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We often imagine civilizations so immense they can create worlds and colonize galaxies, and yet to fuel those immense engines of creation, they may need to harvest entire planets.
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Harvesting Planets
Episode 472; November 7, 2024
Produced, Narrated & Written: Isaac Arthur
Graphics:
Ian Long
Jermey Jozwik
Legiontech Studios
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Mihail Yordanov
Udo Schroeter
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Story ideas: an obscure but large star goes dark. A survey ship is sent to investigate.
They find the system was consumed to make a Stargate and an invasion army is coming through.
No I'm not claiming the idea. I'm bad at writing anyway. Besides others probably thought of it already.
I'm always amazed by your channel. You have vision, think about how it's done and explain how. Frankly SCI-Fi writers can't even keep up with you!
Ringo's Troy series does this rather well
Somehow the thought of a gigantic combine harvester, choping up planets at the front while churning out custom made space habitats at the rear, crept into my mind.
What if stars are made from liquid metallic hydrogen? How would that model impact star lifting?
With harvesting the sun, at what point does the harvesting go too far? Does harvesting like this just decrease it's life span or could it cause the balance between gravity and explosion to tip the wrong way?
I can't think of anything more evil than disasembling an inhabitable planet
Could you just direct asteroids at a small planet, so that they hit along the equator, in the direction of rotation, increasing it's rotation until it just spun itself apart. I saw a video suggesting this as a way to mine some of the gravel ball asteroids.
Can we have an April fools episode in which the goal is to make a swimming pool for Saturn? It already got its Ring, and it really wants to go swimming to test that buoyancy thing people talk about…^^
I'd like a game where the galaxies, star systems and planets are randomly generated from SFIA videos. That'd be sweet.
I am in the machine. A derelict machine in a Mobius continuum. π³
This is the second video today I have been preemptively inspired by. I wrote an episodic on Kindle a month ago because I watched this video today π€―
My sci-fi series Harvesters of the Void has the a remnant of humanity, the cult of Panthera harvesting planets.
From the perspective of the harvested.
Whatever you do, if you find an archaeological marker, don't take it aboard your ship.
What we will likely discover as we move to living in space is that any small deviation from a normal Earth habitat will very rapidly begin to cause adaptive genetic aberrations and subspeciation. Even within cylinders or rings simulatiing gravity. To be Human is be of The Earth. That's why we'll probably send cyborgs instead, and only for exploration. Seems to be what everyone else does.
We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
wouldnt it be feasible to slowly notch planets into the roche limit of their stars and let gravity do the disassembling?
thanks Issac cheers from Canada.
10:00 Ya they do have that tech right now,.. at CERN!!!! Cern lies to us, we live in the age of deception after all and the 4th industrial revolution will be the death of us all!!! What CERN really does is they're OPENING A PORTAL TO HELL IN ORDER TO ALLOW DEMONS TO SWARM THROUGH THE PORTAL TO KILL US ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WAKE THE FCUK UP SHEEEPLEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WAKE THE FFFUUUUCCCKKKKK UUUUUUUUUPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Creation view. All the alliens (using the term loosely ) are in the second & third heavens not the first as far as we know. (no life discovered yet)
1. 1st heaven is the physical universe.
2. 2nd heaven is spiritual realms . Ephesians 1:20,Ephesians 2:6,Ephesians 3:10,Ephesians 6:12 etc. where people go after they die.
3. 3rd Heaven is where God dwells in all His Glory (throne room of God). Rev: 4, 2 Cor. 12:2-5. etc…
One Example of alliens (using the term loosley) can be found in Rev 4 , and in many other biblical passages.
So one can read, that He clearly created beigns that are not on earth or for earth. God has created many different kinds of life, here on earth as we see plants, sea life, beast of the field, birds, bugs & human beigns not to mention microbes which we cant see with a microscope. π
Did God create biological life in other solar system? Well we are going to find out, I just think we will find out with God not without. Great vid IA. π
Eat the sun. Replace it with LEDs.
I'm going to miss arthursday
Why are dyson spheres deemed impossible when arches are some of the best load bearing structures, and spheres are just continuous arches? Also, don't the theoretical existence of statites show that one could support such a solar structure largely using the photon structure of the star as an active support?
A potential future video topic might be "when you get to this godlike level of power, especially if your population growth rate didn't explode or something, what do you do from there besides live in a virtual paradise of your won making, and even that must get old eventually unless you deny yourself perfect memory (which might be seen more like taking drugs for chemical pleasure)".
After all, it's a problem we are seeing now: people are taking some of the best works of entertainment the human race has ever created and still has access to, taking the top hundred or so of them, binging them in a month or two, and then complain that civilization is stagnating because they have nothing new at their standards, and now even see fundamental aspects of satisfying storytelling as tired tropes.
Just seems like it would be either most people just going in the virtual world, no more reproduction, until they get bored and delete themselves, or going down ideological rabbit holes which threaten to trample anyone with a third option under their goals as they set galaxies ablaze in the name of their god/greater good/self.
Wouldn't going faster make it easier? Magma is easier to harvest than rock (assuming the proper heat shielding, which might be easier said than done even by these standards) since it's already liquid and can just be pumped up and piped around? No dealing with rocks of various sizes and structural integrities and shapes, from massive boulders to dust that needs to be vacuumed up, with everything in between.
My problem with the interdiction hypothesis and Chronos scenario is that, if they wanted to prevent break away factions and promote homogeneity, they'd need to deal with their population at home. They'd probably need to ban space travel outside of careful government controlled programs, ban things like AI and 3D printers, regulate information flow so people can't make bombs from chemistry text books, and probably take measures to pre-crime deviant thought and finely control reproduction.
After all, usually the only way societies have remained unified and homogenous IRL is either being really small or a very present external enemy, and stigmatizing (if not demonizing) not fitting in in any way that isn't explicitly good (and even then, envy means if they aren't your elite/superiors, they are likely to be torn down by crabs in the bucket).
Harvesting material from planets requires they be lifted up from a very deep hole. It is expensive and risky to do that. To harvest material in asteroids, you just park next to it and start shoveling. Due to economics, we won't even consider harvesting or terraforming planets until the asteroids and other small rocks have been completely exhausted. Living on planets other than earth is just a romantic, sci-fi notion. We'll live in millions of orbital colonies. And that will keep us busy for thousands of years. But then, mining will certainly be done with robots, and you can program the first few generations of robots to just build more robots. You create enough to do the demolition in a reasonable amount of time, then demolish the planet in just months. The robots then disassemble themselves and deposit themselves along with the other resources.
In Arthur C Clarke's book,
The Ghost from the Grand Banks,
The afterward mentions humanity mined to its disappearance Mercury to build an Exodus Fleet since a roving black hole was to enter the solar system.