The Fermi Paradox: Imprisoned Planets

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Isaac Arthur

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🗓️ 13 February 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Getting into space is difficult, but it may be that other worlds have even harder times at it than we do, imprisoned by orbital debris, high gravity, or even being quarantined by alien civilizations. Start building your ideal daily routine ! The first 100 people who click on the link will get 25% OFF Fabulous Premium: http://thefab.co/isaac Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/L7oo0ChPM_c Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur 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: The Fermi Paradox: Imprisoned Planets Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur Episode 329a, February 13, 2022 Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur Cover Art: Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier Graphics: Bryan Versteeg https://www.spacehabs.com Darth Biomech https://www.artstation.com/darth_biomech Jarred Eagley 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 Stephen Huck 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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0:19.8	This episode is brought to you by Fabulous.
0:23.5	Imagine the day of civilization discovers the starry night sky above contains billions of
0:28.9	billions of worlds awaiting their arrival.
0:32.2	Now imagine the day they realize those voyages will never be made.
0:43.4	No. they realize those voyages will never be made. So earlier this week we were talking about Kessler syndrome, collision cascades around planets
0:48.1	that might make spaceflight very dangerous or even impossible, and it is one of many things
0:52.8	that might make it very hard for
0:54.1	them to leave their world to colonize space, or potentially even be able to contemplate
0:58.6	the possibility.
1:00.7	Some of these might be natural causes, some might be self-inflicted or even from exterior
1:05.5	sources like an auto-alien civilization quarantining a planet.
1:10.5	Now when we discuss the Fermi paradox, the big question of where all the aliens are, we
1:14.8	often emphasize that many solutions don't work simply because we wouldn't expect them
1:18.9	to be universal.
1:20.4	We call this non-exclusivity as the idea that why we would expect the ability to build
1:26.0	spaceships to be a trait
1:27.8	exclusive to species with a knowledge of basic mathematics and physics, we would not expect
1:33.3	the ability to go into space to be exclusive to, say, civilizations whose economic system
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