I'm sure some terrorist organization would want to mess with @deker0954's plans or at least make their job more aggravating. Then there are the regular intoxicated jerks that want to annoy others.
…And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull, they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they’d settled on. None of them was entirely satisfactory: either the climate wasn’t quite right in the later part of the afternoon, or the day was half an hour too long, or the sea was exactly the wrong shade of pink. And thus were created the conditions for a staggering new form of specialist industry: custom-made luxury planet building.
Find a planet with liquid water on its surface. Simple as inoculating with plankton. Could imagine first plankton bloom, spreading across the planet. Paradise planet ugh, paradise shelter possible. Someday sure someday. I've read that book.
this kind of concept always boils down to from which side you see the swan: the graceful glide over the water from above or the frantic paddling of the feet from below.
One of the biggest mistakes of the Star Wars movies is NOT having scenes on Alderaan so that we could see what it was like for all of the movies that took place before it was destroyed (Rogue One, Solo, and the prequel trilogy).
@@Zurroundit was stupid for emperor Palpatine to destroy Alderaan wasting all those people and resources. Alderaan is the only other planet than Naboo that is a earth like planet which is the best environment for humans.
@@tylersoto7465 Instead he could have contacted the leadership on that planet and told them to watch while he destroys ANOTHER planet in that star system than after destroying that planet tell them in no uncertain terms that their world will be destroyed too if they disobey his empire in any way. For example imagine if a galactic military force made us watch MARS get destroyed then warn us that Earth is next if we disobey any of their orders.
@@AchtungGefahr sorry, I meant the words he said. not the photos, the photos might be from Switzerland. I'm just saying not all Georgian and Romanian villagers think of their home as a paradise even though it matches the description well.
A NEW LIFE AWAITS YOU IN THE OFFWORLD COLONIES! THE CHANCE TO BEGIN AGAIN IN A GOLDEN LAND OF OPPORTUNITY AND ADVENTURE! Seriously, this sounds like a perfect setting for the beginning of a terrifying horror movie...
This is by far my favorite scifi theme. Humans with technologically enabled superpowers, imune do disease and untouchable by feral animals living in utopian paradise worlds, flying over waterfalls and beaches, floating islands and all sorts of wonderful things. Does anybody has book recommendations about something like this?
@@miguelatkinson i haven't considered much of Buddhism beyond critical analysis of why it's wrong. So since it's not true it's ultimately irrelevant. But i also don't know about said purelands, given they're not central to the apologetical issues, so you're welcome to summarize it
Some of Iain M Banks Culture novels deal with a somewhat Utopian interstellar civilization run largely by machines and has many alien citizens participating. But not everyone chooses to stay and all are free to do what they will within broad limits. There are also many human worlds outside of the culture. Some books I guess are about circumstances raised by living with it or making contact with unknown beings on unknown worlds. I'm on my second novel and am going by what I have learned about the series. They say you don't really have to read them in order and are generally stand alone novels with different takes on the Culture. Later books might be better understood from reading earlier ones? But he's a literate author and a skilled storyteller who didn't always write in the SF genre. Research a little about the series and his notes on the Culture and try a couple or three.
@@narxes Agreed, but tbh It would be very hard for a 4X game to contain even just half of concepts Isaac covers in his videos. SFIA made me aware of the unfathomable scale real interstellar civilisations would have
Hearing Issac describe paradise while I'm working on a Monday morning is kinda hard. I'd *SO MUCH* rather be where he's talking about than where I am, and I like my job for the most part.
I agree with your conclusion. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" is very true, especially with regard to this subject. I am fairly sure what I call paradise will not be paradise for a fairly large group of people and vice versa. Also I would appreciate a regular change in surrounding and weather or things would get boring fairly soon.
Mister arthur when isaac asimov wrote these books The number representing a billion was a thousand times larger than it is now.. Somewhere in time.. They changed it to mean a thousand million instead of a million million❗️
If we don't destroy ourselves, then eventually we will make Earth a paradise. We will make every place we reach to a paradise. With some problems along the way.... I think Octavia Butler was right when she said: *_It is the destiny of Earthlife to take root among the stars._*
*Starts strumming a Guns "N Roses songs* "Take me down to the Paradise Planet, where the grass is green and the woman are pretty. Oh, will you please take me home."
Here in Japan, I can already buy off-the-shelf air conditioners that track two people in a room and apply customized heat or cooling settings to their location by directed fans. Few years back they made a ton of TV ads to sell them. Occasionally still see one.
Your opening describes Cape Breton Island in Canada. I live there now and begrudge having to leave for anytime. Paradise exists on earth, but only in isolated situations for particular periods of time. Global warming is making this place even better. Our summer temps are typically around 27°C for the hot period. Winter temps are typically around zero to -10°C. I find the winters are the best, offering vast vistas of snow covered landscapes from the ocean up into the highlands. Our rivers teem with fish and encounters with wildlife are frequent. A great place to visit, but you will want to stay... forever!😁
@@monkeyfist.348yea some winters are brutal (-22*F) which I enjoy but spring summer and fall are excellent! I love traveling Canada being so close to Quebec, I’ll look into your area! :)
Paradise for me is the perfect massage The body becomes so relaxed that the brain tries to fall asleep, but the massage applies just enough pressure on the body to prevent that, locking you in a state of not quite sleeping yet not quite awake; you are aware of your surroundings, but the senses are dulled, you do not think, but are still very much a conscious being experiencing the stimuli around you, time loses meaning, minutes feel like hours, yet the entire experience is over in a heartbeat I have had many massages in my life, but have only obtained this nirvana once, though most have gotten close and were still enjoyable experiences
One of the late Richard Hatch's book sequels to Battlestar Galactica was titled "Paradis" which of course is "Paradise" minus the final letter or an "almost paradise". Reminds me of the song Almost Paradise which is on my music playlist. Some of the characters in that book wanted to give up the search for Earth and just stay on Paradis while others wanted to continue their quest to find Earth (even though Earth was not as nice a place).
Every version of paradise sounds like some version of Earth. Can there be an exception to this? There might be people for whom a paradise world is Hoth or Arrakis. I'm rather fond of deserts myself.
Paradise is a Persian word for Walled Garden and conceys the idea of Eden but cultivated and protected. In contrast to wilderness, which is uncultivated nature. A garden is cultivated / domesticated nature
Just imagine a portion of humanity says forget stars and just make hollowed out astroids into ecosystem sized ships designed to be self sustaining as much as possible and just roaming the galaxy slowly but surely.
Hmm, cool rooms with individual tracked infrared heat lamps... I wonder what the math is on energy efficiency? It sounds like a good idea. Now, what about microwaves instead? Which would also give you a great way to reheat your tea and snack, as well as deal with guest who have overstayed their welcome...
I lived in Hawaii for 18 months, corporate America for 25 years, returned to the UK for 5 and I'm now looking at the former eastern block for the freedom a less "developed" country offers. When unification is required and legislated, what happens to those of us who do not wish to be unified, nor to compel others to do so?
27:30 Yep, Trantor, if I recall correctly, was a planet on which every square mile (apart from the emperor's palace and grounds) was covered miles deep in city, even deep into the ground and spreading out into the continental shelf under the ocean, with the staggering population of 40 billion, feed by food imported from 20 agricultural worlds . . . 40 billion? Er, must have been the old British billion (a million million), and Trantor must have had a really small total land area.
Earth is a paradise. Humans keep destroying it. If we find another paradise planet, what will keep us from doing the same, now that we have a "backup"?😢
I used to have a book on writing SF. Tropes and things to avoid. Naming conventions. And when to break them. One comment l specifically remember was from Jerry Pournelle. It went something like "it was raining on Mongo last Tuesday". Planets with atmosphers have weather. Weather is variable. Even a paradise like say Tahiti isn't a paradise all the time.
The more you describe the definition of 'paradise planet' the more I thought it sounded like purgatory. Then again, I'm also the problem solver who asks "how are you getting all the materials and labor to support and maintain all this?'
Imagine a planet where the fields are always spring, the woodlands are always autumn, the beach and coast is always summer, and the beer is always winter cold.
We ruined some of the most beautiful island places on Earth with atomic testing, greedy developers stack houses on top of each other pitting neighbors against each other. I have no doubt human vice would repeat this cycle off planet as well.
You do know what Earthlings do when finding what corresponds to your description of paradise, don't you? They look for the spot that would be best to defend and build a city.
My order for Asimov's books (if tied on a number then read in any order, example: I, Robot, and Foundation first book, both are entries into the universe, but it doesn't matter which one is first, just as long as they're read first. 1. I, Robot, Foundation (first book) 2. Foundation and Empire (second) 3. Second Foundation (third of the original trilogy) 4. Galactic Empire Trilogy - in any order, only Pebble in the Sky is necessary for the continuity. 5. Caves of Steel 6. The Naked Sun 7. Robots of Dawn 8. Foundation's Edge (sequel 1) 9. Foundation and Earth (sequel 2) 10. Robots and Empire 11. Prelude to Foundation 12. Forward the Foundation The reason I suggest this non-Chronological order of the books is because there are massive spoilers that won't mean anything if you read them in Chronological order, but will be very rewarding if you read them in this order - this also mostly matches the publication order, so things are less jarring stylistically - as Asimov's early writing is well plotted, but characters are contrived and emotionally dry cogs at best, but there's a jump in quality going into Caves of Steel (characters still contrived, but much more emotionally engaging), and another jump in quality going into Robots of Dawn, and IMO his last books are also his finest written, most organic (which is a bit ironic since these are prequels, and they literally end where the original Foundation begins, the end is already set in stone), and most emotionally engaging. Also, read all these books before watching the Apple+/Sony series, because HOLY HELL does that spoil a lot from all over. If you watch just a few episodes, already some of the biggest twists from late in the series are spoiled. But it's not like the show runner (guy who wrote the Blade films, co-wrote the Dark Knight, and also show runner for Sandman) broke it on purpose, he kind of had to in order for things to make sense, because the books are incredibly tunnel visioned - by that I mean they focus mostly on the conversations of a select few, while a TV show sort of demands world building and a universe to exist in. But yeah, there are a lot of plot lines that (due to the tunnel vision) the reader won't know about until way later in the book series, but that the TV viewer will see as part of the wider world. Other than that, the characters in the Foundation TV series are quite a bit different, much more fleshed-out and 3 dimensional than their book counter-parts (minus certain ones from the prequels that didn't appear in the original books - because the prequel characters simply were way more fleshed out in the books than those in the original trilogy). So, if you read all the books, the TV series isn't just a reprint, but like a remake for film that re-vamps and reorganizes the information into a more chronological approach. One way to put it is that the show and the books are two different retellings of the same story which differ significantly in their style and structure - and while the books don't spoil the show, the show definitely spoils the books. But, I suggest putting the show off for similar reasons to why I suggest not to read the books chronologically, big spoilers. I'll also note that the Imperial Court in the show plays a MUCH bigger role, and takes on the role of many of the other roles in the story, many of the scenes that take place in Anacreon, for example, take place on Trantor. But, what they do with the Emperor is very interesting, and really demonstrates the cause of stagnation in the Empire. Asimov was inspired by the stagnation of the Imperial court and the developments on the periphery leading to the collapse of the Roman Empire between the eras of Theodosius and Justinian, and beyond - except he sort of combined the Roman and Byzantine courts, while maintaining equivalents for the break-away powers led by other forces - such as the Sub-Roman Britons, the Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Franks, Burgundians, Vandals, and Berbers - who all took command of various parts of the Empire, ruling as something like the Dominions of the British Empire to rebel states (some integrated in the Empire like the Franks, Visigoths, and Ostrogoths, others mostly independent, like the Vandals). This all appears in the show and books, but looking at it from different angles.
My paradise planet would probably not have that town full of people. If there's other folks on my perfect world, they're all at least a continent away... and even that may be too close.
If you mean a dynamic and diverse predator/prey driven ecology, sure, but humanity is afraid to be strong, and is working to wipe out all things sharp of tooth and claw...
please do an episode on extreme sports in the era of space travel, like surfing on different planets and moons or alien tidal bores or even oceans out of different liquids.. etc
I too like Brin. If you are friends could you ask his opinion on PE Rowe. I think you may know Rowe too?? At least he has credited you with many of his ideas. I think Brin and Rowe have similar styles and I wonder if Brin has listened to Rowe's audiobooks here on UA-cam, and what he thinks of him.
Even Paradise becomes blase. Human beings require challenge and adversety, stimulation and change. In that sense I believe that existence within this Universe IS Paradise
You are close to ✝️. Keep digging. This world is cursed but retains its originally good aspects, only muted or corrupted. It is possible to have meaningful challenge without the presence of the curse. That's what ✝️s Have to look forward to
Paradise is subjective ... it's more about a frame of mind than an actual setting. That said, living as a beggar on the streets of Mogadishu would require more than 'a positive attitude' to be anyone's idea of 'Paradise'.
My humble note is that the meaning of paradise should be about intelligent beings rather than environment. Posthumans will construct environment according to their needs. More to say, I believe their meaning of 'comfort' should much differ from what we're using now.
I think regardless of what we find, there won't be such thing as a true paradise world, but we will most likely find planets with paradise zones within it. You can technically make a seaside resort on a desert planet so long as said desert planet has at least one sea ;3
The term "Paradise Planets" is utterly ridiculous because paradise is subjective. To some, endless cities with night clubs and restaurants they can visit each night is paradise, whilst to others, white sandy beaches and tropical palm trees, warm shallow seas and a perfectly controlled and predictable climate would be, and to each the opposite would be hell.
I don't see why it would be ridiculous. Both solutions would be paradise planets, only to part of the population. As you say it's subjective, so anyone can use the term for whatever they want. Or maybe you're reacting to the fact that "paradise" is often meant to be universal, like in the game Stellaris. Or, well, in religions...
Buddy you're pretty much in your beginning description you pretty much described where I live in Oregon. Which actually would be Baker County. At the base of the sister mountains, near the border between Oregon and Idaho. Honest to God I'm not lying, I swear the only thing missing here is some fairytale creatures like fairies and Dragons.
An Earth-like planet centuries before the industrial revolution, minus humans and the entire planet all to myself, that's my idea of a paradise planet. 😄
For die-hard winter sports lovers, Florida and Hawaii would be hell. For water sports lovers, Alaska will never be preferable to a swimming pool in Phoenix or Riyadh.
Augmented reality will made habitability liveable. Effectively we'll have goggles that will allow us to navigate the external physical world, but it will add additional superfluous things to sitate our basic humanistic needs. Barren rocks will appear with moss etc, the sky will be blue, birds may appear that don't really exist etc. We'd be living a dream, like the matrix.
I can't see earth ever being trashed or terraform like you describe here. I don't think humans will get any less sentimental about earth. I think ending up as a museum/tourist planet is much more likely.
Before I even start to start to watch: "what a great subject" xx. Much love from me. More brains 🧠 needed. Instant like or thumbs up from me. Kind regards:11:11.
This will likely be the vast majority of our planets. Paradise on the surface as insane levels of industry occur underground to allow for the population's needs. And considering some nuclear physicists had the nice Idea of pointing a laser for heating hydrogen for nuclear fusion down And use it as a laser drill to get us access to geothermal energy anywhere on Earth. We may be mere decades away from being able to do that here on Earth.
One man's paradise is another man's full time maintenance job.
Sounds like money💸💸💸
I'll tend the planetary defense network. Hobbiton can go about it's business.
"it's a small world, until you have to clean it"
I'm sure some terrorist organization would want to mess with @deker0954's plans or at least make their job more aggravating. Then there are the regular intoxicated jerks that want to annoy others.
@@PeterKnaggeI'm the Housekeeper and I approve this message 😂
…And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull, they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they’d settled on. None of them was entirely satisfactory: either the climate wasn’t quite right in the later part of the afternoon, or the day was half an hour too long, or the sea was exactly the wrong shade of pink.
And thus were created the conditions for a staggering new form of specialist industry: custom-made luxury planet building.
exactly!!
Indeed!
Find a planet with liquid water on its surface. Simple as inoculating with plankton.
Could imagine first plankton bloom, spreading across the planet.
Paradise planet ugh, paradise shelter possible. Someday sure someday. I've read that book.
So long and thanks for all the fish!
Magrathia
this kind of concept always boils down to from which side you see the swan: the graceful glide over the water from above or the frantic paddling of the feet from below.
What about the side that honks?
Diversity of environments conditions and cultures so that one can "vote with one's feet" as it were.
This remind my Risa in Star Trek, what was initially presented as paradise, if you ignore risk of loosing organs.
A breathable atmosphere with no mosquitoes!
No insects, except butterflies.
A world where all insects are replaced by tiny fluffy cat-like mammals.
Landscape around where you live to invite dragonflies. They murder mosquitos by the hundreds.
Happy Father's Day, Isaac! Thank you for many many hours of entertainment, education, and sleep-aid!
Thank you, and you're very welcome :)
Lol in germany fathers day was on 9th may
@@christianmarx3249…
Germany has nine mays 😮😮😮😮
JK…
I know you meant “the ninth OF may”, lol
@@bobinthewest8559 i laughed tbh
I still remember the day I visited Alderaan. Good thing I took pictures.
One of the biggest mistakes of the Star Wars movies is NOT having scenes on Alderaan so that we could see what it was like for all of the movies that took place before it was destroyed (Rogue One, Solo, and the prequel trilogy).
@@Zurroundit was stupid for emperor Palpatine to destroy Alderaan wasting all those people and resources. Alderaan is the only other planet than Naboo that is a earth like planet which is the best environment for humans.
Looking for love in Alderaan places?
@@JCDenton2097 Planetmaxing.
@@tylersoto7465 Instead he could have contacted the leadership on that planet and told them to watch while he destroys ANOTHER planet in that star system than after destroying that planet tell them in no uncertain terms that their world will be destroyed too if they disobey his empire in any way. For example imagine if a galactic military force made us watch MARS get destroyed then warn us that Earth is next if we disobey any of their orders.
I love how the shots of paradise are from Switzerland.
my bet is more on a village in Romania or Georgia. Switzerland has too much snow.
@@DominikPlaylists im pretty sure I’ve been to that place, definitely Switzerland. We don’t always have snow, rather global warming….
@@AchtungGefahr sorry, I meant the words he said. not the photos, the photos might be from Switzerland. I'm just saying not all Georgian and Romanian villagers think of their home as a paradise even though it matches the description well.
A NEW LIFE AWAITS YOU IN THE OFFWORLD COLONIES! THE CHANCE TO BEGIN AGAIN IN A GOLDEN LAND OF OPPORTUNITY AND ADVENTURE!
Seriously, this sounds like a perfect setting for the beginning of a terrifying horror movie...
Don't go. It's a trap!
This is by far my favorite scifi theme. Humans with technologically enabled superpowers, imune do disease and untouchable by feral animals living in utopian paradise worlds, flying over waterfalls and beaches, floating islands and all sorts of wonderful things. Does anybody has book recommendations about something like this?
Genesis 1-2 and Revelation 21, hehe
Dancers at the end of time by Michael Moorcock. Not utopian by any means, but still relevant, I think.
@cosmicreason2242 have you considered the purelands of pureland buddhism
@@miguelatkinson i haven't considered much of Buddhism beyond critical analysis of why it's wrong. So since it's not true it's ultimately irrelevant. But i also don't know about said purelands, given they're not central to the apologetical issues, so you're welcome to summarize it
Some of Iain M Banks Culture novels deal with a somewhat Utopian interstellar civilization run largely by machines and has many alien citizens participating. But not everyone chooses to stay and all are free to do what they will within broad limits. There are also many human worlds outside of the culture. Some books I guess are about circumstances raised by living with it or making contact with unknown beings on unknown worlds.
I'm on my second novel and am going by what I have learned about the series. They say you don't really have to read them in order and are generally stand alone novels with different takes on the Culture. Later books might be better understood from reading earlier ones?
But he's a literate author and a skilled storyteller who didn't always write in the SF genre.
Research a little about the series and his notes on the Culture and try a couple or three.
Stellaris Gaia World explanation:
+ resort world decision
+ Organic Paradise from the Rogue Servitors.
bro theres a narrator mod with isaacs voice
@@narxes Agreed, but tbh It would be very hard for a 4X game to contain even just half of concepts Isaac covers in his videos. SFIA made me aware of the unfathomable scale real interstellar civilisations would have
had the same thought lol
Rest in peace Anita Gale. Thank you for your many contributions to the Space Program and for being an inspiration to us all. Ad Astra.
Hearing Issac describe paradise while I'm working on a Monday morning is kinda hard. I'd *SO MUCH* rather be where he's talking about than where I am, and I like my job for the most part.
I like to imagine that on Sombrero World it’s always Taco Tuesday
I agree with your conclusion. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" is very true, especially with regard to this subject. I am fairly sure what I call paradise will not be paradise for a fairly large group of people and vice versa. Also I would appreciate a regular change in surrounding and weather or things would get boring fairly soon.
Mister arthur when isaac asimov wrote these books The number representing a billion was a thousand times larger than it is now.. Somewhere in time.. They changed it to mean a thousand million instead of a million million❗️
If we don't destroy ourselves, then eventually we will make Earth a paradise.
We will make every place we reach to a paradise.
With some problems along the way....
I think Octavia Butler was right when she said:
*_It is the destiny of Earthlife to take root among the stars._*
Earth could become a 'Paradise Planet' and it would only require the removal of ONE species.
... it's the only way to be sure.
*Starts strumming a Guns "N Roses songs*
"Take me down to the Paradise Planet, where the grass is green and the woman are pretty. Oh, will you please take me home."
Here in Japan, I can already buy off-the-shelf air conditioners that track two people in a room and apply customized heat or cooling settings to their location by directed fans. Few years back they made a ton of TV ads to sell them. Occasionally still see one.
One man's heaven is another man's hell is confirmed true by seasonal allergies.
Its still not HELL, though. I actually prefer the mid Atlantic to other places but i just have to deal with the allergies
That's what Modern medicine and science research to counteract allergies.
Happy Father's Day Issac!
Your opening describes Cape Breton Island in Canada. I live there now and begrudge having to leave for anytime. Paradise exists on earth, but only in isolated situations for particular periods of time. Global warming is making this place even better. Our summer temps are typically around 27°C for the hot period. Winter temps are typically around zero to -10°C. I find the winters are the best, offering vast vistas of snow covered landscapes from the ocean up into the highlands. Our rivers teem with fish and encounters with wildlife are frequent.
A great place to visit, but you will want to stay... forever!😁
Jeffersonville, Vermont!
@daleru14 I grew up for a short time, near Potsdam NY. I remember brutal hard winters, not no more I guess😬
@@monkeyfist.348yea some winters are brutal (-22*F) which I enjoy but spring summer and fall are excellent! I love traveling Canada being so close to Quebec, I’ll look into your area! :)
@@daleru14 Nova Scotia has lots to offer. Like, ummm... Trump can't visit🤣 and no one carries guns except the RCMP😁
It also describes the Kashmir and Kangra valleys in the Indian Himalayas.
Paradise for me is the perfect massage
The body becomes so relaxed that the brain tries to fall asleep, but the massage applies just enough pressure on the body to prevent that, locking you in a state of not quite sleeping yet not quite awake; you are aware of your surroundings, but the senses are dulled, you do not think, but are still very much a conscious being experiencing the stimuli around you, time loses meaning, minutes feel like hours, yet the entire experience is over in a heartbeat
I have had many massages in my life, but have only obtained this nirvana once, though most have gotten close and were still enjoyable experiences
Perhaps a paradise Orbital would be preferable
Same. I wonder if a paradise Planet is preferable to one who grew up on an Orbital?
Orbitals provide a recreation but planets are the real deal :)
@@thesenate1844 planets have more hazards but also more resources
@@thesenate1844 No, the Orbital would be the real deal.
@@thesenate1844 great luxury star ports though
I need all four seasons in paradise. Don't know if I could stand the same thing all day everyday.
One of the late Richard Hatch's book sequels to Battlestar Galactica was titled "Paradis" which of course is "Paradise" minus the final letter or an "almost paradise". Reminds me of the song Almost Paradise which is on my music playlist.
Some of the characters in that book wanted to give up the search for Earth and just stay on Paradis while others wanted to continue their quest to find Earth (even though Earth was not as nice a place).
I would like hearing every idea about personalized paradise and prison pocket dimensions for as many as possible if ever possible
that opening description brought a tear to my eyes. Beautiful.
This is Risa's whole selling point. Being a paradise world where everything is all good.
Man every time you post you inspire me thank you for making my day for years at this point! I'm excited to watch with my coffee and kitty
What a lovely prose, it is almost poetic. Go Isaac!
Loved this episode. Your mileage will vary indeed
Also I think Isaac and Sarah are the parents that every child would be lucky enough to have
Happy Father's Day Issac.
I voted for this episode and am very glad you finally made it❤
7:06 in a nice mountainous area with lots of trees and rain and thunder storms and lots of snow in the winter.
Although it''s in a fantasy novel, I always thought being a Valheru would be rather nice.
The opening description of paradise sounded just like when I go to work in the morning. That moment just bfore the alarm clock goes off !
Happy Father's Day, Isaac. Dad's have to stick together!
So its basically like Long Island or Maine?
I've missed your last few episodes and I'm sorry. Your video give me much joy and peace. I look forward to hearing your voice again 😊
Earth is a paradise planet compared to every other planet we've ever found.
no
Isaacism, the act of escaping into Tech Comfort Dreams
Every version of paradise sounds like some version of Earth. Can there be an exception to this? There might be people for whom a paradise world is Hoth or Arrakis. I'm rather fond of deserts myself.
Paradise is a Persian word for Walled Garden and conceys the idea of Eden but cultivated and protected. In contrast to wilderness, which is uncultivated nature. A garden is cultivated / domesticated nature
Let’s gooo! More explanation of Stellaris concepts by Isaac hoho!
Just imagine a portion of humanity says forget stars and just make hollowed out astroids into ecosystem sized ships designed to be self sustaining as much as possible and just roaming the galaxy slowly but surely.
Hmm, cool rooms with individual tracked infrared heat lamps... I wonder what the math is on energy efficiency? It sounds like a good idea.
Now, what about microwaves instead? Which would also give you a great way to reheat your tea and snack, as well as deal with guest who have overstayed their welcome...
OMG I love this so much. Thank you, Isaac!!
I lived in Hawaii for 18 months, corporate America for 25 years, returned to the UK for 5 and I'm now looking at the former eastern block for the freedom a less "developed" country offers. When unification is required and legislated, what happens to those of us who do not wish to be unified, nor to compel others to do so?
I like living alone in the desert, but they WILL force us all into cities eventually- where it will be easier to control us.
“Or under a different butt. “ cracked me up- a little out of character and I loved it.
27:30
Yep, Trantor, if I recall correctly, was a planet on which every square mile (apart from the emperor's palace and grounds) was covered miles deep in city, even deep into the ground and spreading out into the continental shelf under the ocean, with the staggering population of 40 billion, feed by food imported from 20 agricultural worlds . . . 40 billion? Er, must have been the old British billion (a million million), and Trantor must have had a really small total land area.
"What happens in the Vega System stays in the Vega System 😉" - Cheeky ad in a space station, probably.
Earth is a paradise. Humans keep destroying it. If we find another paradise planet, what will keep us from doing the same, now that we have a "backup"?😢
Irrational fear.
I used to have a book on writing SF. Tropes and things to avoid. Naming conventions. And when to break them. One comment l specifically remember was from Jerry Pournelle. It went something like "it was raining on Mongo last Tuesday". Planets with atmosphers have weather. Weather is variable. Even a paradise like say Tahiti isn't a paradise all the time.
It was raining on earth yesterday 😅
The more you describe the definition of 'paradise planet' the more I thought it sounded like purgatory. Then again, I'm also the problem solver who asks "how are you getting all the materials and labor to support and maintain all this?'
Knowing humans I would say slave labor.
By the time we have different planets, robots
Thanks for the episode! Always worth to do the utopian thing every now and then and remind us all about where to aim for!
"Paradise, can it be all I heard it was? I close my eyes and maybe I'm already there." - Tommy Shaw
The whole beginning part of this video reminded me of Patrick reading the candy bar wrapper
:) Bit of classic Spongebob moment
Paradise needs at least one tentacle pit.
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Imagine a planet where the fields are always spring, the woodlands are always autumn, the beach and coast is always summer, and the beer is always winter cold.
Good morning
Note: Valhalla isn't a world. It mead hall in Asgard. It basically the barracks for the Einherjar, warriors collected by Odin to fight in Ragnarök
Hello Isaac,thank for a good episode today!
Simply another superb sci-fi Sunday episode on a common yet simultaneously unexplored topic.
We ruined some of the most beautiful island places on Earth with atomic testing, greedy developers stack houses on top of each other pitting neighbors against each other. I have no doubt human vice would repeat this cycle off planet as well.
The description of Paradise sounds so good. It literally sounds like "Paradise". When can we get a spot of the O'Neill Cylinder?
If anyone asks, I went to Risa with Riker.
keep your horgon to yourself, pal
You do know what Earthlings do when finding what corresponds to your description of paradise, don't you?
They look for the spot that would be best to defend and build a city.
We would do EXACTLY what the humans did in the Avatar movies.
Bless Isaac and your family... Happy Father's day
My order for Asimov's books (if tied on a number then read in any order, example: I, Robot, and Foundation first book, both are entries into the universe, but it doesn't matter which one is first, just as long as they're read first.
1. I, Robot, Foundation (first book)
2. Foundation and Empire (second)
3. Second Foundation (third of the original trilogy)
4. Galactic Empire Trilogy - in any order, only Pebble in the Sky is necessary for the continuity.
5. Caves of Steel
6. The Naked Sun
7. Robots of Dawn
8. Foundation's Edge (sequel 1)
9. Foundation and Earth (sequel 2)
10. Robots and Empire
11. Prelude to Foundation
12. Forward the Foundation
The reason I suggest this non-Chronological order of the books is because there are massive spoilers that won't mean anything if you read them in Chronological order, but will be very rewarding if you read them in this order - this also mostly matches the publication order, so things are less jarring stylistically - as Asimov's early writing is well plotted, but characters are contrived and emotionally dry cogs at best, but there's a jump in quality going into Caves of Steel (characters still contrived, but much more emotionally engaging), and another jump in quality going into Robots of Dawn, and IMO his last books are also his finest written, most organic (which is a bit ironic since these are prequels, and they literally end where the original Foundation begins, the end is already set in stone), and most emotionally engaging.
Also, read all these books before watching the Apple+/Sony series, because HOLY HELL does that spoil a lot from all over. If you watch just a few episodes, already some of the biggest twists from late in the series are spoiled. But it's not like the show runner (guy who wrote the Blade films, co-wrote the Dark Knight, and also show runner for Sandman) broke it on purpose, he kind of had to in order for things to make sense, because the books are incredibly tunnel visioned - by that I mean they focus mostly on the conversations of a select few, while a TV show sort of demands world building and a universe to exist in. But yeah, there are a lot of plot lines that (due to the tunnel vision) the reader won't know about until way later in the book series, but that the TV viewer will see as part of the wider world. Other than that, the characters in the Foundation TV series are quite a bit different, much more fleshed-out and 3 dimensional than their book counter-parts (minus certain ones from the prequels that didn't appear in the original books - because the prequel characters simply were way more fleshed out in the books than those in the original trilogy). So, if you read all the books, the TV series isn't just a reprint, but like a remake for film that re-vamps and reorganizes the information into a more chronological approach. One way to put it is that the show and the books are two different retellings of the same story which differ significantly in their style and structure - and while the books don't spoil the show, the show definitely spoils the books. But, I suggest putting the show off for similar reasons to why I suggest not to read the books chronologically, big spoilers.
I'll also note that the Imperial Court in the show plays a MUCH bigger role, and takes on the role of many of the other roles in the story, many of the scenes that take place in Anacreon, for example, take place on Trantor. But, what they do with the Emperor is very interesting, and really demonstrates the cause of stagnation in the Empire. Asimov was inspired by the stagnation of the Imperial court and the developments on the periphery leading to the collapse of the Roman Empire between the eras of Theodosius and Justinian, and beyond - except he sort of combined the Roman and Byzantine courts, while maintaining equivalents for the break-away powers led by other forces - such as the Sub-Roman Britons, the Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Franks, Burgundians, Vandals, and Berbers - who all took command of various parts of the Empire, ruling as something like the Dominions of the British Empire to rebel states (some integrated in the Empire like the Franks, Visigoths, and Ostrogoths, others mostly independent, like the Vandals). This all appears in the show and books, but looking at it from different angles.
Happy Father's Day 😊 ❤️ 💙.
Thank you Isaac for your reminder to hope for a cosmic future
I am waiting for the jump scare as I feel too tranquil after the first few minutes :)
My paradise planet would probably not have that town full of people. If there's other folks on my perfect world, they're all at least a continent away... and even that may be too close.
Alone on a world without other humans sounds wonderful.
@@Joe-Przybranowski It really does.
"Your milage may vary."
L O L
One of your favorite sayings . . . and I'm growing fond of it as well.
we already have one :)
our own? How poetic, unless you meant something else
No planet that has Detroit on it can be described as a paradise
If you mean a dynamic and diverse predator/prey driven ecology, sure, but humanity is afraid to be strong, and is working to wipe out all things sharp of tooth and claw...
You mean a Prison Planet? Yes we do have one :P
Detroit can be bad, but doesn’t hold a candle to cities in India where there are no pollution controls.
please do an episode on extreme sports in the era of space travel, like surfing on different planets and moons or alien tidal bores or even oceans out of different liquids.. etc
Whack, like, drink and snack. Here we go!
I too like Brin. If you are friends could you ask his opinion on PE Rowe. I think you may know Rowe too?? At least he has credited you with many of his ideas. I think Brin and Rowe have similar styles and I wonder if Brin has listened to Rowe's audiobooks here on UA-cam, and what he thinks of him.
Hi, thanks for all the video of my neighborhood!
this Earth is a paradise planet
Even Paradise becomes blase. Human beings require challenge and adversety, stimulation and change. In that sense I believe that existence within this Universe IS Paradise
You are close to ✝️. Keep digging. This world is cursed but retains its originally good aspects, only muted or corrupted. It is possible to have meaningful challenge without the presence of the curse. That's what ✝️s Have to look forward to
@@cosmictreason2242 Religion is a cancer on society ... one that is getting closer to being cured as we learn more and fear less.
Paradise is subjective ... it's more about a frame of mind than an actual setting.
That said, living as a beggar on the streets of Mogadishu would require more than 'a positive attitude' to be anyone's idea of 'Paradise'.
I hear there is a nice one in Orion.
time stamp 4:27 Oh Cool! Hobbiton with a sewer pipe. Indoor plumbing. Paradise! 4:35 Oh crap it's just a bridge.
I live in the painted desert and it's paradise to me.
My buddy who lives there with me sees it as more of a hell.
If humanity got another paradise planet, we'd just pave it over like this one.
My humble note is that the meaning of paradise should be about intelligent beings rather than environment. Posthumans will construct environment according to their needs. More to say, I believe their meaning of 'comfort' should much differ from what we're using now.
I think regardless of what we find, there won't be such thing as a true paradise world, but we will most likely find planets with paradise zones within it.
You can technically make a seaside resort on a desert planet so long as said desert planet has at least one sea ;3
Thank you for this description of Banks’ orbitals😂
I'm writing a book about a paradise birch world inspired by your videos, it's... difficult.
The term "Paradise Planets" is utterly ridiculous because paradise is subjective. To some, endless cities with night clubs and restaurants they can visit each night is paradise, whilst to others, white sandy beaches and tropical palm trees, warm shallow seas and a perfectly controlled and predictable climate would be, and to each the opposite would be hell.
As said in the video…
I don't see why it would be ridiculous. Both solutions would be paradise planets, only to part of the population. As you say it's subjective, so anyone can use the term for whatever they want.
Or maybe you're reacting to the fact that "paradise" is often meant to be universal, like in the game Stellaris. Or, well, in religions...
Just bring paradise with you wherever you go and you’ll be all set 😊😊😊
Isaac: Makes video about paradise planets.
Also Isaac: Uses B roll of Earth
Buddy you're pretty much in your beginning description you pretty much described where I live in Oregon. Which actually would be Baker County. At the base of the sister mountains, near the border between Oregon and Idaho. Honest to God I'm not lying, I swear the only thing missing here is some fairytale creatures like fairies and Dragons.
RIP Ms. Anita Gale. -Actually, I hope to meet her one day.
An Earth-like planet centuries before the industrial revolution, minus humans and the entire planet all to myself, that's my idea of a paradise planet. 😄
If you could pick one place to live on unspoiled Earth where would you go?
For die-hard winter sports lovers, Florida and Hawaii would be hell. For water sports lovers, Alaska will never be preferable to a swimming pool in Phoenix or Riyadh.
Augmented reality will made habitability liveable. Effectively we'll have goggles that will allow us to navigate the external physical world, but it will add additional superfluous things to sitate our basic humanistic needs. Barren rocks will appear with moss etc, the sky will be blue, birds may appear that don't really exist etc. We'd be living a dream, like the matrix.
only two things to say:
paradise is a state of mind
can you read to me? do you do audiobooks? i want you to describe planets forever
I can't see earth ever being trashed or terraform like you describe here. I don't think humans will get any less sentimental about earth. I think ending up as a museum/tourist planet is much more likely.
One man's utopia, is another's dystopia.
Before I even start to start to watch: "what a great subject" xx.
Much love from me.
More brains 🧠 needed.
Instant like or thumbs up from me.
Kind regards:11:11.
This will likely be the vast majority of our planets.
Paradise on the surface as insane levels of industry occur underground to allow for the population's needs.
And considering some nuclear physicists had the nice Idea of pointing a laser for heating hydrogen for nuclear fusion down
And use it as a laser drill to get us access to geothermal energy anywhere on Earth. We may be mere decades away from being able to do that here on Earth.
Happy Father's day Isaac.