Life as a Planetary Explorer

We conclude our journey begun in Interstellar Probes by exploring an alien world and asking what life will be like as a Planetary Explorer.
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Life as a Planetary Explorer
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 350, June 30, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur
Editors:
Darius Said
David McFarlane
Jason BurbankDavid McFarlane
Keith Blockus
Sig'Unnr
Cover Art:
Jakub Grygier www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier
Graphics:
Bryan Versteeg
Darth Biomech
Mike Munt (Apogii)
Jeremy Jozwik
LegionTech Studios
Music Courtesy of
Stellardrone, stellardrone.bandcamp.com
"Red Giant", "Billions and Billions", "Cosmic Sunrise", "The Night Sky in Motion"
Miguel Johnson, / migueljohnsonmjmusic
"Expedition" & "So Many Stars"

[@ornu01]

This and dinosaurs are everyone's childhood dream.

[@harbl99]

Which explains why DinoRiders was the perfect, never improved upon toy line.

[@DavidEvans_dle]

RIP to the intrepid explorers who didn't survive hibernation. “The goal is to die with memories not dreams.” And they took the ultimate risk in this pursuit. Plenty of new land, each one of them will surely get a spot named after them, were they're probably buried. ;P

[@genkibob]

As the one astronaut said towards the end of Deep Impact, At least we'll all have schools named after us.

[@ProfessorJayTee]

Why waste land burying anyone? It's silly.

[@cannonfodder4376]

Only Isaac would incorporate the boring task of sifting through hundreds of years of email inbox backlog into a story and making it informative and entertaining. Another wonderful episode as always Isaac.

[@harbl99]

Imagine that poor expert system dedicated to sifting your incoming messages: "What is my purpose, oh creator?" "You will filter my email for the next 500 years." "Uuuuuugh! Did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me?"

[@DStecks]

Well, it was also the best scene in Interstellar

[@UpliftedCapybara]

I appreciate the fact that a slight delay like this is noteworthy even over a period of years! If I can make a suggestion for a topic, I’d love to see your take on the future of tourism. I think a post-scarcity society would mean virtually everyone can travel, but what effect would that have on both the travelers and the destinations they congregate in?

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

Yeah, I tend to be a bit obsessive about not being late :) We did do an episode on Space Tourism but it never gained much popularity so I'm hesistant to revisit that topic.

[@UpliftedCapybara]

@@isaacarthurSFIA The topic for me would be less about space tourism specifically, and more about the impact of many billions or even trillions wanting to visit famous places such as the Grand Canyon or the Pyramids of Giza. I could see either insanely long waitlists to go anywhere of note or maybe closing them off completely in favor of VR versions. It would also be interesting to see how the earth itself is viewed and used more broadly in the far future when the vast majority of the human population is elsewhere.

[@wiredvibe1678]

@@UpliftedCapybara by that point i think most people would rather visit in VR I bet.

[@JB52520]

@@wiredvibe1678 Post scarcity will probably get here well before full-dive VR. If I go to a beach, I want to feel the breeze, sand, sunlight, and water. I want to smell the ocean and eat fresh seafood. For VR to be that immersive, you'd have to completely control the brain, perfectly simulating both the environment and the body while fully controlling the disconnected physical body. I almost think it won't happen until we have mind uploading, which has such crazy requirements that we'll probably need hundreds of years of rapid progress in computing, unless an ASI just gives it to us.

[@wiredvibe1678]

@@JB52520 actually it doesn't need to be perfect just good enough. You don't even need legs to feel present in VR, although having legs is quite nice. I think you will find we will reach full dive VR or something close to it long before we get post scarcity.

[@SpecialEDy]

Happy Arthursday! If you are a terrestrial planetary explorer here on Earth, enjoy the video. If you're a Planetary Explorer in orbit of Louie Epsilon Fornacis, Don't Panic and remember your towel as you thaw out from 2000 years of deep freeze!

[@allensturdivant3044]

This comment is mostly harmless.

[@WilliamSlayer]

Used my towel just today...thanks for the reminder! 😁👍

[@Celestial_Reach]

I'm so so happy he did another 1st person. I gotta sleep watching these so my dreams arnt terrors

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

Sorry for the delay on this one getting published :)

[@CrossoverManiac]

No prob but my "glass half empty" and imagination was getting the better of me and I got worried that something terrible happened to you. 😟

[@ssshhhjjj192]

You have nothing to apologize for! Thank you so much for your videos! I absolutely love your videos! Thank you!

[@denniscollett303]

Love the storyline. Would love to here the rest of the story.

[@joshuarichardson6529]

Better late than vaporware has always been my preference. No need to apologize.

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

@@denniscollett303 I'm contemplating if there should be one and where, but no clear storyline comes to mind yet :)

[@jacksongodwin837]

Such a fan of these more narative episodes. (Just like the how many concepts have been explored through the Unity's example). Hope the team had as much time flexing their creative writing skills, as I had listening.

[@commiedeer]

Ah never change Isaac, shattering our dreams only to make us build entirely new ones... Isaac Arthur: Star Trek is an unrealistic depiction of space exploration. Also Isaac Arthur: But if we do find an abandoned planetary or solar-system wide civilization, you could spend a century on the greatest dungeon crawl of all time!

[@ZebraActual]

Definitely one of my dreams is being a planetary explorer.. preferably in other solar systems. *btw, i love the fact that the scout ship was named Firefly! (and really great graphics! Better than Star Citizen!) "and parched worse than Arrakis" Brilliant! Wish I could give this video a thousand thumbs ups!!

[@branhan215124]

While Civilizations at the End of Time might be your most popular series, my personal favs are always when we get to see you go full science fiction writer with the Traveler from Colonizing Series or stuff like this. It really is a treat, we love you Issac!

[@aarushpruthi7184]

I really love the sheer range of topics that you cover in your videos, ranging from possible future inventions and technologies all the way to how their existence will impact the lifestyles of the people of that day and age. Keep up the excellent work as always my man!

[@seanlehning1542]

I was almost in tears by the end. Your narrative episodes are so great!

[@kingali1606]

Being a planetary explorer would be so cool.

[@Ron4885]

King Ali, as a kid I read tons of sci-fi and always imagined myself as a planetary explorer looking for planets and civilizations that had expired for whatever reason. If you have seen the program Mysteries of the Abandoned? something like that, only other planets. Weird I know. 🤷‍♂

[@whiskeySe7en]

Beam me up scotty

[@frankieboyseje]

the dream of dreams for sure

[@deusexmachina2938]

I like how he plays Stellardrone - Light Years Away as he says 'light years away' in the intro.

[@reporeport]

Isaac, thanks for doing an old-school style episode where you tell a story through the point of view of a character. I absolutely treasured this episode and am so grateful for your return to this style of episode. You are truly capable of expressing unique ideas using this medium and I hope this return to narrative style makes more appearances in upcoming episodes. Thank you for your dedication and character of self. You are cherished

[@Sundaydrumday]

MAN REALLY LOVING THE ROLE PLAY OF THIS VIDEO, IM TOTALLY INTO IT LOL....THIS IS AWSOME. THANKS FOR THE GREAT EPISODE!!!

[@sadetherat4147]

This was lovely. Something I've missed since all those great Colonizing the Solar System videos is a more narrative element. It helps tie everything together and add a relatable, down to earth (so to speak), human element to the topic. Its also super entertaining. Now you just need to turn these stories into a hit TV show and singleplayer/coop video game series, and we'll be all set.

[@planckstudios]

Love the depth of your insight and expanse of your imagination - it's inspiring how clearly you illustrate these possible futures - and make them so human

[@kobebarka8633]

This Thursday was rough but ending it with Isaac and my friends out there make it better. Live long and prosper🖖🏻

[@OpreanMircea]

this episode was so good, it's like food for my brain, thanks Isaac and thank you SFIA team!

[@erideimos1207]

LOL Isaac! You always said you wanted to write a story but the dialogue didn't come out right. Well, this was perfect! Thanks! Can't wait to see our intrepid explorer wander around an alien O'Neil Cylinder.

[@InterstellarKnowledge]

I have a good feeling about this!

[@LinksFan]

I've only just started watching your stuff, but seeing all the comments elsewhere I know I'm in for a hell of a back catalogue. Great video!

[@alpaykasal2902]

Sci Fi film of the year!!! This is Isaac we're talking about, so it's definitely hard scifi.

[@arftejano2284]

I wanted to say how much your channel has inspired me. It gave me the boost I needed to go back and finish my education in aerospace engineering, it rekindled my passion for space, and yesterday I officially launched my space startup that is entirely dedicated to industrializing cislunar space and long-range mission support/logistics! Looking at getting grants from the Texas government and SBA, if I make it Issac I will definitely be sharing the love and returning the favor

[@berkehan4808]

I absolutely love these short story type videos isaac! Great work!

[@rhuiah]

Great episode. I like the thought of some random world being surveyed every so often as folks investigat the previous investigations.

[@frankroquemore4946]

Hell yeah! Here barely 37 seconds after upload

[@saltyjack5662]

I really enjoyed this episode and the world building! If you can please continue the story and this exciting journey that begun in Interstellar Probes!

[@andreborges2881]

The "Univohrse" is such an interesting vast place listening to you, Mr. Isaac. I really quite endear your narration and your voice, as well. Thanks for keeping scientifically falsifiable/adequated when regarding such philosophical and futurist musings. I am, now, considering supporting it on Patreon, as affidable and imaginative aren't adjectives to purvey to too many channels nowadays and, finding yours, I've'd to yet find any that surpass you and your team in this intrigating theme that is the future. Thanks, again, from Brazil. Saudações (sahw-dah-ssoins, "salutations", in Portuguese).

[@psye_borg]

Thank you as ALWAYS Issac, extremely critical information 🙏🙏

[@clerictheia629]

Your xenoarchaeology episode was my absolute favorite, so this narrative video was everything I could have wanted! Would love to have more content like this! Excellent episode, as always! By far my favorite channel on KZbin

[@christopherhughes2211]

Oh my gods this was soooo good!!! I absolutely love this premise and story. Somebody please take this an run with it and write a book using this is the basis. Man this was good!

[@mjk9388]

Awesome episode. Great work Isaac and team!

[@wilowhisp]

I really enjoyed this episode. One of the best yet!

[@IvanGarcerant]

Great episode. Really great one.

[@kurt7996]

Been watching the channel for a long time and these are the videos I like most

[@iGleeforFree]

Honestly, the scope of this channel is beyond comprehension. The potential possibilities, riches, terrors, and experiences awaiting us. It really makes you wonder about all the energy today's humans and civilizations are spending on insignificant and petty pursuits. I guess it's all part of the maturity process, or at least I hope... One of the best channels out there. Thank you, Isaac Arthur, for tickling our curiosity and broadening our horizons!

[@kj.6010]

This channel just keeps getting better and better

[@freddyjosereginomontalvo4667]

Awesome channel with awesome content and great quality as always say 🌍💯

[@barryon8706]

If you had easy FTL then one ship might visit multiple planets, with each one being followed up by a crew more specialized after the first ship does an initial survey (and shows the more comely aliens about "this thing the humans call love" ).

[@CrossoverManiac]

The Enterprise as a scout ship to find anything of interest that long-term researchers could perform a more exhaustive study later makes sense.

[@EdMcStinko]

This is a great topic Arthur. Ive lost count of how many times Ive seen this theme in movies, videos, TV shows and even video games. I recommend everyone watch "Scavengers" on you tube. It is one of the most wonderfully creative pieces of media you'll ever see.

[@mf--]

HBO announced a series base on Scavengers called Scavengers Reign.

Amazing episode. Thanks!

[@MeesterG]

I wasn't fully paying attention when I listened to this the first time, as I was driving and just listening. I got so confused when I watched over to the screen (while I wasn't driving) and saw 'Aanwijzing' on the screen.. I couldn't figure out why all of a sudden this Dutch word was in the screen. Had to park and rewind to understand haha. Aanwijzing is a Dutch word which means: Clue. The pronounciation is something like Aan - Wi (like in WiFi) - Zing (The Z is the same as in Zen)

[@bluekoi455]

Excellent content as always. Mind opening concepts 👍

[@picklethebird1324]

Oooooh this is gonna be an awesome video!!

[@ZanzatheDivine]

It's funny how this video is made as I recently started playing No Man's Sky. The title makes it sound like a free survival guide

[@dragon12234]

One way I could see more classic planetary exploration be a thing is via scouts and prospectors, especially if some form of FTL becomes a thing. A small team that travel around to various planets for potential points of interest, and then sell or share that information to larger organizations

[@JohnBoen]

Great episode!

[@charlesjmouse]

For me there is nothing in the world I find more miserable and frustrating than looking out of the window to see the same view as yesterday. Exile would never hold any fear for me, but to be a prisoner... impossible. For all this is undoubtedly the most comfortable time to be alive and there is potentially a great deal to look forward to it's also just about the worst time if you were made to be an explorer.

[@leeroychang]

Loved this episode. Very excellent.

[@bakdiabderrahmane8009]

These types of videos are the best of this channel

[@zando5108]

This is my absolute dream and personal heaven. Just me and maybe a robot companion. Flying here and there. Making notes and measurements, drawing maps, naming things, discovering that which no one else can lay claim to seeing and experiencing.

[@tacsquirrel]

This was a fantastic episode.

[@Ariete21]

This was a great episode. Love the story

[@CharChar2121]

I love the videos where you tell a story.

[@ayeswarmeridius1141]

Love you bro

[@afriendofafriend5766]

Time to manifest my destiny all over the galaxy.

[@BologneyT]

This episode was awesome! :D Also awesome: that ad in the upper right at 28:00 ! XD

[@Celestial_Reach]

Thank you for doing another first person video

[@timothy8428]

I'm starting a rumour that when we finally get to play Starfield, most of the game will be sitting at a terminal writing papers describing in excruciating detail the evidence of past flowing water you've discovered in the minerals on the planets you are exploring and writing funding applications so you can buy fuel to get to the next planet.

[@stevenscott2136]

Starship upgrades... in real time! "Let's see... remove panel C-96... (wrench, wrench, wrench, pry)... swap out Module AE-35... "

[@aserta]

Oh, this was a treat!

[@IceFire9yt]

I really love these narrative style episodes.

[@CreativeWorkflowHack]

I just wanted to say that your speech got so much better, first I thought that I was getting used to it, but no turns out you can't even really tell anymore that you have a speech impediment. Hope you are doing great (:

[@alanweiman1521]

I haven't read I title and been this hyped in awhile

[@GreatGreenGoo]

You need to write a book. Love these story based videos

[@cosmicnomad8575]

Yes! My favorite kind of life!

[@DrWondertainment821]

Fun story, thanks for sharing.

[@Jack7967]

I loved story time with Isaac Arthur! 😂

[@OrionMelodyMusic]

Loving the Stellardrone soundtrack. Best space ambient artist out there if you ask me!

[@seansoraghan3245]

Drink check Snack check Ready for Arthur’s day check

[@picklethebird1324]

Having such a good day rn. Woke up energetic and happy. Played minecraft with my girlfriend last night and still happy about that. You uploaded an interesting video. And I got one of my comments liked. Hope everyone else has a really good day

[@bobjohnson7963]

Nice. a new one.

[@arcadiaberger9204]

I like the broad sweep of this view of interstellar travel.

[@defective6811]

Isaac's chuckle when he said "ancient aliens" 😂

[@Edgewalker89]

Amazing

[@yumazster]

The cryostasis as per Drexler's 'Engines of Creation'. Nice!

[@DuduDruidDotCom]

This video makes me hope that such scenario can happen to me. It sounds so great.

[@fluxmebaby]

Definitely keen on the video of slowing down spaceships from high speeds

[@jaylewis9876]

Terminal illnesses are a great reason to be ok leaving everyone and knowing everything will be long gone anyway

[@derpherp1810]

Watching this video has given me some big life plans. By my forties, if all is still going well for the human race and life extension tech comes along, I am gonna be one of the first interstellar explorers or atleast cram myself into one of those cryocaskets in the hopes I get thawed and revived by nano machines so I can explore the bizzare future that lays ahead of us.

[@patrickt6227]

You should put the previous episode links in the description!

[@chuckzilla3000]

“…a backlog of tens of thousands of messages.” (Sighs, and resolves to clear out those inboxes *today*.)

[@redfox4561]

I really hope that FTL is possible and is invented someday because space exploration is terrifying, depressing and boring without it.

[@xXx_Regulus_xXx]

it certainly could be scary and boring, but the issues with causality you get at superluminal speeds might be scarier 😅

[@stevenscott2136]

It'd probably be all those things WITH FTL, too. "Another day, another barren rock logged for the mining engineers to look at."

[@manzell]

Let me persnickitty here: Sending a signal with "our lexicon" seems like a terrible idea. That's a lot of Intelligence being passed along, best to determine what the potential threat level is first.

[@CeresKLee]

Great episode! Issac Arthur, have you read Arthur C.'s "The Songs of Distant Earth"?

[@chrisgriffith1573]

I believe for long term space exploration to work, or at the very least for it's crew to not enter into terminal depression, some form of interdependence and communal co-habitation must be sustained in the form of social exchanges. Value must be given and received for every member, no cast systems, or any bottom level for any member, or some type of imbalance would occur. This means a doctor would need positive enforcement for their tasks, as a ditch digger would need the same. The society would need to be large enough to sustain a circle wide enough to provide multiple exchanges broadly dispersed to ensure this social balance.

[@ovaldreamx4397]

A follow up episode to this one seeing how humans may explore alien megastructures

[@bobwalsh3751]

I already know about how planetary exploration works. I've played Elite Dangerous.

[@pll3827]

It's all fun and games until you awaken a Necron tomb world.

[@bobby.m136]

One with the slightest hint of Life behind the eyes, could never be a popper

[@greggweber9967]

20:26 You can outrun me or my cruiser, but you can't outrun my Motorola to communicate updates and upgrades.

[@woongah]

Yeap - Memetics warfare is a serious business. Who knew those hentai mangas we received last months could induce violent paranoid outbursts?

[@greggweber9967]

18:41 Ancient but hopefully the stellar motions are discernible to future navigators.

[@highlandrab19]

Kind of seems like if they have the ability to fully repair their every cell they wouldn’t have anything that could kill them nor would they have needed to be frozen. Also would seem that they could have given the repair robots whatever material they use and a few bueprints for people and then constructed their crew at the destination instead of using volunteers

[@HebaruSan]

The argument about being passed by later travelers kind of assumes a single destination that everyone is trying to get to. There are enough stars in our galaxy that each successive colony ship could go to a new place at whatever the max speed was at that time.

[@virutech32]

There's enought that they could, but construction material enough that they don't have to. Given that they don't have to not eveeyone will just to be nice.

[@vblaas246]

VR planetary exploring, this is the way.

[@colin8696908]

ISSAC, A while back you mentioned that you had come up with a megaweapon more powerful then a dyson beam I think it involved using a series of star's, do you remember what it was called, I've been trying to find it for a while.

[@skipperofschool8325]

Let's gooo!

[@raidermaxx2324]

this would literally be my dream job

[@Lukegear]

Better late than never!