Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Afleveringen

• Digital Immortality - Backing Up the Human Soul 05.07.2026 25min

  Could digital immortality really save you, or just create a convincing copy? We explore mind uploading, backups, identity, and whether survival means continuity… or redundancy.
• Digital Immortality - Backing Up the Human Soul (Narration Only) 05.07.2026 25min

  Could digital immortality really save you, or just create a convincing copy? We explore mind uploading, backups, identity, and whether survival means continuity… or redundancy.
• Is AI the Great Filter? | The Fermi Paradox (Narration Only) 02.07.2026 41min

  Could AI explain the Fermi Paradox? From alignment failures to machine ecologies, we explore whether artificial intelligence destroys civilizations… or helps them reach the stars.
• Is AI the Great Filter? | The Fermi Paradox 02.07.2026 41min

  Could AI explain the Fermi Paradox? From alignment failures to machine ecologies, we explore whether artificial intelligence destroys civilizations… or helps them reach the stars.
• Water Shielded Starships - Surviving Radiation in Deep Space (Narration Only) 28.06.2026 40min

  From cosmic rays to solar storms, space travel is a radiation gauntlet—but water may be the simplest, smartest solution. Discover how future starships might turn their life-support systems into life-saving armor.
• Water Shielded Starships - Surviving Radiation in Deep Space 28.06.2026 40min

  From cosmic rays to solar storms, space travel is a radiation gauntlet—but water may be the simplest, smartest solution. Discover how future starships might turn their life-support systems into life-saving armor.
• Antimatter Containment - Bottling the Lightning (Narration Only) 25.06.2026 26min

  Antimatter could power starships, but how do you store fuel that annihilates on contact? We explore traps, fields, failures, and future containment.
• Antimatter Containment - Bottling the Lightning 25.06.2026 26min

  Antimatter could power starships, but how do you store fuel that annihilates on contact? We explore traps, fields, failures, and future containment.
• What If We Found a Second Earth Nearby? (Narration Only) 23.06.2026 29min

  What if we found a true second Earth nearby? A living world, a barren paradise, or something too familiar to be natural could change science, politics, and humanity’s future forever.
• What If We Found a Second Earth Nearby? 23.06.2026 29min

  What if we found a true second Earth nearby? A living world, a barren paradise, or something too familiar to be natural could change science, politics, and humanity’s future forever.
• Why Haven’t We Found Dyson Spheres Yet? (Narration Only) 20.06.2026 38min

  Where are the Dyson Spheres? If they’re real, we should see them everywhere. Here’s why we don’t, and what that means for alien civilizations.
• Why Haven’t We Found Dyson Spheres Yet? 20.06.2026 38min

  Where are the Dyson Spheres? If they’re real, we should see them everywhere. Here’s why we don’t, and what that means for alien civilizations.
• The Physics of FTL Travel (Narration Only) 18.06.2026 40min

  Could we ever go faster than light? We examine warp drives, wormholes, hyperspace, tachyons, and the deep physics protecting causality.
• The Physics of FTL Travel 18.06.2026 40min

  Could we ever go faster than light? We examine warp drives, wormholes, hyperspace, tachyons, and the deep physics protecting causality.
• Space Habitats: The Megastructures We’ll Call Home (Narration Only) 13.06.2026 3u 51min

  A grand tour of future space habitats, from classic rotating colonies to vast orbital megastructures, asteroid settlements, and the engineering needed to make space livable.
• Space Habitats: The Megastructures We’ll Call Home 13.06.2026 3u 44min

  A grand tour of future space habitats, from classic rotating colonies to vast orbital megastructures, asteroid settlements, and the engineering needed to make space livable.
• What If Humanity Never Masters Fusion? (Narration Only) 11.06.2026 25min

  Fusion may transform civilization, but what if it never arrives? The future still has power, industry, space travel, and plenty of ways forward.
• What If Humanity Never Masters Fusion? 11.06.2026 26min

  Fusion may transform civilization, but what if it never arrives? The future still has power, industry, space travel, and plenty of ways forward.
• The Moon Base: Shackleton Crater vs Other Sites (Narration Only) 07.06.2026 23min

  NASA is returning to the Moon, but where should we stay? Shackleton Crater offers power and ice, but lava tubes, maria, and the far side offer more.
• The Moon Base: Shackleton Crater vs Other Sites 07.06.2026 24min

  NASA is returning to the Moon, but where should we stay? Shackleton Crater offers power and ice, but lava tubes, maria, and the far side offer more.