I have meatsuit, it is sufficient for existence of my mind on this earth. I should maintain my meatsuit better. I want my Journey to last. Thank you fellow travelers for the company on this voyage.

@ponyote

8 ай бұрын

Bah weep grana weep ninnybong! *offers an energon treat*

@alanbear6505

8 ай бұрын

Mmmm…meatsuit…

@iivin4233

8 ай бұрын

Do meatmen dream of meat sheep?

@johnn1199

8 ай бұрын

​@@iivin4233Quite often, yes!

@brendancaulfield970

8 ай бұрын

It might be cool to occasionally connect your meat suit to another person's meat suit by the umbilical port.

I read “have spacesuit will travel” when I was about ten yrs old in 1967. I still remember the scene where he spends hours trying to hand-build a radio small enough to fit and then realizes he just can’t do it by hand and has to go find one mfg by the pros. That book got me interested in Electronics, something I then spent a career doing.

Somehow, it's reassuring to think that even in a fully colonized galaxy where every single planet and every single asteroid field is terraformed or poked full of habitats, there's always going to be a frontier, somewhere to escape to and find new things and new land to settle, even if it isn't so much "new" as it is just recently annihilated by the inevitable passage of time. Thanks for the episode!

@bigbossimmotal

8 ай бұрын

The connection between Americas early 'wild west' and space exploration are very real. Travelling from place to place meeting interesting people, looking for a nice place to put down roots, being out there 'on your own' and left to your own wit to survive. The term 'Space Cowboys' is pretty accurate, I think it takes a special kind of person to go on a trek like that not knowing where it may lead. The original Star Trek series was introduced as a Western, in space! lol

Oh, that was fun. Glad Robert Heinlein received some well earned recognition. Thanks!

One thing I loved about the books in the Altered Carbon series was the travel of being "casted" into a new place. I know it's not totally original, but I think Richard K Morgan did a great job of explaining it and making it seem reasonable. That's a great example of "have gun will trave" for me. I've been really excited for this episode! Great work, Issac! There is always a new reason for me to fall in love with watching SFIA each week!!

I love how you ended this with a spaceman on the Moon riding a dinosaur to work. I mean, sure, why not?

@bagustesa

8 ай бұрын

reminds me the second franchise of Iron Sky

It was a great book. I wish I had a space suit.

@i_grok_u2902

8 ай бұрын

I read that book over and over as a kid. Loved his stuff.

@stainlesssteelfox1

8 ай бұрын

@@i_grok_u2902 Me too. It was in our secondary school library, along with Starman Jones and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress as hardbacks, and I was the only one who ever checked them out, which I did dozens of times. When I left, the librarian let me take all three with me.

@pssthpok

8 ай бұрын

I wanted (and still do!) my own Oscar!

Perfect to listen to before bed. Thank you Isaac

27:45 What you did there. _I see it_ . That said, I've been following your channel for a few months now, doing my best to watch as many videos as I can to take it all in, but you make it so so so difficult because everytime I try to follow one specific playlist, I just HAVE to click one of the other related videos and I find myself on a whole new fascinating tangent. Thank you so much for what you do, this entire channel and the rabbit holes it's led down has been an amazing eye opener.

@gavinrush4995

8 ай бұрын

We are all grateful for this wonderful insight into our universe by such a well put together mind.

@DefaultUser61

8 ай бұрын

It really is easy to go down an Isaac Arthur hole. And yes I’m aware of how that sounds. And no I’m not taking it back

@stainlesssteelfox1

8 ай бұрын

I don't. What's the reference?

@Tsurf

8 ай бұрын

@@stainlesssteelfox1 Kimberly, the Pink Ranger from Power Rangers, her Zord is the Pterodactyl.

@stainlesssteelfox1

8 ай бұрын

@@Tsurf Oooh! Duh! To be fair, I was never that in to Power Rangers. Well played though, well played.

Paaaalllll - a - diiiiinnnnn! What a great TV show. Richard Boone had another character, years later, called Hec Ramsey. At one point, Ramsey shows an old picture of himself as Paladin, and says that's who he used to be. So, it may be that Ramsey is Paladin, as a much older and more settled man. I also remember, "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel," although that's not one I currently own. I remember it as a fun book to read, as a teenager. One thing Heinlein may have gotten right, though, is his observation that, should humanity settle on a world that has life that's even somewhat biologically compatible with terrestrial life, it'll be rough the first few generations. The colony will have every possible need -- food, shelter, clothing, resources to produce everything -- and only very limited means to provide them. (That would have its own problems, too, as Heinlein illustrated in "Tunnel in the Sky." There, what everybody thought was a species of small lazy, dopey lizard-analogs turned out uniquely problematic. Similarly, certain slugs in "The Expanse" caught everybody by surprise. A biochemically-compatible colony world would require a lot of research and preparation, before anybody could settle.) No industrial base, no supply chains, no ability to benefit from much automation or specialization of effort. Just about everybody gets to be a farmer or miner or machinist for a long, long time. Moreover, you want equipment easily made with a very limited manufacturing capacity, that can be easily repaired and maintained with hand-tools in a small shop in a small settlement. Complex machinery that requires dense energy sources simply won't be possible to create, for quite some time. So, Heinlein observed that, under those circumstances, an early space colony might look an awful lot like the 19th Century in the United States, Canada and Australia. Crops grown in rotation with little in the way of artificial fertilizers; planted with animal-drawn plows and harvested with animal-powered devices that resemble McCormick Harvesters; preserved using jars sealed with the local equivalent of beeswax or paraffin wax produced as a by-product of early petroleum refining; and transported to local markets with wagons or (eventually) taken to a larger town via riverboat or early railroad. As Heinlein observed, horses and cattle used for work make more horses and cattle all by themselves -- but tractors don't make more tractors. So, you want technology simply made, easily maintained, and powered with resources that require little in the way of intensive extraction or processing. Remember, the 19th Century farms in the United States fed millions of people in a rapidly urbanizing and industrializing society, using just the relatively simple devices and scientific farming methods that existed at the time. It's a solid model.

@thelordofcringe

8 ай бұрын

Counterpoint: those farms had access to factory made tools and other mass produced goods after the like 1820s. The trade of East coast manufactured goods to the territories was so large that it was nearly half our economy once cotton collapsed. These colonies would have no easy replacements for tools, clothing, and mass production of, well, anything. This would be a far more difficult colonization than anything we did in the last few hundred years.

The mystery. The wonder. The hunger. The risk. The glory. Thank you for the upload. 👌🏾

I always love the concept of a symbiotic space suit, perhaps even made from pseudo-living materials.

@iivin4233

8 ай бұрын

It would be nice to be fully alive but with better materials than our body is composed of. Not that our bodies aren't made of impressive materials already. A question I have is, if you make a Titan environment capable body, how do you implement the 5 senses? If your cold tolerance is much, much better do you design the body so that inhabitants feel a dip in a methane lake in the same way that natural bodies feel the cold of a mountain lake on Earth? Or do we try to create entirely new senses?

@meeponinthbit3466

8 ай бұрын

Or... A genetically engineered post-human species that doesn't even need one. Self-reparing DNA and a new pigment akin to chlorophyll to convert radiation into energy for the body... Or perhaps some kind of exoskeleton design that provides the same radiation shielding and some means to preserve internal pressures. Cybernetic implants or new organs to recycle O2 and body waist as well would be cool. I highly doubt it'll happen in my lifetime but once humans master cybernetics and genetics it's going to get REAL interesting. Super jealous.

@Dang_Near_Fed_Up

8 ай бұрын

@@iivin4233 Personal preference would be my take on things like that. I would assume the suit occupant would have a programmable interface to allow for all kinds of customization, allowing for both options within the same suit chassis. Think about how we change game interfaces now. Some people keep it stripped down for speed (max frame rate), others make the game as beautiful as possible (sacrificing frame rates to do so). But in the end they are still the same game. I can not picture a high tech future suit without the same capability.

@JasoTheRed48F2

8 ай бұрын

@@sylvann7501 I mean, by that point its no longer a separate organism. Its just a different sort of organ. Your muscles are also all slimy and sensitive if we take them out of your skin.

@pssthpok

8 ай бұрын

I recall humans living as symbionts with artificially created life forms in John Varley's The Ophiuchi Hotline. While not the main focus, they play an important part in the story.

I love reading Heinlein, especially the use of slide rules to calculate flights.

I would love to have a spacesuit to travel the Earth. I could be cozy, dry and warm inside it while trekking through the snow, in the rain, and in scolding heat. A jetpack would also not go amiss 🤔

Thank you for all your effort! Your videos really help me calm down in turbulent times

I would say that a civilization that doesn't change (much) could be awesome, not stagnant. The reason that they don't change, could be that a very fulfilling and happy setup is created. People generally like something familiar, and even if they travelled thousands of lightyears, it would be comforting and would bring happiness for most people to return to such a place where they grew up.

I read Starship Troopers as a kid in the 70's. I grew up in a small town with no bookstores, and the school library had no funds for new books. I was a fan of Star Trek, but this was my first Sci-Fi book.

Heinlein gives some reasons on "why travel". See "Time Enough for Love" and the short story "It's Great to Be Back!"

Listened to this on the Nebula app while driving to work. Made my morning commute that much more engaging. Another informative and interesting video Isaac.

I love the book 'The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams'.

All I can say is I love Skyway Soap because it is as pure as the sky itself.

@isaacarthurSFIA

8 ай бұрын

extra points for the reference :)

I love that book almost as much as I love listening to your show. Thanks for your wonderful content

@isaacarthurSFIA

8 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

I remember "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel". I stumbled across that book in 1987 when I was in 8th grade, during a period of time when I was reading ALL the Del Rey sci-fi novels. I loved that book SO much, and I've read it several times since. It never gets old. 😊

Had a long discussion on future space suits (and their construction / materials) a few days ago. This episode seems a good place to put forward this thought. Future space suits may not include any kind of actual transparent face plate at all. The 'face plate' is the weakest link in not just spacesuit design but in helmets in general presently. The face plate may be replaced with a display screen with images compiled from cameras (with or without a HUD overlay), in even the flimsiest future suits, be they space suits, scuba diving suits, or simple motorcycle or even bicycle helmets. This would allow for a much more protective or even armored helmet for your future suit that bypasses the inherent frailty of all transparent materials currently known to man. And once the suit occupants' external 'view' out of the suit is programmable, how is that experience any different from virtual reality? Once the communications lag is cut to near instantaneous 'telepresence" will be seen as "just as good" if not preferable to actually being there I fear. We already see things beginning down this road with remote controlled drones, being used in place of combat pilots in fighter jets.

@gesamtszenario

7 ай бұрын

While all of this is true, I think one has to consider that space suits are usually *soft* and require a certain flexibility. So, depending on how material science goes in the next few centuries, that transparent but *hard* face plate might not be the weakest link after all.

Please do not stop being so optimistic, as a Doom and Gloomer who has seen so much beauty and life destroyed, I get a bit of hope here. Trust me, my friends are surprised I can get optimistic about anything.

I usually download Issac Arthur's vids onto my phone and listen to them at work. This is the first one I have actually 'watched' since the Pandemic. I must say the graphics have come a long way since then. I know they are 'stock' images and videos but they are amazing, they really add to the information. I hadn't known what I was missing when only listening.

According to the Internet, Have Gun Will Travel first aired a year before, in 1957. I liked both the book with the spacesuit and the TV series about the knight without armor.

@jimshockey6789

8 ай бұрын

...in a savage land. IIRC. One of my favorite shows, long ago.

I picked up this book randomly in middle school while in the library. I read it and loved it so much!

Loved this Heinlein novel as a youngster. Kip was a perfect protagonist for young me, and he and Peewee were a really great team.

your content keeps me going.

Love that thumbnail. Alien looking spacecraft, advanced suit, ye olde M16.

Lt: good news Capt, we found the pirates! Cap: what's the bad news? Lt: it's been a thousand years. Their ancestors now own a sprawling empire of convenience stores.

The story telling in your videos is always so interesting Mr. Arthur! I also enjoy the explanations of the science behind so many of these topics.

Damn.. roaming around the galaxy as an immortal head in a box is my new biggest desire... just behind devine knowledge. Really enjoyed this one so had to comment 😊

Found your channel not that long ago. Thanks so much for the great content! Keep them coming. Any thoughts on dooms day bunkers on earth?

@isaacarthurSFIA

8 ай бұрын

Welcome! I've been mulling around an episode on it, but in the short term we have an episode next month of fortifying entire planets that covers some individual bunker options.

One of the first bedtime stories I read my young son.

@jonathanedwardgibson

8 ай бұрын

Your ai generated illustrations are tiresome and banal.

at 3:43 L O L ". . . too many unknowns and unknown unknowns." yes, yes, yes. Unknown values for the variables and even unknown variables. Another excellent video - thanks, again.

I feel like I could enjoy a long break like that.

hitchhiking through the galaxy. looking forward to it

Enjoyed the visual choices on this one, thank you

Have a snack and a drink, will watch.

The segment about being stranded in space with an animal companion and a sentient space suit is literally the plot of "Breathage". The animal companion is an immortal chicken. (Edit: it includes a sci... eh an engineer with a pink space suit, too)

I love your videos. So thought provoking!

I can’t express how much I love this channel. Great visuals, awesome narration and top notch writing. Absolute brain food my guy. Thank you 🙏

Re-watched Star Wars (ep 6) and can honestly say this show is the closest to capturing the fun of space!

The episode was really good. Thanks

Wow! Lots of ideas to lift from here! Yesterday I finally watched your “Life as a Space Colonist” vid. I would definitely be within the “Ideological” category. I have a strong “They can’t kill all of us!” mentality, having a “Promised World”, and even if our enemies do breach our Oort cloud and “succeed” in launching an extermination strike against us, at the very least 10,000 fertile breeding pairs (+ any children they already have) could flee, perhaps in an Exodus fleet of space suits!!!, to another system or in-between systems to set up a space habitat! They can’t kill all of us!

@virutech32

8 ай бұрын

At this stage of the game breeding pairs are irrelevant. A single person or maybe even subsophont AI could have an insane amount of genetic diversity on file & rebuild entire civilizations from the tube.

@francoiseeduard303

8 ай бұрын

@virutech32 Social continuity & we are old fashioned.

Oscar, as in “ oh, Scar I guess.”? ( strange that I can remember that exact quote but not the title of the Heinlein book) Really though, whenever you mention long space flights, I think Alastair Reynolds has the best take on non-FTL interstellar flights. But when you talk about living heads, all I can think of is Leonard Nimoy's head in Futurama!

I'm actually excited about the ZPM episode. Already predicting a couple of Stargate references.

One aspect of the thumbnail art is probably accurate...the AR15 is such an adaptable design that people in the future will probably still be using variants of it to explore other worlds!

@isaacarthurSFIA

8 ай бұрын

yeah I always found it, or it's twin the M16A4, comfortable to carry, it's just very serviceable design, though I know folks who prefer bullpup designs and that does have its merits.

Been waiting for this one.

Very well done. Fascinating and engaging.

Love your works!

I've often envisioned a Star Trek episode where they encounter people who travel in Iron Man style suits with warp drives built in. Perhaps they have even grown to view ships as a silly idea.

@kevincrady2831

8 ай бұрын

Or better yet, they've perfected Ansata space-folding tech (the human-portable teleportation devices used by Ansata "rebels"/"terrorists" to attack the Enterprise. In the episode, the devices had a drawback, in that they degraded the DNA of the person that used them, which became fatal after too many uses. Easy fix: beam yourself into a pattern buffer aboard your suit/ship, teleport your suit/ship, beam back out. The devices are not shown to have any adverse effect on electronics/technology. Otherwise though, Trek "physics" seems to favor large ships over smaller ones, when it comes to warp propulsion. Big capital ships like the Enterprise are capable of much higher warp speeds (not to mention, better shields and firepower) than shuttles or Runabouts. Hence the rarity of fighter craft (or Iron Man suits) in that universe.

@ShaunRF

8 ай бұрын

@@kevincrady2831 If we are talking about dream tech in this universe, I think the Iconian Gateway is vastly superior. That episode was silly anyways. They only used that tech to plant bombs, but for some reason always sent a person with it. They could have easily solved the DNA problem by just sending the bombs by themselves. The bigger ships are faster rule is very inconsistent in this series. Not just with ships either. For instance, the small Class 8 probes that Isaac talks in this video cruise at Warp 9. There are also things like the tiny Druoda warhead from Voyager. Nevermind that these aliens could simply be more technologically advanced than the Federation when it comes to things like compact FTL systems.

Robert Heinlein is my all time fav author and 'Have Space Suit Will Travel' is one of my fav stories.

Who knows maybe one day people will have private space stations like people have personal computers this days

Apparently Robert Heinlein got 'some' inspiration for "Have Space Suit - Will Travel" (August-October 1958), from "Have Gun - Will Travel" (September 14, 1957 - April 20, 1963).

This talk of living in space suits reminded me of the book by Alan Dean Foster, Sentenced To Prism. This is the only book of his Humanx Commonwealth series that I really remember reading. The protagonist comes from a world where people live and work in suits. (I always had the impression that these were slightly bulky to allow the user some movement inside them, but not huge like moving house big.)

“And the tax,an knows better then to come counting heads” There have been real life examples of settlements whose locations dubiously exist within multiple empires, and they were simply taxed by each empire

11:05 the king of trolls. Seriously the best character in 40k right now. You will not outsmart him, and killing him just means you wont see him for...probably a few seconds.

Absolute awesome episode!

A towel, you must always have a towel with you.

One of my favorite Heinlein novels. If Hollywood ever makes it into a movie I can only hope they do a better job than with Starship Troopers.

thats good stuff right there.

I like the suit transferor trading positions between people from teleporting in Foundation !!

Thank you from guam, sir

Great upload as always

I imagine that when you are traversing void in a suit you can inflate a bubble, go there and do things like wash yourself or sleep more comfortably While floating in a bubble connected to suit

At five years old, I read this story. Learned the idea of doing the right thing, even if you die trying.

Heinlin, Asimov, Clark, Niven...just a few old classic authors...I miss those days of reading. One of my business quotes is or should I say was...."have torch will travel". All that's just empty dreams now. I'm just an old man on a strange planet and no dreams left now. "Globalists" / "Environmentalists" have ended all those dreams of old...

It's amazing that a guy with very grounded ideas can make a lone hero zooming around a million small worlds in nothing an antimatter powered metal bikini & a nano-bot skin feel plausible.

my favorite life-pod would have to be the "Quagaar warrior"

@davidbrennan660

8 ай бұрын

Their Death Commandos are formidable and their technology highly advanced.

Heck, no reason why your dinosaur buddy at the end there couldn't also be a large exoskeleton that's an extension of your space suit. Both for riding, and for climbing inside and hooking up to all your suit systems for direct control.

Whenever I watch an episode like this, I see how in science fiction (and in real life) authors and humanity in general think very small. An entire Solar System full of civilizations, a super spacesuit, and that's just using real science. As channel regulars we have a lot of baggage now to write the next generation of really innovative and incredibly plausible sci-fi scenarios.

Always loved that book!

Another banger of an episode

Watched it on Nebula. Very interesting take on the space traveller.

Excellent stuff bro

@namidawhamida5958

Ай бұрын

Yeah bro

awesome ! This reminds me of my favorite sci_fi horror video game series Dead Space. The space suits in this game are gangster and can be upgraded and purchased from special spaceship or colony vending stores. The hudless design health meter and stasis meter on the back is priceless. These suits can include communications & screen rig. Kinesis module. Stasis module. mini boot and suit rockets, life support , magnetic boots and much more. I hope we could get another Dead Space game or such like. And play it with the metaverse or another type of headset would be epic and scary. Thanks Isaac !

I'm reminded of a story by Ross Rocklynne. Called Men And The Mirror, it had a lawman and a pirate who while being chased, would find interesting galactic artifacts. It's a great story in the anthology "Before The Golden Age." by Isaac Asimov. It has other cool stories of the 1930's. Enjoy!!

@pssthpok

8 ай бұрын

I remember that story, I recall them both being trapped on a nearly frictionless mirror, it was a neat puzzle to solve. And Before The Golden Age was an amazing anthology set. The science is of course way out of date, but the stories are fascinating for SO many reasons. The Moon Era by Jack Williamson hit me just right, made my bawl my eyes out as a kid.

@lennyfair6177

8 ай бұрын

@@pssthpok Me too, my heart broke. And I have a copy I read to this day. It's a fun read and I hope to pass it on to my grandkids. Or my great grandkids.

I really like the videos that realistically expand on warhammer 40k concepts, looking forward to the episodes on forge and fortress worlds

@23:50 "Oscar", another nod to Heinlein.

great video

For all it's weirness and gameyness the title of this video perfectly encapsulates what I want, long term, out of Star Citizen. I might have a ship, multiple even but sticking to only that means that I will just be going from one point of interest to another as some wandering mercenary-deliveriman with a small taste of murder-hobo to boot. But basically as a dude with a suit, two days of supplies and no plan beyond "I get somewhere or I die." in theory I'd always have something to do, Martian style. Small things like making sure my suit is staying in one piece to having water.

On the plus side, libraries-worth of books tend to act both as insulation and as sound baffling, so the mass is NOT wasted in any way. ~_^.

@isaacarthurSFIA

8 ай бұрын

That's my justificaiton for having bookshelves on both sides of both of my interior walls for my office at home, cuts down on noise :)

@joelcarson4602

8 ай бұрын

"When Worlds Collide" by Philip Wylie and Edmund Balmer. For the escape from doomed Earth spaceship, books without covers were used as insulation in the outer walls of the ship. Book was far better than film, of course.

Its like Use Of Weapons. The hunter becomes sympathetic to the antagonist's cause. But it costs rivers of blood.

I tend to say that the appeal of less populated regions is that they leave space for the soul to expand, with the pressure of millions in the centers of civilization being absent, but I'm not sure that would still apply in space, where the environment outside your suit or ship was deadly and there was no equivalent of wind ruffling your hair coming off that imposing mountain range 20 miles distant. Unless, perhaps, you have tech that lets you feel solar winds that way.

I really hope to live long enough to see us begin the dison swarm. it could be amazing, doing the whole mining and just running around trying to make it rich

I remember my mother picking it out from the Library when I was a kid. First science fiction book I ever read. Thank you Robert Heinlein for a lifetime of wonder and hope.

The days of true exploration on Earth are essentially over... and i won't be alive when we humans get to explore the Milky Way.. dang it. One event i often think about is following WWI two American pilots from the Lafayette Escadrille traveled to Polynesia, specifically Tahiti, loved it, and made a home there and wrote the book Mutiny on the Bounty.

I just realized something. No more Elmer Fudd warning, thats awesome. This is a compliment.

This needs a second listen too. I may save the podcast episode. -- I think space will attract that same kind of oddball, rugged individualist, people with itchy feet or wanderlust, seeking adventure. But also, people who need a new future, a change in life, something better or different, to escape their old life. So I think there will be a lot of similarities to the 1700's and 1800's frontier west and the ocean-going nautical life. -- And I need to reread that Heinlein book, but a few others too. -- And I would highly recommend people read C.J. Cherryh's books, not just her Foreigner series, but her earlier books. Great stuff.

Don't forget that dinosaur you're riding has been uplifted and is the completion of your perfect trio (self, suit, pet)

Awesome…

My favourite Sci fi suit is the Iain M. Banks Culture Gel suit they have chemical reactors, anti matter reactors, can thin over your body to give you a completely unobscured vision and movement, would provide everything you could need, including entertainment, dreamless stasis, forever if you wanted it too, you may even qualify for sublimation if some god like entity happens upon you floating in the middle of nothing far from know where.

@HuplesCat

8 ай бұрын

Excellent choice

I envision a space suit with a built in solar sail for riding the solar winds between small space rocks. No need for a ship just a suit and a sail almost like windsurfing in space. Maybe just an addef initial explosive device to gain speed.

thx

Remember the picture in our IDI slide show of the Orbital Outfitters suit in the back seat of my car?

that was one HELL of a mech lol

Time Enough For Love with a Stranger In A Strange Land. Have Tea. Will Travel. 1 Cat, Who Walks Through Walls.

@HuplesCat

8 ай бұрын

Stranger left a deep impression on me at 12