1:18.4	In space opera, humanity colonized endless worlds around yellow stars and occasionally other kinds
1:24.1	too, and maybe has a few other minor outposts or space stations in any given star system.
1:30.3	Maybe one star in a hundred has people living around it, and probably less than a billion
1:35.3	of them.
1:36.3	This got stuck in our minds as how we tend to think alien civilizations would behave too,
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