Death Stars, ecumonopolis, cloud cities, stellar mining, planetary habitats, orbital rings, uplifting, and now planetary chainsaws? This channel is outshining most of popular science fiction. Happy birthday Isaac.
you know. I kinda blasted NASA this week on their google plus page. Someone using the Kerbal Space Program (game) sent a manned mission to Pluto and back. I posted the youtube link, and told NASA they need to step up. Seriously, if KSP can do it, why cant we. LOL
>Genetically engineer floating tuna that survive on Neptune >Make them thrive >Fish and can them >Become rich by selling NEP-TUNA! Sorry, I will see myself out
A stormy chandelier city feels like a great place for a futuristic crime novel, like it's always storming outside, has a lot of workers for the fuel industry, maybe a nice place to do less than legal things since it's distance from the major worlds. Anyway great video!
@@Roxor128 "the mutant bastards were carted off to off world mines to fester like rats, those of us who were still human, we floated, in the cities of the sky."
I think there's something extremely poetic about a long-lived (probably cyborg) Neptunian, lamenting the loss of the chandelier cities of old, once Neptune becomes a contracted shell world. "Do you remember the cities that hung from above Swaying gently in the orbital motion? My heart aches for those grand chandeliers Lights pulsing in clouds of the helium ocean"
The idea of "people gathering to witness the colonization of the last planet in the solar system" gave me chills and just about brought tears to my eyes. I can picture people clear as day standing with hands pressed to windows watching, completely overwhelmed, knowing what that means we'll be doing next. What an absolutely profound and deeply, yet blissfully, jarring image that is. That thought is gonna stick with me until I die.
@@brianhammer5107 Thoughtfulness must not be a strong suit of yours. Replying to a 6 year old comment just to be an asshole. Fuck off to whatever cave you crawled out of and go yell at sports or a movie or whatever ridiculous unimportant thing you deem to be meaningful.
Dang... This might just be one of my favorite episodes you've ever made, and that's saying something. Seeing the orbital rings, stellasers, fusion economy, and so many other concepts from previous episodes all put together to form a system is really amazing. Your vision of humanity's (near) future is unlike any I've ever seen before, but, once explained, it seems so cogent and self-evidently necessary that I have a hard time believing it won't happen that way, at least in the broad strokes. This channel has quickly become my second-favorite exploration of science and possibility, right after Carl Sagan's original Cosmos. Keep up the good work!
Isaac you are terrestrially stellar. I wish you many, many more years of joy. You have astronomically expanded the parameters of my imagination and inspired countless hours of wonder and awe. Happy Birthday.
What I love about your channel Isaac, is that even though we still live in a time period where we haven't even managed to start colonizing the Moon or Mars, you talk about all those incredibly sci-fi ideas like we could do them right here right now. You take what looks to be a distant dream and turn it into reality with your wonderfully informative videos. I have actually wondered if you're a time traveler coming from the far future to guide us to the stars and beyond. Such a huge appreciation for your channel dude. Also Happy birthday! :)
Have a 'like' for the time traveler thing. You know. If someone did come back in time, this would be a good way to stealthily give away spoilers from the future. Hmm.. Also, Also Happy Birthday, Isaac!
Alex Blessed, Isaac said "25th century" not "right here right now". James Watt patented a pressurized steam engine in 1781, 237 years ago. Benjamin Franklins kite in a storm experiment was 1750. Imagine telling Franklin that electric powered flying drone quadrotors would be able to deliver same-day express packages from warehouses located in the Appalachian mountains and that you could place the order directly from a tablet carried in your pocket. A lot of technology happened in 268 years.
That wasn't directly about this particular video, its basically for some of his other videos where he says something along the lines of "the technology required for this exists today". You do make some great points though and I agree with you ofc, cheers!
Outward Bound: Colonizing the Trappist 1 System! Unique and gorgeous views of the night sky, really short travel times, near earth gravities, a possibly pretty violent star... the challenges and opportunities are awesome!
so this whole channel is absolutely amazing, the Outward Bound series are my favorite, because I feel like I am on the journey at the same time as the characters are because the characters are portrayed in the way that we feel connected to them. It’s like Isaac is telling a story instead of just explaining the science. And I don’t know about the most people, but I am a story driven person. Thank you Isaac for all you do whether you see this text or not, you are a blessing in all our lives, and all our hearts. Stay amazing my friend and keep on going because you don’t know how much we appreciate you.
Well Earth is the most dangerous planet around. For 100% of all death have happened around or on Earth! MARS is way safer, lol. As zero humans have died on MARS. As far as we know... Sorry cannot find a tinfoil hat.. So I end topic here.
This still from the beggining to now, remains one of my favorite things to do on youtube. I love thinking about the not so distant future- and how things could go. It almost sounds magical- chandelier cities hanging on Neptune, until you consider that it might actually be a really necessity.
Oh, and Happy Birthday to you, Isaac! Even on your birthday, you're the one bringing gifts to us. Sincere thanks for that. May you live at least thousands of years! ☺️
I'm really looking forward to the seasteading episode. I spent a good deal of time when I was a kid thinking about the possibilities of building an artificial floating island in such a way as to have it be relatively self sufficient with a meaningful population. Dredging the ocean floor would be one way of making a lot of money, there's all sorts of untapped mineral deposits down there just waiting to be picked up and turned into things.
LandNotBombs argues that industrial agriculture is best located on the Earth's ocean surface. By so doing, ocean bioproductivity is potentially sufficient to reverse atmospheric CO2 increase and consequent global warming. Furthermore, moving industrial agriculture onto the ocean will free wildlife habitat and abate the shameful extinction rate. In short, ocean-based industrial agriculture is feasible, desirable, and economically competitive with land-based industrial practices.
LandNotBombs argues that industrial agriculture is best located on the Earth's ocean surface. By so doing, ocean bioproductivity is potentially sufficient to reverse atmospheric CO2 increase and consequent global warming. Furthermore, moving industrial agriculture onto the ocean will free wildlife habitat and abate the shameful extinction rate. In short, ocean-based industrial agriculture is feasible, desirable, and economically competitive with land-based industrial practices. LandNotBombs argues that industrial agriculture is best located on the Earth's ocean surface. By so doing, ocean bioproductivity is potentially sufficient to reverse atmospheric CO2 increase and consequent global warming. Furthermore, moving industrial agriculture onto the ocean will free wildlife habitat and abate the shameful extinction rate. In short, ocean-based industrial agriculture is feasible, desirable, and economically competitive with land-based industrial practices. See... landnotbombs.pbworks.com/w/page/14743547/FrontPage&ved=2ahUKEwjGkqrG-8ndAhXl0FQKHQ9HBHYQFjAAegQIABAB&usg=AOvVaw2O76B3jkYC2x4e4sq7N9gH
Seashells are made of calcium carbonate (CaCO3), and as such, can bind atmospheric CO2. We could make huge oyster and mussels farms, or just artificial reefs the size of continents.
I love these episodes. Whenever I feel like life's negative and pointless, I try to remember that if we believe in this bigger better future for humanity, the things we do today really can help it to happen.
Hi Isaac! Happy birthday for next week and congrats on the channel's 4 year anniversary. I've been a subscriber for a couple of years now and your content just keeps getting better! I'm forever grateful to you for the work you put in to providing quality, informative videos for your fans :)
Chandelier cities are now making it into my original graphic novel! Thank you for the inspiration and giving my favorite planet a well needed shout out!
Will men EVER again get above low Earth orbit? Apollo 17 left the moon When I was in kindergarten. We've never been, back. Dismantle the military industrial complex . Perhaps the future you speak of will come to fruition. It's a future; that brilliant people like you deserve Isaac.
Great to see some love for Neptune! Visually it’s always been the most beautiful planet for me. If they crack life extension in my lifetime, it will be on my list of destinations!
Knowing I will be dead and not witness stuff like this depresses me. Flying through Neptune would be beyond amazing! I wish to be a part of all the wonderous mysteries of space. Nothing compares. Lets also hope humanity learns to live in peace if we, as a race, wish to make it to the 25th century, and create amazing technological wonders such as this.
Governments are purposefully inefficient by design. If you want forward-thinking, the private sector is the way to go. The commercialization of space will be the driving force behind innovation and development of space exploration projects.
I'd like to buy this guy a couple of pints of beer and talk for hours about the solar system, regardless of what my horrified friends might be thinking about our conversation topic..
Week after week your videos have such details, almost never neglecting the smallest details! I wonder at what speed IA ' s mind works. Dose he ever sleep? Chandelier cities? Who else would consider this or diamond rain !
well the diamond rain is a known scientific theory that scientists have been floating around for years now.. in fact most say that it not only rains diamonds, but that there are "iceburgs" of giant diamonds(diamond burgs)floating in a hydrocarbon sea, closer to the mantel of the giant planet.
I’d like to point out, concerning chandelier cities, that even if you could make it as structurally sound as a normal city, there’s one huge difference that adds a quite serious risk: If a building collapses in a normal city, everything falls to the ground, typically less than a kilometer. People might survive the fall, and the materials used in the building can be salvaged almost as easily as they were initially mined. If a building collapses in a chandelier city over Neptune, it falls long enough for the people inside to realize their doom, crashes minutes later in a place of extremely high atmospheric pressure, everybody dies and you’d need planes or rockets to get the corpses or material back. That’s not to say a chandelier city wouldn’t be built. I can imagine several solutions to that event. 1: Every structure has an emergency escape pod. Just like every building in a modern city is required to have a fire exit, Neptune’s chandelier cities require buildings to have emergency airplanes for people to climb into and fly away before everything crashes. 2: Every building IS an emergency airplane. When the structure falls, wings and engines deploy and autopilot everybody to an emergency landing zone. 3: Some kinda safety net? I don’t know what it’d have to be made of, but if you could passively catch any falling buildings it would at least minimize casualties and resource loss. I think option 2 is the best. Any takers?
4: those buildings could be modularly made with balloons integrated(a mixture of plane-balloon really), carried floating to the city, put in place, and if falls use those very balloons to not fall too much and stay floating until drones catch you the fact that the fall takes more time than a conventional skycraper really makes it safer than earth or any other surface construction where debris can fall on you, here you can control the slowing rate and minimize lethal force, a collapse on earth would be instant no time to react, though maintenance should prevent any of these scenarios
Happy birthday/channel-anniversary Isaac! Political science may be outside your wheelhouse, but I'm curious about what kind of governance structures you think might be in place when people start building these giant mega-projects. Such colossal endeavors and civilizations sized to build them would presumably require comparably colossal governance structures, or maybe superintelligent AI's. It doesn't seem likely to me that the kinds of governments we have experience with would work very well for civilizations with populations in the trillions and beyond equipped with world-wrecking superlasers as everyday transportation infrastructure.
I listen to these in bed every Thursday. Although the visuals on the video are great, if you only listen, Issac's ability to describe sends your imagination to amazing places.
Thank youuuu for this amazing video of you in the future 💕 it’s really inspiring to see you grow in the world of art and the world is full of amazing artists like you ❤️ thank youuu and thank youuuu
If we mined the even a tiny fraction of the diamonds of a gas planet such as Neptune, the price of diamonds would fall through the floor because the supply would so outstrip the demand that diamonds would be worth very little!
15:02 to 15:15, it's a great idea, and what you say is absolutely correct; however, that chandelier city would definitely either have thicker horizontal struts, able to act in bending (imagine a truss or at a rectangular beam), or it would have braces kicking back up to the central pier at a diagonal to take the vertical component of each tower's load. Making the city symmetric is also ideal, but I image multiple circles of buildings, larger and heavier ones near the middle and smaller, light buildings hanging off the perimeter of each primary level (this video shows a "2 primary level" city). Honestly, unless the views are great (and I don't think we're counting on that), why not just have one giant central pier structure? Make it as wide as it has to be, to some minimum diameter, and go as far down as your material can handle, unless that buoyancy thing starts to kick in, then the sky's the limit (anti-literally). 15:25-15:43 is something that I think makes a bit more sense.
I see the Nepunian system as a great place to put supercomputers, given that it's so darn cold that far from the sun! Overheating would not be a problem there, making it a great region of our solar system for activities that produce kilotons of heat as a byproduct.
This video has one of the best comment sections ever. Just a bunch of non-flat earthers dreaming about an exciting future that most people never think about. Just reading these comments gives me an adrenalin rush. Thank goodness that I searched about colonising neptune. I wasn’t even sure a video would exist on that topic, but a video did exist and a damn good video at that. So grateful for having found this channel.
Breaking it up to build rotating habitats comes later. The episode was about the 25th century. The nitrogen gas that is extracted will be shipped to rotating habitats. You have to consume Neptune's atmosphere before the solids become widely available. He did mention the diamonds. Carbon is good for habitat construction.
Ok. Maybe. I love Isaac Arthur's vids but he tends to converge on a single path to the future. That's unwise. The real future will be full of surprises. Maybe fusion is fundamentally unreliable outside of stars. Maybe rotating habs are as dumb as planes with flapping wings. Maybe minds require messy meat hardware. Who knows!
I think we should make a communal sci-fi series. We should use all these ideas and make a public work all under a single pen-name and donate the whole sum to 3 main causes : trans-humanism, space exploration, and nominal consistent power such as the solar array. If this gets to 50+ likes I'll make the Google doc.
I was waiting for this episode for a long time. Neptune is a special planet, because it is an inviting blue color of oceans, but is the last planet with crushing winds and extremely cold environment. Colonizing it seems like an ultimate challenge.
Shamusfarmer, Yes Issac Arthur, has got to voice training classes.. Sorry, I am in love with the word, "Wessels". And love the "Whale gun". So much so that I have paused the original Star Trek and replayed the word, "Wessels". This word, just sounds so pleasing to the ear. And Issac Arthur, just naturally pulled this off. Heck, this is my addiction. We all have our malfunctions. As I have a bit of "Synesthesia", where I see loud sounds as colorful flashes. And this word when spoken naturally triggers a pleasant comforting feeling. Problem, for me was that the whole of Issac Artur's voice before voice training, was very pleasant in it's feelings. It has now lost too much color, and feels duller.
@@marlonlacert8133 WOW! You have synethsesia!? That's so cool, that's one of my favorite disorders! No wonder it was such an apparent thing to you!! Please tell me a little bit more about your experiences! Please? Just a bit? PS I will have to listen more closely...
Videos like this make me wish I could live forever so I could be alive to experience stuff like this actually happening. It's really interesting just theorizing about it, but actually seeing it someday would be amazing.
Lol well I’m not trying to make fun of anyone’s speech impediment I just found it amusing that a guy who makes space videos pronounces his planet wrong lmao the vids are great I hope it wasn’t rude for me to say that. ❤️
My Audience to your information requires an attention span that is intense. I will contribute when I can. I hope young people are watching this. This is our future.
WOW. I've actually listened to just about every episode twice.. (yes, I'm a total quarantine-loser who did.nothing but listen to Isaac Arthur for a year lolll) yet somehow I missed this episode. And its ABSOLUTELY fantastic. The imagery is just straight inspiring. Now I want to write a novel that takes place here in this world on a "chandelier city"... I'm not even kidding. Im totally blown away by this episode. This is just fantastic. I really hope you bring back "Our Traveller" in the new episodes. I'd love to see this outward bound series tackle Trappist system or other exotic locations... thanks for everything man. You are just awesome.
Are any of Neptune's Moons Tidally locked? if so, how about an anchor? build a structure deep into the moon. which will hold Extremely long and strong tethers. long enough to reach Neptune. which extract resources.
Libertopa EurekanAnarch, Himalia orbits Jupiter in 251 days and rotates in 7.8 hours. Phoebe orbits Saturn in 551 days and rotates in 9.3 hours. Sycorax orbits Uranus in 1288 days and has 3.6 hour rotation.
Death Stars, ecumonopolis, cloud cities, stellar mining, planetary habitats, orbital rings, uplifting, and now planetary chainsaws? This channel is outshining most of popular science fiction. Happy birthday Isaac.
Its partly because its real. We can do this, some of it can start today. We just need people to invest in a future they wont live long enough to see.
@@frankreynolds445 the money and support never hurts either.
neptunes holds so much h20 that we would think lets go there but they have other stuff probably
Bc scifi authors don’t know what they’re talking about :v
Also they rarely approach the realm of Kardashev 2+
@@trevorle7382 Because we ourselves are Type 0.75 on the Kardashev scale, and we simply cannot begin to comprehend 2+ Kardashev scale civilizations .
NASA: Let's go to Mars
Isaac Arthur: Have you considered Neptune?
😂😂😂 I actually imagined that read in Isaac's voice
Thing is the moon is a better choice even though it's kind of boring
Elon Musk: *hits blunt*
NASA: "Uhm? Why?"
Isaac: "There can be something better than oil"
NASA: "NEPTUNE IS OUR TOP PRIORITY!"
you know. I kinda blasted NASA this week on their google plus page. Someone using the Kerbal Space Program (game) sent a manned mission to Pluto and back. I posted the youtube link, and told NASA they need to step up. Seriously, if KSP can do it, why cant we. LOL
>Genetically engineer floating tuna that survive on Neptune
>Make them thrive
>Fish and can them
>Become rich by selling NEP-TUNA!
Sorry, I will see myself out
* groans *
;p
Thanks i needed a laugh today
Have you tried your hand at marketing jobs?
You’d do real good with product names and slogans lol,
Thanks for the laugh 😂
OMG THAT WAS GOD LIKE
Somebody come up with a Yer Anus joke, I'm too drunk.
A stormy chandelier city feels like a great place for a futuristic crime novel, like it's always storming outside, has a lot of workers for the fuel industry, maybe a nice place to do less than legal things since it's distance from the major worlds. Anyway great video!
jack1701e what country do you think would own Neptune?
none; if you declare independance from neptune, what are they gonna say about it?
No, better still, an adventure game in the style of Under A Killing Moon.
@@Roxor128 "the mutant bastards were carted off to off world mines to fester like rats, those of us who were still human, we floated, in the cities of the sky."
Necromunda
I think there's something extremely poetic about a long-lived (probably cyborg) Neptunian, lamenting the loss of the chandelier cities of old, once Neptune becomes a contracted shell world.
"Do you remember the cities that hung from above
Swaying gently in the orbital motion?
My heart aches for those grand chandeliers
Lights pulsing in clouds of the helium ocean"
25th-century poetry, in the 21st century. Nice.
Lol!
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe."
"Gardener ships off the shoulder of Orion..."
@@MrGonzonator seems you know that, because if you were us you wouldn't, however not everyone is the same.
The idea of "people gathering to witness the colonization of the last planet in the solar system" gave me chills and just about brought tears to my eyes. I can picture people clear as day standing with hands pressed to windows watching, completely overwhelmed, knowing what that means we'll be doing next. What an absolutely profound and deeply, yet blissfully, jarring image that is. That thought is gonna stick with me until I die.
You wrote that moving comment five years ago.
Have you written a story to go with it, yet?
tears to your eyes? really, Mary??
@@brianhammer5107 Thoughtfulness must not be a strong suit of yours. Replying to a 6 year old comment just to be an asshole. Fuck off to whatever cave you crawled out of and go yell at sports or a movie or whatever ridiculous unimportant thing you deem to be meaningful.
Dang... This might just be one of my favorite episodes you've ever made, and that's saying something. Seeing the orbital rings, stellasers, fusion economy, and so many other concepts from previous episodes all put together to form a system is really amazing. Your vision of humanity's (near) future is unlike any I've ever seen before, but, once explained, it seems so cogent and self-evidently necessary that I have a hard time believing it won't happen that way, at least in the broad strokes. This channel has quickly become my second-favorite exploration of science and possibility, right after Carl Sagan's original Cosmos. Keep up the good work!
To make it reality, first we must imagine it. Isaac has done this on a grand and scientific scale.
Oh, c’mon. Isaac Arthur is already better than Carl Sagan, and still a young man. Isaac Arthur will be No. 1 for the next century!
Isaac impressed me. When I play Space Engine I try to imagine some of the concepts he mentions
"Neptune's Chainsaw" is the best megastructure name I've ever heard.
america 100
Thats so metal
They can put that on your Tombstone after the police pull me off.
@@kobymcqueen4601 Heard of Viking Metal? Get prepared for Roman Metal
"Neptune's chainaxe"
Out of all the series you do, I think I like the episodes about colonizing our own solar system the most.
Isaac you are terrestrially stellar. I wish you many, many more years of joy. You have astronomically expanded the parameters of my imagination and inspired countless hours of wonder and awe. Happy Birthday.
Well spoken I couldn't agree more
@ It's not cool to make fun of someone for that, you don't know what their issue is and it's rude.
What I love about your channel Isaac, is that even though we still live in a time period where we haven't even managed to start colonizing the Moon or Mars, you talk about all those incredibly sci-fi ideas like we could do them right here right now. You take what looks to be a distant dream and turn it into reality with your wonderfully informative videos. I have actually wondered if you're a time traveler coming from the far future to guide us to the stars and beyond. Such a huge appreciation for your channel dude. Also Happy birthday! :)
Have a 'like' for the time traveler thing.
You know. If someone did come back in time, this would be a good way to stealthily give away spoilers from the future. Hmm..
Also, Also Happy Birthday, Isaac!
Alex Blessed, Isaac said "25th century" not "right here right now". James Watt patented a pressurized steam engine in 1781, 237 years ago. Benjamin Franklins kite in a storm experiment was 1750. Imagine telling Franklin that electric powered flying drone quadrotors would be able to deliver same-day express packages from warehouses located in the Appalachian mountains and that you could place the order directly from a tablet carried in your pocket. A lot of technology happened in 268 years.
That wasn't directly about this particular video, its basically for some of his other videos where he says something along the lines of "the technology required for this exists today". You do make some great points though and I agree with you ofc, cheers!
he's a genius.
You people are crazy fans of him ain't ya. His idea isn't completely original if you"ve read enough books.
Outward Bound: Colonizing the Trappist 1 System! Unique and gorgeous views of the night sky, really short travel times, near earth gravities, a possibly pretty violent star... the challenges and opportunities are awesome!
Look at the Proxima B section of the colonizing Alpha Centauri episode.
Elon Musk: "We are going to put a million people in space!"
Isaac Arthur: "You misspelled trillion..."
Well a million is a good start for any colony. Trillion is what happens after all those colonies mature enough to begin making their own colonies.
millions making millions i guess
so this whole channel is absolutely amazing, the Outward Bound series are my favorite, because I feel like I am on the journey at the same time as the characters are because the characters are portrayed in the way that we feel connected to them. It’s like Isaac is telling a story instead of just explaining the science. And I don’t know about the most people, but I am a story driven person. Thank you Isaac for all you do whether you see this text or not, you are a blessing in all our lives, and all our hearts. Stay amazing my friend and keep on going because you don’t know how much we appreciate you.
Sign me up for the first ship. As Sagan said, everyone you know, everyone who has ever lived has lived and died on Earth. I'm ready to die on Neptune!
Low earth orbit is like being in the your doorway.You're still at home.
Indeed, Soyuz 11 is why all astronauts wear IVA suits.
Well Earth is the most dangerous planet around. For 100% of all death have happened around or on Earth! MARS is way safer, lol. As zero humans have died on MARS. As far as we know...
Sorry cannot find a tinfoil hat.. So I end topic here.
Though as Elon Musk says, 'Just not on impact.'
You beat me to it...
What a beautiful color this planet has !
I like blue too 😂
metano.
Yet somehow it makes me feel... blue.
@Brendon Gillanders phrasing.
thank you!
Happy birthday Isaac :)
And to many more.
It was my birthday yesterday too! Wow how great!
Comment Guy yeah i bet nobody came to your birthday party either
I don’t usually like longform videos, but I’ve been watching Isaac Arthur videos since I woke up this morning, that was 10 hours ago.
Story time with Arthur. I truly appreciate your bright vision of the future. Happy birthday 🎁🎉🎈🎂🎊
This still from the beggining to now, remains one of my favorite things to do on youtube. I love thinking about the not so distant future- and how things could go. It almost sounds magical- chandelier cities hanging on Neptune, until you consider that it might actually be a really necessity.
Oh, and Happy Birthday to you, Isaac!
Even on your birthday, you're the one bringing gifts to us. Sincere thanks for that. May you live at least thousands of years! ☺️
Dude, your speaking has gotten noticeably clearer over the years. All that hard work is paying off. Well done.
Thank you Isaac for these amazing vids!
I guess you could say,
colonizing Neptune is pretty _cool_
Happy Birthdday dude!
I'm really looking forward to the seasteading episode. I spent a good deal of time when I was a kid thinking about the possibilities of building an artificial floating island in such a way as to have it be relatively self sufficient with a meaningful population. Dredging the ocean floor would be one way of making a lot of money, there's all sorts of untapped mineral deposits down there just waiting to be picked up and turned into things.
LandNotBombs argues that industrial agriculture is best located on the Earth's ocean surface. By so doing, ocean bioproductivity is potentially sufficient to reverse atmospheric CO2 increase and consequent global warming. Furthermore, moving industrial agriculture onto the ocean will free wildlife habitat and abate the shameful extinction rate. In short, ocean-based industrial agriculture is feasible, desirable, and economically competitive with land-based industrial practices.
LandNotBombs argues that industrial agriculture is best located on the Earth's ocean surface. By so doing, ocean bioproductivity is potentially sufficient to reverse atmospheric CO2 increase and consequent global warming. Furthermore, moving industrial agriculture onto the ocean will free wildlife habitat and abate the shameful extinction rate. In short, ocean-based industrial agriculture is feasible, desirable, and economically competitive with land-based industrial practices.
LandNotBombs argues that industrial agriculture is best located on the Earth's ocean surface. By so doing, ocean bioproductivity is potentially sufficient to reverse atmospheric CO2 increase and consequent global warming. Furthermore, moving industrial agriculture onto the ocean will free wildlife habitat and abate the shameful extinction rate. In short, ocean-based industrial agriculture is feasible, desirable, and economically competitive with land-based industrial practices.
See...
landnotbombs.pbworks.com/w/page/14743547/FrontPage&ved=2ahUKEwjGkqrG-8ndAhXl0FQKHQ9HBHYQFjAAegQIABAB&usg=AOvVaw2O76B3jkYC2x4e4sq7N9gH
what a useful idea
Seashells are made of calcium carbonate (CaCO3), and as such, can bind atmospheric CO2. We could make huge oyster and mussels farms, or just artificial reefs the size of continents.
@@PaulaJBean ..did you know that most of the ocean bottom is filled with "calciferous ooze" which COULD BE the mineral precursor for Portland Cement?
Happy Arthrusday!
Your videos make my life infinitely more enjoyable and fill me w hope and wonder. Thank you! I hope you have a fantastic birthday!!!!!
Holy crap I didn’t know Isaac has an entire staff working on these videos lol. That’s impressive.
Most of us graphics people are volunteers. Each guy has their own technique which is really cool!
Please never stop making these. I myself love to ponder at this sort of stuff all the time but man you take it to a whole different level.
I've long wanted a Triton orbiter. I suspect that the dark stains downwind from the Nitrogen geysers might be contain compounds worth mining.
Most compounds are worth mining under some circumstances. "the dark stains downwind" is not a category I had heard of before.
@@stefanr8232 That's because it's normally associated with Uranus.
lmao well, I guess someone had to say it
I love these episodes. Whenever I feel like life's negative and pointless, I try to remember that if we believe in this bigger better future for humanity, the things we do today really can help it to happen.
"A gateway to those Stawws"
- Isaac Arthur
That made laugh so hawd. I'm weawy sowy.
So fucking annoying... Did his speech skills never surpass that of a five year old?
Gabedoeslife so were u born a dickhead
@@gabedoeslife471
Either a speech impediment or accent. Everybody talks differently. Its cool. He's making nice UA-cam videos. More than I can do.
For me it's to distracting to watch the video. I keep focusing on how the next word will be said.
Hi Isaac! Happy birthday for next week and congrats on the channel's 4 year anniversary. I've been a subscriber for a couple of years now and your content just keeps getting better! I'm forever grateful to you for the work you put in to providing quality, informative videos for your fans :)
Chandelier cities are now making it into my original graphic novel! Thank you for the inspiration and giving my favorite planet a well needed shout out!
I love thursdays, been keeping an eye out all day for the notification to appear
Will men EVER again get above low Earth orbit? Apollo 17 left the moon When I was in kindergarten. We've never been, back.
Dismantle the military industrial complex . Perhaps the future you speak of will come to fruition.
It's a future; that brilliant people like you deserve Isaac.
Great to see some love for Neptune! Visually it’s always been the most beautiful planet for me. If they crack life extension in my lifetime, it will be on my list of destinations!
Knowing I will be dead and not witness stuff like this depresses me. Flying through Neptune would be beyond amazing! I wish to be a part of all the wonderous mysteries of space. Nothing compares.
Lets also hope humanity learns to live in peace if we, as a race, wish to make it to the 25th century, and create amazing technological wonders such as this.
Too bad our government isn't as forward thinking as you. Cheers
Well, the government is very very beaurocratic. What you expect from the government?
@@libertopaeurekananarch7562 I guess I expect what we got. But it's still too bad.
Why don't you get into the government and change it be forward thinking?
Gagarinone
One man can’t do it, change the whole government structure that is
Governments are purposefully inefficient by design. If you want forward-thinking, the private sector is the way to go. The commercialization of space will be the driving force behind innovation and development of space exploration projects.
We absolutely need a movie franchise exploring all the topics on this channel!
Hell yeah.
I'd like to buy this guy a couple of pints of beer and talk for hours about the solar system, regardless of what my horrified friends might be thinking about our conversation topic..
"Neptune's Chainsaw" would be a good band name.
I think I saw Neptune's Chainsaw open for Slipknot once.
Week after week your videos have such details, almost never neglecting the smallest details!
I wonder at what speed IA ' s mind works. Dose he ever sleep?
Chandelier cities? Who else would consider this or diamond rain !
well the diamond rain is a known scientific theory that scientists have been floating around for years now.. in fact most say that it not only rains diamonds, but that there are "iceburgs" of giant diamonds(diamond burgs)floating in a hydrocarbon sea, closer to the mantel of the giant planet.
He probably does sleep, he just runs at 3x normal speed due to spending $100 per month on instant coffee.
I’d like to point out, concerning chandelier cities, that even if you could make it as structurally sound as a normal city, there’s one huge difference that adds a quite serious risk:
If a building collapses in a normal city, everything falls to the ground, typically less than a kilometer. People might survive the fall, and the materials used in the building can be salvaged almost as easily as they were initially mined.
If a building collapses in a chandelier city over Neptune, it falls long enough for the people inside to realize their doom, crashes minutes later in a place of extremely high atmospheric pressure, everybody dies and you’d need planes or rockets to get the corpses or material back.
That’s not to say a chandelier city wouldn’t be built. I can imagine several solutions to that event.
1: Every structure has an emergency escape pod. Just like every building in a modern city is required to have a fire exit, Neptune’s chandelier cities require buildings to have emergency airplanes for people to climb into and fly away before everything crashes.
2: Every building IS an emergency airplane. When the structure falls, wings and engines deploy and autopilot everybody to an emergency landing zone.
3: Some kinda safety net? I don’t know what it’d have to be made of, but if you could passively catch any falling buildings it would at least minimize casualties and resource loss.
I think option 2 is the best. Any takers?
4: those buildings could be modularly made with balloons integrated(a mixture of plane-balloon really), carried floating to the city, put in place, and if falls use those very balloons to not fall too much and stay floating until drones catch you
the fact that the fall takes more time than a conventional skycraper really makes it safer than earth or any other surface construction where debris can fall on you, here you can control the slowing rate and minimize lethal force, a collapse on earth would be instant no time to react, though maintenance should prevent any of these scenarios
Happy birthday Issac! The chandelier cities sound like an amazing place to live.
No one makes me rewind more than this guy! I love it!
Happy birthday/channel-anniversary Isaac!
Political science may be outside your wheelhouse, but I'm curious about what kind of governance structures you think might be in place when people start building these giant mega-projects. Such colossal endeavors and civilizations sized to build them would presumably require comparably colossal governance structures, or maybe superintelligent AI's. It doesn't seem likely to me that the kinds of governments we have experience with would work very well for civilizations with populations in the trillions and beyond equipped with world-wrecking superlasers as everyday transportation infrastructure.
Happy Birthday Isaac, I can't say this enough but thank you to you and everyone involved in bringing this show together every week.
I listen to these in bed every Thursday. Although the visuals on the video are great, if you only listen, Issac's ability to describe sends your imagination to amazing places.
Me too. I actually turn the screen off and lie in bed listening before I drift off to sleep. Isaac has a wonderful voice.
Thank youuuu for this amazing video of you in the future 💕 it’s really inspiring to see you grow in the world of art and the world is full of amazing artists like you ❤️ thank youuu and thank youuuu
"Oh, right, the chainsaw.
The chainsaw for Neptune.
The chainsaw, chosen specially to give to Neptune.
Neptune's Chainsaw."
Wrong leveeeeeeeer
Nice 😊
Happy Birthday Isaac, and a Happy Channelversary!
Thanks so much for doing this kind of amazing educational video. Much appreciated.
Two people are disappointed this episode isn't about Uranus.
Happy Birthday, Isaac!
Diamonds! Are the Neptune's colonists' best friend
If we mined the even a tiny fraction of the diamonds of a gas planet such as Neptune, the price of diamonds would fall through the floor because the supply would so outstrip the demand that diamonds would be worth very little!
Libertopa EurekanAnarch
That’s great! Another useful resource that can be used by everyone
15:02 to 15:15, it's a great idea, and what you say is absolutely correct; however, that chandelier city would definitely either have thicker horizontal struts, able to act in bending (imagine a truss or at a rectangular beam), or it would have braces kicking back up to the central pier at a diagonal to take the vertical component of each tower's load. Making the city symmetric is also ideal, but I image multiple circles of buildings, larger and heavier ones near the middle and smaller, light buildings hanging off the perimeter of each primary level (this video shows a "2 primary level" city). Honestly, unless the views are great (and I don't think we're counting on that), why not just have one giant central pier structure? Make it as wide as it has to be, to some minimum diameter, and go as far down as your material can handle, unless that buoyancy thing starts to kick in, then the sky's the limit (anti-literally).
15:25-15:43 is something that I think makes a bit more sense.
The Outward Bound series are the best!!! Besides the other awesome content on this channel that is :)
Also: happy birthday Isaac!
This is ironically one of the best settings I can think of. Thank you Isaac, what you've done despite limitations is awesome.
Happy Birthday you magnificent man! You are an inspiration to us all. I also need to thank all your helpers.
I see the Nepunian system as a great place to put supercomputers, given that it's so darn cold that far from the sun! Overheating would not be a problem there, making it a great region of our solar system for activities that produce kilotons of heat as a byproduct.
Happy anniversary, and especially happy birthday! Wishing you millions more!
This video has one of the best comment sections ever. Just a bunch of non-flat earthers dreaming about an exciting future that most people never think about. Just reading these comments gives me an adrenalin rush. Thank goodness that I searched about colonising neptune. I wasn’t even sure a video would exist on that topic, but a video did exist and a damn good video at that. So grateful for having found this channel.
Happy Birthday. 4 years? Amazing!
I wish my high school science teacher would have had such a talent for storytelling great video love it
You didn't just convert Neptune into rotating habitats? I'm shocked! I thought rotating habitats were the answer to everything!
Breaking it up to build rotating habitats comes later. The episode was about the 25th century. The nitrogen gas that is extracted will be shipped to rotating habitats. You have to consume Neptune's atmosphere before the solids become widely available. He did mention the diamonds. Carbon is good for habitat construction.
Ok. Maybe.
I love Isaac Arthur's vids but he tends to converge on a single path to the future. That's unwise. The real future will be full of surprises. Maybe fusion is fundamentally unreliable outside of stars. Maybe rotating habs are as dumb as planes with flapping wings. Maybe minds require messy meat hardware. Who knows!
Can’t wait for the colonizing earth episode
Happy Birthday Issac! Live long and prosper.
Hell man. I drop a tear when you started talking about colonizing other solar systems.
I think we should make a communal sci-fi series. We should use all these ideas and make a public work all under a single pen-name and donate the whole sum to 3 main causes : trans-humanism, space exploration, and nominal consistent power such as the solar array. If this gets to 50+ likes I'll make the Google doc.
I support you.
Outward Bound: The road to the year 3000 seems like a fitting name.
I love this idea!
I love the chandelier cities idea.
Happy Birthday Isaac!!!!!
🎈🎁
I have been a fan since I graduated college.
I look forward to your videos everyweek.
Happy birthday, isaac, and happy birthday for the channel!
Love the outward bound episodes, so inspiring.
I was waiting for this episode for a long time. Neptune is a special planet, because it is an inviting blue color of oceans, but is the last planet with crushing winds and extremely cold environment. Colonizing it seems like an ultimate challenge.
somebody accidently clicked the dislike... i'm not mad...just saying (to whoever made the mistake) that he/she should correct it.
jet flaque Neptune probably isn’t their favorite planet
Neptune bigotery!
Most dislikes come from automatic programs trying to game the google system.
It's all the flat neptuners. Just disregard them.
a4yster
You beat me to it. 👍🏻
I love this video
What do you call a 7' tall person who's addicted to baked beans?
A gas giant!
Heyoo! High five! [is left hanging]
Pile of carbon This anint it cheif
no just stop
Well done Arthur, FOUR YEARS!!!
Today's episode felt poetic and beautiful!
I had no idea Elmer fudd narrates.
Wascally Wabbits!!
Almost dropped my drink when I saw this in my feed. I just love Neptune
Happy birthday, Isaac. And great video as always. You make a bright future sound so... inevitable. Gives an aging man hope. ;-)
YAY! My Thursday just turned around! Thanks Isaac!
I am a simple man I see an Isaac Arthur video, I click the Isaac Arthur video
I am a simple man, I see a Isaac Arthur video, I click the like button.
Simple, or well-informed, Isaac Arthur has the ability to reach us all..
Sadly I do miss his original accent.
@@marlonlacert8133 His voice changed..? I didnt notice.
Shamusfarmer, Yes Issac Arthur, has got to voice training classes..
Sorry, I am in love with the word, "Wessels". And love the "Whale gun".
So much so that I have paused the original Star Trek and replayed the word, "Wessels".
This word, just sounds so pleasing to the ear. And Issac Arthur, just naturally pulled this off.
Heck, this is my addiction. We all have our malfunctions. As I have a bit of "Synesthesia", where I see loud sounds as colorful flashes. And this word when spoken naturally triggers a pleasant comforting feeling.
Problem, for me was that the whole of Issac Artur's voice before voice training, was very pleasant in it's feelings. It has now lost too much color, and feels duller.
@@marlonlacert8133 WOW! You have synethsesia!? That's so cool, that's one of my favorite disorders! No wonder it was such an apparent thing to you!! Please tell me a little bit more about your experiences! Please? Just a bit? PS I will have to listen more closely...
Happy Anniversary SFIA. :)
NASA Elon Musk: Hah you cant make a base on a gas planet!
Issac Arthur:hold my beer.
Original...
LOL!
Hold my planetary chainsaw
@FBI No, it's necessary...
FBI
I see you haven’t watched the video
Videos like this make me wish I could live forever so I could be alive to experience stuff like this actually happening. It's really interesting just theorizing about it, but actually seeing it someday would be amazing.
What is this guys accent?
“Hello it is us, the humans from planet Orth”
It's a dialect widely spoken in the Oort Cloud.
It's a speech impediment. He cant say 'R's
dean84921 That’s not the only thing he can’t say.
Lol well I’m not trying to make fun of anyone’s speech impediment I just found it amusing that a guy who makes space videos pronounces his planet wrong lmao the vids are great I hope it wasn’t rude for me to say that. ❤️
My Audience to your information requires an attention span that is intense. I will contribute when I can. I hope young people are watching this. This is our future.
@Isaac Arthur I wouldn't wait to much longer to ask Mr. Benford about his hanging cities. He IS in his late 70's !
True, come to think of it he's a facebook friend too which makes it doubly weird I've never asked.
@@isaacarthurSFIA So, did you ask him? What did he say? :)
WOW. I've actually listened to just about every episode twice.. (yes, I'm a total quarantine-loser who did.nothing but listen to Isaac Arthur for a year lolll) yet somehow I missed this episode. And its ABSOLUTELY fantastic. The imagery is just straight inspiring. Now I want to write a novel that takes place here in this world on a "chandelier city"... I'm not even kidding. Im totally blown away by this episode. This is just fantastic. I really hope you bring back "Our Traveller" in the new episodes. I'd love to see this outward bound series tackle Trappist system or other exotic locations... thanks for everything man. You are just awesome.
Happy birthday, Isaac! Its mine too!
Happy Birthday!
@@isaacarthurSFIA make a video about colonizing Neptune's moon triton plzzzz
Happy birthday, Isaac and thank you for sharing all this awsomeness with us!
Floating bubble habitats in Neptune’s atmosphere.
Another one from my favourite UA-cam channel
Happy birthday
This was beautiful. This epitomises everything I love about science fiction and its capacity to bring me appreciation of our humanity.
What planet is orth
YES!! We're almost to Pluto in this series! I cant wait... Pluto's so cool...
Are any of Neptune's Moons Tidally locked? if so, how about an anchor? build a structure deep into the moon. which will hold Extremely long and strong tethers. long enough to reach Neptune. which extract resources.
Triton orbits retrograde.
As far as we know, ALL moons are tidally locked to the planets they orbit.
Libertopa EurekanAnarch, Himalia orbits Jupiter in 251 days and rotates in 7.8 hours. Phoebe orbits Saturn in 551 days and rotates in 9.3 hours. Sycorax orbits Uranus in 1288 days and has 3.6 hour rotation.