I'm totally not borrowing it for my sci-fi work... Not at all. Not one bit. Though considering how little my current work focuses on the solar system, I'll probably save this for a different story.
@@wilowhisp If the film adaptations are done right. And then no bad changes or unbelievable changes happen. Then probably will watch them. A book series though does not sound bad. Definitely, might read them.
There are also a lot of other objects with overlapping orbits, including Haumea, which is also pretty cool. It's possible that none of the other places are as cool as Pluto and Haumea, though, unless you mean literally, though we can't really know until we see them up close.
Reminds me of a scene in Star Trek "You're from Luna? That's so cool. My grandpa is so old fashioned, he calls it the Moon, like it's the only one" "We call it that too, no one from the Moon calls it Luna"
"Face are not real." ** "We still have no idea what motivated the ancient Plutonians to forge the gigantic "Smyle Fazes" unto the surfaces of their world and the Moon, but apparently it correlates to an ancient prophecy regarding their founding ..."
I'm not sure about the deep cone city though, considering that there's quite possibly a single, huge liquid water ocean deep - but not that deep - beneath Pluto's surface.
Given that Pluto and Charon are tidally locked to each other, have low gravity and are close together, a space bridge between them would be a no brainer!
Teacher: OK kids, Pluto is now a planet again. Kids: Yeah! We love Pluto! Teacher: Unfortunately, this means that hundreds of other objects are now planets too. Your next test is going to be a killer. Kids: OMG. You suck, Pluto.
Yep. This is the very reason I think it called a Dwarf Planet. I still view Dwarf Planets as planets. Just a specific subcatagory of planet. But I am pretty happy that I did not have to memorize all of them. Even if I know a lot of them.
@@Cythil Technically, planets, dwarf planets, rogue planets, and round moons are all types of planemos, but dwarf planets or rogue planets are not planets, because of historical naming schemes. It's generally easier to not mess with terminology more than you need to.
@@alexandruianu8432 Well historically all moving object in the sky are planets. Yep this include the Sun and Moon to. But this did not really make much sense as a definition when we started to understand how the solar system really worked. Both the Sun and the Moon where clearly different from the other wandering objects on the sky. And later we found out that those fixed starts we see in the sky also move. Just very slowly. It is like Arthur said. We came out with classifications that made sort of sense at the time. But as we learn more these classifications become problematic. If you in antiquity and just looking up on the sky it make sense to order thing base of if they move around or if they seemed fixed to a sky dome as that is what it looks like.
This is probably your best episodes, it is also a great episode to showcase your chanel. It has everything: A great story, colonization, a mega structute, discusion of ship propulsion, extended lifespan, life aboard a ship, discusion of alien life, uploded minds and interplanetary trade. Somehow it manages this in 30 minutea without feeling rushed!
18:06 When I heard you say that, the first thought that popped into my head was "How is that a mega-engineering project, exactly?". Then I realsied that it's a 20,000km long habitat, and that is actually pretty big. Issac, I think your videos may have skewed my views on what constitutes mega-engineering.
Omg, this was just 28 minutes? It felt like an entire chapter of a book. I literally lied down and got absorbed by the little story you told at the end. The world building, the way it was told, the images that accompanied it, it was just a magical experience. Please if you ever feel like it and have the time, make a sci novel or 2 lol. I would buy in a heartbeat!
You know what I want to seriously commend the art team, the river Achron is amazing. Also should we call the unifying stories illustrating the concepts the Arthurverse?
This ! This is - in a nutshell - the reason why I love the channel: The worldbuilding, the information, the witty commentary... I don’t know how else to describe it, but somehow it all comes together into the finest kind of documentary I could imagine. It makes the future - mankind’s future and potential so much more brighter; to me, it is therapeutic to be sure. Mr. Arthut, I am very glad that I found your channel (Thanks, Stellaris: Utopia) and I thank you for all the work you put in each episode ! If you ever decide to write a book yourself (please do), set one aside for me. Thanks again and have a great week yourself.
I love the optimism you have for the future. Often when I make positive comments about the future of civilization, people scoff at me, believing that humanity will be extinct within a few centuries. But you see the bigger picture and you believe in the power of human goodness & ingenuity. This episode was inspiring and I feel very happy after watching it.
If current on-land earth civilization will be extinction within a few centuries, without a doubt, due to world war nuclear weapons destroying our homeland. it's not new under the Sun, as previous on-land civilizations attacking each other and ended by extreme nuclear weapons pollution. However, if your opinion will happen, that's also means the aggressive countries or most of them would be ended by their own extreme militarlism. And some of groups will be traveling to extroplanets as galactic civilization, more peaceful and powerful. Let aggressive extinction alone, we are developing space projects and far from them.
I came here for an ordinary discussion of Pluto. Came away with tears and inspiration. Carried on an unexpected current of worldbuilding and imagination. It's so precious. I can't thank you enough.
Love your work as always. I just have one thing. As someone who studied Latin and Roman culture for 5 years and have loved space travel since i was a child, Charon is actually pronounced Karon. CH in latin is pronounced as a k. This holds as some countries spelled it with a C in the past. Pluto is the latin for Hades god of the underworld, Charon is the ferryman that took souls across on the River of Styx.
Another less liked comment: Solar panels thinner than paper, will be useful on pluto: www.spacefuture.com/archive/early_commercial_demonstration_of_space_solar_power_using_ultra_lightweight_arrays.shtml
That tether idea was spectacular. I also loved the deep ocean fish farming. It was at that point that I felt like that crew could maintain great morale if their stopovers were as interesting as that, and then they went to the radio telescope --what wonders could that reveal?
So today we discussed weaponizing the multiverse. Weapons take a lot of energy, which starts with the letter 'E' - and 'E' is the last letter in "audiblE"
Just the absolute best hard sci-fi content creator channel in this entire local group. We should build a statue on your name one day. Just loving what you do, continue like that.
How in the world does this channel not have more views then Nat Geo or The discovery channel? Absolutely amazing work. Every video is not only futuristic but extremely educational. Thank you for doing what you do.
So many high budget 'Sci-Fi' films lack quality world building like this. Often the visuals are nifty but the science is drenched in cliche and 'rule of cool' space magic, rather than the properly realized concept like this Pluto/Charon structure. Even something as silly as 'The Wandering Earth', won some points from me, because at least they were trying to play with an interesting premise, rather than a tired trope. Hollywood writers could desperately stand to familiarize themselves with a fresh set of futuristic ideas to furnish their visions, rather than producing garbage like 'Ad Astra.'
@@alisaiterkan Ad Astra was a lazy bit of work. It was a star vehicle with a father/son story core with a 'First Man' style look to it. The world building was terrible - not remotely of the quality Isaac Arthur wove into his travel narrative in this Pluto/Charon vision.
Scientific videos on youtube are marvellous. Scientific videos concerning space exploration, rocket technology are amazing. But your channel... it is a true gem. You are bringing it all to the new level. Discussing and deeply analyzing topics, that others would not even mention about. With every single video I'm amazed how come It has already ended, while I just started watching it a minute ago... oops :) Congratulations and thanks for the most interesting channel on the whole youtube! I wish I had some more time to prepare Polish translations for your videos so that younger ones here could also get enriched with your output...
It's one of the better ones lately, but it's defiantly not on a level above the classics. Such as: Infinite Improbability Issues Tips from Kardashev 2 Engineers Dead Aliens Colonizing Mars Black Hole Farming Life In A Space Colony ep.2@ ep.3 The Simulation Hypothesis Conciseness And Identity Orbital Rings
Listening to this commentary I hear a slight speech impediment but I actually like the way it sounds better than normal speech. The video was bar none awesome but what made it better than any other ever were the smiley faces on Charon and Pluto. Funny and makes a good point as to what tidal locking is and shows how the rotation is around a gravitational center that is not inside Pluto. Fantastic video all around and a great start to my day! Highly recommended.
This episode seems like it could be a pitch for a space trading game. Create your captain and freighter and travel around the outer solar system trading goods, stopping at the various colonies and meeting with potential clients to negotiate prices to buy and sell cargo.
Issac, this one is beautiful. You make that river sound something like Treasure Planet, but with gothic/mythological overtones :-) Also the giant, unmoving moon of Charon is something I would definately love to see
Just discovered this channel with this video and I am amazed by it - now I have a whole lot of catching up to do going back through the rest of the videos on the channel.
Awesome video and love the visuals and animation. You bring world building to life in a practical and enjoyable way. Makes the solar system an incredible place to live.
In one of Scott Manley's recent videos in which he talked about the fact that someone named an asteroid after him he mentioned that some of the pending names for approval were Skywalker and Galefrey.
In plant genetics there are genes called Yoda, as well as Clark Kent and Lex Luthor: Yoda got its name from the form of the plant embryo after a mutation in that gene -> Yoda's ear And Lex Luthor codes for the antagonist of the Clark Kent protein... obviously 😅
Great episode! Really got me thinking about how someone born in the solar hinterlands might find the massive planets of the inner solar system existentially horrifying. I'm imagining people developing a real phobia of a world the size of Earth, & it reminds me of how I used to be afraid of earthquakes despite growing up in Tornado Alley, but had no fear of tornadoes.
Always love your content mate. You should really think about writing your own sci-fi novel as I think you could really come up with a good concept as you always seem to make an interesting story like in this video
I love how realistic building that bridge is. If we can travel to pluto, we can build it. There's basically no forces working on it, it's design is trivial compared to any big bridge here.
Scientist 1: "What do we name this big scary foreboding mountain?" Scientist 2: "Mount Doom!" Scientist 1: "Oh, like from lord of the rings?" Scientist 2: "That's a nice coincidence, but no."
Again this week i was plaing a space game and listening to your Video. I was supprised how quickly time passed. It gives me a great feeling watching these videos every week.
@@annoyed707 Yes, the fine is auto-deducted from one's account, and the offender is informed via noospheric message. Thank you for visiting the city of Mordor.
This has been a favorite channel for several years, and I like practically everything featured here. But these episodic stories are my favorite of all.
Again I am tempted to use the general excuse fiction outline for your scenerios as framework to write things with. Today is a good day. Thank you for posting.
@@woodypigeon Read it some years back & loved it. Think it's in one of my bookcases somewhere. Gotta see if I can find it now. Also loved Pohl's books on the planets.
Just discovered your channel and I am hooked! The only other guy that talks about space is nothing but speculation of what event will cause the end of the world. Interesting, but you get sick of it eventually. Great video and keep up the AWESOME work!
There have been well over 100 billion people on our planet, and there are only 365 days in a year. (366 next year.) I'd be more surprised if it _wasn't_ anyone's birthday.
It's always a good day, when you get the notification about a new Isaac Arthur video, one of THE best and most enjoyable ways to escape this crazy world for a wee while! I think this calls for a Isaac Arthur marathon this weekend! Keep up the good, no....the phenomenal, work my friend! 👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻😎
17:45 I have to ask, are there really craters named Spock, Kirk, Ripley and Kubrick on Pluto? Astronomers are nerds and sci fi fans so it's not completely ridiculous. If so that is going to make for some interesting future speculation about our religious beliefs. And if not, then maybe just not yet. ;-) Great episode :-)
@@mill2712 a tether between the planets to connect each other to facilitate travel and interlink their economies, or cute faces facing each other, hmm...
Awe inspiring as always! I admire the ease with which you flesh out these mega-engineering scenarios with truly human flavor, using character and story to bring all that **S** **P** **A** **C** **E** down to earth for all of us....
The world building in this episode is absolutely stunning. 10/10
I'm totally not borrowing it for my sci-fi work... Not at all. Not one bit.
Though considering how little my current work focuses on the solar system, I'll probably save this for a different story.
Isaac needs to write a sci-fi novel asap.
@@kaiservilhelm7731I second that motion. I'd be on board for a book series and I'd show up for all the film adaptations.
@@wilowhisp If the film adaptations are done right. And then no bad changes or unbelievable changes happen. Then probably will watch them. A book series though does not sound bad. Definitely, might read them.
@@BoisegangGaming me neither buddy, me neither
I think of Pluto as the New Zealand of the Solar System - a fun little place at the edge of everything that everybody likes
There are also a lot of other objects with overlapping orbits, including Haumea, which is also pretty cool. It's possible that none of the other places are as cool as Pluto and Haumea, though, unless you mean literally, though we can't really know until we see them up close.
It’s probably bigger than that
Pluto: **squeals of happiness ‘cause it’s finally achieved the love it deserves**
and sometimes they forget to place on the maps
It will probably be the penal colony of the system then
Between "Faces are not real" and "the captain will not simply walk into Mordor" you made my day. Thank you, Isaac!
The jokes in this episode are on point
Me: Back in my day there weren't even people living on the moon!
Grandkids: WHICH MOON? BE MORE SPECIFIC!
Yeah, which moon? Luna? Ganymede? Titan? Etc?
The one by earth 😂
Reminds me of a scene in Star Trek "You're from Luna? That's so cool. My grandpa is so old fashioned, he calls it the Moon, like it's the only one"
"We call it that too, no one from the Moon calls it Luna"
@@natashapearson2773 Especially to the lunarians!
@@AustGamingAG Oh, Luna!
"Face are not real."
**
"We still have no idea what motivated the ancient Plutonians to forge the gigantic "Smyle Fazes" unto the surfaces of their world and the Moon, but apparently it correlates to an ancient prophecy regarding their founding ..."
Legends say that the Cult of the Arthur built them here.
LOL!
@@rojaws1183 LMAO!
Absolutely love the colony connecting Pluto and Charon, that scene looks amazing.
www.artstation.com/artwork/v1xZqE
My wife thought this was so cool and she usually just gets annoyed at my spacey banter
I'm not sure about the deep cone city though, considering that there's quite possibly a single, huge liquid water ocean deep - but not that deep - beneath Pluto's surface.
Given that Pluto and Charon are tidally locked to each other, have low gravity and are close together, a space bridge between them would be a no brainer!
Agreed. That artist did an amazing job. @Petrino, thanks for the link to his work!
"Faces are not real".
Thank you for that.
yep, I was getting worried...
@@cyberherbalist SOMEWHERE IN THIS VAST UNIVERSE, THERE IS A PLANET WITH A FACE.....
I elect to disbelieve the disclaimer.
Hi guys I am the animator who made that one. Just occured to me it would be funny to say that just for fun; haha
@@bradh3292 And a goatee
Teacher: OK kids, Pluto is now a planet again.
Kids: Yeah! We love Pluto!
Teacher: Unfortunately, this means that hundreds of other objects are now planets too. Your next test is going to be a killer.
Kids: OMG. You suck, Pluto.
Said no one.
Yep. This is the very reason I think it called a Dwarf Planet. I still view Dwarf Planets as planets. Just a specific subcatagory of planet. But I am pretty happy that I did not have to memorize all of them. Even if I know a lot of them.
@@Cythil Technically, planets, dwarf planets, rogue planets, and round moons are all types of planemos, but dwarf planets or rogue planets are not planets, because of historical naming schemes. It's generally easier to not mess with terminology more than you need to.
@@alexandruianu8432 Well historically all moving object in the sky are planets. Yep this include the Sun and Moon to. But this did not really make much sense as a definition when we started to understand how the solar system really worked. Both the Sun and the Moon where clearly different from the other wandering objects on the sky. And later we found out that those fixed starts we see in the sky also move. Just very slowly.
It is like Arthur said. We came out with classifications that made sort of sense at the time. But as we learn more these classifications become problematic. If you in antiquity and just looking up on the sky it make sense to order thing base of if they move around or if they seemed fixed to a sky dome as that is what it looks like.
@@Cythil only the objects moving in epicycles are planets
This is probably your best episodes, it is also a great episode to showcase your chanel.
It has everything: A great story, colonization, a mega structute, discusion of ship propulsion, extended lifespan, life aboard a ship, discusion of alien life, uploded minds and interplanetary trade.
Somehow it manages this in 30 minutea without feeling rushed!
it went by so fast i want more XD loved it
I am taking notes!
The captain will not walk simply into Mordor.
Wise man, rents an eagle an flies.
I nearly choked on my soup! :D
Would have been a good point to insert an Eagle spacecraft from Space 1999 as the shuttle.
How Presidental, Issac! Ah, the good ole days, when we have a President with a brain and wit.
You could dominate a drake and fly in on that.
@@webchimp .......or one of the larger ones, like a Swift{Brian the Brain} or SuperSwift{Bringers of Wonder} . Dragon's Domain.
Love how you worked “the captain will not simply walk into Mordor” into the script - and delivered it deadpan. 😂
Credit should go to people in the jet propulsion laboratory who decided to name the region Mordor.
stefan r JPL set it up, Isaac knocked it down. Collaboration!
Yeah that line was absolute gold :D
@@stefanr8232nerds be nerdy
18:06 When I heard you say that, the first thought that popped into my head was "How is that a mega-engineering project, exactly?". Then I realsied that it's a 20,000km long habitat, and that is actually pretty big. Issac, I think your videos may have skewed my views on what constitutes mega-engineering.
Omg, this was just 28 minutes? It felt like an entire chapter of a book. I literally lied down and got absorbed by the little story you told at the end. The world building, the way it was told, the images that accompanied it, it was just a magical experience. Please if you ever feel like it and have the time, make a sci novel or 2 lol. I would buy in a heartbeat!
You know what I want to seriously commend the art team, the river Achron is amazing. Also should we call the unifying stories illustrating the concepts the Arthurverse?
This ! This is - in a nutshell - the reason why I love the channel:
The worldbuilding, the information, the witty commentary... I don’t know how else to describe it, but somehow it all comes together into the finest kind of documentary I could imagine.
It makes the future - mankind’s future and potential so much more brighter; to me, it is therapeutic to be sure.
Mr. Arthut, I am very glad that I found your channel (Thanks, Stellaris: Utopia) and I thank you for all the work you put in each episode !
If you ever decide to write a book yourself (please do), set one aside for me.
Thanks again and have a great week yourself.
I love the videos where you give us a story the most. This one was fantastic.
I love the optimism you have for the future. Often when I make positive comments about the future of civilization, people scoff at me, believing that humanity will be extinct within a few centuries. But you see the bigger picture and you believe in the power of human goodness & ingenuity. This episode was inspiring and I feel very happy after watching it.
If current on-land earth civilization will be extinction within a few centuries, without a doubt, due to world war nuclear weapons destroying our homeland. it's not new under the Sun, as previous on-land civilizations attacking each other and ended by extreme nuclear weapons pollution.
However, if your opinion will happen, that's also means the aggressive countries or most of them would be ended by their own extreme militarlism. And some of groups will be traveling to extroplanets as galactic civilization, more peaceful and powerful.
Let aggressive extinction alone, we are developing space projects and far from them.
I came here for an ordinary discussion of Pluto. Came away with tears and inspiration. Carried on an unexpected current of worldbuilding and imagination. It's so precious. I can't thank you enough.
Has anyone tried asking Pluto itself what it is, instead of assuming its planetary status?
Yes. It gave me the cold shoulder.
I'm sure the Plutonians think of their world as a planet.
5:00
Isaac: (distance not to scale) (faces are not real)
Viewers: awwwwww :(
SOMEWHERE IN THIS VAST UNIVERSE, THERE IS A PLANET WITH A FACE.....
I love the smilie faces on Pluto and Charos on 4:43. It reminds me of ancient maps with the sun and the moon illustrated with eyes, nose and mouth.
Love your work as always. I just have one thing. As someone who studied Latin and Roman culture for 5 years and have loved space travel since i was a child, Charon is actually pronounced Karon. CH in latin is pronounced as a k. This holds as some countries spelled it with a C in the past. Pluto is the latin for Hades god of the underworld, Charon is the ferryman that took souls across on the River of Styx.
4:42 "Faces are not real"
You lost me xD
But the love is real
ua-cam.com/video/e3cDdGKqp8E/v-deo.html
Another less liked comment:
Solar panels thinner than paper, will be useful on pluto:
www.spacefuture.com/archive/early_commercial_demonstration_of_space_solar_power_using_ultra_lightweight_arrays.shtml
@Joe Average they also kinda look like a middle school/highschool students what with all the craters and hills/mountains.
I was JUST about to write that in a comment and then I saw yours!
SOMEWHERE IN THIS VAST UNIVERSE, THERE IS A PLANET WITH A FACE.....
One Ring-Habitat, to rule them all... and in the void... bind them!
"in the vastness" would have worked better imo, but I like it anyway.
What's wrong with darkness? I know inner system space isn't really dark, but arguably outside of Neptune is.
Soooo....
Will there be a Flat Pluto society then?
.
I'm sorry, I couldn't resist :-)
What about habitats then? It's either everything is flat, or nothing is flat. PS No Isabel for you, Raelag
Yes, probably, as there's no bottom to human stupidity. Though I'd expect colony worlds to develop Earth-origin deniers.
If not I’m going to make it
“Pluto is flat!”
“HAVE YOU EVER GONE ANYWHERE IN SPACE TRAVEL?!”
"Yeah but the Earth isn't?"
"We know that because we've observed that the Earth isn't flat. Pluto though?"
That tether idea was spectacular. I also loved the deep ocean fish farming. It was at that point that I felt like that crew could maintain great morale if their stopovers were as interesting as that, and then they went to the radio telescope --what wonders could that reveal?
A lot of these concepts would make an amazing sci-fi novel or show while staying firmly in hard science and engineering
i hope this becomes true in the future. Sucks that i prob wont be there, but i really hope people will see this stuff in our place :)
So today we discussed weaponizing the multiverse. Weapons take a lot of energy, which starts with the letter 'E' - and 'E' is the last letter in "audiblE"
Pluto is a dogE
No one just simply walks into Mordor!!! Not even the Captain, he rents a ship. Lol, Love your videos man!!! You're a genius.
Just the absolute best hard sci-fi content creator channel in this entire local group. We should build a statue on your name one day. Just loving what you do, continue like that.
I really love your optimism Isaac, videos like these make tomorrow a more hopeful place
Isaac Arthur. The only Science communicator who can call Pluto a Planet.. and get away with it
It is, it's a dwarf planet
@@ENCHANTMEN_ BLASPHEMY!
Get away with it? Only on petty human time scales...
He just got through explaining that a dwarf planet is still a planet, like how all squares are rectangles but not all... yeah, never mind.
@@austin4855 In the quite words of Heath Ledgers joker....
How in the world does this channel not have more views then Nat Geo or The discovery channel? Absolutely amazing work. Every video is not only futuristic but extremely educational.
Thank you for doing what you do.
I enjoyed this immensely. It's much better than so many high-budget sci-fi movies. Thank you.
True, so true. And the science is right.
Hes secretly sinking millions of trillions into this channel
So many high budget 'Sci-Fi' films lack quality world building like this.
Often the visuals are nifty but the science is drenched in cliche and 'rule of cool' space magic, rather than the properly realized concept like this Pluto/Charon structure.
Even something as silly as 'The Wandering Earth', won some points from me, because at least they were trying to play with an interesting premise, rather than a tired trope.
Hollywood writers could desperately stand to familiarize themselves with a fresh set of futuristic ideas to furnish their visions, rather than producing garbage like 'Ad Astra.'
@@jasonp.1195 After watching 'Ad Astra', I wasn't just disappointed, I was actually sad. _This_ is the most they could do, with all their budget?
@@alisaiterkan Ad Astra was a lazy bit of work. It was a star vehicle with a father/son story core with a 'First Man' style look to it. The world building was terrible - not remotely of the quality Isaac Arthur wove into his travel narrative in this Pluto/Charon vision.
"the captain will not simply walk into mordor"
oh U
To quote Ian Malcolm "you did it, you crazy son of a bitch, you did it"
His jokes are simply Mordor, aren't they? lol
@@jasontoddman7265 "if you love your planet, put a ring on it"
THE ONE RING TO RULE THEM ALL
@@jetflaque8187 One tether to connect them both and in the darkness unite them
. In the Land of the Kuiper Belt where the Shadows lie.
+Jet flaque - ROFL
Had to take a screen capture of the Pluto-Charon Colony for my desktop - great stuff Isaac!
Scientific videos on youtube are marvellous.
Scientific videos concerning space exploration, rocket technology are amazing.
But your channel... it is a true gem. You are bringing it all to the new level. Discussing and deeply analyzing topics, that others would not even mention about.
With every single video I'm amazed how come It has already ended, while I just started watching it a minute ago... oops :)
Congratulations and thanks for the most interesting channel on the whole youtube!
I wish I had some more time to prepare Polish translations for your videos so that younger ones here could also get enriched with your output...
Love these narrative videos! Creates a fascinating glimpse of what the future might be with a summary of a future person's totally mundane day-to-day.
@16:36 "Vader Crater", "Skywalker Crater", "(Leia) Organa Crater", "Spock Crater", "Tardis Chasma", "Gallifrey Macula" etc
lol reference galore.
this is by far the best episode of SFIA yet! Well done to everyone involved!
there's no such thing as "the best" SFIA episode
Certainly one of the best. Excited for the future of these episodes!
It's one of the better ones lately, but it's defiantly not on a level above the classics.
Such as:
Infinite Improbability Issues
Tips from Kardashev 2 Engineers
Dead Aliens
Colonizing Mars
Black Hole Farming
Life In A Space Colony ep.2@ ep.3
The Simulation Hypothesis
Conciseness And Identity
Orbital Rings
@@mikezeitgeist2 You skipped my favorite "The Kardashev Scale" - which finally made me see the scale of a K2 and what they could do
Listening to this commentary I hear a slight speech impediment but I actually like the way it sounds better than normal speech. The video was bar none awesome but what made it better than any other ever were the smiley faces on Charon and Pluto. Funny and makes a good point as to what tidal locking is and shows how the rotation is around a gravitational center that is not inside Pluto. Fantastic video all around and a great start to my day! Highly recommended.
One could say that the idea of colonizing Pluto for tourism is quite... OUT THERE :3
This is why I love this channel. Thank you lol
The market for tourism on Pluto is quite COLD now.
Very soon it won't be.
Never wanted to just get away from it all?
It should not have been as funny as it was that you worked in 'not simply walk into mordor'. Thank you, i needed that lol
Wow, as someone who watched all of your videos im blown away how good your animations are nowadays. great vid as usual
It’s funny how this comes at a time when Pluto is making news about new evidence for subsurface oceans. Great work, Isaac & team!
I gotta say, I love all these hellscape/underworld themed names.
Those are absolutely amazing graphics for the "river" between Pluto and Charon. Hats of to the artist.
Everyone: Is Pluto a planet or and dwarf planet
Isaac: Let's talk about colonize Pluto
maybe start learning English before going to space ?
@@xl000 Why? For all we know, English could be a dead language by the time we're colonizing Pluto.
Delete self
@@kevincrady2831 POOp
@@kevincrady2831 stinki butt
15:48 I KNEW IT! You glorious memer you! XD
In the future, pronouns are so heavily recycled that it's impossible to tell whether a person is memeing or giving directions.
This episode seems like it could be a pitch for a space trading game. Create your captain and freighter and travel around the outer solar system trading goods, stopping at the various colonies and meeting with potential clients to negotiate prices to buy and sell cargo.
Issac, this one is beautiful. You make that river sound something like Treasure Planet, but with gothic/mythological overtones :-)
Also the giant, unmoving moon of Charon is something I would definately love to see
Just discovered this channel with this video and I am amazed by it - now I have a whole lot of catching up to do going back through the rest of the videos on the channel.
It's good that you tuned down the speed a bit. It makes it easier to follow the narration.
Awesome video and love the visuals and animation. You bring world building to life in a practical and enjoyable way. Makes the solar system an incredible place to live.
Just amazing Isaac and thank you and your staff for these great videos . I really appreciate them.
I didn't expect much from Pluto, but this is amazing. Imagine all those death-related puns and mythology references.
You should write a Modern COWBOY BE-BOP!!!
He could definitely do good work as an advisor for sci fi films/series making sure concepts are believable and technically sound.
you really should brother!
I thought that too, that he would make an excellent Sci-fi writer.
COWBOY MMMBOP
He basically just read the screenplay of an episode :D
The animation for Acheron is just...stunning. I love the design of the structure.
Thanks again for another awesome video Issac.
I love how you are contextualizing the content from older episodes on the end in these more narrative episodes
When you let scientists name things...you get really awesome overly complicated or straight nerdy names xD gotta love it
In one of Scott Manley's recent videos in which he talked about the fact that someone named an asteroid after him he mentioned that some of the pending names for approval were Skywalker and Galefrey.
Was there a doctor who had to tell some parents their kid's illness was caused by the pikachu gene or something like that.
@@smith22041 The Sonic Hedgehog gene is what you're thinking of ;)
Beats celebrities naming their kids, defo
In plant genetics there are genes called Yoda, as well as Clark Kent and Lex Luthor:
Yoda got its name from the form of the plant embryo after a mutation in that gene -> Yoda's ear
And Lex Luthor codes for the antagonist of the Clark Kent protein... obviously 😅
Great episode! Really got me thinking about how someone born in the solar hinterlands might find the massive planets of the inner solar system existentially horrifying. I'm imagining people developing a real phobia of a world the size of Earth, & it reminds me of how I used to be afraid of earthquakes despite growing up in Tornado Alley, but had no fear of tornadoes.
Always love your content mate. You should really think about writing your own sci-fi novel as I think you could really come up with a good concept as you always seem to make an interesting story like in this video
I love how realistic building that bridge is. If we can travel to pluto, we can build it. There's basically no forces working on it, it's design is trivial compared to any big bridge here.
Oh man the Mordor reference had me DECEASED!!! GOOD SHOW! EXCELLENT! FIVE STARS BRO!
The shot at 13:53 ish is really awesome another cool episode Isaac I love how you add a narrative to the concepts.
Scientist 1: "What do we name this big scary foreboding mountain?"
Scientist 2: "Mount Doom!"
Scientist 1: "Oh, like from lord of the rings?"
Scientist 2: "That's a nice coincidence, but no."
Again this week i was plaing a space game and listening to your Video. I was supprised how quickly time passed. It gives me a great feeling watching these videos every week.
"500 Stellari Fine levied for Sean Bean memes" - Mordor city ordinance 101.2
haha forgive the Captain, it's her first time visiting
Verdict rendered by the AI of Sauron, of course.
@@annoyed707 Yes, the fine is auto-deducted from one's account, and the offender is informed via noospheric message. Thank you for visiting the city of Mordor.
This has been a favorite channel for several years, and I like practically everything featured here. But these episodic stories are my favorite of all.
Again I am tempted to use the general excuse fiction outline for your scenerios as framework to write things with.
Today is a good day. Thank you for posting.
8:04
Oh yesssssss......
That is the best wallpaper ever!!!!
For some reason Pluto seems like one of the more desirable of planets to live on.
God I have an anxiety towards people haha
Seems like it become a rather busy place. Perhaps a small rock in the Oort cloud would suit your needs better.
Ro Jaws ever thought of becoming an interplanetary travel agent?
@@HardestManInTarot Space tourism market is the future. Remember where you heard it first.
Archaeoptery X haven’t yet
@@woodypigeon Read it some years back & loved it. Think it's in one of my bookcases somewhere. Gotta see if I can find it now.
Also loved Pohl's books on the planets.
I love when the video follows a character on a journey, it's why Colonizing Ceres is my favorite video on youtube. Now this is neck 'n' neck with it.
Happy Arthursday fellow travellers.
And a happy Arthursday to you good sir!
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Just discovered your channel and I am hooked! The only other guy that talks about space is nothing but speculation of what event will cause the end of the world. Interesting, but you get sick of it eventually. Great video and keep up the AWESOME work!
They'll make it a wedding planet.
Then the newly wed can put a "married in Mordor" sticker on their spaceship.
The fact that there are regions in our solar system named Mordor and Cthulhu makes me happy
ok at the 5:00 mark I read the caption "faces not real" and I lost it. that made my day.
Issac is in the pocket of big Pluto, those faces are as real, as the one on Mars!
I love this sort of episode where you tell a story to convey the message :-)
It’s always some ones birthday when he’s video comes out
There have been well over 100 billion people on our planet, and there are only 365 days in a year. (366 next year.) I'd be more surprised if it _wasn't_ anyone's birthday.
Timothy McLean
Let me reframe people won’t stop saying it’s there birthday in he’s comment section
It's always a good day, when you get the notification about a new Isaac Arthur video, one of THE best and most enjoyable ways to escape this crazy world for a wee while!
I think this calls for a Isaac Arthur marathon this weekend!
Keep up the good, no....the phenomenal, work my friend! 👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻😎
Ah! Feezing atmosphere snowfall! The perfect plutonic wheater to watch some Isaac Arthur :)
Where the hell are you, you lucky bastard? It's blazingly hot in Poland. 30 degrees in shade and I'm sweating like a pig right now.
*"One does not simply walk into Mordor...."*
I sea what you did there.
Man you could write a fantastic sci-fi novel or at least be a resource so an actual author gets the science and economics right. This is awesome
I love the epic cinematic music used in these. Really helps one capture the scale of these potential feats.
This is fantastic. Thank you for the experience!
Great video I never thought about colonizing space like this, enjoying my Sunday watching your content.
I stopped watching porn for this, and as always it was worth it
even this channel is hard to choose from RedTube vs Isaac Author
This has been been one of my favorite videos of yours thank you!
17:45 I have to ask, are there really craters named Spock, Kirk, Ripley and Kubrick on Pluto? Astronomers are nerds and sci fi fans so it's not completely ridiculous.
If so that is going to make for some interesting future speculation about our religious beliefs.
And if not, then maybe just not yet. ;-)
Great episode :-)
One of the best videos! Visuals and narration are so awesome and funny :D
"Faces are not real..." ohhh thats s bummer thought 🤣🤣😉...
Great video...like all you make , love your channel !!
Well done !!
Unless someone has the bright idea to build faces there.
@@mill2712 a tether between the planets to connect each other to facilitate travel and interlink their economies, or cute faces facing each other, hmm...
They are not real yet. After this video I'm sure it's just a matter of time.
no words to describe... amazing work Mr Isaac thank u do much for this. Hello from Portugal
Isaac, write a Sci-Fi novel. Please!
And an audiobook version narrated by author himself.
you' re aware there is a whole crew behind this channel, it' s not a one man operation...
@@Klaster_1 it wouldn't be a Isaac audio book without Isaac narrating it
So ... the Captain knows that one doesn't simply walk into Mordor?
(Distance not to scale)
(faces are not real)
Good I was worried.
SOMEWHERE IN THIS VAST UNIVERSE, THERE IS A PLANET WITH A FACE.....
But I see faces everywhere.
I must admit that, watching the two dwarf planets circle each other, I was disappointed to learn that the faces weren't real. Bummer. ;-)
Thanks for the lovely birthday present, Isaac! I wish my birthday was always on Thursdays haha.
Happy Birthday !
Awe inspiring as always! I admire the ease with which you flesh out these mega-engineering scenarios with truly human flavor, using character and story to bring all that **S** **P** **A** **C** **E** down to earth for all of us....
I really enjoy these narrative style videos! Great job Isaac!