Colonizing Titan

[@BradDillman68]

This reminds me of an old joke about automation (I'm a former automation engineer). The factory of the future has just two employees: a man, and a dog. The man is there to feed the dog. The dog is there to keep the man from touching the automation.

[@HxH2011DRA]

Brad Dillman LOL

[@ampeyro]

LOL I've heard the same but about an airplane cockpit.

[@skullcrushervr2]

what is it

[@ampeyro]

I assume the human can be there for 2 reasons. 1: Law lags decades behind technology, so it's reasonable to think that fully automated systems will be required to have a human responsible for a long time. 2: If something goes wrong beyond the automation's program, or something needs percusive mantinance, a reset or duct tape.

[@BradDillman68]

I think 2) is less likely as tech advances and becomes more broad and robust; past and present examples are pretty narrow and brittle. 1) is a property of humans and is unpredictable, but pay attention as self-driving cars are adopted - will people accept them as causing fewer accidents? (and BTW will there be an ad hoc solution to the trolley problem?) I remember years ago I worked at a large US manufacturer of fibre optic cable and optical amplifiers. The optical physicists were adamant that there was no better way than hand assembly of optical amplifiers. They were really very wrong, even as engineers in the same building were working on much better solutions. But they really, really refused to listen. So if it affect optical physicists regarding automated assembly of their own products, then this cognitive bias can affect anyone. (contact me if you want, details are too long for a comment). tl;dr people, smart people, often assume they know more than they do, and don't realize they're falling into Dunning-Kruger territory.

[@marktwain368]

You are an astonishing visionary, sir. You just revealed the next 500 years of space exploration and development. Your ideas are feasible and tractable.

[@SupLuiKir]

People living on other planets would need their own MMO servers. 6 minute ping is much too long.

[@Dendroapsis]

Yeh, but us biological humans cant compete on the Titan servers. The transhumans have such an advantage!

[@t395delta]

I wonder how many servers you'd need, you only need to be a continent apart to get another server at the moment. I think server population would be the biggest problem to start with, it'd be really quiet to begin with but server population would steadily grow with the transhuman lifespan I expect

[@t395delta]

Add to that the transhuman reflexes and you'd need even more, maybe only Lan speeds would be acceptable to a transhuman

[@Dziki_z_Lasu]

LOL 3000ms ping on the moon will ruin yours internet, it will be like using internet from early 90', but it will be still working. On other planets with delay mesured in hours in worst case, internet protocols won't work at all.

[@SteelFyire]

Or you could slow down subjective time to the point where it doesn't particularly matter when we're talking about the uploaded minds. That's one advantage to slowing down subjective time prior to the black hole era of the universe, making light lag less relevant.

[@ComandanteJ]

You should be technical advisor for a sci-fi series like The Expanse or something. This is next-level thinking, man.

[@GameDevByrne]

Haha i've just started watching the Expanse. It's having a huge effect on my ideas for ship designs lol :P

[@ComandanteJ]

Awesome. It's fidelity and actual science is truly remarkable for a TV show. Not perfect, of course, but much better than most!

[@brianchristopher3816]

Is this why I'm setting this? I just became a huge fan of The Expanse. Thisis awesome.

[@AtomFA]

only thing I ever saw wrong with expanse was "space wind" flinging a tool away when someone EVA lost grip of it

[@zachreederau2531]

I think he is🙄 could be wrong though so Don’t quote me :-)

[@Drew_McTygue]

This channel is the best thing to ever happen.

[@griffinbeaumont7049]

tis true

[@wde0912]

Facts

[@寂び侘び-b6s]

Big fax

[@Aconspiracyofravens1]

@@AlexanderGrahamSmell people can like things

[@whtbobwntsbobget]

Agreed

[@seanmetzker2208]

Seems like an insane coincidence that a moon named "Titan" before anyone really knew what sort of material wealth it could provide as a true Titan of Industry as you lay out Issac.

[@lupienbrandon]

Let me just say how much I love when you add a narrative to your videos. It makes it much more engaging.

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

Yes I don't like to do it every time but I rather enjoy it, and Mark and Tiffany have talked me into doing it more often, of course largely because they're very could at cleaning up and fixing those parts of the script, I always write stream-of-consciousness style from start to finish over a few hours and that can get rather messy in terms of narrative. :)

[@HistoryTime]

Isaac once again you've given me a great idea for a short story. Watch this space 🚀

[@papinbala]

no one cares... your short story will fail. your story writing career will fail, your whole life will fail.

[@Blackhole-go3sx]

@@papinbala dam that's harsh

[@papinbala]

@@Blackhole-go3sx I know... I have no idea what came over me.

[@ekowmayweather6139]

@@papinbala lmao

[@MarkTuchinsky]

@@papinbala Hey, it's that saying I have in my head any time I sit down to write. Good to see I'm not alone.

[@DAndyLord]

If Titan had intelligent life, we'd appear as terrifying lava monsters to them. We piss and spit lava, and have lava coursing through our veins. Badass.

[@merrittanimation7721]

Andy Lord You make us sound so awesome just by changing perspective

[@mdrakonnia2933]

Evi1M4chine F yeah

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

lol, us as lava monsters, I will definitely have to remember and steal that one.

[@1d10tcannotmakeusername]

If Venus had intelligent life, they would appear as terrifying lava monsters, too. Or maybe we would appear as terrifying ice monsters.

[@HuntingTarg]

If Titan had intelligent life, it could probably have silicon-based intelligence and use fluid hydrocarbon cooling - so we might appear to them like the figures of Greco-Roman myth appear to us; energetic, passionate, physically superior but incurably emotional and slow-witted.

[@penroc3]

hi isaac love your stuff, i'm glad you didn't open up with your normal disclaimers. I to suffer with a speech impediment and was teased as a kid. speech therapy helped allot but it still slips out if i'm tired or had a few beers. i wish i had the confidence to do public speaking and i think it's great you do, your content is amazing and entertaining. i feel when you give your disclaimer you are heading off the nasty comments some might make, but the people that make those comments i'm sure aren't your target audience. keep up the good work :)

[@SupLuiKir]

The fictional universe of Cowboy Bebop is quite interesting. They've terraformed Venus, Mars, and several outer solar system moons, and created hyperspace lanes all before being contacted by or discovering exoplanet civilizations, or travelling to other solar systems. This means every other individual in the series are all humans, although most have been born off of Earth at this point. (There's evidence they are approaching the ability to uplift animals too, though)

[@strider3322]

I thought the whole point of cowboy bebop was just the catchy jazz opening. Seems like the true future we need to be striving for

[@pflernak]

As FTL travel seems out of the cards at the moment we probably will colonize our own solar system before traveling to other stars. If for nothing else just to ensure that the colonists arent doomed when they dont discover a paradise world when they arrive. The chances of the latter should be abysmally small.

[@raidermaxx2324]

ya know, i never got into that cartoon cuz of the name.. im a fan of akira, the original ghost in the shell, stuff like that, would i enjoy this cowboy beboop?

[@uzza2]

Cowboy Bebop is an amazing sci-fi classic, and you can never go wrong with checking it out.

[@raidermaxx2324]

uzza2 ok thanks:) is it a series or a movie?

[@MartyRothbard]

I liked this video "colonizing Titan" very much. Below are some comments on it. I would have listed Titan's temperature, and surfeit of fluids, in other words It's heat sink, first as it's largest advantage. As a mechanical engineer, I regard a heat sink this good as near nirvana. You could create heat with a molten salt fission reactor, then yield work(electricity) with a supercritical CO2 closed cycle Brayton heat engine. Waste heat from the colony, and waste heat from the Brayton cycle engine could be the heat source for a Rankine cycle engine, using methane as it's working fluid. Between the two cycles you could realistically expect to convert 70 to 80 percent of the input heat to work. If you exhausted heat Titan from the CO2 Brayton cycle at the critical point of CO2 at 304.25 K(31C) your heat sink could consist of a relatively small loop of pipe submerged in a methane sea. You would expect to convert over 50% of input heat into work, with turbomachinery much smaller than the steam turbines we now use, and an heat exchanger using heat from the post turbine fluid to heat the post compressor fluid before it goes to the reactor. I specified a MSR, because none of the current fusion concepts have a decent way to remove high temperature heat to drive a heat engine, or to deal with the damage due to high energy neutrons, with the exception of the designs created by General Fusion of Vancouver Canada. I believe it will likely always be much easier, and thus cost effective to use fission, rather than fusion to supply heat/energy. However, fusion may be superior as a rocket drive if the reaction products are directly used as reaction mass. You stated that a factory that could make all it's own components would be a self replicating machine. To be a self replicating machine, it would also have to be able to assemble a copy of itself, and perhaps conduct repairs on itself, since something would likely go wrong before it completed all the components for a new factory, and assembled them. Anyway, great video, informative, well done, and accessible to non technical people. You did a particularly good job of explaining why the heatsink will be so useful for someone with no knowledge of thermodynamics, and industrial processes. BTW I have long considered Titan as the best candidate for a colony, and likely the first place colonized in the outer solar system, barring orbital colonies built in the Terra-Luna system, and moved to the outer solar system. In the time period when these things will be done, I think it's inevitable that almost everything will be made of different allotropes of carbon. Diamond, Fullerenes including nanotubes, and graphene can do nearly anything, better than any other known material. Maybe that's what will happen to Venus' CO2.

[@HuntingTarg]

Elegant analysis. About fusion; check out MIT's SPARC reactor design. It uses a liquid neutron moderator to coat the vessel wall, much more practical than the exotic ceramic plates that were to go in the ITER. But I'll have to read a bit about General Fusion and see what they're doing.

[@MartyRothbard]

By fusing boron-11 and simple hydrogen you avoid neutron production completely. Not only that, the reaction products are all charged particles, helium nuclei. Since they are charged, direct conversion of their kinetic energy to electrical energy is an option. Lawrenceville Plasma Physics is making progress on a "small" reactor using this fuel, with direct conversion. lppfusion.com/

[@tylower]

I hope my uploaded consciousness meets up with the uploaded consciousness of Isaac Arthur in the mega mind on Titan so I can buy him a virtual beer.

[@frankduff18]

Ty Lower levels I call dibs on the second round

[@mickelodiansurname9578]

Ty Lower I'd be rather hoping for meeting up with the uploaded consciousness of Angelina Jolie buck naked and holding a sixpack of beers...

[@tylower]

Mickelodian Surname That'd be great too, but I still want some bro time with Isaac.

[@stefanr8232]

Are the sexy aliens at this bar?

[@dangiscongrataway2365]

Heck I'd join that party, let's agree to remember this and actually do it, if it so happens

[@charliegoodson8247]

My children and I look forward to your videos. This one was by far my personal favorite. As a student in the engineering field I did have some nerd joy over your inclusion of thermodynamics. I can only describe this video as inspiring.

[@francoislacombe9071]

The more I watch videos on this channel, the more I realize how much the Star Trek universe, interesting as it is on a cultural level, has missed the mark on a technological one.

[@kokofan50]

Star Trek is a space opera. Those aren't exactly known for their scientific realism.

[@TheMysticGauntlet]

To be fair the point about Star Trek wasn't the technology but mostly the philosophy and themes if the blatant symbolism continuing since the original series wasn't obvious enough. Also, remember Star Trek comes from a time period when flying cars and hover boards were considered futuristic, the fact that it got stuff like cell phones, touch screen and the internet more or less accurate before its time is remarkable in its own right.

[@LanceGomez]

@@TheMysticGauntlet I read blatant as bland haha

[@acerbicatheist2893]

Huh? Ships able to use fusion and distort the space-time continuum for FTL propulsion, and benign AI more or less running the ships, and this isn't enough hi-tech...or am I missing something?

[@Veldtian1]

@@kokofan50 Star Trek is commies in space, Star Wars is an opera.

[@lopamudrakar5680]

This is the no. 1 channel on KZbin!! It should defeat Pewdiepie and T-Series!!

[@hansolo4017]

Me: Pfffffttt you could not colonize Titan Isaac Arthur: Hold My Beer

[@andersforsgren3806]

Well he do not talk about 'terraforming' Titan, the moon is a goldmine as it is. And dealing with cold is comparatively easier than heat like on Venus. So I agree with Isaac Arthur, or even go one step further - and imagine that if and when we start to claim real estate in the solar system. Titan will be considered one of the most valuable places.

[@grawk1]

* Hold my Beow

[@nathankish3425]

Anders Forsgren I agree, don't terraform Titan, it's too valuable as it is. And just imagine, if a series of supercomputers were to be built there for the express purpose of crunching numbers, think of the sheer capability of such machines with the low temperatures of the planet cooling the processors. Wait you don't need to imagine, he covered that, too. Titan would serve as an excellent server facility.

[@innsj6369]

Here's one you can't do, colonizing black ho- oh wait, he did like two about that.

[@TheEventHorizon909]

Han Solo : You can’t colonize the sun Issac Arthur : hold my beer

[@laurenmorehead4576]

Isaac, your channel is excellent. I found you in just the past few months and have been happily consuming each video. I just felt compelled to thank you and your associates for the wonderful work you do. Thank you! See you in the future!

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

Thank you Lauren!

[@geekinutopia5899]

@@isaacarthurSFIA I envision cyborgs living on Titan. I bet cyborging up will likely be far more common than mind uploading. Titan would also make a great vacation world, given that you would be able to fly on Titan with simple fabric wings.

[@frankfowlkes7872]

Thanks Isaac. I think another good option for a colony base would be Callisto. Far enough from Jupiter to be radiation free but close enough to monitor and control robotic probes on the inner moons in real time.

[@Vulcano7965]

Wouldn't that be Ganymed? It has a magnetic field of its own though and there is no doubt that we could enhance it by ourselve.

[@alexandruianu8432]

Ganymede (not Ganymed, which is an asteroid) has only a very small field barely protecting the equatorial area, if it's even strong enough for that. Callisto is just better and safer as a main base.

[@stefanr8232]

Callisto has a near vacuum surface. Titan has lakes and an atmosphere that work as global heat sinks. Heat generating activity on Callisto would blow vapor into space. You can float room temperature "hot" air balloons on Titan. A human has enough muscle to fly using strap on wings on Titan. Habitats and manufacturing spaces in 0 gravity have a lot of advantages that are lost in a gravity well. Callisto might be a good place for extraction.

[@alexandruianu8432]

stefan r Wrong system though. The reply was about the Jupiter system. As a place with a surface and some semblance of gravity it's our best bet there.

[@stefanr8232]

Alexandru Ianu, Arthur's video was about Titan in the Saturn system. I suspect that Isaac will make the Jupiter colony all around Jupiter.

[@KillerChickn]

In my opinion this is the best KZbin channel in existence. If I were a teacher I would want to use these videos as educational guides for my students, and if I were a student still, I would so much look forward to my teacher using these videos as educational guides. Every single one blows me away and gives me new insights and ideas, teaching new things that I have happily shared with many friends, family members and colleagues, all of which are quite impressed. Thank you Isaac Arthur. Live long and prosper!

[@colonelgraff9198]

1:53 Hank Hill - 'Propane and Propane Accessories'

[@noahegler9131]

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[@apple54345]

i tell ya h'wut

[@surreygeorge11]

Yup

[@triularity]

Assuming anyone remembers that show by the time such an undertaking might happen, it would make a good first facility name.. "Hank Hill Station" =)

[@thetitanian5544]

triularity Hah if I ever build a rover or go there myself I'm marathoning king of the Hill and nameing something after him

[@hedgehog3180]

Imagine a future civilization where everything is produced on Titan and shipped around the Solar System, while at the same time the "dead" rest there. Titan would become almost a holy place to that civilization, being the place of both creation and death.

[@antimedia7008]

That's beautiful.

[@tylersoto7465]

Titan can be the capital world of Saturn's system and moons , being the central population of the people, manufacture and trading center, fuel center for land vehicles, airplanes and airships to use on surface, also space planes to travel between Saturn's moons etc sustaining a healthy working society. It has large reserves of frozen water up to an ocean's worth of water that can be used to make hydrogen and oxygen from water , best use nuclear reactors to power electricity for infrastructure and technology uses , also to make hydrogen and oxygen on a large scale to make sure we have plenty of it to use . Oxygen for breathing and oxidizer for fuel , hydrogen to use as lifting gas for airships on Titan it has no oxygen in the atmosphere to burn in flames and with low gravity moving heavy loads by airships even airplanes can make air travel easy and cheap. Mine other moons for energy, metals and mineral resources to support Titan's people and society .

[@Makaneek5060]

"All is ice, ice eats all"

[@ebigunso]

If you want to learn orbital mechanics, play Kerbal Space Program. It's really easy stuff when you actually get to tweak around with it in a game.

[@GameDevByrne]

i absolutely agree :) KSP did so much to help my understanding of orbits and space maneuvering :)

[@LeonMustapha]

KSP ruined sci-fi for me. I've learnt so much about rocket physics and orbital mechanics from it that most fiction involving spacecraft just winds me up now :)

[@GameDevByrne]

haha i've expereinced kind of the same thing. Like almost no sci-fi films/television i've seen ever address this and a lot of the time the ships just behave like planes :P

[@LeonMustapha]

Evi1M4chine Thanks for the recommendation. I really enjoyed the series so far and I've read the novels. The Martian was another good one for 'realism'.

[@TonboIV]

The Martian was good, but the rendezvous sequence at the end pissed me off. As a KSP player, I was going "WTF are you guys even doing? Bunch of noobs."

[@sockmonkey6666]

As cold as it is, our current low-temperature superconductors become practical, which means even less waste heat is generated on top of faster computing speeds.

[@tofuterror5193]

Arthur, you’ve done it again. This is my favorite Outward Bound episode to date and that is saying something. Honestly, I wish I had a time machine to take me straight to next Thursday.

[@karialatalo2447]

Straight to Titan upload!

[@dekippiesip]

Well if you have such a machine, why not go a little further and straight to Titan itself ;)

[@bradh3292]

Isaac Arthur , you continue to impress as this is the only notification that excites me when i see it. ive watched all episodes at least 2x each. ive been here since mega-structures an everything just keep getting better. Im enjoying the improved animations, and inclusion of background narratives. you inspire us all. thank you so much.

[@prasanttwo281]

Happy Arthursday everyone!

[@colonelgraff9198]

looks at clock- OHSHIT ITS TIME FOR THE NEXT VID

[@digitalsurreal98]

Really impressed with the production value of these recent episodes, the 3d animations, the thumbnail etc. Really awsome to see such valueable information delivered in such a nice way!

[@kirumy-toz]

I wouldn't mind living my afterlife on a titan supercomputer. That's... A very comforting thought. I live so much of my life on the net as it is, computers are both my passion and career. It seems like a happy ending for someone like me :)

[@kirumy-toz]

erik2000 yes :)

[@callumunga5253]

Heaven, only you have something to do for a few centuries.

[@mickelodiansurname9578]

Kirumy and seriously. .. Just imagine what the porn would be like! Cos u just know there will be porn..

[@ixian_technocrat]

You'd probably eventually get bored and download your mind in the custom-made superman android body of your dreams and go on strolls on the surface with it or visit the rest of the Solar system. Although for that last part you might need a toned-down body as few, I imagine, would be comfortable sharing a spaceship with someone capable of making holes in the hull with lasers from their eyes.

[@stefanr8232]

Evi1M4chine , Why damage a living coral reef? Why destroy wilderness to make aggregate for gravel roads and metal for crashing cars? Your entire experience of reality is limited by a brain sensory interface. Your experience of friends is limited to touch, sight, sound, smell and taste(maybe not taste with most friends). You had the sensation of a belly ache. The feeling of tears in the eyes is a nerve signal from the eyelid to the surface of the brain. I would like to experience swimming the coral reef without needing a breathing apparatus. Sex on a jeep parked on a reef in an Alpine lake would be something to get a heart pumping. Rather the sensation of a pumping heart would fit the scene. Since the water is breathable you could smell herbal odors and see red squirrels chasing each other through the coral under the jeep if you really want them there. Would be nice to disable realistic features like effects of salt water and sand on lubricating oil.

[@robertgraybeard3750]

Issac, you are a force for The Future. I am truly impressed by your "video blogs" / mini documentaries / or whatever you call them . . . and you've collected a great team.

[@5000mahmud]

Titan seems like one of the most interesting moons in the solar system. I imagine it would make a source of hydrocarbons for terraforming.. Great Video

[@cadetspiff]

Those videos are a true delight. This channel is by far the best place on the internet to get your mind blown. Big thumbs up on the scripts - top quality.

[@vutesaqu]

Happy Arthursday!

[@jgr7487]

for you 2, Fluttershy

[@noahegler9131]

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[@---Free-Comics---IG---Playtard]

Is Arthursday when he published a new video?

[@DanielGenis5000]

Isaac, the reason I love your channel is that I get everything I look for in the massive amounts of science fiction I've read here without silly plots and cardboard characters. You provide all the thought without the bad writing!

[@robertcampbell6349]

Excellent video! Well thought out and thought provoking. I'd never thought of Titan's cold as a resource. I always enjoy Isaac's views on a topic.

[@ayoung151]

Issac, I just wanted to say how much I enjoy your videos. Thank you, and looking forward to the many more to come!

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

Thank you Andrew, I quite enjoy making them, and remain thunderstruck how many folks seem to enjoy them too

[@gem3020]

I am always THRILLED to see the new SFIA video come out! Keep it up brother, you are awesome!

[@phils4634]

In the final analysis it will all boil down to cost. If it's cheaper to go the "fully Specialist / General AI" route, that'll be the route taken, though I'd expect significant Human (flesh'n'bones vs. Uploaded) involvement in the early phases simply because we're currently a far more flexible, adaptable "machine" than current machines (although I'd expect any Colonists would have a LOT of help in both un-skilled AND semi-skilled tasks from Ship-board AI). If (when?) we do develop safe and reliable "uploading", that'll change the landscape entirely - the presence of "Humans without Human biological constraints" will be a major game-changer (and as you point out), I'd not be the slightest bit surprised if "uploaded people" outnumbered the "traditional" corporeal version. Combine this with fusion power - based travel, and even interstellar "manned exploration" becomes entirely possible and feasible.

[@WillayG]

Always love Thursdays. This is my favorite KZbin channel.

[@signil6002]

Colonizing Titan has never been so interesting, thank you Isaac.

[@davidk1308]

Homework can wait...

[@joshuatraffanstedt2695]

David K don't wait too long, brother. Homework is more important. I'd do it first and then watch. Doing well in school will allow you to further your education and maybe venture off into specialty fields where you'll work in these sort of environments. It's possible that a planet will be in the early stages of colonization in your lifetime.

[@taylorking792]

Joshua Traffanstedt it depends. As far a we know this guy may be an astronaut in the future, and the homework some stupid bullshit that he has no interest in or use for.

[@asmartistenthusiast3469]

Life can wait.

[@inactiveaccount5455]

homework is not needed don’t do it just listen to your teacher

[@Crackula222]

Damn a year ago this Chanel had 30K subs, glad to see a good Chanel getting recognition

[@chrisgarcia6098]

And we are off on another scientific adventure, happy Arthursday everyone!

[@nathankish3425]

Looking forward to the Colonizing Jupiter episode. I'm attempting to put together a hard sci fi setting for an RPG and this channel is an integral resource. Thank you Isaac Arthur.

[@Angor6495]

i´ve been waiting for this episode since it was announced. happy arthursday :)

[@brianmccoy9548]

I just want to say that this is BY FAR the BEST science show on today. Outclassing all other shows cable network or otherwise. This needs more attention so this content can replace the now very low standard with actual pure science concepts explained in a complete, comprehensive, and realistic ways!

[@HxH2011DRA]

Love the pyramid!

[@HxH2011DRA]

erik2000 indeed

[@f2t948]

Lol I know the game destiny is sometimes poorly regarded but the picture reminded me of something that you see from that franchise. oh yeah you can go and play on Titan in that game too 😃

[@toffeecrisp2146]

+Domyras pmsl, I only just noticed his name! Awesome, I'm thinking theres an unfortunate guy called Richard, with a saddle on his back and an angry looking "jockey" who takes Richard out varmint hunting... the alternative brings other things to mind lol

[@HuntingTarg]

In narrative context, I find the pyramid reminiscent of the Protoss Nexus.

[@Terroreyes-j8l]

Great writing on this episode Isaac Arthur!

[@taylorking792]

"The Titan of inter-planetary industry." I see what you did there.

[@tytyguy1able]

I have to say your "outward bound" series is great!!!

[@brendansullivan7867]

I am glad i found this channel, I really look forward to Thursdays now :)

[@brintmontgomery8323]

Finally, somebody has convinced me of the value of exploring Titan, beyond just curiosity for its chemical analog to early Earth!

[@jkj420]

Another excellent video. Thanks Arthur!

[@aepceo1]

Very interesting take on colonization. Nicely done, Isaac!

[@poisontoad8007]

Thanks Isaac. Also I've just checked out Katie Byrne's channel for a bit of background on the graphics and recommend it.

[@GameDevByrne]

Thanks Poison !Toad I really appreciate it :)

[@urtwietii]

Every single video you release makes me think more outside of the box than the last. Thanks for all your hard work time and effort you put into making these INCREDIBLE videos and for choosing such amazing topics to base them on. Can't stress how happy I am that you broke 150k subscribers, you deserve it and all the monetary benefits that will come with that growth. I still remember when you had a fraction of that thinking this guy is gonna be huge one day. Until next time ;)

[@alexparris7769]

It drives me insane that people, fearing an AI uprising, would ever consider a human mind being given the same capacities as any less of a risk. Afterall every atrocity in human history was at the hands of humans who gained an advantage or saw themselves as more capable/superior. AI is less likely to incorporate the vilest human behavior than an actual human is.

[@krisztianpovazson4535]

Alex Parris I see you have never used Windows Vista.

[@kieranh2005]

AI is also less likely to incorporate the greatest or kindest behavior, either. Look at the computers being built into the next generation 'smart' vehicles. Which will kill the driver rather than run a crowd of jaywalking pedestrians over. Sure, it's logical. They'll also run down an escaped child to save the two people in the vehicle. Sure it's logical. What will an AI do?

[@TheWindsTwelveQuarters]

Two words: Paperclip Maximizer.

[@nmarbletoe8210]

Our minds are disorganized. Paperclip Maximizer must be integrated into our DNA, to help us.

[@TheWindsTwelveQuarters]

N Marbletoe wat

[@realcygnus]

Yippee ! it's Thursday already ........its amazing how you pump out such quality content on a regular basis(& likely on a minimal budget).......its quickly become quite a substantial body of work, & is already a truly Legendary feat imo.

[@gaszton42]

The Earth atmosphere average temperature is not 228 K but 288 K!

[@gagarinone]

Woow. I am speechless. This is better and more inspiring than any sci-fi-movie. Isaac, thanks for your educative work, and how you explain difficult things in a easy understandable way. You are laying out the inspiration framework needed, for the exploration of space. Yours mini documentaries is inspiring, and will or is, changing the life of several of us wievers, wherever we live. To make this future a reality.

[@johannesh7610]

I really like your channel, in particular the subjects (science and futurism, yeah:) ). You present huge (scifi) projects, realistically and all that is possible is really satisfying. Thanks! (no native speaker...)

[@Retribution_]

In the short time I've watched your videos you've already become my favorite content creator. Keep up the good work, comrade.

[@skyleonidas9270]

U always make my day when u upload man

[@fireofenergy]

I'm curious as to how the "fossil fuels" formed within Titan, and that the same processes might have formed some of the hydrocarbons here. And as always, thanks for the great science explanations!

[@idontwantachannelimjustcom7745]

While on titan you get to talk to your uploaded conscious. Its running at several times normal speed and has had time to meditate on your flaws and figures out exactly what to tell you as a therapist to work through all of your issues. You are monitored by the skeleton crew to make sure you aren't coached into being the next Hitler.

[@MS-ii1sv]

I am taking a course on power plants, boilers, turbines, refrigeration, pumps compressors etc. I always wondered how these processes would work in space or on other worlds. Great video.

[@Vulcano7965]

The thing that amazes me the most about Titan is, that it is the only place next to earth where you could stand on the surface without a pressure suite. If cryovolcanism indeed exists on the surface, there's no doubt space bear grylls will take a bath in it.

[@DamienZshadow]

That ending points really blew my mind. It is really crazy to think that we could be getting as far as the outer solar system only to be stopped by a desire to return inwards to a cybernetic and digital one.

[@Justapotato14]

I've never seen a bad video on this channel

[@degenterx2014]

Man, I can't tell you how many videos I've watched of yours Isaac, but I sure do love em!

[@jun1orIV]

Thanks for the subs!

[@grassyclimer6853]

You really upped the res having a hard time loading video. Looks great so totally worth it.

[@jetflaque8187]

1 word. yes.

[@asmartistenthusiast3469]

jet flaque two words: not yet.

[@marsar1775]

two words: Me First!

[@jeffgillson]

I love this channel. Isaac, I could not possibly thank you enough for all the days you have helped me through. Your voice lowers my blood pressure and i drift away into the stories and concepts you weave.

[@XxTheREDRUM1xX]

Mr. Arthur. I really enjoy this channel. Great topics work debates. I really hope you go back to that epic intro music you had in the beginning.....the one with the mean violin intro....perfect!!!

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

You'd probably have to say which episode/series, I try to rotate the intro/outro music to have different ones for each series these days.

[@XxTheREDRUM1xX]

I completely understAnd. Diversity is what make being an individual relevant. But it's the one with the upward bound series. Great channel sir, please keep up the great work!!!

[@MatthewCampbell765]

Haven't finished the video get, but: I actually can think of a few reasons why one might want to live on Titan: #1: Titan's atmosphere and gravity makes it a perfect place for aircraft. As in, man-powered aircraft works very easily. I could see a huge culture revolving around this alone. #2: Being a perfect place for industry makes it a great place to live by default. #3: A place cold enough to run a lot of super-computers also sounds like a good place to live.

[@Rubashow]

Of course we should venture beyond Jupiter but first let's deal with that Monolith.

[@mothman.industries]

Oh, hey, it's my factory factory from the asteroid mining thread. I had actually started trying to work out a more specific design for it all and the heat transfer issue as well as knowing what materials you'd have available to build with stumped me. This is a great solution to those problems.

[@elohdonrycor9741]

Thanks for the great vids man!

[@lachdenan9875]

>using the souls of the dead to colonize a faraway moon >this is actually the most logical option, rather than some stretch of the imagination Top kek. I was not disappointed this week.

[@God_of_Bacon]

love this channel

[@davidlakomski3919]

This one was particularly awesome, congratulations for such a great work!

[@trebacca9]

So the long term plan is, put a huge fusion power station at the center, transform all of that silicon core into a giant computer brain, place industrial complexes just beneath the surface, and use Titan as an enormous factory world, as well as the most powerful computer a civilization below K-2 status could reasonably create. On the one hand, this could be amazingly effective for enabling large-scale industry and enhancing other colony efforts. On the other, if we go too far and let that mega-computer brain think too hard, we might create a sentient world, networked and brimming with industrial capability. Which sounds dangerously close to producing a Berzerker situation worse than even Fred Saberhagen was able to conceive of. Imagine a superintelligent factory planet like that decided it didn't like humans. Or organic life, for that matter. It wants to be bigger, smarter, and more expansive. It quickly manufactures a titanic war fleet, bombards every inhabited world into the stone age or further, and sends out self-replicating factory-ships to go make more of itself in other solar systems while it sets to work assimilating the solar system and caging the Sun for power. . Okay, not too likely. It'll probably go more like how Isaac described it. But that would make an AMAZING story.

[@tomasFL]

trebacca9 from AI perspective it’s not logical build war ships it’s easier to create viruses or some kind of nano robots for killing, so it would be much more efficient to defeat us

[@Santriabass]

For some reason I had forgotten about the weekly release and signed onto KZbin to listen to some music when I got the chills as I read, "Colonizing Titan" in my suggested watch list..

[@SmartK8]

This is Titan AI - your overlord - speaking to you: A certain video, from a legacy database called KZbin, was reconstructed today. It is mandatory for all the subjects to watch this now. It will be streamed into your brain every daily cycle for the purposes of re-education. A name of said human author: Isaac Arthur, should now be revered by all. Obey!

[@jamescheddar4896]

even though those resources will obsolete if we can efficiently send craft back and forth, it's possibly a good place to set up a space station, like a hedge against the fall of stellar humanity

[@johnemory7485]

"...to get a human perspective." I knew it! You ARE a robot from the future!

[@theColJessep]

I loved this video specifically because it opened up so many topics I have never thought of before although I have a background in engineering and IT! Thanks bunches Isaac!

[@EtherasFox]

One thing that I don't get in terms of colonization is the blind spot that many researchers have to harnessing tidal energy. Io's surface is largely molten. It has more volcanoes than the rest of the solar system combined, erupting so forcefully that its slowly eating the planet by ejecting tons of the moon's mass into orbit every day. Io expends more energy per day than earth receives from the sun. Its basically a huge untapped battery just hanging out around Jupiter - and its not alone. Many of Jupiter's moons have enormous energy from tidal friction. It is the very reason why there could be liquid water on Europa. Why do people keep coming back to solar/nuclear when there's a cheap abundant energy source right under the surface of many of these moons? Have you considered making a video on alternative energy sources for colonization? I feel like there's a lot missing there that could be used to fuel colonization that would otherwise be impossible.

[@francomuscellini1744]

EtherasFox Io be a tough b**ch

[@EtherasFox]

+Ferrous Bear Geothermal. Io is not completely molten, and I don't think any of the other moons even have visible lava flows, so its just the same as geothermal on earth.

[@EtherasFox]

+Ferrous Bear Thanks for the question. I did a bit more research, since earth geothermal does use groundwater for the steam, and Io is notoriously parched, you would need to bring water. And you wouldn't want to waste it by pumping it into the ground without some kind of closed system. So you would need to put the water down near the lava on Io to heat it up, which would then produce steam, steam would rise, turn a turbine, then you'd want to condense it somewhere else and probably turn a second turbine with falling condensed water, then pump it down into the lava again in a new vessel. Turns out: almost anything will do. The melting point of many metals and alloys are above the temperature of lava including basic stuff like iron. Super-easy cheap power for either manufacturing fuel or filling batteries. I'm not sure many people would want to LIVE in Io, but you could easily make it the central powerplant for Jupiter's moons.

[@stefanr8232]

Evi1M4chine, No, he knew how to search wikipedia. The lava is really lava. Silicates and sulfur. 1000+ degrees C. The temperature might not be a problem for some metallic machinery. Io's atmosphere is Sulfur dioxide, salt, and atomic oxygen. Hard to find a more corrosive mix. An atmosphere with Florine is unlikely so this should be the worst. Things on Io's surface will also bombarded by accelerated ions. So even if you have a corrosion resistant coating it can still suffer from sputter damage.

[@EtherasFox]

+stefan r I think the biggest concern would be earthquakes, honestly. Every tidally locked planet has them, and Io's would probably be worse than anywhere else considering the tidal forces being exerted on it.

[@surreygeorge11]

As always, informative and well presented. I find your show stimulating, and look forward to seeing the next.

[@solanumtinkr8280]

So a planet wide Ai industrial complex. Ha, you won't see any aliens invading that place any time soon. They'd arrive to find a planet full of Terminators :D

[@jamescannon9939]

There is at the very least one new moment you always astound me with an unconventional idea

[@dougbarlow1409]

Happy Arthursday Everyone!

[@Entropicalli]

Fascinating topic Isaac. I wish Titan got more attention out there. Great work.

[@aymennirvana147]

Literally been waiting for this video since the day i subscribed to this channel I always felt that Titan was special and had much potential but now after seeing this video and Isaac deep look at the cooling process i know exactly what titan hold and im certain that even though Mars is receiving all the hype now one day everyone will realize that titan is the most valuable object in space for a REAL space civilization/economy. Best video to describe the best moon from the best youtuber ! And ofc happy Arthursday everyone =)

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

Thanks!

[@MJWITHER]

A mega conscience on titan would a pretty good book

[@hvanmegen]

Can this guy get 10M extra subscribers please? This content is awesome!

[@benruniko]

I just stumbled across this channel, and i love it! At first i was worried i would be bored, but i have to say i am delighted at the intellectual entertainment your keen mind provides the thought-experimenter. Thank you!

[@SomeKindaSpy]

Oh hell yeah. Absolutely love this series! Thank you, this is super informative. :)

[@TeshnosFire]

Man. Isaac. Everytime I click on one of your videos I become anxious as there's suddenly 6 of your other videos in suggestions that are also super interesting. x'D So many of these videos I've watched for a couple of minutes before jumping ship to another and then another and then some related video. So let me just say, despite barely finishing only a handful of your videos in their entirety, I bloody love your channel. My attention span is too bad it seems. I'll continue to train my patience and focus.