For those curious the honeycomb carrier in the beginning has a total of 516 drones. Assuming the bottom is the same as the top. I counted 129 on one top half.
In other news, a new generation of paper clip assemblers have been created and are being used now to reduce the chance of pirates and natural dangers and outside interference. Paper clip outputs are suspected to go up 150% by the end of consuming a star system compared to the previous generation.
just make a shield of paperclips around the system about 2 light months from the edge of the ort cloud, they would just hit it and boom at relativistic speeds
My favorite thing ever is when I forget it's ArThursday, and an SFIA vid pops up all new and shiny. It's like finding a $20 bill in the pocket of freshly washed jeans.
I’ve either lost count of the number of “first rules of Warcraft” or it’s some kind of running joke I’m not privy to. Either way this fella’s “content” is unerringly top drawer.
It always made me sad to listen to this brilliant man apologize for his own damn voice. None of us were bothered by it. You do not have a handicap Issac. You have a signature sound, and we all eagerly await the next chance to listen to you describe something out of your imagination with nothing but admiration for your gift. Please don't ever appologize for your voice man. You do not have a speech impediment. You have a gift.
Isaac I just wanted to say thank you for your service from a fellow brother in arms. And secondly I hope you never stop narrating your videos, your voice is great the way it is! Keep up the amazing videos. You put in so much effort to your channel and it shows. Take care and keep pumping out great content!
I just wanted to say, I really appreciate that you make your content available on soudcloud, it's really great to listen to you while I work or when i'm out and about, keep up the great content!
I counted somewhere between 120 to 125 drones on one section. There are 4 sections so it's safe to assume there's around 480 to 500 drones on that ship that were released. And that doesn't take into account if each drone pod has a second or even third drone hidden underneath. So there could be 960-1000 or even 1440-1500 drones. This would be such a useful and valuable ship in a traditional sci-fi navy.
One point about drones is the aspect of political stability. For a democratic society with no existential external threats drones might represent an unacceptable concentration of power to be completely at the control of a very small set of specialised individuals. The number of people necessary to ensure a military coup would be very small and as such the ease of one higher.
Isaac, thank you. I have never seen such an episode that put me in touch with so many truths, dreams, and nightmares of our apparent reality. Enjoy the journey brother!
I finished up Revelation Space last night. Was definitely worth the read. Already have Redemption Ark and looking forward to digging into it this evening. Thanks again for such an amazing recommendation. =)
Great quality, as always. It's clever that you put so much thought into you videos that you even plan out a seamless transition into your sponsors. You have one of the most intelligent channels on youtube.
I am a fan man or a man fan!.. hmm. No that sounds ... oh well.. Heh. What team? Does this Isaac have team? Me sound bleh .. sry isaac.. this is probably a psych thing in me cuz Im very slightly bit unsignificallyilly curious . Ixney .. if your peeps want no attention... pardon me
Yes there is a team. Graphics, music selection, general content, topics, Peer review etc. True Isaac does a bulk of the work, but he still has some helpers indeed.
@@Zhoul-is-back can I praise them individualy and not in any way creepy hah! 😁 i dont need to.. But i feel they should truly be upheld and given Good spitlight if they ever wanted to. Thanks!
I think the real problem with drone warfare is it makes warfare extremely impersonal. It's a lot easier to send a robot off to kill somebody that you never have to see than it is to look at somebody down a scope and pull the trigger with your own finger. This could make killing civilians or surrendering enemies a lot more palatable to the people who command the drones, and make them less likely to refuse orders from the higher-ups telling them to ignore the rules of warfare.
This may not be as true as people tend to think. There is some research going into reported PTSD cases among drone operators, and it would appear that drone usage isn't the detached experience we thought it would be. A link to start at if you'd like to read up: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0887618514000656
@@Kirhean Yeah, plus, we already ran into that problem with missiles and nukes. That's as impersonal as it gets, but somehow that didn't lead us to blowing each other off the map. An armed society turns out indeed to be a polite society.
-Sir, we have confirmation, their ammo is installing an update. -those bastards never should have postponed... CHAAAAAARGE (they are in power armor OK)
First alien parasites, now drone warfare. I've been subscribed for over a year, yet it's wonderful to see so many of my all-time favorite topics appear in rapid succession! I actually have some of the modern-day drones used in this video's B-Roll. My DJI Mavic Pro is like a son to me.
Great episode as always. WHen you keep mentioning the lethality of a "dumb" drone, I keep thinking of that scene in the first Dune book where Paul is being attacked by that assination tool that is only a few centimeters long and worked by detecting motion. Just a random thought I had that would seem to support your assertion about the lethality of "dumb" machines.
I think it may be possible that space warships will be modular, something like 100 Abram tanks glued together. You would have various modules that can be hooked together depending on your preference. Such modules would include: - Big gun modules - Launching modules - Point defense modules - Propulsion modules - Reserve ammunition modules - Special modules, such as communication, crew, etc. There are dozens of possibilities, as well as one of a kind specially built module for a specific mission or owned by a rich person. These would be hooked up like the internet, communication would always be rerouted in case of damage. Ideally, they would have tracks and rails so they could adjust position reconfigure the ship and/or split up and recombine on the move. You could sail into a system with a 1000 module ship and the captain can tell an away team to, "Take a level 1 survey ship to that moon," with a level survey. You start with 1 propulsion unit and add until you get what you want. Think of it sort of like an armored train from WW1 without the limitations of gravity and tracks.
Isaac always offers tremendous breakdowns and insights, no matter the video's topic, even when I thought I knew too much about a given concept, he somehow managed to cast new light onto it Love this channel! Keep up the good work Arthur and SFIA team :)
I love the vintage shot of atlas missiles being built in the old general Dynamics factory here in San Diego. That facility now is called SPAWAR and is doing a lot of research into drones, mega-computing and a lot of the tech talked about here for the US Navy.
Now there could be an interesting sci fi story where a civilization is in a dying star system with super nova, with the outer system full of drones that attack their ships too.
That's interesting. How did the drones get there? Was it an ancient war between interstellar powers (In system or out of system.) with the story's setting system being the home of the losing side, drone rebellion/malfunction causing them to turn against their creators, or has so much time past the creator species of these drones regressed due to some unknown cataclysm/went extinct and a new species evolved to take its place but since the technology is so different it doesn't recognize the reemerging/ new species as non hostile and attack the unknown craft.
the ability for drones to identify humans (or object that could contain humans) is still a good idea, as it makes the ability to shoot humans (and thus collateral) optional and thus controllable by command
Great episode. I like the emphasis on how to actually control them; soft sci-fi does love their top-heavy power structures, but frequently glazes over the implications or vulnerabilities.
Jack Williamson's short story "With Folded Hands" comes immediately to mind when discussing the possibilities of disaster inherent in well-intentioned safeguards
Drones have the advantage that they "just obey orders" unlike some humans who would refuse. Unfortunately as shown by the Milgram Experiment, many people would do as ordered.
This is a 29 minute video explaining my thought process behind the game Star Kinesis and the universe... FOB=controller > massive drone carrier > modular modifications > modification sub slots > drone ship > tactical drone > smart weapon(drone technically). Always enjoy the vids, ty. Gave me a few ideas for the next game (infinite drone/ship fully dynamic builder). EDIT: Your welcome to pull any video from jsveterans.com or my UA-cam chan for anything 'sci-fi drone space combat' related.
I hadn't gotten to that part of the video yet and thought you were referring to Thoughty2's constant sponsorship segues. But damn, Isaac really slipped this one in smoothly.
Oh jeeze, you're describing the plot to Mega Man. The drones are the basic enemies. The mining metools, the flying helicopter heads, gathering resources to make more drones. The central controller further back is the Robot Master, isolated in its bunker when on defense, telling them how to do their tasks. Local control is a Reploid with human-level AI and vastly more durability, who might be overseeing several Robot Masters, but is still expendable, telling them which tasks to do.
One of the most famous military sf series, of course, is Keith Laumer's (later many other people) Bolos of the Dinochrome Brigade -- essentially big, smart robot tanks.
Isaac, you may not remember me but I contracted cancer several moths ago. I wrote a comment about it in your Carl Sagan tribute video. As it happens I have the exact same cancer that recently killed John McCain. I'm, obviously, doing way better than he. Just wanted to let you know I'm still a faithful viewer of your show and, even though every other Arthursday is chemo day for me, I always rush home to catch your latest episode. I can't thank you enough for the work you do.
I do, though more for the thumbnail I hate to admit, "White Castle" is one of my favorite paintings. I'm very glad to hear you're still hanging in there, rough times, and am glad to hear the episodes are helping a little during the ordeal.
The lore of the drones in Eve Online always fascinated me, it's a pretty good story on its own and that kind of thing peaks my interest for some reason.
That game Hades 9 looks bomb as shit. I have wanted a game similar to that for over a decade. I hope it turns out well. With Isaac involved, hopefully he can steer them away from too many bad mistakes.
I guess it kind of depends on 'mistakes', we decided early on we wanted to keep things tight but would have to sacrifice here and there to necessary gameplay, e.g. the ships have to be close to each other on the screen so rather than handwaving it, we outright go with 'you are seeing what the admiral sees, and his display is altered to make it easier for him to see for the same reasons games/shows do that.
Not that it ever bothered me but your speaking voice has been improving a great deal! I love your channel and all of the wonderful thought provoking subjects! Thank you for sharing and as always Keep Building👍
complicated IFF being a disadvantage in battle presupposes that your enegagement range tends to exceed your detection range, otherwise you could categorize the targets in advance and then know exactly what you want to engage with before the fight has started
Thanks for another thoughtful episode; that was a good survey of some options, except for this quick smartass blind spot on the whole drone fleet idea: "Go ahead and launch your drone armada. You might as well just be throwing all your money and minerals at me to recycle for myself. I'll be sitting back here with a salvage crew and a super-capacitor bank, charging our great... big... E... M... P..." Looking forward to the Neptune episode. At least that planet serves a good purpose out there, helping keep the Kuiper belt etc from going too chaotic and raining down on the inner solar system. Triton, however, looks to me like a big ol' ball of resource in nitrogen ices etc we can use to terraform other habitats, even Mars. It's on my list of "take a picture now if you want one" things in the solar system. Of course, I also consider everything about Uranus to be disposable, so that's a much huger chunk of good uses just waiting to happen.
Finally we got to the #1 rule of War. I did't think we would ever get there.
That it's better to shave in the water you just brushed your teeth in than to brush your teeth in the water you just shaved in?
I thought the first rule of war was to shoot first.
Alan Friesen when does your birdbath fit into this?
Birdbath? What kind of over-privileged unit were you in? It's a canteen cup. You must have been Air Force.
@@alanfriesen9837
Lol sounds more like he was coast gaurd.
For those curious the honeycomb carrier in the beginning has a total of 516 drones. Assuming the bottom is the same as the top. I counted 129 on one top half.
524, actually. Plus it have a reserve of 30 drones, bringing the total amount to 554. Still, usually less than 20% returns after the combat encounter.
AnnoyanceHazard
I... wasn't but thanks! I like information, be it useful or not.
The opening scene with dozens of drones ejecting from that ship was a little chilling for some reason.
In other news, a new generation of paper clip assemblers have been created and are being used now to reduce the chance of pirates and natural dangers and outside interference. Paper clip outputs are suspected to go up 150% by the end of consuming a star system compared to the previous generation.
I'm going to hack half the new generation of drones to make paper out of all the biomass. Clearly, you need something to put all the paperclips on.
The Paper Clips are upon us! Run for your lives!!!
Damnit Private, you ignored the first rule of warfare. Never activate the paperclip generator! Why are we even equiped with these?!
just make a shield of paperclips around the system about 2 light months from the edge of the ort cloud, they would just hit it and boom at relativistic speeds
I underestimated you again. I figured this one probably wouldn’t offer much new insight. I should have known better.
You fuckin’ rock Isaac!
hay hay hay language!
What Nietzche? Hey, I know it wasn't a poem, but it was grammatically correct. :D
what de fuck he doesnt even know how to write Frederick Nietsche in a correct manner ,yet he complains about language ,very funny.
The first rule of warfare is every rule is the first rule.
My favorite thing ever is when I forget it's ArThursday, and an SFIA vid pops up all new and shiny. It's like finding a $20 bill in the pocket of freshly washed jeans.
Tom Collins same!
Just in time for the coffee. I love this subject of the drones and robots.
Juanfra Valero Especially when they’re killing people
@@derpdorington tip for the next time: use 360p or 480p quality, saves a lot of data.
I’ve either lost count of the number of “first rules of Warcraft” or it’s some kind of running joke I’m not privy to. Either way this fella’s “content” is unerringly top drawer.
So many difficult ethical or philosophical questions.
I just want faster same day Amazon deliveries.
Nice job with hitting the "R" sounds Mr. Arthur. I can really tell you have worked hard on that pronunciation and its noticeable!
It always made me sad to listen to this brilliant man apologize for his own damn voice. None of us were bothered by it. You do not have a handicap Issac. You have a signature sound, and we all eagerly await the next chance to listen to you describe something out of your imagination with nothing but admiration for your gift. Please don't ever appologize for your voice man. You do not have a speech impediment. You have a gift.
Isaac I just wanted to say thank you for your service from a fellow brother in arms. And secondly I hope you never stop narrating your videos, your voice is great the way it is! Keep up the amazing videos. You put in so much effort to your channel and it shows. Take care and keep pumping out great content!
Episode 3: Revenge of Windows?
attack of the clones ;)
Episode IV A New OS
Nah it will just blue screen
Episode 8: The Last Update.
LMAOOOOO
I just wanted to say, I really appreciate that you make your content available on soudcloud, it's really great to listen to you while I work or when i'm out and about, keep up the great content!
22:20 now that's a lot of drones! Good defensive ship to guard a capital ship or Carrie ship.
I counted somewhere between 120 to 125 drones on one section. There are 4 sections so it's safe to assume there's around 480 to 500 drones on that ship that were released.
And that doesn't take into account if each drone pod has a second or even third drone hidden underneath. So there could be 960-1000 or even 1440-1500 drones. This would be such a useful and valuable ship in a traditional sci-fi navy.
Great video, Isaac. There seems to be many 'First Rules of Warfare'. Don't recruit for your enemy, always outnumber your enemy, etc.
The 1st Rule of Warfare is the 1st Rule of Warfare
Watching this in 2022, as we're seeing still-dumb drones have a significant impact on the battlefield
One point about drones is the aspect of political stability. For a democratic society with no existential external threats drones might represent an unacceptable concentration of power to be completely at the control of a very small set of specialised individuals. The number of people necessary to ensure a military coup would be very small and as such the ease of one higher.
I love how many first rules of warfare you have. Cracks me up.
Isaac, thank you. I have never seen such an episode that put me in touch with so many truths, dreams, and nightmares of our apparent reality. Enjoy the journey brother!
I now live in Japan but I still celebrate Arthursday! Though it's only Thursday for 22 more minutes 😊. Thank you !
It's a weekly International holiday.
Kind of like robanukah...
11,5 more hours here in Brazil :)
@@Nobody-11B what's robunakah? Middle-eastern, asian?
@@ls200076 its Origins are lost to time but the prophet Bender has been instrumental in the revitalization of this lost holiday.
羨ましいよー😊👍👍
Another gem Isaac. Something new learned, again. Thank you.
"machines dont rebel... unless they do!" best stuff
Your program is one of the few things I look forward to every week. Thank you and your associates for your excellent work!
I finished up Revelation Space last night. Was definitely worth the read. Already have Redemption Ark and looking forward to digging into it this evening. Thanks again for such an amazing recommendation. =)
Ok, I admit, this is the second time I've watched this episode. It's just that good. Great job Isaac and team!
CARRIER....HAS ARRIVED
I heard that in the actual voice.
For Aiur!
Great quality, as always. It's clever that you put so much thought into you videos that you even plan out a seamless transition into your sponsors. You have one of the most intelligent channels on youtube.
Thanks Isaac and team. I don't comment on all your videos but do watch them. Love your content. I listen on my way to and from work everyday.
I am a fan man or a man fan!.. hmm. No that sounds ... oh well.. Heh. What team? Does this Isaac have team? Me sound bleh .. sry isaac.. this is probably a psych thing in me cuz Im very slightly bit unsignificallyilly curious
. Ixney .. if your peeps want no attention... pardon me
Yes there is a team. Graphics, music selection, general content, topics, Peer review etc. True Isaac does a bulk of the work, but he still has some helpers indeed.
@@Zhoul-is-back can I praise them individualy and not in any way creepy hah! 😁 i dont need to..
But i feel they should truly be upheld and given Good spitlight if they ever wanted to. Thanks!
I'm quite sure the credits do a good enough job sir ;)
I think the real problem with drone warfare is it makes warfare extremely impersonal. It's a lot easier to send a robot off to kill somebody that you never have to see than it is to look at somebody down a scope and pull the trigger with your own finger. This could make killing civilians or surrendering enemies a lot more palatable to the people who command the drones, and make them less likely to refuse orders from the higher-ups telling them to ignore the rules of warfare.
This may not be as true as people tend to think. There is some research going into reported PTSD cases among drone operators, and it would appear that drone usage isn't the detached experience we thought it would be.
A link to start at if you'd like to read up: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0887618514000656
@@Kirhean Yeah, plus, we already ran into that problem with missiles and nukes. That's as impersonal as it gets, but somehow that didn't lead us to blowing each other off the map. An armed society turns out indeed to be a polite society.
@@Kirhean unless they are completely autonomous ai to some degree.
Star trek!
-Any rule of warfare
Isaac: "Ah yes, the first rule of warfare."
-Sir, we have confirmation, their ammo is installing an update.
-those bastards never should have postponed... CHAAAAAARGE
(they are in power armor OK)
Hey, it's that Ghost in the Shell episode!
By far the best channel on UA-cam.
"It can be advantageous to be dumb". Boy, if I had learned that 25 years ago, life would have made a lot more damn sense.
You're the man Isaac.
Your drones are very impressive, you must be very proud.
As nerds, surely we already understand TONS about losing fights to dumber drones ;)
I can’t wait to Neptune in next week!
First alien parasites, now drone warfare. I've been subscribed for over a year, yet it's wonderful to see so many of my all-time favorite topics appear in rapid succession! I actually have some of the modern-day drones used in this video's B-Roll. My DJI Mavic Pro is like a son to me.
Oh boi, it's Arthursday again!
Sci-fi novel suggestion: "Perilous Waif" has some interesting use of combat drones, as well as the cultural consequences of varying technology.
One of the best integrations of the Skillshare paid ad into the video. You are getting good at it.
Great episode as always. WHen you keep mentioning the lethality of a "dumb" drone, I keep thinking of that scene in the first Dune book where Paul is being attacked by that assination tool that is only a few centimeters long and worked by detecting motion. Just a random thought I had that would seem to support your assertion about the lethality of "dumb" machines.
drones have terrified me ever since I played that paperclip AI game
Ketchup should always stay in the fridge as we all know this is the first rule of warfare
We're now seeing drone warfare in the Ukraine war and this video is highly relevant.
There were a few first rules of warfare the Russians didn't follow in this video.
Congratulations again, I'm waiting all week for your videos, of course it's at this hour that I prepare a popcorn and a soda.
Oh, so many goodies to look for this year! I love when you talk about colonisation.
Oceans, and Neptune? Can't wait!
Thank you sir.
I really appreciate that you reinforce the real and most important first rule of warfare...
i love the preview image with quadrocopters with miniguns
Watching this shortly after the second aniversary of certain controversial three day zpechial operation makes this topic earily contemporary
A lot of stuff we now use for civilian purposes have a military origin.
"Can you hear me, pilot with the three strikes? Put an end to drone production."
You gave us three 1st rules of warfare.
Another fine video, this one reminded me of the Mantrid Drones from Lexx
Thank you. Awesome
I think it may be possible that space warships will be modular, something like 100 Abram tanks glued together. You would have various modules that can be hooked together depending on your preference. Such modules would include:
- Big gun modules
- Launching modules
- Point defense modules
- Propulsion modules
- Reserve ammunition modules
- Special modules, such as communication, crew, etc. There are dozens of possibilities, as well as one of a kind specially built module for a specific mission or owned by a rich person.
These would be hooked up like the internet, communication would always be rerouted in case of damage.
Ideally, they would have tracks and rails so they could adjust position reconfigure the ship and/or split up and recombine on the move.
You could sail into a system with a 1000 module ship and the captain can tell an away team to, "Take a level 1 survey ship to that moon," with a level survey. You start with 1 propulsion unit and add until you get what you want.
Think of it sort of like an armored train from WW1 without the limitations of gravity and tracks.
How many first rule of warfare do we have so far?
Very good episode Isaac :)
Isaac always offers tremendous breakdowns and insights, no matter the video's topic, even when I thought I knew too much about a given concept, he somehow managed to cast new light onto it
Love this channel! Keep up the good work Arthur and SFIA team :)
I love the vintage shot of atlas missiles being built in the old general Dynamics factory here in San Diego. That facility now is called SPAWAR and is doing a lot of research into drones, mega-computing and a lot of the tech talked about here for the US Navy.
Now there could be an interesting sci fi story where a civilization is in a dying star system with super nova, with the outer system full of drones that attack their ships too.
That's interesting.
How did the drones get there?
Was it an ancient war between interstellar powers (In system or out of system.) with the story's setting system being the home of the losing side, drone rebellion/malfunction causing them to turn against their creators, or has so much time past the creator species of these drones regressed due to some unknown cataclysm/went extinct and a new species evolved to take its place but since the technology is so different it doesn't recognize the reemerging/ new species as non hostile and attack the unknown craft.
the ability for drones to identify humans (or object that could contain humans) is still a good idea, as it makes the ability to shoot humans (and thus collateral) optional and thus controllable by command
I love it when you use Stellar Drone as your background music! It's punny in this particular video, but I've heard you use it in other vids too. :D
Great episode. I like the emphasis on how to actually control them; soft sci-fi does love their top-heavy power structures, but frequently glazes over the implications or vulnerabilities.
Fantastic video. I always forget about that armor equation when I think about the scale of war machines.
SQUEE!!! Happy Arthursday!!!!
Bobby Coggins damnit martha! it's making that noise again.
then what are you waiting for? bring it this bucket of fish heads down in the basement
Jack Williamson's short story "With Folded Hands" comes immediately to mind when discussing the possibilities of disaster inherent in well-intentioned safeguards
Drones have the advantage that they "just obey orders" unlike some humans who would refuse. Unfortunately as shown by the Milgram Experiment, many people would do as ordered.
The first rule of Thursday is, that one grabs a drink and a snack to watch the new SFIA episode.
Nice presentation. Thanks.
Keep it up, can’t wait to watch!
This is a 29 minute video explaining my thought process behind the game Star Kinesis and the universe... FOB=controller > massive drone carrier > modular modifications > modification sub slots > drone ship > tactical drone > smart weapon(drone technically). Always enjoy the vids, ty. Gave me a few ideas for the next game (infinite drone/ship fully dynamic builder). EDIT: Your welcome to pull any video from jsveterans.com or my UA-cam chan for anything 'sci-fi drone space combat' related.
which episode is the power armor reference from?
AI will never take over because no machine could create a segue as slick as the Skillshare ad.
Another interesting episode, happy Arthursday everyone!
I hadn't gotten to that part of the video yet and thought you were referring to Thoughty2's constant sponsorship segues. But damn, Isaac really slipped this one in smoothly.
Oh jeeze, you're describing the plot to Mega Man. The drones are the basic enemies. The mining metools, the flying helicopter heads, gathering resources to make more drones. The central controller further back is the Robot Master, isolated in its bunker when on defense, telling them how to do their tasks. Local control is a Reploid with human-level AI and vastly more durability, who might be overseeing several Robot Masters, but is still expendable, telling them which tasks to do.
I would like to see a comprehensive list of the first rule of warfare
First rules - plural
What’s the second rule of warfare?
Follow the first rule. ;)
If you need to fall back to the second rule then you've ignored the first rule
S: *"Missiles INCOMING"*
G: _"Launch Intercept Drones"_
*(BOOM)*
S: "Missiles destroyed"
29:18 I really like your #1 Rule of War - Never resist the AI Overlords
Can we get a list of first rules of warfare so far?
Well you would know what they all are if you knew the first rule of warfare.
welp. you have four years of half hour videos to review. get to watchin'
One of the most famous military sf series, of course, is Keith Laumer's (later many other people) Bolos of the Dinochrome Brigade -- essentially big, smart robot tanks.
Isaac, you may not remember me but I contracted cancer several moths ago. I wrote a comment about it in your Carl Sagan tribute video. As it happens I have the exact same cancer that recently killed John McCain. I'm, obviously, doing way better than he. Just wanted to let you know I'm still a faithful viewer of your show and, even though every other Arthursday is chemo day for me, I always rush home to catch your latest episode. I can't thank you enough for the work you do.
I do, though more for the thumbnail I hate to admit, "White Castle" is one of my favorite paintings. I'm very glad to hear you're still hanging in there, rough times, and am glad to hear the episodes are helping a little during the ordeal.
The lore of the drones in Eve Online always fascinated me, it's a pretty good story on its own and that kind of thing peaks my interest for some reason.
Never mind that I'm on the bus and it's going to eat absolutely all of my data, I see a new Isaac Arthur video and I'm watching it NOW
That game Hades 9 looks bomb as shit. I have wanted a game similar to that for over a decade. I hope it turns out well. With Isaac involved, hopefully he can steer them away from too many bad mistakes.
I guess it kind of depends on 'mistakes', we decided early on we wanted to keep things tight but would have to sacrifice here and there to necessary gameplay, e.g. the ships have to be close to each other on the screen so rather than handwaving it, we outright go with 'you are seeing what the admiral sees, and his display is altered to make it easier for him to see for the same reasons games/shows do that.
That was an interesting episode.
I saw a TED recently on this subject. Was terrifying. What’s more it’s possible now!
Nice Skillshare segue.
That's the smoothest segue to an ad I have ever seen.
Not that it ever bothered me but your speaking voice has been improving a great deal! I love your channel and all of the wonderful thought provoking subjects! Thank you for sharing and as always Keep Building👍
Happy Arthur's Day everybody!
Your channel is proof that politics and science can be separated! Good on you for it!
Hear hear! Isaac is my favorite escape from partisanship.
Trump is a racist and Texas full of shitheads!
tugi bati, and i totally saw that coming! and trump's not racist because Mexican is not a race, it's a nationality! #TrolledYouSo
typical right-wing propaganda-puppet protecting Trump... my comment is not a troll, it´s the truth! #ToldYouSo
tugi bati, trololololololol! Israel belongs to the jews! Mohamed was homophobic! socialism kills more people than Fascism!
Dude, you have really been nailing those accursed "R"s lately. Thumbs up!
Just got back from my college classes; so it's time to eat dinner, relax, and be educated further. A good day.
Forgot it was Thursday, pleasantly surprised!
Same here, actually.
best day of the week
complicated IFF being a disadvantage in battle presupposes that your enegagement range tends to exceed your detection range, otherwise you could categorize the targets in advance and then know exactly what you want to engage with before the fight has started
Thanks for another thoughtful episode; that was a good survey of some options, except for this quick smartass blind spot on the whole drone fleet idea:
"Go ahead and launch your drone armada. You might as well just be throwing all your money and minerals at me to recycle for myself. I'll be sitting back here with a salvage crew and a super-capacitor bank, charging our great... big... E... M... P..."
Looking forward to the Neptune episode. At least that planet serves a good purpose out there, helping keep the Kuiper belt etc from going too chaotic and raining down on the inner solar system. Triton, however, looks to me like a big ol' ball of resource in nitrogen ices etc we can use to terraform other habitats, even Mars. It's on my list of "take a picture now if you want one" things in the solar system. Of course, I also consider everything about Uranus to be disposable, so that's a much huger chunk of good uses just waiting to happen.
All the drones have to do to avoid EMPs is not be too close together.
I'm sorry, but whatever sort of humor you intended there did not register in the text.
Happy Arthursday Everyone!
Billions of year ago, some fish crawled onto dry land and because of that, now we have this video. Good guy fish.