10 Ways We Might Colonize the Galaxy

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Haha

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[@archenema6792]

The quickest way to colonize the galaxy is to tell people they're not allowed to.

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YOU'RE not allowed to!

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Just tell America theres oil in Alpha Centuri...

[@vict0ree]

If Trump would come out and denouce space exploration, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff would more than likely sling themselves into orbit.

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@@wewuzvikangz4829 someone did.... now we have the space force america, sending freedom across the universe, 1 barrel at a time

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It’s a shame we weren’t born in the space traveling generation

[@XOPOIIIO]

Raymar Football, May be we are. Doom's day argument suggests we can be a computer simulation on one of the dyson's swarms.

[@michaelpettersson4919]

In that case we have an obligation to usher in that age. We should we colonize Mars? It is there to be colonized. Any other reasons are secondary.

[@Poseidon650]

Hell, I’d pick any exploring generation. Born too late to explore new land, born too soon to explore space. Maybe we live in a goldilocks period and should be more thankful, but I miss that excitement.

[@forgotbythesystem181]

Raymar Football I say we are “we” just don’t know about it.

[@forgotbythesystem181]

I wouldn’t say the galaxy but our solar system yeah.

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[@morelenmir]

The best expression of the light-sail probe I have read about was the 'Crazy Eddy Probe' from 'The Mote in God's Eye' by Larry Niven.

[@ramonpizarro]

Solid An amazing depiction of a true alien species

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"Stop the earth, I want to get off."

[@edgregory1]

Make the world go away, and lift it off my shoulders. 🎹

[@MarkOBrienTeaches]

We need ships the size of the Galactica. I don't know why, but we need them.

[@AlaskanBallistics]

Yes

[@seymoronion8371]

Your logic checks out

[@andyf4292]

but with better weapons systems

[@Versuffe]

But if fuel is out. We die.

[@skipperofschool8325]

or maybe a big Resolute

[@colinp2238]

In a sense we are on a generationalship travelling through space/time.

[@exoplanets]

Yes

[@MyWeedIsVeryGood]

No we aren't lol. A planet does not count as a ship. It COULD , but only if the planet had it's own propulsion system. Otherwise sitting on a planet that is in a gravitational orbit around a star, is NOT at all the same as a generation ship. Ships leave the solar system, or the planet. They dont just mindlessly orbit the nearest star, fucking idiot lmao

[@ronaldgarrison8478]

@@MyWeedIsVeryGood He said it was true in a sense, not in ALL senses. I guess that kind of makes YOU the idiot, right?

[@ronaldgarrison8478]

I can definitely envision building a floating space habitat similar in size to Earth, and capable of supporting a population of billions. Add even a modest ion drive or some other means of propulsion, and you can begin to see the idea of a generational starship. The only limitation would be the need for an energy source on board capable of providing all energy needs for hundreds of years, maybe thousands, in interstellar space. I'm not sure we know any way to do that. Even fusion may not be sufficient. And it would need to be super-reliable-probably very distributed, with lots of redundancy. If it fails, everybody dies, and whatever mission they started with dies with them.

[@aygwm]

But it’s not going anywhere.

[@minimanadam]

I love watching these videos as I lay in bed, with my headphones on and eyes closed and just loose my self in this man's relaxing voice talking about my favorite topic...thx John ! Keep em coming !

[@tzadik36]

There is the matter of genetic drift. The low but continuous rate of genetic mutations in all DNA based organisms comes up against nature which selects, permits or deselects the mutations, the basis for evolution. Humans have disabled much of the deselection process for themselves through medical technology. Traits that lead to less fitness in the natural world will accumulate in the lineages. A million years from now our descendants may be as different (or more so)from us as we are from our ancestors of a million years ago.

[@frankschneider6156]

That's not totally wrong, but also not right. Currently mankind is one of the species with a very, very slim genetic diversity, primarily due to the Toba event 75k years ago. That means the difference between every human on a genetic level is exceptionally small, compared to differences in most other species (just take eg docs). Only a few handful of species are even more related, eg due to inbreeding (eg cheetahs show an even lower degree of genetic diversity and are quite likely to become extinct due to his, blue whales may fare a similar fate). Also is the idea that "medical progress" eliminated natural selection also pretty flawed. Yes today some people survive, that would have died in past times, but that's a relatively low percentage and is only valid for mutations that cause deadly, but not catastrophic malfunctions. Most really serious mutations lead to systemic malfunctions in the early stages of the pregnancy or even on a celluar level. This means the zygote or embryo dies in a very early stage of the pregnancy due to massive complications, leaving to an early abort (often the women doesn't even recognize that she was preganant at all) to due to the seriousness of the resulting complications. Humans that make to the stage of being born are pretty much more or less generally fit for live, yeah possibly with a serious problem that deadly may lead to death without medical treatment, but in general the human functions more or less as it should. Serious malfunctions are are terminated early. Roughly 50% of all pregnancies end in natural abort/miscarriage, because of that.. Further does natural selection of course still take place. Do you think that everyone reproduces equally in human societies ? Do you think that e.g. handicapped humans have on average the same number of offspring, than non-handicapped people ? And finally: we are the first species that is able to change its own genome. Currently people are resistant to do so, but this will change over time. (Just recall the times when idiots thought that artificially inseminated humans would bear a child without "soul" and this absurd ideas are less than 50 years old), which means that the classical, and currently still valid laws of evolution will sooner or later cease to apply to humans. It will sooner or later an "ideal" of a human emerge on a global scale, and everyone will aspire to be as close to this ideal as possible (something that's even today already in place, driving eg fashion, jewellery and beauty surgery). People will try to be exactly like that, while somehow retaining their individually. Obviously they'll also change their genome if possible. So, I understand where you are coming and the ideas are not completely wrong, but they aren't completely right either.

[@faybrianhernandez2416]

There will be no millions of years from now for human, there wasn't millions of years ago for humans either. As it is today human get 3 deleterious mutations per person per generation in our DNA when all it takes is 1 such mutation to drive humans into extinction. I dont know who you think humans were "millions' of years ago but who ever you think they were they are now extinct, so will we be in thousands of years, not millions.

[@andreasimon2752]

You have the most soothing voice I've ever heard ... Plus your content is genuinely well put together and w the perfect amount of humor. Thanks for your hard work! P.s. I don't think we could be alone in this universe It's just too vast.. I just wish I could meet them and communicate with them.. Sigh.. Maybe one day

[@codywilliams9485]

Yeah same, i hope im here if we ever discover proof of an andvanced alien civilization

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[@richardlbowles]

The idea of getting on a ship knowing that it won't arrive at its destination within my lifetime doesn't cause me any problems at all, but then I travel with British Rail.

[@phoule76]

Take my wife. Please!

[@Marc98338]

Once again a mighty video John. The last few years, now that we are discovering that the universe is more violent then we ever thought before, im starting to think more and more that we might not get to the point of galaxy travel. On the other hand, our technology is evolving so fast in the universe timeframe that we might actually get it going... Sometimes i tell myself that we didnt even have an aeroplane in the early 1900s. Crazy. Greetings from The Netherlands.

[@FatRescueSwimmer04]

I agree with you Marc, I would be shocked if Humans made it to that level as well... for numerous reasons lol.

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I love this channel and you to John, thank you for ever expanding my curiosities in astronomy 🌌💕🙏🏻Greetings from Sweden!

[@planexshifter]

The game Elite Dangerous- It had generation ships out in space and yes, they then developed a faster method of travel while those generation ships were still far from their destinations-

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You can tiptoe around the existential questions about death by calling it "hypersleep".

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He publishes more on his other channel, Event Horizon.

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What's so special about his back?

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You been on a roll with the videos lately on both channels

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JMG I love your channel brother. I fall asleep to it (trust me it's a struggle when the video is so interesting all the time) every night and it's something I really look forward too now. Your voice and style of video is just so relaxing, easy to understand and digest, and as I said always interesting. Thank you sir!

[@robertjohnburton9775]

Thing happen! Amazing breakthroughs may appear. Not knowing is not the problem, not trying is.

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Self cleaning plates, thats what we need !

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Amen... load themselves into three dishwasher

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Keep [‘em] coming, John!

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That's what she said

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????

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What in the F

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If i knew you were coming I'd have baked a cake ...

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not only the content is great but godier's voice is also very soothing. i need all of my scifi favorites narrated by this guy already.

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Thanks for yet another well made video.

[@chianasgeek6730]

Re the generation ships: I play Elite: Dangerous, and there, those gen ships *have* been overtaken by FTL from a later era. We even recently had the first gen ship that was found to still be inhabited. Also re them, yeah, there's the ethical consideration you mention, but hey! I protest mightily about being stuck in our own stellar system, so things balance! Thank for an excellent vid to be sitting and waking up with

[@robertahrens5906]

It never ceases to amaze me how I learn something new from you .. I try to listen to one segment a day.. before bed ..

[@changelastsforever5702]

what about a powerful magnet at the back of the ship being repulsed by another magnet with the magnet spinning at high speeds can this produce propulsion with another magnet at the front of the ship pulling the ship forward

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So much for getting an early start to work this morning, Mr. JMG!!!!

[@TobeWilsonNetwork]

Light sails! A classic sci-fi device that doesn’t show up very often nowadays. Thank you as always for some of the best Space content on KZbin

[@DailyMynt]

The generational ship concept is crazy, imagine each colony progress and have inventions that the others don’t because they wouldn’t be able to communicate with each other. Then having a newer ship beat you that would suck but be awesome since they might have don’t the hard work for you.

[@TheAmericanAmerican]

Ok #1 actually blew my mind! Haven’t thought/heard of that idea yet and it got me thinking 🤔 Thanks John 🤤

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We live in an amazing time, John gives us enough to dream about.

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Really appreciate you John 👍🏻👍🏻

[@nkordich]

Time codes & topics for those interested: 10. Advance Scouts and Light Sails - 0:42 09. Project Daedalus and Nuclear Bomb Propulsion - 2:16 08. Hollow Asteroids and Generational Ships - 3:40 07. The Empire of Humanity and the Alcubierre Warp Drive - 6:17 06. Slow and Steady - 8:09 05. Robbing Black Holes and the Halo Drive - 10:06 04. Accomplish Full Colonization Without Ever Leaving Home - 11:06 03. Wormholes and Unknown Physics - 12:58 02. Temporary Death - 14:12 01. Self-Replicating Probes and 3D Printing Humanity - 15:52

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JMG- where galaxy spanning civilizations are made with reanimated zombies. Gods I love this channel

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Great episode. The large amount of work you put into your videos are greatly appreciated!

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Your videos are my asmr. Always watch them before bed.

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Hi John. Just wanted to say thank you. These videos help me to shut of daily life and be immersed in awesome stuff.

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Releasing another within a few days.

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Another stellar video. Amazing job!

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Man I listen to your videos to help me get to sleep it's just so relaxing

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Really, really interesting! 😃 Thanks a lot, JMG! 😊

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I get so jacked every time you upload a new video! Will be watching on my way to work.

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Such a good video! Number 4 was awesome

[@bozo5632]

In 50 years, or 500, or 50,000 years, we will have telescopes and instruments that will allow is to explore the galaxy in great detail from the comforts of home. Much cheaper than star travel. Much, much, much quicker than star travel. We will also send some probes, but the bulk of the work can (and will) be done locally. (The bulk of the work will be done before the first probes start arriving in their target systems.)

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So do I!

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Stellar work John as always 👏

[@glen1555]

Point 8, the generational ship. That point of a ship leaving to get to a planet only to arrive and find that later ships had already arrived and created a civilization was explored in a sci-fi short story written in the 1950s

[@hadeseye2297]

8 Reminds me of Quarians from Mass Effect.

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Great Videos love the content and real science.

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I learn so much from your videos, thanks mate.

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I was in the great laundry campaign of 08. We should never have been there. You think you know how to find matching pairs of socks? Lemme tell you, you dont. We lost half our squad on the first spin cycle. Candy Crush and Farmville. One minute they were there, next they were gone.

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Absolutely awesome, as always, thank you JMG, you make my breakfast a journey through galaxy every day

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This is sublime. It’s like JMG has found my intellectual G-spot.

[@DeadlycheesePeople]

what if we already colonized the galaxy with sleeper ships and earth is just a lost colony.

[@phoule76]

Cool thought, but where's the old metal and ship's guts?

[@jackofcades]

#4 reminds of of a theory I heard about years ago, but I can't find any reference to it online. It's one of those "We're in the Matrix" type of theories, where humans are far, far in the future, and we have become basically immortal. Logically, after learning and completing everything possible, we've grown bored with reality and plugged each of ourselves into VR. We experience, birth to death, our own past life, and all *mathematically possible* past lives by tweaking some numbers. And what we're doing now is yet another one of those. Freaky stuff, huh?

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5:10 "It's sort of hard to quit Earth..." 2020: Gives reasons to do so. 😎

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I don't know if I've commented this in another of your videos, but I really love how you sign off your videos with that "l-i-i-ve..." You're perfect ! Don't ever change !

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Awesome video, nice job

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I suspect this voice emanates from a pulsating crystal.

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It does.

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Awesome job :D

[@RedcoatsReturn]

You channel is brilliant Mr. Godier, superb! We must take the short cuts, work around the other dimensions and bend space, relocate at many 100xC , dark energy fuels your vessel as you move through space. Miguel Alcubierre, White, Hawking and Tesla have shown us the way. We cant even get fusion drive moving....so slow we are 😒

[@FuzzyChubbyPurpleUnicorn]

If generational ships are our best option so far. We have no options lol

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Great narration

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Another great vid. JMG forever!!

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i love that he uses the EVE online soundtrack for his videos

[@friendlytalbot4050]

One issue I have with the discussion of colonising space is that we seem to talk about how we would do it tomorrow. The reason for this is easy to understand: we want to see ourselves travelling and colonising space, not some future human far removed from us. It's easier to imagine the world is fairly similar to ours in 200 years rather than in a thousand or ten thousand years. The problem is only that if we look back just 200 years, the world was vastly different to our own. Most people also seem to think that our species will be extinct very soon, that we live on borrowed time. Even just a thousand years, some times just a hundred from now, people have this pessimistic idea that we are all just going to die. It may be because it is difficult to imagine what we would look like so far in the future when we ourselves are dead anyway. We are not going to colonise the galaxy anytime soon. It is just not feasible. But that doesn't mean it cannot be done, and it will most likely be done. We may want to colonise our own solar system before the galaxy, however. It is likely we would have completely mastery of the solar system in a thousand years, and it may take up to ten thousand years before we even start going for new stars like Alpha Centauri. But by then, if current estimates hold up, we'd likely have eliminated aging as well. When going to new stars, generation ships and time kind of becomes a moot point when you can theoratically live forever. Instead of cryo-freezing, we could do something more realistic then: medically induced coma. That is, if you don't want to stay awake for trip that could likely take anything from 40 to 400 years. And when arriving at the destination, we could wake people up. I doubt colonising space is straightforward either. I imagine it would be similar to how the United States was settled: travel to the nearest stars, build up a civilisation there, which may take a century or two, then launch new expeditions to their nearest stars. It is a slow start, but for every star we colonise, two or more will be colonised next. It would be like a spider web of colonised stars where each leads to many more, and we will spread further and further faster and faster. The point is, we don't have to worry about how we would colonise the galaxy tomorrow. We can wait a very long time with it. If anything, we have 500 million years before the Earth becomes inhabitable. But all that is enough. If it only takes ten million years to colonise our galaxy, then our species will definitely outlive the sun.

[@JanetLClark]

I love your voice. It reminds me of the Friskies "Dear Human" video ^^

[@MrReaperLuke]

Great content as usual. Can you make a video on the ISS UFO? Would love your take on that honestly baffling thing.

[@LaurenMiddleton28]

My dream would be to walk on another planet.. a planet something Earth.. Just Imagine breathing in the air seeing the different species.. it would be magical... just think about all the Earth like planets out there that nobody from Earth will ever see..

[@jebediahwolf1205]

A fantastic, very interesting video. Thanks.

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Hey man great video . I noticed you haven't posted in a while . I hope all is well .

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Waking up to a new JMG video!!!? Yes, life is good 👍🏻 thanks John

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I've tried showing your videos to my friends and co-workers and they find them incomprehensible.

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It really is surprising how few people "get it"!

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My friends do but they're not engaging like me really... I listen to this videos while doing some work is so calming.

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JMG fans obvi = big brain individuals

[@phoule76]

Do you work in France?