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
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I was thinking about this earlier this week
I've got a question for fans or Arthur himself. A long time ago when discussing megastructure weapons, you mentioned that you had created a post describing a mega weapon that utilized multiple stars. Do you know what that was called, I have not been able to find the video where you mentioned it. And you never did a stand alone video discussing it.
this reminds me of the "von Neumann-Probes" and one of the best book series "Bobbyverse1-4" 😛
I kept thinking, 'Sluggy Freelance. Sluggy Freelance.'
We're still discovering different classes of virus. The web of life is amazing.
rhyming Isaac Arthur isn't real, he can't hurt you
rhyming Isaac Arthur:
Sounds a bit like Superman returns
An you do a video talking about our options to construct on Mars? When most of the necessary equipment we need is made from Organic chemistry? Gaskets. Seals. Rubber. Plastics. Fertilizers. Lubricants. Reagents. Almost any fabric or flexible life support system. You'd need to ship everything. It's so confusing to me.þl
Something to consider: It would seem that while ease and comfort is what we all want, work and achievement is what we all need.
Does a human being actually feel human if they exist without a sense of having earned what they have, are they even human at all..?
Technology is a wonderful tool with near endless possibilities. But should the tool become an endless source of free provision does it's owner stop having a reason to exist regardless of how wonderful their environment might be?
It's an odd paradox to consider as I sit in my nice house, retired after a lifetime of work. Maybe I am content even though I now have few commitments or remaining responsibilities because I earned it, even if I'd rather have gotten it 'for free'?
But I got here through a lifetime of thankless overwork and stress in a job I came to despise for all the harm it did me and my family. (a doctor) Looking back I certainly wish I hadn't wasted my life on such a miserable existence, but here's the rub…
…What if I had been born with a silver spoon in my mouth or had lucked in to a pile of cash early on? I would certainly have had a seemingly more comfortable and less miserable life but I suspect it would have been one of frustrated worthlessness to me – my house a prison in which to spend my fading years wondering if my existence had any point at all.
Equally a future me after a lifetime of having everything provided for me by the tools of technology might also wonder at the pointlessness of existence having earned and achieved nothing for myself. I already see this sense building in our society today – our children miserable, selfish, self-centred monsters. They seem full of self-pity, entitlement, and possibly self-loathing, as a result of never having had anything to strive for.
I read a WHO study a few years ago that characterised children in the UK as some of the most unhappy in the world while the same paper noted their peers living on the rubbish dumps of Mumbai were among the happiest – funny that, I'd rather be the former but it seems I'd be better off as the latter!
I think minor genetic engineering would allow humans to live in zero gravity permanently and deal with radiation. Colonizing planets seems like a waste of resources. With some moderately more complicated genetic modification we could probably edit feet and legs into arms and hands. Having four arms and hands seems like it would be useful in zero G.
When I hear of the idea of growing habitats, I’m reminded of the biological space ship from Arthur C. Clark and Gregory Benford’s Beyond the Fall of Night. I’ve been intrigued by the concept ever since reading this novel in my youth.
7:28
STCs confirmed
> Kg is a measure of mass, not weight
As opposed to pound, which is at least 3 measures of mass and 1 of force.
22:50 this reminds me of the Seedship game.
but what if a structure was so infinte that it would stretch between galaxies: What about infinite tubes/rather not elevators(because it can't be connected to planets that orbit suns but could be near to it)/habitats stretching from a galaxy to another and making planets the "islands" and its inhabitants "islanders" because most people live in infinitely greater structures that connect galaxies and have glasslike exteriors to cover imported nature below from various planets(if other nature is found on planets) ? It can even be long and thin like highways of many connected asteriks * -> in 3 d like bacterias but with tentacles stretching in all the desirable directions [it could be built from all the lost asteroids as well as from a method(? does it exist?) to create matter from air (?) ]
Dumping self-replicating nanobots – hilarious future joke! xD
The worst part about going to new space bases that you didn't build yourself is that you just have to trust it. You didn't build the thing, you don't know how well it works, the base's computer might say the life support is all good, but it's not the one gambling with its life. How long has it been since the tanks were stirred? If the sensor was broken and reading all green when it wasn't, your air might cut off in your sleep. On Earth you don't have this problem quite so much, because when our systems fail on Earth we're thrust back into our minimally-survivable ancestral environment, not into the instantly-fatal cold spiteful irradiated vacuum of space.
You're a time traveler aren't you… don't lie to me
What would the ipwtusr for us to pend the money to build habitayes on an exoplamets.
22:00 This is exactly depicted in the show Raised By Wolves , and similar in the movie Mother
6:00 This is some fine Telvanni technology.
Oooo, warhammer 40k reference.
I am growing a small house from fused Ivy. I have bigger plans for later in Portugal.
Well, the vacuum of space is great for "growing" crystaline structures.
This is great, thank you Isaac
27:27 Insert obligatory warhammer 40k head nod here.
Anne McCaffrey wrote about it but it would require extinguishing stars and suns to avoid stellar ion winds.