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**Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur**

**Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur** explores humanity’s long-term future through space exploration, advanced technology, and big-picture science. Hosted by National Space Society President Isaac Arthur, each episode uses real science and careful speculation to examine space colonization, megastructures, artificial intelligence, post-scarcity economies, and the physics shaping civilization beyond Earth.

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SFIA Monthly Livestream Q&A #54 - April 23, 2023 Apr 23, 2023

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Our monthly livestream Q&A session recorded on Sunday April 23, 2023, at 4pm EST.

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Life on Giant Moons (Narration Only) Apr 20, 2023

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We often contemplate life on alien planets, but might giant moons orbiting distant immense worlds be a better candidate for where extraterrestrial life might be found?

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Life on Giant Moons

Episode 391, April 20, 2023

Written, Produced & Narrated by:

Isaac Arthur

Editors:

Anne Kristoffersen

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David McFarlane

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Life on Giant Moons Apr 20, 2023

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We often contemplate life on alien planets, but might giant moons orbiting distant immense worlds be a better candidate for where extraterrestrial life might be found?

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Life on Giant Moons

Episode 391, April 20, 2023

Written, Produced & Narrated by:

Isaac Arthur

Editors:

Anne Kristoffersen

Briana Brownell

David McFarlane

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Super Weapons (Narration Only) Apr 16, 2023

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Our history has been one of inventing ever more devastating and unstoppable weapons, and yet they may pale in comparison to those made to wreck whole galaxies or tear asunder reality itself.

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Super Weapons

Episode 390a, April 16, 2023

Produced, Written & Narrated by:

Isaac Arthur

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Briana Brownell

David McFarlane

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Super Weapons Apr 16, 2023

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Our history has been one of inventing ever more devastating and unstoppable weapons, and yet they may pale in comparison to those made to wreck whole galaxies or tear asunder reality itself.

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Super Weapons

Episode 390a, April 16, 2023

Produced, Written & Narrated by:

Isaac Arthur

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Briana Brownell

David McFarlane

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Nuclear Power: Small Modular Reactors (Narration Only) Apr 13, 2023

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Small Modular Reactors are a promising area of nuclear technology that may be the pathway forward to cheap, safe, and sustainable energy.

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Nuclear Power: Small Modular Reactors

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Episode 390, April 13, 2023

Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Nuclear Power: Small Modular Reactors Apr 13, 2023

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Small Modular Reactors are a promising area of nuclear technology that may be the pathway forward to cheap, safe, and sustainable energy.

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Nuclear Power: Small Modular Reactors

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Episode 390, April 13, 2023

Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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The Fermi Paradox: Galactic Habitable Zones (Narration Only) Apr 06, 2023

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Our galaxy is a dangerous place for life. A vast storm of stars in which new ones are born and die in deadly displays. How much of the galaxy is truly safe for life to emerge in?

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The Fermi Paradox: Galactic Habitable Zones

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Episode 389, April 6, 2023

Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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The Fermi Paradox: Galactic Habitable Zones Apr 06, 2023

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Our galaxy is a dangerous place for life. A vast storm of stars in which new ones are born and die in deadly displays. How much of the galaxy is truly safe for life to emerge in?

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The Fermi Paradox: Galactic Habitable Zones

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Episode 389, April 6, 2023

Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:

Briana Brownell

David McFarlane

Jerry Guern

Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator

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Advanced Spaceship Drive Compendium (Narration Only) Mar 30, 2023

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In order to reach the stars we will need vastly more powerful engines for our spacecraft than modern rockets offer. Fortunately, when it comes to possible ship drives, the sky is not the limit.

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Advanced Spaceship Drive Compendium

Episode 388, March 30, 2023

Produced & Written by: Isaac Arthur

Narrated by:

Isaac Arthur

Sarah Fowler Arthur

Editors:

Darius Said

David McFarlane

Sarah Fowler Arthur

▬ Spaceship Drive Index ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

0:00 Intro

3:12 Alcubierre Drive

4:10 Antimatter Ablated Light Sail

5:06 Antimatter Catalyzed Fusion

6:13 Antimatter Rocket

8:12 Arcjet Rocket

9:15 Bias Drive

10:02 Black Hole Drive

11:23 Bussard Ramjet

14:04 Caplan Thruster

14:39 Chemical Rockets

16:24 Clarketech

17:30 Diametric Drive

18:51 Disjunction Drive

19:31 Electric Solar Wind Sail

21:26 Electrodynamic Tethering

22:59 EM Drive

24:15 Exhaust Velocity

26:03 Field Propulsion

26:34 FTL or Faster Than Light Drives

27:20 Fuel

27:59 Fusion Torch Drive

30:02 Gravitational Dipole

31:31 Gravitic Propulsion

32:58 Hall Effect Thruster

34:46 Hawking Radiation Drive

36:45 Helicon Double-Layer Thruster

37:22 Helios Drive

38:41 Hyperspace Jump Engine or Hyperdrive

40:09 Inertia Reduction Drive

41:39 Ion Drive

43:15 Krasnikov Tube

44:52 Laser Sail

47:21 Magnetic Solar Wind Sail

48:03 Magnetoplasmadynamic Thruster

49:41 Matter Beam

51:09 Medusa Drive

51:43 Microwave Electrothermal Thruster

52:57 Negative Mass Propulsion

54:25 Neutrino Rocket

56:08 Nova Drive

57:41 Nuclear Electric Ion Drive

57:11 Nuclear Lightbulb

58:09 Nuclear Pulse Drive

1:00:40 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion

1:02:19 Orion Drive

1:02:40 Oxidizer

1:03:10 Photon Rocket

1:05:48 Pitch Drive

1:06:38 Propellant

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