Space Derelicts & Trash Worlds

Science fiction delights in showing us brave adventurers boarding abandoned spaceships, exploring ancient alien worlds and space hulks, or surviving on planets turned into giant garbage dumps, but how realistic is this idea? And what sort of civilizations and cultures might spring up around such efforts?
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Space Derelicts & Trash Worlds
Episode 201, Season 5 E36
Written by:
Isaac Arthur
Editors:
Keith Blockus
S. Kopperud
Cover Art:
Jakub Grygier
Graphics by:
Bryan Versteeg spacehabs.com
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Jarred Eagley
Jeremy Jozwik www.artstation...
LegionTech Studios
Ken York / ydvisual
Mihail Yordanov
Sergio Botero www.artstation...
Produced & Narrated by:
Isaac Arthur
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Luca DeRosa - [e-mail]
Music:
Scott Buckley, "Red" www.scottbuckle...
Marcus Warner, "In Arcadia"
Chris Zabriskie, "Unfoldment Revealment Evolution Exposition Integration Arson" chriszabriskie.com
Serena Elis, "Science" / serenaelis
Kai Engel, "Soli" www.kai-engel....
Denny Schneidemesser, "Luminous Rays" / denny-schneidemesser

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

As a sidenote, we're running an add-your-own topic poll over on our facebook group right now, we'll take the top 5 from that and run it here in a few days to pick a winner but if you want throw a topic into the poll or help pick those 5 out, head over to our FB group :) Otherwise see you next Thursday... or maybe sooner. facebook.com/groups/isaacarthur/

[@thepropaganda1066]

Just sind the trash to a black hole for recycling

[@alexandernorman5337]

A black hole won't work too well for recycling. Orbital junkyards really is the right approach - not worlds or blackholes (gravity wells). Just pack the junk out in the middle of nowhere and retrieve some for reprocessing as required.

[@horusthagreat1802]

Nice Video I do you think we still have crime syndicate or mafia organization that control planets?

[@Jenab7]

Topic: Detailing the methodology by which the digital information in the database of Recorded Mankind is converted back into human beings.

[@KillMattWalsh]

:) can you please do a video on warhammer 40k, I feel it's the best scifi franchise in terms of scale

[@hynjus001]

I love that the speed limit on causality means that totalitarian, centralized space civilizations are impossible. Space can only be an ecosystem in the future and humans are the equivalent of single celled organisms about to enter a Cambrian explosion.

[@sumreensultana1860]

Heh only if the speed limit can't be broken

[@BastiatC]

Imperium of man: "hold my corpsestarch"

[@cactus561]

No communist civilization 👌👌👌

[@constantinethecataphract5949]

There can be totalitarian ones but only in a star system. There could also be feudal set ups too

[@KepleroGT]

I fear that this fact would prevent humanity from even exploring extrasolar systems unless forced by necessity, because there wouldn't be any economic incentive to doing so. Unless the human lifespan is extended by several times and then a 20 year journey to Proxima Centauri becomes plausible in terms of cost/reward

[@commode7x]

Danger! Adventure! Treasure! Become an insurance adjuster today!

[@d.aardent9382]

Oh man, made me remember watching Tri-Gun anime series. Vash the Stampede's story. Some of the main characters were insurance agent women involved with observing Vash as he traveled and destroyed things and the show involved a world of old ancient technological ruins allover and huge starship wrecks. Do you remember that show? Makes me want to watch it again.

[@marsbase3729]

@@d.aardent9382 yeah, I only got to watch a couple of episodes, but I really want to watch it from the beginning.

[@aaronmorgan9444]

@@marsbase3729 search project free tv on google. Id b surprised if its not on that. They go back to the 60s

[@bobmartin9918]

"In the grim darkness of the far future, there is tonnes of crazy, long forgotten tech hidden across the galaxy, some with the potential to devour entire star systems for raw materials."

[@cnawan]

This episode is begging to be a roleplaying setting - dungeon-crawling in the sweaty necropolis :D

[@krispalermo8133]

West End Games (WEG) Star Wars RPG. This has been done 30 years ago. Also Wizards of the Coast D20. about 20 years ago.All fun & games till your character get attacked by a space lampry bsilicon bat.

[@TheJarric]

40k has necromunda , cp 2020 and interface zero , judge dredd and gamma world works too

[@simontmn]

Hulks & Horrors - www.drivethrurpg.com/product/111781/Hulks-and-Horrors--Basic-Black-Edition

[@j453]

@[INCARNATION OF GIANT ANU] uhm...what?

[@freddyfrazier4177]

@ERASING YOUR MEMORY!!! take your meds

[@reed_reed]

You've turned the idea of world building into universe building. The scope and depth is breathtaking. I listen to these as I go to sleep at night and hope to dream about the ideas so I can try and live them. Amazing channel.

[@DL-sx7yh]

I too am lulled to sleep by the dreams of megastructures

[@RandyKalff]

Yes, dreaming about scavenging a dead mega structure as it's being put in place to be nuked into oblivion definitely sounds like fun.

[@Jameson1776]

Randy Kalff I might be misconstruing your comment as sarcasm. But I think that would be awesome in the literal sense.

[@RandyKalff]

@@Jameson1776 You weren't misconstruing a thing.

[@hyperdude144]

@@RandyKalff Some one needs to make a computer game out of it. This legit sounds awesome.

[@jimBobuu]

Exploring extremely ancient ruins and derelict O'Neill cylinders. Way to make a guy feel like crap for being born too soon :-)

[@manuxalunx6522]

Maybe you were not

[@nathanjora7627]

MANUXAL UNX probably was. But if he has access to the internet, he’s probably nothing to complain about « when » he is born ^^

[@raymisuto9872]

Just play Eve online man, it's got you covered.

[@501thtrooper4]

Some dude in 150 years is gonna say the same about being born too soon to not be able to get his entire mind put into a simulation and instead has to use a boring VR Headset that only lets you feel and taste things in game.

[@TheExoplanetsChannel]

Congratulations im advance for reaching *400.000 subscribers!*

[@Jameson1776]

400,016 as of now

[@avrenna]

2.8K up-thumbs and only 29 down as of now. That's a better ratio than puppies or boobies get. I love this channel, and we're obviously nicer, smarter, and better-looking than the users on other channels.

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

Awesome! Thanks I knew we were getting lcose but didn't notice we'd ticked over

[@markwarburton8563]

@@isaacarthurSFIA Congrats!

[@dronillon2578]

@@isaacarthurSFIA Congratulations and HUGE thanks.

[@philipcollier4883]

These last couple weeks your topics keep reminding me of the TV show Red Dwarf. Dave is stranded on a derilect mining ship after being in stasis for 3 million years. The ship AI has gone senile from running way past it's expected run time. His companions are a hologram of his dead bunkmate and a being that evolved from his pregnant cat. They even find a neurotic droid on another derilic ship that kept trying to serve his dead former crew. Good times. 😁

[@theuncalledfor]

I think the reason WH40K ends up being so surprisingly realistic so often, is because a lot of realistic ideas are actually really damn cool. And WH40K is all about being cool.

[@dylan-fr3bh]

Rule of cool is pretty cool lmao

[@gaspardduclos5203]

Authors don't realize that sci-fi tropes are dwarfed by order of magnitudes by things you can do without new tech. Reality is always better than fiction, and you, Arthur, has always proves by your channel very existence.

[@aserta]

Why i love old Sci-Fi from the dawn era. It was Sci-Fi, yes, but everything was rooted in reality, some, so deeply, so well, that you actually see things "predicted" in those Sci-Fi pieces now. I mean, when you read a page and there's 3 cm of "technical notes" at the bottom of the page, explaining what this and that are or how something was based on this or those, you know you're reading good stuff. By contrast, today they write all manner of bs and not only insult you with their lack of intelligence, they spit on you too, assuming you're just as lacking, and Space forbid you'd say something about it, you'll get mobbed by their groupies.

[@carlosandleon]

@@aserta read a book. Mass sci-fi is meant to be digestible to dumb people too, hence the ridiculousness.

[@DFX2KX]

@@carlosandleon Indeed. Making 'Hard' sci-fi that is digestible to the layman is quite challenging.

[@crazyahhkmed]

I agree 💯. Reality is much more interesting than fiction. What's possible from a physics and even engineering perspective goes way over the head of most sci fi authors/producers, let alone the general public. I mean the death star is laughable compared to RKMs or a Nicoll Dyson beam. The galactic armadas of sci fi would get annihilated by a run of the mill K2 civilization.

[@dahitmann]

@Jack Bear in mind though that when you upload yourself, you're merely uploading a copy. YOU will continue on separately and eventually die. So yeah, it's definitely a concern for that copy of yourself you created, who essentially started living ("born") that very second and will continue on trying to find purpose in such an existence, but for you, the creator? Not your concern.

[@Michaeljack81sk]

Ooh, a future episode about Space Pirates? Looking forward to that one!

[@SnootchieBootchies27]

Spoiler alert; it will mostly be about how it won't be all that viable because of the logistics of boarding while in transit.

[@devonrager8992]

@@SnootchieBootchies27 Well it looks like Space Pirates are less squashbucklers in space and more of hackers slowly luring unsuspecting spacefarers into a trap.

[@cannonfodder4376]

Universe Building with SFIA > World Building Isaac Arthur flexing his science and reasoning as always. Making the reality of the future truly better than fiction. Great work as always Isaac.

[@rotopope]

17:00 This sounds like a pretty rad premise for a choice-based RPG, especially if it had full 3D movement like the Descent games. Get on it, games industry!

[@Alexthealright]

I’d Pay For That

[@marlonlacert8133]

Hmm.. Could some digital archeologist find this video a thousand years from now?.. I wonder.

[@Roxor128]

Digital archaeology could be a whole video in its own right.

[@marlonlacert8133]

@@Roxor128 Yeps!

[@pohatunuva3771]

As a current archaeology student with a lot of digital preservation interests, it's very very unlikely... Unless you or someone else goes out of their way to back it up. The ability of future people to access the video would still make it very unlikely though- just think about how storage devices from 20+ years ago are difficult to access due to a lack of hardware, and many people don't even understand how to access devices from 40+ years ago

[@marlonlacert8133]

@@pohatunuva3771 Yes, but the tech can now read a HDD platter without a working drive. All you need to do is to be able to scan the binary values on the storage device.. From there is all a matter of decoding. Now Microsoft can store data to a piece of glass... Worry not, given 10 to 80 years they will have a new field called digital archaeology.. Note: each and every fossil found is only one out of a billion, as the rest are now dust.. question: for every lost civilization found , how many have been lost, compared to those found?

[@kek105]

We live in a world where 40k is more realistic than star trek

[@michaelmoses8745]

This. 10 trillion trillion percent this.

[@Eternalentropy]

Go figure. Space communism hasn't held up very well has it. Space fascism however seems more plausible indeed. Space fascism for the win! For the Future! For the emperor!

[@ongobongo8333]

@@Eternalentropy face fascism is guaranteed extinction. Communism is what would work

[@tkbravo192]

@@ongobongo8333 alright present one (1) example of a functioning communist society.

[@Eternalentropy]

@@ongobongo8333 The roman empire was a fascist state. The symbol of fascism is imprinted on the roman flag signifying such. Historians generally agree it was the greatest civilization in human history given it's length, influence of culture and all realms of human endevour. Thus your statement is demonstrably false regarding fascism. In fact it lends to the opposite of your assertion. Given historical track records the communist road is guaranteed death as all communist states have failed with 100% predictability until otherwise occurs.

[@robinfalkner-wedge824]

Throwing a random idea out there: What if one of those massive, multi-layered planets with black holes at the center that you mentioned in a previous video, collapsed after the black hole in the middle burnt out and the rest of the structure eventually collapsed after being abandoned, in a setting or universe where civilisation is just too thinly spread out and things are too busy for any official investigations to be launched. So only small teams and random groups with nothing better to do actually check it out. Eventually, when some civilization does look in to rebuilding or harvesting the resources from the project, they find a small civilization has already formed from people living among the collapsed wreckage. I suppose there are problems with this, for example I suppose the atmosphere of the structure would eventually be lost since there wouldn't be a magnetic field, or perhaps the surface is ruined and uninhabitable, but there are caves of hollowed out metal thousands of miles below the surface, which still have air and water left over from before everything collapsed?

[@ShinobiWan]

What if the movie plot when as such.. A crew awakes from some suspended sleep, The ruined ship is found and being maintained by robot ai only upto the point of damage. (perhaps capped off) and the crew are all astonished for the better part of the movie, before encountering the "alien" ai 'guards'. A fight ensues and they beat the robots. (plot armour). Discover the nearby planet has 'stuff going on' and go to investigate. Bam, they get arrested for vandalizing a world history ship. The end. The world was settled way before they had arrived there, via faster travel being invented. Some disaster happened ages past and the civilization honored it with maintaining the wreckage.

[@donaldcrawfordiii554]

Have watched everyone of the programs. Going to go back, and going to on a binge and rewatch back to back-programs! People would really surprised how influential this series is. Thanks a lot sir! Love this series.

[@Johnc259]

Sir, I listen to your programs and realize how little I know. It is humbling to have lived 68 years and and feel like a first grader. Unlike several of our “fearless leaders “ I am willing to learn. I look forward to each new episode and know it will be on a topic I hadn’t even considered. There is so much to learn and so little time to investigate. I thank you for your efforts. Peace

[@Raptortastic]

Found this channel last night and I have 197 more videos to watch. Fantastic topics and amazing digression at interesting junctures. I wish this channel exponential success!

[@DFX2KX]

Yeah, I did the binge upon finding it as well.

[@Jameson1776]

Raptortastic I found it about 4 years ago and I still go back and watch or just listen to older episodes. Some of them many times. Also welcome to the channel it’s nice to see like minded people conversing these things.

[@faustin289]

"You can never use more power than you can get rid of as heat" Isaac Arthur

[@Atrahasis7]

Favorite level in Homeworld for me was the spaceship graveyard and those weird millions of years old abandoned spaceships. Gives quite a mysterious vibe.

[@chimpy7267]

I wouldn't mind if you put ads in to support you more. No ads is awesome but I wouldn't mind at all cause the time and heart you put in each video.

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

Thanks :) Though I actually do put ads on most of the videos, just not till they've been out for a while and only the skippable kind.

[@chimpy7267]

@@isaacarthurSFIA I never notice cause it is like a ritual to me to watch them right away when they come out

[@muninrob]

@@isaacarthurSFIA Ditto, I use an ad blocker, but your channel I'll whitelist as long as you are more than 70% content or better

[@Jameson1776]

Isaac Arthur I always wondered why there was no ads on new videos but I get them on the rewatch of older videos.I just assumed I didn’t notice it in the past and you had no ads because of other support.

[@daviddean707]

Gateway by Frederick Pohl really said it all. After scouring the libraries for the classic books on science fiction, this contribution to the genre was a late discovery like no other.

[@EddyA1337]

I just realized when I read informational text it's in Isaac's voice.... Damn good job Isaac, you've really gotten better at speaking and tbh I quite like the way your voice sounds, it's unique and you've made it sound so much more informational since episode 1.

[@zrebbesh]

1:45 "... subject to many rounds of ravaging, repair, reuse, or robbery..... " and Rhotacism? Well done! At some point Isaac, you get to just declare yourself cured. It's dead, or so nearly there's no caring about the difference. There's no need to spend time taunting it! :-)

[@michaeladams443]

Isaac Arthur seriously needs to be considered for an Emmy.. love these episodes..

[@Nmax]

This is such a cool concept. Reminds me of Stargate SG1 and Atlantis where the storyline most of the time was searching the galaxy for advanced ruins and technology from past civilization

[@zell9058]

A conquering force, being by definition stronger than any lawfully entitled governance which it may have replaced, is therefore more likely to secure peace and stability for the system. Finders keepers, Fighters Keepers.

[@stefanb6539]

Strength in any military sense is always local and temporary. As any guerilla commander in history will tell you. Plus, establishing peace and stability needs vastly more resources than conquering, as any governor over hostile territory ever will tell you.

[@RobinTheBot]

@@stefanb6539 Exactly what he said.

[@alexandernorman5337]

Peace isn't something that is secured with force. If you are living under threat and oppression how is that peace? Peace is a social state in the absence of force and where people lean towards cooperation (or at least respecting people's space). Conquerors do not provide peace, they destroy it.

[@RobinTheBot]

@@alexandernorman5337 "security" can be given by force but violence doesn't require physical harm. Disallowing you from work and letting you starve is just as bad as throwing you into the badlands.

[@zell9058]

Alexander Norman: peace too is local and temporary.... or is Peace just is a state of mind? In space there is no serene peace as everything is trying to kill you.

[@FrankPizza88]

There is only one way to explore a space hulk. In full terminator armor and a flamer

[@alexandernorman5337]

Gotta have the flamer...just in case you encounter xenomorphs.

[@UNSCPILOT]

Brother!, get the flamer!, *THE HEAVY FLAMER*

[@annoyed707]

The pulse rifle will do in a pinch.

[@rogerbeckner6419]

Send the bots first. If they don't kill it.......... Nuke it from orbit, it's the only safe thing to do.

[@datdude1538]

This is the best channel on all of KZbin. It’s a true masterpiece.

[@benruniko]

Just wanted to leave a note: love your channel! It is not just fun to listen to and think about but also super useful when fleshing out a story because you have thought these ideas out so thoroughly it helps when i havent thought of some aspect of a world. Thank you!

[@loganbennett2488]

Angkor is an ancient city on a scale rivaling, or even surpassing Rome, that was virtually uninhabited and absorbed by the jungle in Cambodia for centuries, unknown to all but the monks that lived there. That was on our little earth in the most heavily populated region. You’d be amazed at what can be lost and found again, I imagine in the future with the whole solar system being gone to all number of civilizations, we will eventually rediscover similar wonders.

[@Progress_Tyrant]

Did someone say space hulks?

[@dalemartin815]

A big green angry ship?

[@retsz]

Step 1: Explore derelict ruins and spaceships Step 2: Step 3: Profit!

[@pentagramprime1585]

Goes double for starting a KZbin channel.

[@calvingreene90]

Step 2; Find art, useful hardware, unique useful biologicals, or recyclables.

[@1saiyanprince]

step 2: implant chest burster

[@calvingreene90]

@tk maou So go in with heavy weapons and bio-containment suits and take decontamination dammed seriously and when necessary chop it into very little pieces for recycling.

[@jmcenanly1]

The Weyland -Yutani company tried that. It didn't go well.

[@ItRemindMeOfHome]

I've been trying to write a pen and paper RPG about xenoarchaeology and this video has given me more ideas for how to do it than a full year of looking into actual archaeological studies. Thank you, Isaac, sir!

[@singularitysquaredllc.895]

Can't wait to see it, do you have a pall park, for when I may?

[@ItRemindMeOfHome]

@@singularitysquaredllc.895 I wish, I'll admit to be horrible with procrastination and have only managed to get bits and pieces done every so often.

[@GudieveNing]

The CGI on your channel is superb considering the frequency of your uploads. Are all the animations custom created for each broadcast?

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

Oh, no, we'd need Pixar levels of staff and budget to knock out 30 minutes of unique graphics for each episode, we re-use a lot of our cusotm animations and make extensive use of stock

[@kindlin]

There's usually a few new animations per episode, specific to that topic, but you'll see the same graphics, especially older ones, getting used, sometimes, a _lot._

[@tagair211]

Since the animations are stock and often reused, I'm now able to listen the episodes as if it was a podcast. Like when watching John Michael Godier's channel

[@allergic2cubicles]

@@isaacarthurSFIA Do you commission scenes? Is there money in making this futuristic content or is the work done free of charge? Id love to make some of this stuff, just curious if it pays.

[@PoeRacing]

How is that you and your team are continually getting better when your content has already been amazing for years?!?!?!? I love ArThursdays!!!

[@albertjackinson]

Interplanetary archeologists?! Sounds like a great hard sci-fi novel idea! Your videos always make me want to write something sci-fi-ey, and that's just one of the reasons why I love them!

[@Par-Crom]

14:51 If Khorne approves this video, well... :^)

[@Frosty14748]

I didn't know Isaac Arthur would make a whole episode in memoriam of Detroit.

[@DFX2KX]

And give Toledo an 'Also ran' on top of it.

[@joethestrat]

You've no idea how I'd love to live on an abandoned derelict/space junk world. Another great vid, thanks IA!

[@QUIRK1019]

This has rapidly become my favorite KZbin channel

[@UNSCPILOT]

Welcome to SFIA, with some of the best Science-future content on KZbin!

[@erictaylor5462]

14:30 A "skeleton crew" on a generation ship may also be badly inbred. A science fiction version of "The Hills Have Eyes."

[@alexandernorman5337]

Easy workarounds for that. Just leave with a robust genetic database and splice in some variation into your children. Of course, you can't have kids completely naturally that way.

[@erictaylor5462]

@@alexandernorman5337 How is that easy? Also, it depends on having such a database intact. A generation ship would have left with a crew large enough to maintain a viable population so the "skeleton crew" would imply some kind of disaster that killed most of the population. Such a disaster could have damaged your database as well.

[@alexandernorman5337]

It's easy because we are talking about a civilization that has the technical capabilities to reach for the stars. We have CRISPR (a basic gene splicing technology) right now, and we are nowhere close to being able to build a starship. So a future starfaring humanity will have gene editing capability twenty times as advanced or so. Sure, the database has to be kept intact (and so you should have backups) but your engines, life support, and hull has to be kept intact too! You are never going to get around that problem.

[@annoyed707]

Harvesting road kill from the interstellar highway?

[@erictaylor5462]

​@Ethan Steel Removing genetic defects is also not easy. As to the social problem, well, in this case everyone would be inbred, so it would be a lot less of a stigma.

[@stugonmonday7511]

Sometime I wish 40k was a bit more scientifically realistic, because the idea of a group of Astartes boarding a habitat that had its systems corrupted by choas (and now all its systems kills anything that litters), and is now dead set on exterminating a local imperium habitat because it dared to launch some bits of trash at it 200 hundred years ago (which the Astartes to now stop said extermination) sounds amazing.

[@IRMentat]

Stugon Monday the GW writers are too many and too short sighted on the theme for such mini-stories. They explode the lynchpin planet of the imperium in the blink of an eye, pull Primaris marines out of the hidden cavity of the universes waste outlet for no good reason. Yet hand them an engaging localised incident that could expand the setting a bit and they run away screaming as if a Slanesh spawn just took their trousers off.

[@mikelfunderburk5912]

Space Pirates? Yes please.

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

:) We will do that episode, promise, though it might be a bit, we're pretty much scheduled out till year's end at this point

[@mikelfunderburk5912]

Isaac Arthur No rush my man. Keep doing what you're doing and we will be happy. There is a great community here and we all appreciate the work that goes into these.

[@theOrionsarms]

Don't you hear NASA catch first one, it's a woman and she is lesbian , they cannot hang it it's no gravity on the ISS(ok can use centrifugal force), but this will be extreme only hacking ex wife banks acont .

[@Chinaonetakeout99]

Cup of Joe ☕️ and some Isaac Arthur in the morning? Hell YES!

[@voidremoved]

there is hash oil cream in my coffee

[@jkj420]

Where I live, it’s late in the evening, so I tend to fall asleep to these videos :)

[@gupgupgupgup9790]

Actually one of your best episodes so far, I am impressed by the increase in quality Isaac. Thanks for your contribution.

[@prasanttwo281]

Happy Arthursday everyone!

[@IRMentat]

Here’s the great thing about bank holidays. Before you realise, it’s already Arthursday. :)

[@azmanabdula]

Imagine crash landing on a bio-medical waste planet *Thats quarantined* So no ones coming to save you

[@Otokichi786]

"Many cycles later," a bored space news crew visits the facility to find a mutated population practicing odd rituals, drinking "lethal cocktails" and worshiping "sky creators."

[@Redsauce101]

Imagine crash landing on a spoiled garden planet with overrun by deadly microorganisms and super predators with sophisticated ballistic weaponry; so savage as to kill each other over basic resources and minor disagreements.

[@Otokichi786]

"Clearly an illogical, savage planet. Revoke the Class M designation and..." (Shot by a "good guy with a gun," taking out a "hostile illegal Alien.")

[@yodaco]

imagine crash landing on Earth. billions of self serving careless beings throwing their waste into the ocean. pumping CO2 into the atmosphere, mass breading and killing of other complex organisms. what the hell is this planet. how long till we get picked up? get me off this nightmare planet.

[@DFX2KX]

That's kinda the plot of Subnautica.

[@xoso599]

Space Hulk Deathwing: Insurance Adjuster DLC.

[@612Tiberius]

These are great videos Isaac; with a lot of work put into them, and all very informative. Is there a way to get digital or hard-copy transcripts for some of these, to use as a reference guide source for my own sci-fi writing projects? You seem to touch on many if not all the related areas I'm writing about. In either case, thanks for these, and I'll keep watching!

[@UNSCPILOT]

I can just imagine SFIA's scripts being printed and bound into a series of books, Idealy with lots of relevant imagery for added effect, would definitely buy!

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

I might stitch together and expand on some related episodes to make a book at some point, but video is kinda my prefered format, I feel like writing a book would be one of those 'just to do it' things, not sure that's a good motivation. As to transcripts, you can click the "..." button under the player and download them from any given episode. They'll be in plain text but that's also how I write them anyway

[@allhumansarejusthuman.5776]

Nothing finer then my coffee and Isaac Arthur on this Thursday.

[@Jenab7]

I'd like to read a sci-fi thriller about a space derelict, filled with squatters, being dumped into the sun, or otherwise disposed of, by an interplanetary corporation whose officers _pretend_ not to be aware of the indigent inhabitants.

[@lloydfromfar]

Insurance Investigators! :P The best totally new forward thinking, scifi RPG adventurer friendly ideas! :D

[@TCBYEAHCUZ]

This is really relevant video considering InsideBBI, A new studio with developers from the classic Homeworld series of rts games are now planning a big release at PAX in 8 hours from now, 30th of August, in celebration of the 20th Homeworld anniversary. In the Homeword series derelicts played an important part in the games lore and and active part in the gameplay.

[@TS-jm7jm]

Do you have more detail ?, havent played HW in awhile.

[@TCBYEAHCUZ]

@@TS-jm7jm InsideBBI was founded in 2007, since at that time THQ owned the rights to homeworld, it was then sold to Gearbox software in 2013, during that time InsideBBI who are just a bunch of the original homeworld devs from Relic Entertainment were also developing a land based rts game called "Hardware: Shipbreakers"they even had the exact same font as homeworld it was so dead obvious they wanted to develop homeworld again, thus gearbox allowed them and funded them to turn their new project into the now Homeworld prequel game "HomeWorld: Deserts of Kharak" Which takes place 100 years before the events of HomeWorld 1 on Kharak, during the time when the Kuushans found the guidestone in the ancient derelict khar Toba. It's now been 4 years today since Black Bird Interactive (InsideBBI) devs have made HomeWorld: Deserts of Kharak and they've also remastered the original homeworld and homeworld 2 titles since then, now there is a new announcement literally 7 hours from now and it may or may not be HomeWorld 3!

[@TS-jm7jm]

@@TCBYEAHCUZ that sounds pretty cool, thanks for the info.

[@patrickslusher844]

I have a Dyson Swarm question that only just occurred to me when watching the animation around 10:00 in the video. In these representations the swarm seems to be depicted as rotating like a sphere--the swarm members at the solar equator are in orbit, but as you move towards solar north, the swarm members appear to be revolving around the sun at a fixed latitude, so that by the time you reach the solar north pole you have swarm units just kind of hovering in a circle above the pole. Am I seeing this wrong? Wouldn't each unit of the swarm need to be in its own full orbit? It seems like that would be complete chaos but I'm not seeing how it works otherwise. I am probably forgetting something that's been covered on this channel before but just wondering if anyone can explain

[@zvpunry1971]

There are some mistakes in the animations, this is just one of them. I found the broken rotating space station much more distracting, because the broken of parts should fly away in a straight line instead of continuing the rotation. Or the clip with the three aliens, where one is completely drunk and falls to the ground and the others don't even try to help. I really can't stand this clip. I don't know if it was used in this video, I just saw two of them dancing in a sequin suit (wonder if this is the right word for it)... maybe the third alien died and decayed at the table where he got drunk and that weird dance was their way react to his death. Questions over questions if you try to analyze the almost random concatenation of clips... better don't think about it. For me the animations are not a problem, I just listen to Isaac and mostly ignore the pictures. It is like a screensaver when listening to a audio file ;)

[@CrimsonBlasphemy]

It seems like you're over analyzing that chip. If you scrub slowly through it, it's the fly through that makes it look like everything is rotating. Everything I the clip appears to be at static positions. Maybe now that Kirbel Space Program 2 is coming, someone will turn the Kirbel home system into a Dyson Swarm ;P , so we can get a better clip.

[@patrickslusher844]

That all makes sense...I figured it may just be artistic license. So does that mean they really are just floating around in millions of criss-crossing orbits? I guess at ~1 AU orbital distance this is probably not as crowded as I'm picturing but intuitively it seems crazy

[@ontheedge33371]

I love the idea of Megastructures and my favourite manga artist is Tsutomu Nihei he wrote Blame and Biomega and Knights of Sidonia ,Digimortal and more and all have huge Megastructures . Blame is set in a Megastructure that was built around earth and eventually incorporated the moon and beyond ! It’s largely abandoned but there is people and cyborgs ,silicone life and different forms of AI :) My mind gets lost wandering the structure with the main protagonist Killy a human (synthetic ) Love your videos thank you !

[@justarandomname420]

What a great way to start the ARTHURSDAY!

[@ColdRFusion]

I loved the high city setting of the game Project Eden, exploring the long since abandoned depths which actually contained some vicious mutant animals!

[@josepholiveira946]

Project Eden, such an amazing game.

[@VisiblyPinkUnicorn]

All we need is a full operating STC

[@Jondiceful]

I never would have thought it possible that a seemingly mundane subject like this one would turn out to be so vast and filled with possibilities that it could challenge or exceed the greatest imaginations. Never before has there been more truth in the expression, "one man's trash is another nan's treasure." Thank you Isaac! Once again you have exceeded my wildest dreams of the future and inspired me to dream bigger.

[@garret1930]

Anyone that is into TTRPGs, there's a game called Numenera where you're travelling through a world that has loads of tech left over from previous dead civilizations. The garbage they left behind is called "numenera".

[@sanguiniusonvacation1803]

" Its not piracy , its active salvage " - The Great Captain Shack

[@exball12]

I, for one, eagerly await our future Adeptus Mechanicus overlords.

[@H3llstrike]

Issac Arthur has some of the most interesting videos, the breath of variety of topics and in depth knowledge you have is astounding. I watch your videos every night to fall asleep. What a great channel.

[@lesizmor9079]

What a treat to listen to someone with a high-functioning brain.

[@samcavanagh7993]

counter point to the stuff about how we know where all the sunken ships etc are: flight 370

[@Matthew-li7we]

We generally know where shit is. Like the Titanic is in the Atlantic Ocean. Relative to the size of the solar system I think I hit that location right about on the head.

[@sarahpusey9052]

I have always enjoyed your channel. Who does all your GC design work? They do such a great job. The images are always very eye catching and help to let my imaginative mind happy. Very informative too. Great job 👍

[@jackvernian7779]

"heat is money in these places, not energy" lmao. Heat is a form of energy.

[@hedgehog3180]

I imagine an expedition abroad some derelict ship though would probably look more like sending in some drones to kill everything and then some engineer walks in wearing a nice suit than what you see in Space Hulk. Killing all the nasties in an old abandoned structure would probably be more like killing bacteria with a UV lamp than anything else. Heck that might even be how you do it, just blast the structure with a ton of radiation to kill everything inside and then wait a few hundred years for it to get safe (you probably have that much time).

[@jimvegas247]

Dude I follow all of your videos and am a new fan thank you for all your work. You are bad ass and the way you put things in easy to understand and easy to listen to thank you so much JimVegas

[@nil981]

Alastair Reynold's Revenger is the best example of there being an entire industry of treasure hunters scavenging among abandoned structures and habitats both human and alien alike to make huge amounts of money.

[@stefanb6539]

16:36 "We will save Space Piracy for another time" Yay for epic future criminals and space sharks! Societies of the future, you got nothing to fear by waste heat, bureaucracy and social entropy itself!

[@ninjaman815]

Happy Arthursday

[@georgebulbakwa9017]

The way Coruscant in Star Wars got rid of its trash was by shooting cylinders a few tons in weight full of trash into orbit every few seconds where freighters fished them out and either brought them for disposal or recycling. Ever since I've learned that heat was the limiting factor for an ecumenopolis, I wondered if this could be another minor way to bleed off more heat if the trash was heated to incandescence with waste heat before being shot into orbit. That way the garbage can bleed off its heat in orbit or at least save the recycle facilities the energy needed to smelt the garbage.

[@SKy_the_Thunder]

If you had delayed this video for 2 weeks it would have been in time with the release of Borderlands 3. The overarching main plot point of the Borderlands series is finding and opening Vaults of an ancient alien civilization whose ruins when first discovered caused a huge paradigm shift in human technology - though they tend to hold eldritch abominations, weapons of mass destruction or something valuable enough to include a guardian.

[@sharkylpd4]

Coffee and a snack. Ready for the journey. Thank you sir.

[@breslins]

OMG the dream I had while this video was playing in the background you would not believe!

[@f38stingray]

For a second, I thought the "axe crazy lunatic" at 14:52 was Lindybeige :P

[@namelastname4077]

one favorite subject of conspiratists such as @Brien Foerster is to think that some cataclysmic event occurred when it is simply the work of ancestors repurposing the temples of ancient defunkt gods

[@dougspace6734]

Isaac needs to do a proper video focused on paraterraforming. His terraforming video mentions that it is a superior, near-term approach but didn't explain almost any of the details.

[@LOUDMOUTHTYRONE]

I would love to be a cyborg ship. Like a whole body is the ship, and my brain is apart of the ship. I'll configure my ship body to not have living quarters, or easy accessibility for Invaders with internal defenses. I just wonder around the orc cloud collecting valuable rocks, and space trash. Then meeting up going to scap stations chatting with the locals.

[@calvingreene90]

Sounds good till you have had a century or two to think it over and get lonely.

[@LOUDMOUTHTYRONE]

@@calvingreene90 I already have.... I imagine there will be others like me, and we are going traveling like a pack of space whales.

[@calvingreene90]

@@LOUDMOUTHTYRONE How old are you claiming to be?

[@nonegone7170]

He was there since the beginning :)

[@amodernalchemist432]

"Trash" planets might actually be an excellent way to seed life on a rocky planet with liquid water like Earth was in her early yrs. Send everything down except recyclables of course and start a giant compost on the surface to acquire nice rich soil and if there's enuf oxygen in the atmosphere, plant life can begin.

[@calvingreene90]

Biomass is recyclable.

[@kaiserschnitzel89]

This episode was ESPECIALLY fun. It made me think of how great it would be to have a story like Robert E. Howard's "Red Nails" on a giant space hulk - or, well, pretty much the plotline of the game Alien Isolation, I suppose.

[@CodeLeeCarter]

Podcast night,... I'll be listening to this later in the evening,... thanks again, Isaac.

[@La-familia-de-Fazio]

The scale of our solar system alone is stellar in size; meaning from one side of star's system edge to the other is said to be at least one light year. Now imagine the distance to the next star system then the distance to the edge of the Milky Way (100 thousand light years)

[@colonelgraff9198]

Reminds me of the junkions from Transformers, living on planets of trash and junk

[@ENiceGeo]

Bah weep grahna weep nini bong.

[@troopernate8046]

I never thought I would ever look forward to Thursdays!

[@thedoruk6324]

As long as no idiot go into a derelict spaceship blindly; and return with a *facehugger* - we all be fine; follow the quarantine protocles people!

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

You make it sound like a bad thing, facehuggers are among the friendliest of aliens :)

[@thedoruk6324]

@@isaacarthurSFIA hugs are good and all; but the chestbursters are mean! :[

[@TheCsel]

I can picture an abandoned planet like in Wall-E. Perhaps the inhabitants went to sleep in orbit or went on a vacation tour somewhere and plan to come back in a few generations when environmental conditions improve.

[@paulwinger3300]

Heat. Discussed in terms of BTU. I'm not referring to space (have an answer for you) rather imagine underground. The insulation factor is extreme. Not that deep but still air circulation is paramount. BTU removal is important. Can run BTU through the air, circulate through an AC type cooling unit but eventually will have to do something with the high degree temp. of the BTU's already collected. Imagine your City Letter Carrier, in the summer he/she wears something like a long cloth tube but is filled with beads that when the sweat hits releases cold. Heat rises so can circulate through a vat filled with this same chemical reaction. Your opinion?

[@jengleheimerschmitt7941]

This just gave me another idea for an episode. Space Scoundrels.

[@roberthanleytortora7405]

WOW! This is one of your greatest works. Ive almost listened to all of them This one is by far my favorite. Yoou need to write a book

[@horusthagreat1802]

14.59 Warhammer 40k reference is fire finally the Emporer protect.

[@joethestrat]

The Emperor protects, but having a loaded Bolter doesn't hurt either. ;)

[@tshhmon8164]

Trash Worlds, reminds me of Sakaar from Thor Ragnarok. Happy Arthursday

[@davidk1308]

Thor Ragnarok actually, I don't remember it even being mentioned in gotg, but that's what I thought too!

[@影山平ら]

It reminds me of Phoenix Arizona

[@Jameson1776]

Taira How East St.Louis the epitome of trash.

[@billg6059]

ok so i always love listening /watching your stuff keep up the good work :) .. Today though i have one big thought in mind , you use "asume" a few times AND who says any aliens have any clue about Fermi and his paradox. For some reason this is bugging me today and i had to comment.

[@pflernak]

Because the aliens will be our descendants?

[@baxel54230]

Trash planets will be ruled by Snooki, Real Housewives and Lindsay Lohan

[@alexandernorman5337]

Fitting people for the job. Only the best!

[@GodofWhoopass]

ruled by raccoons