Interplanetary Infrastructure

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  @sheldoniusRex · 3 years ago

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

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• NE

  @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

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• VJ

  @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 😅😅

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• SK

  @SkyFly19853 · 3 years ago

  The videos on space... <br>Getting better and better... <br>✅✅✅✅✅

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• BR

  @bruhhhhhhhhhdn · 3 years ago

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

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• SI

  @sixtenwidlund4258 · 3 years ago

  IT’S ARTHURS DAY!!!

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• TO

  @Tombfyre · 3 years ago

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

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• AM

  @ami_gourav · 3 years ago

  We love your content by heart ❤️

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• CO

  @colinsmith1495 · 3 years ago

  I think the idea of the &apos;end of the internet&apos; is a bit of a mis-speak. &nbsp;I think it&apos;s more likely that we&apos;ll end up with separate internets that periodically synch. &nbsp;For example, imagine that YouTube was hosted on Jupiter and Earth. &nbsp;Earth-based creators could upload stuff to an Earth-base audience easily, and Jupiter-based creators to Jupiter-based audiences. &nbsp;But Earth would only get an update from ALL the Jupiter creators maybe once a month or so, in one massive upload, as convenient. &nbsp;And Jupiter would get the same upload from Earth at the same time.<br><br>Remember, expanding out doesn&apos;t necessarily imply that the local population drops, and we&apos;re likely to cluster around other specific locations for some time.

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  @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. <br><br>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.

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  @qpwodkgh2010 · 3 years ago

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

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  @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 - &quot;solid state&quot; technologies.

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