Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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White Holes: Do They Exist? Oct 08, 2026

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White holes are black holes run backward: nothing can enter, but matter and light can escape. We explore whether these strange solutions could exist, connect to black holes, or even hint at how universes are born.

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White Holes: Do They Exist?

Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur

Editor: Briana Brownell

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

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Chapters

0:00 Intro

1:55 The Universe’s Exit Door

7:03 The Equation That Runs Backward

12:20 Why Nature Hates White Holes

15:44 Black Holes, Baby Universes, and the Big Bang Temptation

23:06 Rifftrax

24:00 Mathematical Ghosts or Future Cosmic Fireworks?

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White Holes: Do They Exist? (Narration Only) Oct 08, 2026

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White Holes: Do They Exist?

Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur

Editor: Briana Brownell

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

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Chapters

0:00 Intro

1:55 The Universe’s Exit Door

7:03 The Equation That Runs Backward

12:20 Why Nature Hates White Holes

15:44 Black Holes, Baby Universes, and the Big Bang Temptation

23:06 Rifftrax

24:00 Mathematical Ghosts or Future Cosmic Fireworks?

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Mining Mercury: The First Planetary Industrial Base (Narration Only) Oct 04, 2026

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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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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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Mining Mercury: The First Planetary Industrial Base Oct 04, 2026

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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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Mining Mercury: The First Planetary Industrial Base

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

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

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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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We Can Make Gasoline From Air. So Why Don’t We? (Narration Only) Oct 01, 2026

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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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We Can Make Gasoline From Air. So Why Don’t We? Sep 28, 2026

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Making Gasoline from Air - The Science of Synthetic Fuel

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Editors: Jason Snyder & Yoel Mizrachi

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The Economics of Immortality (Narration Only) Sep 27, 2026

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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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The Economics of Immortality Sep 27, 2026

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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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The Prison Planet Problem - Exiled to Space (Narration Only) Sep 24, 2026

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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

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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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The Prison Planet Problem - Exiled to Space Sep 24, 2026

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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