Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Mercury may be the Solar System’s first true industrial world. We explore robotic mines, solar furnaces, mass drivers, mobile cities, and how the innermost planet could help build a Dyson swarm.

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Mining Mercury: The First Planetary Industrial Base

Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur

Graphics: Ian Long, Jeremy Jozwik, Justin Dixon, Ken York, MirageDereve, Sergio Botero

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0:00 Intro

0:27 The Planet Nobody Mines Yet

3:19 Mercury 101: The Fastest World Around the Sun

7:20 A Metal Planet With a Volatile Past

10:16 Why Mercury Instead of the Asteroids?

13:14 The First Robotic Mines

19:32 Living on the Terminator

21:30 Solar Furnaces and Mercurian Foundries

22:53 Mass Drivers: Railroads to Space

24:26 Space Elevators, Skyhooks, and Rotovators

27:51 The First Near-Sun Industrial Base

28:55 What Mercury Builds: Mirrors, Habitats, and Starships

30:20 The Star Forge Phase

31:36 Could We Terraform Mercury?

33:35 Space Industry

34:35 Should We Preserve a Dead World?

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Mercury may be the Solar System’s first true industrial world. We explore robotic mines, solar furnaces, mass drivers, mobile cities, and how the innermost planet could help build a Dyson swarm.

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Credits:

Mining Mercury: The First Planetary Industrial Base

Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur

Graphics: Ian Long, Jeremy Jozwik, Justin Dixon, Ken York, MirageDereve, Sergio Botero

Music by Epidemic Sound: http://nebula.tv/epidemic

Select imagery/video supplied by Getty Images

0:00 Intro

0:27 The Planet Nobody Mines Yet

3:19 Mercury 101: The Fastest World Around the Sun

7:20 A Metal Planet With a Volatile Past

10:16 Why Mercury Instead of the Asteroids?

13:14 The First Robotic Mines

19:32 Living on the Terminator

21:30 Solar Furnaces and Mercurian Foundries

22:53 Mass Drivers: Railroads to Space

24:26 Space Elevators, Skyhooks, and Rotovators

27:51 The First Near-Sun Industrial Base

28:55 What Mercury Builds: Mirrors, Habitats, and Starships

30:20 The Star Forge Phase

31:36 Could We Terraform Mercury?

33:35 Space Industry

34:35 Should We Preserve a Dead World?

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Gasoline doesn’t have to come from oil. With carbon dioxide captured from the atmosphere, hydrogen, and enough energy, we can manufacture synthetic fuels that work much like the gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel we already use... so why aren’t we doing it everywhere?

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Making Gasoline from Air - The Science of Synthetic Fuel

Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur

Editors: Jason Snyder & Yoel Mizrachi

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Gasoline doesn’t have to come from oil. With carbon dioxide captured from the atmosphere, hydrogen, and enough energy, we can manufacture synthetic fuels that work much like the gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel we already use... so why aren’t we doing it everywhere?

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Credits:

Making Gasoline from Air - The Science of Synthetic Fuel

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Editors: Jason Snyder & Yoel Mizrachi

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What happens when time stops being scarce? From nanobots to mind uploads, we explore the economy of immortality... and what it costs to live forever.

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The Economics of Immortality

Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur

Editors: Thomas Owens

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What happens when time stops being scarce? From nanobots to mind uploads, we explore the economy of immortality... and what it costs to live forever.

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The Economics of Immortality

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Editors: Thomas Owens

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Would we ever colonize space with prisoners? From penal colonies to prison planets, we explore whether exile could become a second chance, a new civilization, or a nightmare with rockets.

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The Prison Planet Problem - Exiled to Space

Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur

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Chapters

Intro

2:30 The Old Logic in a New Sky

6:45 The Prison Planet as a Phase

11:23 Would We Ever Need Prisoner Colonists?

16:13 Punishment, Pardon, or Purpose?

19:33 The Second Wave

24:52 Mad Kings

25:57 The Dark Version, and the Better One

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Would we ever colonize space with prisoners? From penal colonies to prison planets, we explore whether exile could become a second chance, a new civilization, or a nightmare with rockets.

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The Prison Planet Problem - Exiled to Space

Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur

Music by Epidemic Sound: http://nebula.tv/epidemic

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Chapters

Intro

2:30 The Old Logic in a New Sky

6:45 The Prison Planet as a Phase

11:23 Would We Ever Need Prisoner Colonists?

16:13 Punishment, Pardon, or Purpose?

19:33 The Second Wave

24:52 Mad Kings

25:57 The Dark Version, and the Better One

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How big could human civilization become? From trillion-person worlds to Dyson swarms, galaxy-spanning cultures, and digital minds, we explore just how far humanity could scale.

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How Big Could Human Civilization Get?

Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur

Music by Epidemic Sound: http://nebula.tv/epidemic

Stellardrone & Chris Zabriskie

Graphics: Jeremy Jozwik, Sergio Botero, Udo Schroeter

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Chapters

0:00 Intro

2:54 Earth, Planets, and the Classic Human Future

10:05 The Galaxy as a Human Family Tree

16:53 Using Space Properly

23:41 Stars, Galaxies, and Kardashev Civilizations

30:32 Gods & Monsters

31:35 When Humans Stop Being Baseline

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How big could human civilization become? From trillion-person worlds to Dyson swarms, galaxy-spanning cultures, and digital minds, we explore just how far humanity could scale.

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Credits:

How Big Could Human Civilization Get?

Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur

Music by Epidemic Sound: http://nebula.tv/epidemic

Stellardrone & Chris Zabriskie

Graphics: Jeremy Jozwik, Sergio Botero, Udo Schroeter

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Chapters

0:00 Intro

2:54 Earth, Planets, and the Classic Human Future

10:05 The Galaxy as a Human Family Tree

16:53 Using Space Properly

23:41 Stars, Galaxies, and Kardashev Civilizations

30:32 Gods & Monsters

31:35 When Humans Stop Being Baseline

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