Space Piracy: High-Tech Bandits in the Final Frontier

[@maan7715]

"In space, no one can hear you *Arrrr*" that was unexpected. Good start haha.

[@ArcherWarhound]

It made me snicker!

[@greypatch8855]

Haha I was laughing pretty hard

[@etherstar]

I didn't expect that. It caught me off guard lol!

[@DanteTorn]

Hearing the "arrrr" with Isaac's speech impediment is a sound I never thought I'd hear, but now I know what a pirate with a speech impediment would sound like. "LET NOBODY DARE MAKE FUN OF THE DREAD PIRATE ISSAC ARTHUR! We'll keelhaul you if you do, and trust me, it's way worse when it's a space ship." As a person with a mild pirate obsession, I salute thee, Dread Pirate Isaac Arthur. o7

[@andrewsallans589]

It's also a great slogan for a potential Tarantino movie XD

[@barleysixseventwo6665]

Captain! The ship be ours, but the hold be filled with naught but Devientart posts and the odd Harry Potter Fanfiction! Argh! Foiled again by Sturgeon's Law!

[@rizzorepulsive7704]

this is how space pirates turn into space inquisitors purging the universe of degeneracy

[@dropdead234]

"99% Of Anything Is Crap."

[@classarank7youtubeherokeyb63]

"Captain, what are these boxes labeled "fursonas?" "EVACUATE THE SHIP!"

[@mikehel4533]

Derp Eaters??

[@alexandernorman5337]

You see, Isaac, FIRST you build the Paperclip Maximizer - the AI that values paperclips over everything else. THEN you pirate away the paperclips and hold them for ransom!

[@judgeomega]

it was on that day that the great ai paper maximizer decided letting humans live was not a good strategy

[@s0ulshot]

@@judgeomega it can use those pirates actions to justify anti terror military campaigns on some unfortunate worlds.

[@blackadder564]

And you demand 1 BILLION paperclips as a ransom.

[@theCodyReeder]

Time to crush all my preconceptions on the topic. Yay!

[@UNSCPILOT]

Always good to see Cody in the comments!

[@curvy4655]

Of course Cody's here, he's preparing for when those coyotes turn to piracy and try raid the base!

[@mikedrop4421]

I just want to thank you for mentioning Isaac's channel several years ago when you mentioned it was part of your Thursday routine. I subbed that day and binged his catalog and now listen to this channel to help me fall asleep

[@over7532]

You sir, are a goddamn delight! I hope you have a great day

[@lilsammich8252]

Arhh says the pirate.

[@jengleheimerschmitt7941]

My takeaway: Get into space piracy before the detection grid is completed.

[@RainbowDevourer]

Heard about corruption? The most reliable thing about humans is their unreliableness :)

[@airnidzo]

@@RainbowDevourer On the money. Fucking humans

[@blackthorne-rose]

"People will trust a reliable criminal before they will trust a corrupt businessman..." --Jazz (Artemis by Andy Weir)

[@lillyanneserrelio2187]

Yep, we will be reminiscing about "the good old days" of early space piracy once detection and prevention technology catches up to space travel.

[@amehayami934]

No it won't be that easy. I think every one is forgetting exactly how big space is. (1) tell me on earth can you pick out Mars with your eyes? Well if you know where to look you can, but can you even tell if that was a planet? Can you see what is going on Mars? Like any dust storms? No? So anyone would believe you will be able to see engine exhaust? Space is huge all you need to do is hit, take over, jump to new location. By the time anyone gets there they will be long gone and won't even know which way they head there is also up and down, as if that means anything in space.

[@EddyA1337]

The first ten seconds of this was the best. I love Isaac saying, " in space nobody can hear you ARRRRRGGGG". Hell ya Isaac. Thanks for putting out two videos a week for us man! You rock!

[@cluckeryduckery261]

I just heard Isaac Arthur say "exotic booty." Welp, that completes the ol bucket list.

[@pougetguillaume4632]

Isaac: hide the booty My 5 year old brain: _uncontrolable giggle_

[@lilsammich8252]

I want exotic booty.

[@cecollins68]

Heh heh

[@thebaccathatchews]

Most likely space piracy: "You wouldn't download a spaceship, you wouldn't download a fusion reactor, you wouldn't download a mass driver. Piracy is not a victimless crime."

[@ArcherWarhound]

He did mention hijacking data.

[@aspiringscientificjournali1505]

Lol i would totally download all of those

[@gumunduringigumundsson9344]

I thought the whole point was to have victims... to earn score.. loot is there anyways. Just kiddibg.. just came to me at the top of.my head I have literally spent less timenon it than tounhave so far. GL hf Love .edit.. From my pirating days at least Rep not score was nr1.. all else was less inportant... when you realize you have built your whole life outlook around a hormonic splurt that turned out to be... etc.etc during strange times.

[@aspiringscientificjournali1505]

@@gumunduringigumundsson9344 you clearly into the kinky stuff..... Call me lol

[@gumunduringigumundsson9344]

@@aspiringscientificjournali1505 I am within the confines of common sense.. married.. but exiled from.. cuz ppl are strange.. you know. I am totally able to teach humans what good.... thanks, but I will not. Send me a msg on one of my vids hehe. Ask me anything your.are welcome to. 🖖🧙‍♂️🐸🧙‍♀️👍 Well.. teach and teach.. i dont know any better than the rest of humanity . Best teacher I had was always in a good mood and was 50 looked 35 and did pushups on his thumbs and tried to tech me to breathe hahaha

[@kevinscott7292]

3:50 Someday, somebody's going to splice together a bunch of out-of-context phrases and it's going to culminate with "Exotic Booty"

[@jasonbelstone3427]

Issac Arthur, broadcast no context.

[@tonyoliver4920]

Space piracy: 3D printing your ship without appropriate licence

[@daltoncook209]

Tony Oliver oi you got a loisence for that ship?

[@unitedspacepirates9075]

Steal a few cows eyballs and and butt holes to make authentic hot dog recipe... Get labelled a pirate:(

[@Karthik-pn2yj]

steal the license too

[@marlonlacert8133]

Future Space Pirates, might be some lone person sitting at a desk, waiting to intercept a data transmission.

[@Esoteric_5075ism]

Piracy is probably the only situation where ramming your enemy is a good strategy

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

Huh, I hadn't thought of that, interesting notion

[@ShadeThe777]

Captain Herlock approves this idea

[@unitedspacepirates9075]

Risky move in space, though likey effective if the ship can handle it.

[@jasonbelstone3427]

Thats how Animorphs started and ended, funny enough.

[@VainerCactus0]

What if you're an ancient Greek Trireme?

[@TheExoplanetsChannel]

Great video. I would love to watch a movie like "Pirates of the Caribbean", but in space.

[@fanOmry]

Magic or Hard known science?

[@tariqahmad1371]

Do mean pirates of the belt?

[@bucko9423]

@@fanOmry Pirates of the Jovian.

[@tariqahmad1371]

@_Unknown13_ ahhh, good times

[@tariqahmad1371]

What about Harlock and his pirate ship Arcadia

[@rsaunders57]

If you start to put anti-piracy telescopes in Belter shipping lanes you're just encouraging "ship" pirates to switch to being "anti-piracy telescope" pirates.

[@hyperdude144]

Dark ball-bearings made of plastic + 10+ km/s velocity = Shredded telescope dish.

[@zrebbesh]

It's a 'tragedy of the commons' situation for the pirates. Attacking the telescopes would work to their common good, but attacking telescopes instead of ships means negative profit for the individual pirate that does it. So unless the pirates are a cartel willing to compensate the attackers accordingly, it won't happen.

[@daveice20]

@@zrebbesh No one needs to "attack" the telescope.. they simply go from selling relatively low-tech stolen freighters to selling brand new high-tech stolen military telescopes with military hardware lmao

[@rarepepe1572]

@@daveice20 Also generally people get paid off in these scenarios, you'll never not be able to pay someone off.

[@aserta]

All you'd need is a powerful laser to kill all those super fine grade telescopes. I mean, a cheapo tattoo removing laser off fleaBay can decimate a CCD with stray paths and reflective paths, in space, they could drop laser spheres and kill all kinds of surveillance.

[@patrickgrassey2290]

"In space, nobody can hear you yarrrrrrr." 🤣 classic

[@zs9652]

Thanks for having a consistent schedule, Isaac. Always look forward to these each Thursday.

[@hamentaschen]

Merry Christmas Mr. Authur! Thank you for all that you do.

[@SpecialEDy]

Happy Arrr-thursday!

[@paxdriver]

"in space, no one can hear you 'argh!' " lol I love Arthursdays. Big ups

[@cptbutt3571]

Arthursday, my new favorite day.

[@markwatney4989]

First space pirate. First discovering of dirt on mars. First left alone on mars. First mars potato farmer. In your face, Neil Armstrong.

[@cannonfodder4376]

On second read/listen through of the entire Honorverse series. Truly a cut above others due to the reasons you listed Isaac. It has become a new favorite of mine. Another fantastic episode as always Isaac. I very much look forward to the next ones and wish you all a Merry Christmas.

[@AnrachPlays]

I really like the museum thing. It would be interesting to see not just a shipping of exhibits between interstellar museums, but actual wandering museums. Massive ships traveling between the stars to show off the natural wonders and artistic masterpieces of their civilization for all to bask in their cultural glory. Perhaps there would even be similar university ships wandering between star systems, sharing knowledge and receiving it in turn like scholastic nomads. It could even become a common phenomenon, with each dyson-civilization sending out their own cultural and scholastic treasure fleets, and privateers preying on them not necessarily to score a pay day but to diminish the perceived cultural dominance of rival civilizations.

[@MrRyanroberson1]

with all these words containing "r", it's easy to hear how much progress you've made on that specific sound. it's... normal, now.

[@mradminus]

Just want to wish Isaac Arthur a Merry Christmas, I love your videos!

[@MrLulzack]

I don't know if I feel safe knowing Isaac had been turning his brainpower toward contemplating criminal enterprise

[@unitedspacepirates9075]

Agreed

[@allanroberts7129]

Happy Arrrrthursday and Have a Merry Christmas

[@geordiejones5618]

You and your team as well as the channel Cool Worlds have been such a great resource for improving my own worldbuilding and narrative schematics. If I can ever get my epic cycle published you guys deserve so much credit.

[@jonathanhensley6141]

Another awesome video and love to see a movie based of space pirate that is similar to what was discussed here. Only issac can make pirating fun lol.

[@LukaszStafiniak]

Excited about the next episode! Imagine a protocol for interstellar communication where you digitally reinstate your attention (consciousness) with the content of the previous interaction as you react to a response.

[@theghostofpatrickhenry4516]

Since I am already a ghost space piracy is most certainly my future career path.

[@ghrey8282]

What a nice way to spend the morning of my birthday! Thank you!

[@JB52520]

Happy birthday!

[@ferpineda5022]

Finally I was looking for this episode to pop up

[@unitedspacepirates9075]

Us too :)

[@albertjackinson]

0:10 *Stellar* one-liner!

[@Raziel-mq3fn]

Hey Artur, I listen to your videos every night before I fall asleep. Thank you so much for all the high quality content you made for us. And I also noticed you mention your speech impediment in various videos, we are not bothered by it at all and neither should you.

[@mikelastname6469]

Good timing! I just listened to Revenger, and I am now on Shadow Captain, both by Alastair Reynolds. Fascinating topic! Anyone who is curious, they are some of Reynolds’s best works. Very good episode, as usual! Thank you to you and your team, and Merry Christmas!

[@Netseer2000]

This would have been funnier on September 19, International Talk Like a Pirate Day. This topic is making me want to find and re-read my copy of my departed friend CJ Henderson's book Space Pirates

[@Roxor128]

Look on the bright side: He did at least manage a release on the 19th of _some_ month! Pity, though. The 19th of September 2019 _was_ a Thursday, so it would have been a great opportunity if he could have managed it.

[@user-ko3vg7fc7o]

Very unexpectedly informative! I really appreciate the depth you went to on a subject that most wouldnt take seriously. Your research must have been exhaustive!! This was a terrific video and extremely well d9ne!! I applaud you my friend....well done indeed! Seriously this video was better done than ANY documentary I e ever seen on discovery!! I am shocked and blown away by your effort! Thank you very much!!

[@hunam1464]

Isaac’s AAARRRR is a bit like Malcolm’s laugh in Jurassic Park. And it’s glorious.

[@angelkitty11]

He flexed his R!!!

[@wolf359loki]

Have you ever considered writing a simulation video game based on your videos here? Like a SIM style where you can play a person, small group or an empire building race?

[@earnestbrown6524]

Funny story. I got Honor Among Enemies first because the paperback had a cool page flip animation of a ship blowing up. Started reading and was a little lost. Flipped to the front a saw that it was book 6. Had to wait till the next day to go back to the book store to get the others. Really love this series of books. All 20+ of them.

[@jeffersonian000]

Just a small correction, but all precious metals have a providence, which is from the trace elements found where the precious metals are extracted. These elements form a fingerprint that not only locates the origin, but also sets the chain of ownership. It’s extremely difficult to get away with theft of industrial grade precious metals, which is what you would have being shipped from sources in space.

[@seanvolk4202]

3:48 ...”carrying such exotic booty”...yes, yes, YESS

[@alexv3357]

I've spent the last week thinking about space piracy and its practicality, this is a perfect source of ideas for my sci fi campaign

[@kirahawkins3931]

ICE PIRATES is the ultimate space pirate movie.. Chessy gold!

[@SuperGamefreak18]

My friend I love how this video came out after I've learned we're gonna be space pirates for a rp session...this video has given me some fun ideas. Like the parrot program, be very useful idea for my mechanic character lol.

[@crysanthiumvega]

That was 100% your best intro.

[@BobbyCoggins]

Happy ArThursday!

[@BuckeyeStormsProductions]

Happy ArrrrrrThursday.

[@DescendantSaga]

20 seconds in, best episode ever.

[@dennisbeers]

Thanks again for a wonderful video! Merry Christmas Isaac!

[@starbomber]

16:48 Ahhh the good ol flip&gank. As an avid follower of EvE online the idea of holding a cargo pod ransom resonates with me. See, like you mentioned, raw materiel usually isn't worth much. But, if that mining ship has a person onboard, and you have a bomb strapped to their hull, you're essentially asking them "how much is your life worth". It's a dangerous game for both sides, because the pirate doesn't want to blow up the miner really, even if he salvaged the raw materiel, it wouldn't be worth nearly as much as the ransom, but for the miner it becomes about principle, do you pay the bribe and get pirated again and again, or do you say no, try to fight, and discourage future pirate attempts? It becomes an immensely more complex question when there are more people involved. The captain of a passenger liner doesn't have to worry about just his own life or his crew, all the passenger's lives are in his hands.

[@ryantwombly720]

I went to a sci-fi con that had David Weber as feature guest. One of the Honorverse co-authors talked about working with him to overcome the impossibility of losing track of a ship that had to be marooned for the plot to kick off. The circumstances had to be just right, with just the right sequence of flukes, but it was so detailed it sounded believable to anyone who has encountered Murphy’s Law.

[@suthinanahkist2521]

In space, no-one can hear you break the law!

[@unitedspacepirates9075]

Laws... lol

[@Starbat88]

No. But they can see you. No stealth in space.

[@kieranlynch4906]

This is my all time favourite intro you've ever done, that was beautiful

[@zell9058]

SFIA coffee and Christmas cookies. How could it get any better... SPACE PIRATES!!!🏴‍☠️🚀

[@paulwalsh2344]

It occurred to me as you were explaining the process of Delta V to catch up to a cruising prey vehicle, match it's speed and docking, (which I was waiting to see if you'd explain it from the beginning of the episode); how feasible would all that be ? Couldn't a prey vehicle simply just constantly just puff a few dozen Newtons of thrust in the direction to their destination each time the pirate vehicle is trying to dock to stymie it and waste the pirate vehicle's fuel ? The prey vehicle simply has to send a Mayday signal out, the receiver of the cargo or a police or armed force at the destination could send out an interdiction vessel to ward off the pirate vehicle and also an emergency refuelling tender for the prey vehicle for it's deceleration maneuver and the pirate vehicle is up the creek ! It's far more likely that as you said, pirate ventures would probably be a ransom process of destroying the cargo.

[@thedoruk6324]

That's *the* reason why you should protect your *Hyperlanes* and Trade Routes at all costs

[@sharkylpd4]

Coffee and a snack. Ready to learn thank you sir.

[@onanthebarbarian4842]

I've been told Honor Harrington was basically just line battles in space. Maybe it warrants another look. I do like her cat.

[@jurianvanderknaap]

Did everyone miss “on this arrrrr-thurs day”? :)

[@mikelastname6469]

Jurian van der Knaap I heard it but didn’t understand it until I read your comment like five times! Good ear! (Or good arrrrr....)

[@elliotlea5457]

That shit was GREAT

[@spoonikle]

I heard awwwuuuthursday

[@Eastmarch2]

“Gold has no provenance” “Every hand turned against you save those so stained” It’s like a poet helped you write this script. Did anyone else notice the slightly more lyrical wording this week? I greatly enjoyed it to be sure.

[@Hambie76]

Awesome mention for David Weber! I love the way he writes a battle scene. He does tend to recycle characters between different series, but it's a quirk.

[@AnalystPrime]

So true! People keep repeating that thing about stealth like having massive sensors and the computing power and people needed to shift trough the data were free. A working rocket engine might be visible from a long range, but you need big telescopes to be able to see the ship itself, and lots of them to peek behind every rock in the system. We have lost known objects in Earth orbit from sensors often enough, guarding the belt would depend on the belters themselves having their own asteroid defense and traffic control. Actually capturing the pirates would likely depend on detective work to figure out whose asteroid mine uses far too much propellant and somehow sells ores with wrong kinds of isotopes for all of them to come from the same area of the belt or something like that. I think the clarketech that would enable piracy would be FTL rather than stealth or infinite power, most sensors and defenses depend on having several light seconds around you that you can scan well enough to know everything that is there is supposed to be there and where your lasers can burn anything that isn't or is heading your way too fast, and it is doubtful any magic stealth would develop without comparable improvement in sensor tech. However, FTL that does not need a receiving stargate or similar special circumstances basically allows for an armed invader to teleport right next to your base or even planet and attack before their arrival appears on your sensors due to light lag.

[@ericvandet8517]

your pictures of David Weber's Honorverse paperbacks looks just like mine - creases and all...must be your personal set.

[@JulianDanzerHAL9001]

I mean this is just on the backgroudn animation but... I absolutely love scifi spaceships and structures with proper collision and navigation lights

[@stevenumerator]

Well, shiver me timbers, Cap’n Isaac ARRRRthur, ye son-of-a-railgun! After hearin’ such a well spoke cinematic reference christen the launch of this video, I’d wager there’s nary a scurvier spacedog than ye. Smooth light sailin’ to ye an’ yer crew this holiday season!

[@scifience8297]

Please do a video on Brachistochrone trajectories and a 1G rocket

[@steffenmuhlen9346]

My take on hiding in space:You cant completley hide but you can not be detected by most ways Or look like a asteroid or so(sorry dor my eng)

[@warren286]

I don't know if you have already, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on the concept of negative matter.

[@ryantaylor1142]

Event horizons w john Michael did that interview with him it was a general interview but he covered it

[@fermibubbles9375]

needed this

[@TomatoTerminator]

I remember a novel (not the name) where the pirates rob rare materials by hacking orbital drop stations and nudge the math a little, so the valuable stuff lands in wrong location where they can be looted.

[@captainjacksparrow7116]

Oh yeah, it’s all coming together.

[@zs9652]

@Dan Nguyen But she is just the bounty hunter, Ridley is the real pirate XD.

[@zs9652]

@Dan Nguyen Real space pirates. Experience is important.

[@unitedspacepirates9075]

Came together a while ago, where you been?

[@captainjacksparrow7116]

A_Mad_Khajiit aye

[@captainjacksparrow7116]

United Space Pirates Cuba

[@skrv8588]

"In space, no one can hear you ARRRRRR." -Isaac, 2019

[@TorMatthews]

This is a moment that will go down in history

[@everydaydroneguy371]

Oh my God! I have never laughed out loud at Isaac but that was hysterical!

[@brooklyn560]

RIP Klaes Ashford

[@brianmessemer2973]

brooklyn560 Too soon 😢

[@DavidKutzler]

At 2:54 I immediately thought about Fred Saberhagen's short story "Patron of the Arts," from his Berserker series. In the story, a space ship is fleeing the Earth carrying culturally-significant art works away from Earth in an attempt to preserve the cultural heritage of Earth in the face of a Berserker attack on Earth, when it is captured by Berserker "pirates."

[@merendell]

Ahh excellent book recommendation. Loved the honor series.

[@seanbrazell6147]

Every time I hear you describe what space combat would actually be like it reminds me of the lost fleet series by Jack Campbell which is fantastic and aside from the FTL and more scifi aspects of it the combat is just as you described and it's detailed and wonderful.

[@mickidawop414]

Isaac, I have noticed that my coffee tastes better when drinking it from my SFIA coffee cup. Has there been any research done concerning this delightful phenomenon?

[@Fempath]

I love space, I love pirates and I especially love your videos ❤️

[@mikeupton5406]

Fireflies, "today we're going to do crime".... .

[@musafawundu6718]

Excellent material for a hard SciFi story, like most of your videos.

[@robstone7421]

the permitted technologies! lol! Please do a video, or videos to try to clarify the permitted technologies. it could be great to have all of that in one place for fiction makers to refer to. thanks for the piracy lecture, i have been waiting for this one for a long time.

[@nuzzlefutz8607]

I grab a drink and snack for all your videos. You're easily my favorite content creator on KZbin!

[@Soulcatcher30]

'Exotic booty' reminds me of Tachyon the Fringe game, where they have space ships transporting ceiling/roof of the Sistine Chapel and you need to steal it.

[@revenevan11]

19:23 "The Oort cloud is your best bet for long term *ice*-o-lation" 🤣

[@SquirrelASMR]

Hahaha

[@hardwing]

Great episode!

[@lilithstardust7359]

the next sci-fi movie about faster than light travel better have "ambush by time travel" as a fight scene dammit

[@ProperLogicalDebate]

Oil can be tracked by trace elements in it. The same can probably be said about other cargoes that the authorities are suspicious of.

[@aspiringscientificjournali1505]

Yrs and this is done for diamonds and cobalt

[@full__tilt]

Looking forward to the next episode. I wonder if GMT could change to SGT - Standard Galalatic Time :'D

[@10aDowningStreet]

Thank you for all the money making ideas!

[@Roxor128]

A few months late for Talk Like A Pirate Day (19th of September), but at least it was released on the right day.

[@masterchief1435]

Watching this vid while deep core mining in Elite dangerous, in VR, is so damn incredible and representative of the times we're living in its insane. Oh and as I was bringing the haul back i got interdicted by npc pirates xd Doesn't matter tho, got my 300 mil

[@blairtrump]

Happy Arthursday!

[@jamesdriscoll9405]

ARRRthursday!

[@unitedspacepirates9075]

@@jamesdriscoll9405 lol

[@MechanicWolf85]

With how corporations will take over space and privatize it, i would definitely love to join some pirates, scrapjunkers or outright nomadic raiders seems like a better alternative

[@spacepiratecaptainrush1237]

I'm an old school Captain Harlock fan. kind of like space Captain Nemo without most of the tragic flaws (depending on the version) Acts of Piracy against an oppressive occupying force.

[@nunyab9504]

You have a devious mind, sir I salute you

[@TheJosep70]

In the future, space pirates will ride moon rovers.

[@roidroid]

10:03 JPAerospace concept in the background there. The Stratospheric balloon station.

[@TeddSpeck]

Its just too excellent that Issac (Rhotacism) just went for it, saying, “arrr.” Just do it! 😀

[@joanevans9508]

I love the Japanese anima "Bodacious Space Pirates". The title song made it into the Japanese Top 10. The 16yo heroine inherits the right to be a "Space Pirate" when her father, who she never met, dies. It's all about electronic warfare and giving the customer a good show while keeping the insurance companies happy. Well worth a look if you enjoy that sort of thing. (And there's a followup movie).