The Million Year Machine (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Isaac Arthur

Genetics, Artificial Intelligence, Sci Fi, Post Scarcity, Spacecraft, Energy Abundance, Scifi, Cybernetics, Technological Future, Space Megastructures, Space Station, Starship, Technology, Space Industry, Future Of Humanity, Science, Astronomy, Civilizaiton, Human Civilizaiton, Futurism, Megastructures, Transhumanism, Interstellar Travel, Engineering, Physics, Space Colonization, Future, Long Term Future, Spaceship, Space, Space Infrastructure, Future Philosophy

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🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In order to build a future able to stretch across millions of years, we may need to be able to build machines able to endure the brutal erosion of deep time. Visit https://brilliant.org/isaacarthur/ to get started learning STEM for free, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription. 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 Million Year Machine Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur Episode 333; March 10, 2022 Produced, Written, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur Editors: Jason Burbank Cover Art: Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier Graphics: Darth Biomech Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana Ken York of YD Visual https://www.facebook.com/YDVisual/ Legiontech Studios Sergio Botero https://www.artstation.com/sboterod?fref=gc Udo Schroeter Music by: Markus Junnikkala https://markusjunnikkala.com Stellardrone: https://stellardrone.bandcamp.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.
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
0:08.0	is because most aliens are huge.
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0:23.3	Nothing lasts forever, but to build the truly immense and bright future we often envision,
0:28.7	we may need machines to can function for millions of years.
0:35.6	So often our contemplations of the future, we look at ships or megastructures that have
0:40.1	implied lifetimes of thousands of years, or even longer, sometimes much longer, and these
0:46.2	sorts of machines that need to last geological lifetimes are very common in science fiction,
0:51.4	too.
0:52.4	So often there's a bit of a hand wave as to how in the heck
0:55.1	you can keep something functioning that long. Indeed, even assuming self-repair mechanisms
0:59.8	raises issues like machine equivalents of mutation and cancer, or their ideological equivalence
1:05.5	too. How do we keep a colony on a 10,000-year journey on task and focused on achieving their original mission,
1:13.3	while keeping in mind that 10,000 years is longer than all of recorded human history,
1:18.6	let alone an actual civilization or continuous organization. That's more than 100 human
1:24.9	lifetimes, 100 centuries, and yet a million years
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