The Megastructure Compendium
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In the future humanity may build enormous structures, feats of mega-engineering that may rival planets or even be of greater scope. This episode catalogs roughly 100 major types of Megastructure, from those that are cities in space to those that rival galaxies.
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▬ Megastructure Index (Note all entries included) ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:00 - Intro
2:06 - 101 Alphabetically-Organized Megastructures
03:23 - Active Support
04:30 - Alderson Disc
08:30 - Arcology Megatower
13:02 - Atlas Pillars
17:34 - Birch Planet
20:48 - Bishop Ring
23:54 - Black Hole Power Generator
26:36 - Buckyhabs
30:31 - Chainworlds
31:07 - Chandelier Cities
32:30 - Cube Worlds
33:24 - Cylinder Habitat
36:37 - Disc Worlds & Flat Earths
40:45 - Dyson Swarm
45:20 - Hammer Hab
46:43 - Hoop World or Donut World
48:13 - Interstellar Black Hole Highway
53:52 - Magmatter
54:50 - Matrioshka Brain
56:45 - Matrioshka Shellworld
1:01:26 - Neptunian Chainsaw
1:03:57 - Orbital Plates
1:10:08 - Planet Brain / Jupiter Brain
1:11:25 - Planet Swarm
1:13:55 - Quasar drive
1:17:14 - Relativistic Kill Missile
1:20:06 - Ringworld
1:22:19 - Rungworld
1:25:37 - Sky Cities & Cloud Cities
1:27:24 - Smoke Ring
1:32:18 - Space Farms
1:39:00 - Stellaser
1:43:58 - Topopolis
1:46:26 - Wormhole
1:53:00 - Credits
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The Megastructure Compendium
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 346, June 9, 2022
Written & Produced by Isaac Arthur
Narrated by Isaac Arthur & Sarah Fowler Arthur
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Sig’unnr’s Deluge
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What are Ancestor Simulations... and are we living in one?
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Our capability to render virtual realities better and better makes it seem likely one day we could simulate our world flawlessly, and perhaps our minds too. If so, perhaps we will in the future... and perhaps we already did in the past.
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What are Ancestor Simulations... and are we living in one?
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 345, June 2, 2022
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SFIA Live from the International Space Development Conference: May 29, 2022
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SFIA Live from the International Space Development Conference: May 29, 2022
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Dark Sky Stations, Stratospheric Satellites, and Ultra Low Orbit Infrastructure
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Many don't realize that most of our satellites and space stations aren't intended to be far from Earth, but rather, as close as we can get them and still maintain a stable orbit. How much lower can we go in the future?
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Dark Sky Stations, Stratospheric Satellites, and Ultra Low Orbit Infrastructure
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 344, May 26, 2022
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Surveying for Habitable Interstellar Star Systems
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One day humanity might journey to new worlds and settle them, or discover life already on them, but first we'll have to find those exoplanets under aliens suns.
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Surveying for Habitable Interstellar Star Systems
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 343, May 19, 2022
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Lost Space Colonies
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A Galaxy of trillion of worlds, all separated by vast gulfs of time and space, it is very easy for pioneers and colonists to disappear. But what happens to these lost space colonies?
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Rogue Civilizations: Lost Space Colonies
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 342a, May 15, 2022
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Lost Space Colonies
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A Galaxy of trillion of worlds, all separated by vast gulfs of time and space, it is very easy for pioneers and colonists to disappear. But what happens to these lost space colonies?
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Rogue Civilizations: Lost Space Colonies
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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Making a Magnetosphere for Mars
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We believe Mars may once have had oceans and sky, but lost them from a lack of a magnetosphere. How does this happen, and how can we create a magnetosphere for Mars so we can terraform and live on it?
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Making a Magnetosphere for Mars
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 342, May 12, 2022
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Godlike Aliens
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Science Fiction often shows us alien civilizations so advanced they are godlike, but how realistic are they, and what would such entities be like?
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Alien Civilizations: Godlike Aliens
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 341, May 5, 2022
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Is a Technological Singularity Inevitable?
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As computers have improved at an accelerating rate for generations now, fears of some emergent super intelligent computer mind have grown, but is such a Technological Singularity Inevitable, and can we survive it?
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Is a Technological Singularity Inevitable?
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 340, April 28, 2022
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SFIA Monthly Livestream: April 24, 2022
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Traveling Around Other Worlds
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In the future we will journey to new worlds, but how will we travel around on them?
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Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 339; April 21, 2022
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What if Earth became a Rogue Planet?
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Is it possible the Earth might be separated from the Sun or the Sun go out? And if so, could we survive under an eternally dark sky?
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What if Earth became a Rogue Planet?
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 338, April 14, 2022
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Multi-Species Empires
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Interstellar civilizations home to hundreds of peacefully cooperating alien species are a common theme in science fiction, but are such civilizations likely or would we instead see conquest and xenocide?
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Alien Civilizations: Multi-Species Empires
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 337a, April 10 2022
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Self-Growing Habitats & Space Bases
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In the future we will build outposts and bases in space and on distant worlds, but what if we could make it so they built themselves instead?
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Self-Growing Habitats & Space Bases
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 337; April 7, 2022
Produced, Written, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur
Editors:
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David McFarlane
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Katie Byrne
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Linden Gledhill https://www.lindengledhill.com/
Sam McNamara
Sergio Botero https://www.artstation.com/sboterod
Udo Schroeter
Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator
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Programmable & Smart Matter
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The future may see advancements in claytronics, memory metals, and catoms to allow shapeshifting materials that can take on any form and perform any job - possibly even taking on human form itself.
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Programmable & Smart Matter
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 336, March 31, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur
Editors:
David McFarlane
Cover Art:
Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier
Graphics:
Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana
Sergio Botero https://www.artstation.com/sboterod?fref=gc
Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator
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SFIA Monthly Livestream: March 27, 2022
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Moon: Mega City
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The Moon may one day be colonized and grow to be covered in domes and bases spanning the entire once-barren surface, a single mega-city sprawling not just over the surface, but deep below too.
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Moon: Mega-City
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 335; March 24, 2022
Produced, Written, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur
Editors:
Jason Burbank
S. Kopperud
David McFarlane
Cover Art:
Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier
Graphics:
Ian Long (LITE)
Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana
Ken York of YD Visual https://www.facebook.com/YDVisual/
Kris Holland www.maficstudios.com
Sergio Botero https://www.artstation.com/sboterod?fref=gc
Tytus Grabowski
Udo Schroeter
Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator
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Covert Aliens
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Clandestine conspiracies and covert alien activity are popular theories involving UFO & UAP sightings as well as in science fiction, but what would covert alien activity look like?
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Alien Civilizations: Clandestine & Covert Aliens
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 334, March 17, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur
Editors:
David McFarlane
Israel Debro
Jason Burbank
Cover Art:
Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier
Graphics:
Legiontech Studios
Music by:
Martin Rezny, "Lifelight"
Denny Schneidemesser, "Bridge Ambience"
Stellardrone, "A Moment of Stillness"
Aerium, "Fifth Star of Aldebaran"
Miguel Johnson, "Strange New World"
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Synthetic Life
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We often discuss cybernetic, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, and hybrids of them, but what truly is synthetic life? And what is it like?
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Synthetic Life
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 333a, March 13, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur
Editors:
David McFarlane
Jason Burbank
Jerry Guern
Cover Art:
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Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator
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The Million Year Machine
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In order to build a future able to stretch across millions of years, we may need to be able to build machines able to endure the brutal erosion of deep time.
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The Million Year Machine
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 333; March 10, 2022
Produced, Written, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur
Editors:
Jason Burbank
Cover Art:
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Darth Biomech
Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana
Ken York of YD Visual https://www.facebook.com/YDVisual/
Legiontech Studios
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Udo Schroeter
Music by:
Markus Junnikkala https://markusjunnikkala.com
Stellardrone: https://stellardrone.bandcamp.com/
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Nuclear Transmutation
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All we are made of comes from dying stars, those rare supernovae and other cosmic death throes that forge those scarce heavier elements, but could we learn true alchemy and mass manufacture those materials ourselves, and even others not found in nature?
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Nuclear Transmutation
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 332, March 3, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur
Editors:
Jason Burbank
Mark Warburton
Yamagishi
Cover Art:
Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier
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Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana
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Sergio Botero https://www.artstation.com/sboterod?fref=gc
Udo Schroeter
Music by:
Markus Junnikkala, https://markusjunnikkala.com
"Mobilize the Fleets"
"We Roam the Stars"
Stellardrone, https://stellardrone.bandcamp.com
"The Earth is Blue"
"A Moment of Stillness"
Aerium, https://aeriumambient.bandcamp.com
"Fifth Star of Aldebaran"
Miguel Johnson, https://migueljohnson.bandcamp.com
"Strange New World"
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SFIA Monthly Livestream: February 27, 2022
Our monthly livestream Q&A session. Join us on 4pm EST, Sunday, February 27, 2022, and get your questions about the channel and episodes on chat to be answered!
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Oceans in Space: Marine Space Habitats & Preserves
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In the future humanity will look to build new lives out among the stars, forging new worlds and megastructures for us to live on. But what about deep sea ecologies and aquatic life? What sort of habitats might we design for them?
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Oceans in Space: Marine Space Habitats & Preserves
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 331, February 24 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur
Editors:
Jason Burbank
Ken York (YD Visual)
Yamagishi
Cover Art:
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Cameron Scott
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Sam McNamara (Rapid Thrash)
Sergio Botero https://www.artstation.com/sboterod?fref=gc
Udo Schroeter
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Stellar Drone https://stellardrone.bandcamp.com
Denny Schneidemesser https://soundcloud.com/denny-schneidemesser
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