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Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

By: Isaac Arthur
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Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur explores humanity’s long-term future through space exploration, advanced technology, and big-picture science. Hosted by National Space Society President Isaac Arthur, each episode uses real science and careful speculation to examine space colonization, megastructures, artificial intelligence, post-scarcity economies, and the physics shaping civilization beyond Earth.

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Episodes
  • Fluorine Lifeforms – Creatures of the Halogen Seas (Narration Only)

    Fluorine Lifeforms – Creatures of the Halogen Seas (Narration Only)
    Aug 2 2026

    Could life survive in oceans that eat glass and treat water as poison? Explore fluorine-rich biology, hydrogen fluoride seas, and alien creatures whose metabolisms resemble carefully contained rocket engines.


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    Credits:

    Fluorine Lifeforms – Creatures of the Halogen Seas

    Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur

    Music by Epidemic Sound: http://nebula.tv/epidemic

    Chris Zabriskie

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    Chapters

    0:00 Intro

    5:16 Fluorine in the Toolbox

    10:14 The Halogen Sea

    17:35 Rocket-Engine Biology & Fluorine Dragons

    23:11 Worlds, Weather, Detection, and Civilization

    28:16 TierZoo

    29:24 Life Under Armed Guard



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    34 mins
  • Fluorine Lifeforms – Creatures of the Halogen Seas

    Fluorine Lifeforms – Creatures of the Halogen Seas
    Aug 2 2026

    Could life survive in oceans that eat glass and treat water as poison? Explore fluorine-rich biology, hydrogen fluoride seas, and alien creatures whose metabolisms resemble carefully contained rocket engines.


    Get Nebula using my link for 50% off an annual subscription: https://go.nebula.tv/isaacarthur

    Check out TierZoo Remastered: https://nebula.tv/tierzoo/tierzoo-remastered?ref=isaacarthur


    🛒 SFIA Merchandise: https://isaac-arthur-shop.fourthwall.com/

    🌐 Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net

    ❤️ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur

    ⭐ Support us on Subscribestar: https://www.subscribestar.com/isaac-arthur

    👥 Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/

    📣 Reddit Community: https://www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/

    🐦 Follow on Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/Isaac_A_Arthur

    💬 SFIA Discord Server: https://discord.gg/53GAShE

    Credits:

    Fluorine Lifeforms – Creatures of the Halogen Seas

    Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur

    Music by Epidemic Sound: http://nebula.tv/epidemic

    Chris Zabriskie

    Select imagery/video supplied by Getty Images


    Chapters

    0:00 Intro

    5:16 Fluorine in the Toolbox

    10:14 The Halogen Sea

    17:35 Rocket-Engine Biology & Fluorine Dragons

    23:11 Worlds, Weather, Detection, and Civilization

    28:16 TierZoo

    29:24 Life Under Armed Guard



    See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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    34 mins
  • Can You Survive Inside a Star? (Narration Only)

    Can You Survive Inside a Star? (Narration Only)
    Jul 30 2026

    Can you survive inside a star? The answer is stranger than “no.” Explore plasma storms, red giants, magnetic shields, and how future civilizations might turn stars into fortresses.


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    Check out Gods & Monsters: https://nebula.tv/curiousarchive/gods-and-monsters?ref=isaacarthur


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    ❤️ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur

    ⭐ Support us on Subscribestar: https://www.subscribestar.com/isaac-arthur

    👥 Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/

    📣 Reddit Community: https://www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/

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    💬 SFIA Discord Server: https://discord.gg/53GAShE

    Credits:

    Can You Survive Inside a Star?

    Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur

    Editor: Lukas Konecny

    Select imagery/video supplied by Getty Images

    See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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    24 mins
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Love the optimistic but skeptical (the philosophical type of skeptic not the "5g is controlling me" nut type) analysis of the potential future arising from our current science and technology.

Excellent science based futurism

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Good to hear the story in audible very interesting and way of narration was very well

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