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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.

Transhumanism & Humanity’s Future (Narration Only)

34 mins; December 29, 2022

Do We Live Inside A Black Hole… And Could We?

27 mins; December 22, 2022

Do We Live Inside A Black Hole… And Could We? (Narration Only)

26 mins; December 22, 2022

Farming On Mars (Narration Only)

28 mins; December 15, 2022

Farming On Mars

29 mins; December 15, 2022

Planetary Civil War

33 mins; December 11, 2022

Planetary Civil War (Narration Only)

32 mins; December 11, 2022

Humanity: Firstborn Space Civilization

36 mins; December 08, 2022

Humanity: Firstborn Space Civilization (Narration Only)

35 mins; December 08, 2022

The Plan For After SETI Is Successful

31 mins; December 01, 2022

The Plan For After SETI Is Successful (Narration Only)

30 mins; December 01, 2022

SFIA Monthly Livestream 49 - November 27, 2022

53 mins; November 27, 2022

Reasons To Be Optimistic About The Future

30 mins; November 24, 2022

Reasons To Be Optimistic About The Future (Narration Only)

29 mins; November 24, 2022

Living Planets: The Gaia Hypothesis (Narration Only)

28 mins; November 17, 2022

Living Planets: The Gaia Hypothesis

29 mins; November 17, 2022

Stranded On An Alien World

36 mins; November 13, 2022

Stranded On An Alien World (Narration Only)

35 mins; November 13, 2022

Automated Economies & Unemployment (Narration Only)

30 mins; November 10, 2022

Automated Economies & Unemployment

31 mins; November 09, 2022

Refueling Our Sun: Holding Back Eternity

37 mins; November 03, 2022

Refueling Our Sun: Holding Back Eternity (Narration Only)

36 mins; November 02, 2022

SFIA Monthly Livestream 48 - October 30, 2022

58 mins; October 30, 2022

Damaged Spacecraft & Shipwrecked Saucers (Narration Only)

37 mins; October 27, 2022

Damaged Spacecraft & Shipwrecked Saucers

37 mins; October 26, 2022

Your Own Personal Spaceship (Narration Only)

37 mins; October 20, 2022

Your Own Personal Spaceship

38 mins; October 20, 2022

Alien Environments

30 mins; October 16, 2022

Alien Environments (Narration Only)

29 mins; October 16, 2022

What Happens If We Can't Leave Earth? (Narration Only)

25 mins; October 13, 2022

What Happens If We Can't Leave Earth?

26 mins; October 13, 2022

Colonizing Planetary Rings

28 mins; October 06, 2022

Colonizing Planetary Rings (Narration Only)

28 mins; October 06, 2022

Grabby Aliens & The Fermi Paradox

32 mins; September 29, 2022

Grabby Aliens & The Fermi Paradox (Narration Only)

31 mins; September 29, 2022

SFIA Monthly Livestream 47 - September 25, 2022

63 hours 59 mins; September 26, 2022

Post Science Civilizations

36 mins; September 22, 2022

Post Science Civilizations (Narration Only)

35 mins; September 22, 2022

Barriers to Becoming a Kardashev Civilization (Narration Only)

37 mins; September 15, 2022

Barriers to Becoming a Kardashev Civilization

38 mins; September 15, 2022

Alien Impostors & Doppelgangers

35 mins; September 11, 2022

Alien Impostors & Doppelgangers (Narration Only)

34 mins; September 11, 2022

Tethered Ring Space Launchers

33 mins; September 08, 2022

Tethered Ring Space Launchers (Narration Only)

32 mins; September 08, 2022

Staying Sane in Space

37 mins; September 01, 2022

Staying Sane in Space (Narration Only)

37 mins; September 01, 2022

SFIA Monthly Livestream 46 - August 28, 2022

59 mins; August 28, 2022

The First Space Settlement

39 mins; August 25, 2022

The First Space Settlement (Narration Only)

39 mins; August 25, 2022

Time Wars & Alternate Timelines (Narration Only)

43 mins; August 18, 2022

Time Wars & Alternate Timelines

44 mins; August 18, 2022

Dumbest Alien Invasions (Narration Only)

35 mins; August 14, 2022

Dumbest Alien Invasions

36 mins; August 14, 2022

The Fermi Paradox: Technological Timebombs (Narration Only)

30 mins; August 11, 2022

The Fermi Paradox: Technological Timebombs

31 mins; August 11, 2022

Alien Refugees [Narration Only]

36 mins; August 04, 2022

Alien Refugees

36 mins; August 04, 2022

SFIA Monthly Livestream 45 - July 31, 2022

67 hours 40 mins; July 31, 2022

Black Holes & Dark Matter (Narration Only)

30 mins; July 28, 2022

Black Holes & Dark Matter

30 mins; July 28, 2022

The Fermi Paradox: Absent Megastructures (Narration Only)

44 mins; July 22, 2022

The Fermi Paradox: Absent Megastructures

45 mins; July 22, 2022

Primitive Aliens

31 mins; July 10, 2022

Primitive Aliens (Narration Only)

30 mins; July 10, 2022

Primitive Aliens

31 mins; July 10, 2022

Primitive Aliens (Narration Only)

30 mins; July 10, 2022

Deep Space Habitats (Narration Only)

32 mins; July 07, 2022

Deep Space Habitats

33 mins; July 07, 2022

Life As A Planetary Explorer

31 mins; June 30, 2022

Life As A Planetary Explorer (Narration Only)

30 mins; June 30, 2022

SFIA Monthly Livestream 44 - June 25, 2022

65 hours 4 mins; June 26, 2022

Crawlonizing The Galaxy: Settling Space At Ultra-Low Speeds

37 mins; June 23, 2022

Crawlonizing The Galaxy: Settling Space At Ultra-Low Speeds (Narration Only)

36 mins; June 23, 2022

Interstellar Probes (Narration Only)

29 mins; June 16, 2022

Interstellar Probes

29 mins; June 16, 2022

The Silurian Hypothesis: What Traces Of Humanity Will Be Left 50 Million Years From Now?

29 mins; June 12, 2022

The Silurian Hypothesis: What Traces Of Humanity Will Be Left in 50 Million Years (Narration Only)

28 mins; June 12, 2022

The Megastructure Compendium

113 hours 58 mins; June 09, 2022

The Megastructure Compendium (Narration Only)

113 hours 17 mins; June 09, 2022

What Are Ancestor Simulations... And Are We Living In One

40 mins; June 02, 2022

What Are Ancestor Simulations... And Are We Living In One (Narration Only)

39 mins; June 02, 2022

Dark Sky Stations, Stratospheric Satellites, and Ultra Low Orbit Infrastructure

29 mins; May 26, 2022

Dark Sky Stations, Stratospheric Satellites, and Ultra Low Orbit Infrastructure (Narration Only)

28 mins; May 26, 2022

Surveying For Habitable Interstellar Star Systems (Narration Only)

36 mins; May 19, 2022

Surveying For Habitable Interstellar Star Systems

37 mins; May 19, 2022

Lost Space Colonies

34 mins; May 15, 2022

Lost Space Colonies (Narration Only)

33 mins; May 15, 2022

Making a Magnetosphere for Mars

31 mins; May 12, 2022

Making a Magnetosphere for Mars (Narration Only)

31 mins; May 12, 2022

Godlike Aliens

38 mins; May 05, 2022

Godlike Aliens (Narration Only)

38 mins; May 05, 2022

Is A Technological Singularity Inevitable?

33 mins; April 28, 2022

Is A Technological Singularity Inevitable? (Narration Only)

33 mins; April 28, 2022

SFIA Monthly Livestream 42 - April 24, 2022

66 hours 57 mins; April 24, 2022

Traveling Around Other Worlds

35 mins; April 21, 2022

Traveling Around Other Worlds (Narration Only)

34 mins; April 21, 2022

What If Earth Became A Rogue Planet?

33 mins; April 14, 2022

What If Earth Became A Rogue Planet? (Narration Only)

33 mins; April 14, 2022

Multi-Species Empires

36 mins; April 10, 2022

Multi-Species Empires (Narration Only)

36 mins; April 10, 2022

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