Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

What happens when the machines still work, but nobody remembers how they were built? We explore technological amnesia, black-box automation, lost expertise, and civilizations trapped inside inherited technology.

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Credits:
Can a Civilization Forget How Its Own Technology Works?
Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur
Music by Epidemic Sound: http://nebula.tv/epidemic
Stellardrone & Chris Zabriskie
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
2:51 Forgetting the Footnotes
7:33 Black Boxes and Sacred Buttons
12:46 12 Years
14:08 Tradition, Taboo, and the Maintenance Guild
19:54 Colonies That Inherit Too Much
23:22 The Stagnant Stars
27:03 Alien Life
28:03 How Not to Forget

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What happens when the machines still work, but nobody remembers how they were built? We explore technological amnesia, black-box automation, lost expertise, and civilizations trapped inside inherited technology.

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Credits:
Can a Civilization Forget How Its Own Technology Works?
Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur
Music by Epidemic Sound: http://nebula.tv/epidemic
Stellardrone & Chris Zabriskie
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
2:51 Forgetting the Footnotes
7:33 Black Boxes and Sacred Buttons
12:46 12 Years
14:08 Tradition, Taboo, and the Maintenance Guild
19:54 Colonies That Inherit Too Much
23:22 The Stagnant Stars
27:03 Alien Life
28:03 How Not to Forget

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Why build floating cities above Jupiter and Saturn? Not for fusion fuel, but for something far more valuable: the staggering amounts of hydrogen, nitrogen, and raw material needed to build a spacefaring civilization.

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Floating Cities Above Gas Giants
Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur
Music by Epidemic Sound: http://nebula.tv/epidemic
Stellardrone & Chris Zabriskie
Graphics from: Ervin Oprea, Jeremy Jozwik & Sergio Botero
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Why build floating cities above Jupiter and Saturn? Not for fusion fuel, but for something far more valuable: the staggering amounts of hydrogen, nitrogen, and raw material needed to build a spacefaring civilization.

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Credits:
Floating Cities Above Gas Giants
Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur
Music by Epidemic Sound: http://nebula.tv/epidemic
Stellardrone & Chris Zabriskie
Graphics from: Ervin Oprea, Jeremy Jozwik & Sergio Botero
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If we could build a space elevator tomorrow, where should it go? Earth may be the obvious answer, but the Moon, Mars, and other worlds may be far easier. We compare the best candidates.

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Credits:
The First Space Elevator: Where Would We Build It?
Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur
Music by Epidemic Sound: http://nebula.tv/epidemic
Graphics from: Jeremy Jozwik, Ken York, Phil Swan & Sergio Botero
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
4:02 Why Not the Atlantic, Indian, or Land?
9:07 Cheating the Equator
12:37 The First Elevator Might Not Be on Earth

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