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Interplanetary Infrastructure

Isaac Arthur

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They say space is the future, out among the countless billions and billions of new worlds in our galaxy, but a journey needs a path or road, so what sort of roads will we build in space?

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Credits: Interplanetary Infrastructure
Episode 412, September 14, 2023
Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur

Written by:
Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Andy Nelson
David McFarlane
Merv Johnson
Phil Swan

Graphics:
Ian Long LITE
Jarred Eagley
Jeremy Jozwik
Katie Byrne
Ken York
Mafic Studios
Phil Swan
Sergio Botero
Udo Schroeter

Music Courtesy of:
Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator
Stellardrone, "Red Giant" "Ultra Deep Field"
Sergey Cheremisinov, "Labyrinth" "Forgotten Stars"
Taras Harkavyi, "Alpha and ..."
Miguel Johsnon, "So Many Stars"

20 Comments

@sheldoniusRex 3 years ago

We need a "Life on an Aldrin cycler" episode.

@NextDevilv 3 years ago

Does anyone else look forward to the next Isaac Arthur video more than any other creator? Just fantastic content I just love listening to

@Vjx-d7c 3 years ago

Currently in class waiting on my professor to show up and this banger drops I hope I can watch it all before he arrives 😅😅

@bruhhhhhhhhhdn 3 years ago

That trick that uses earth's inclination to support a mass driver blew my mind.

@colinsmith1495 3 years ago

I think the idea of the 'end of the internet' is a bit of a mis-speak. I think it's more likely that we'll end up with separate internets that periodically synch. For example, imagine that YouTube was hosted on Jupiter and Earth. Earth-based creators could upload stuff to an Earth-base audience easily, and Jupiter-based creators to Jupiter-based audiences. But Earth would only get an update from ALL the Jupiter creators maybe once a month or so, in one massive upload, as convenient. And Jupiter would get the same upload from Earth at the same time.

Remember, expanding out doesn't necessarily imply that the local population drops, and we're likely to cluster around other specific locations for some time.

@sixtenwidlund4258 3 years ago

IT’S ARTHURS DAY!!!

@Tombfyre 3 years ago

Gotta love orbital and / or tethered rings! So many uses for the things. I can only imagine how useful they'd be for improving internet connectivity all around the world, let alone all the other fun uses.

@frankreynolds445 3 years ago

I remember when touch tone telephones and transistor radios were the new big thing. My TV in the 1960s had a bunch of big vacuum tubes and rabbit ears were the closest thing to Hi tech.

@LibertyLedger1 3 years ago

I wrote a series of stories set in the solar system circa 2885. The original Aldrin cycler has grown into what's known as the Aldrin Archipelago, a constellation of around 30 hollowed-out asteroids connected by tethers. There are about 70 million permanent inhabitants, plus about 25 million 'birds,' the local term for passengers, yearly. Local festivals are based around significant orbital events (Mars Passing and Earth Passing, for example) and a mythology has sprung up. It's a pretty fun setting.

@AnonymousAnarchist2 3 years ago

the best part of waking up is Isaac Arthur in my ears and coffee in my cup.

@MrTaxiRob 3 years ago

I think the best combination of these ideas is an orbital ring around Venus. We have nothing to lose but money if it collapses in on the planet, and it would be the perfect place to begin terraforming the atmosphere without having to build a separate solar shield at L1. You could even use it as a staging ground to build the artificial moon that Venus needs to correct its spin.

Another one around Mars and a third around Titan would help make less expensive mass transfers possible between them, making all three of them inhabited colonies eventually. A fourth ring around Earth could then be used to move people to those colonies, because by then human fear of orbital ring collapse would have been fully abated.

@morsecodereviews1553 3 years ago (edited)

Isaac is like Alladin, he brings us to a whole new world.

@SkyFly19853 3 years ago

The videos on space...
Getting better and better...
✅✅✅✅✅

@steveishere7909 3 years ago

As far as infrastructure goes, Perhaps a dive into the possibility of jump/hyper gate technology and the difficulty/challenges of such tech.

@qpwodkgh2010 3 years ago

Isaac Arthur's channel is one of the first, if not the first channel that I subscribed to. I'm pleased for all the educations and entertainment provided. Thank you.

@cannonfodder4376 3 years ago

Nothing like a new Arthursday video to get my spirits for the future up. They were flagging these past weeks.

Another good video, Isaac.

@SonofSagan8-D 3 years ago

Dangit Isaac, I dread the day you become an official government whatever because your content quality might dip, youre just way too good. You set the bar too high!

@UltimatePerfection 3 years ago

I want you to tackle what I consider a huge stupidity in sci-fi settings and that's entire planets dedicated to specific things. Farming worlds, factory worlds, etc. Like, why? Every planet is big enough to have everything on it needed to be self-sufficient (just like Earth, although we aren't really good at it). And that would make these colonies impervious to any sort of planetary blockades and other common SF war tropes. Yeah, it makes for a good story, but I sincerely hope that if we get an interplanetary presence we don't go that route, because it's a stupid thing to do IRL.

@theostickle2604 3 years ago (edited)

@Issac Arthur Thank you for another great video. You always give me something to think about where it either confirms the reasoning for a project, helps me realize what I missed, or even scrap a project and start over. Infrastructure is always the logistical nightmare that kills or gives birth to expansion of commerce and resource development. Edit: I have a few years on you: ending of vacuum tube radios and the birth of color TV and commercial transistors - "solid state" technologies.

@prakadox 3 years ago

Great episode. Always nice to have a megastructure centric episode. The vision of a future serviced by skyhooks, tethered rings, orbital rings is beautiful!