I just ordered two SFIA "Put a Ring on It!" Mugs - One for home and one for work.

I like all of your series, but Upward Bound and Outward Bound are by far my favorite. That being said, when I show your channel to others I always pick something from Mega Structures. This is literally the only channel that I know the release day for.

@DanteS-119

6 жыл бұрын

It's really easy to remember 'Arthursday' :)

@RileyDash

Жыл бұрын

Agreed!

@williams9082

5 ай бұрын

Àd😅😅​@@DanteS-119

I entered the Konami Code. It brought me here. I’m not disappointed.

@EnriquePage91

5 жыл бұрын

Michael Winter lol I feel u. I have a "similar" story lol

It honestly baffles me sometimes on why you don’t have at least 1 million subscribers? In due time you will soon reach it! Thank you for your videos!

@pineapplepenumbra

6 жыл бұрын

Considering that Isaac Arthur's channel is one of the best, if not _the best_ , channel on KZread, you certainly have a point.

@furdfelmer4359

6 жыл бұрын

King S- I certainly get your point about the great content coming from Issac and his team in producing one of the best utube channels. I wonder why the question of " subscribers" numbers comes up on many of my favorite channels comments sections. I don't subscribe to any channel, but enjoy many. I'm not interested in being in a "fan club", nor do I think "popularity", by numbers of "subs", is indicative of the content. Issac's content is informative, creative and insightful, but at my age, I don't fall into "hero worship" of any kind. So does the number of "subs" equal a popularity contest ? Do those who ask the same question as you did, feel a need to be in, or increase the "tribe"? No disrespect intended...I simply find it interesting every time I read this same question asked, over and over....on many channels. " It honestly baffles me..." , why it so important to others , why subscriber numbers are not as high as THEY think, the numbers should be?

@M33f3r

6 жыл бұрын

I share his stuff every time its relevant to a conversation, and sometimes just when I think its cool :).

@kingslushie1018

6 жыл бұрын

Furd Felmer I can certainly see your point in how subscriber numbers certainly don’t always reflect the quality of the channel, but I think it helps by providing another way for letting the content creator know if his audience is enjoying his videos. Also subscribing is also another way of saying “most of the content you produce interest me, so I will be sticking around to see more from you in the future.” There are tons of you tubers who can produce amazing one-offs videos, but the rest of the content does not apply to your interests at all. Numbers don’t mean everything, but they do help in tracking your channel’s growth, audience, and their interests.

@kingslushie1018

6 жыл бұрын

pineapplepenumbra I like how he covers stuff in depth but still manages to not go overboard. I also enjoy some of the snarky humor incorporated into the videos, like the death ray part.

Beautiful episode. So many concepts weaved in. Beaming power to space towers instead of all the way to the ground - brilliant! If we beat energy scarcity, a whole lot of possibilities open up for us. Deserts can be turned into farms or new biospheres. All those bulbs we talked about in the ocean lighting up new pastures need to be powered somehow!

@tylersoto7465

Жыл бұрын

That's the thing we really can't just turn all the deserts into farmland cuz the deserts provide essential fertilizer for the tropical rainforest and forest around the planet , the Sahara desert wind the wind blows it blows nutrients all over to Africa fertile area, south America and Asia's rainforest and jungles etc

As a matter of fact, I DO upvote all of Isaac's videos site-unseen. I have absolute confidence they will be awesome, as always!

I can find the "like-button", and Ind hit it -also on this episode; but I can't find my Ole Henriksen "I love it-button" to show my actual level of appreciation...

@Krystallen

6 жыл бұрын

I keep slamming the like button to get more likes...but the damn thing just put it on 1 like!

Isaac is the man ! Been subscribed for about a year now and love your videos. I'm 55 and have learned more about science and the universe the last 5 years or so than I ever did in school thanks to channels like this one. Thank you

Another beautiful video. We need an official national holiday called Arthursday. These videos are just so inspirational cause I wanna be an astronautical engineer when I grow up and in a way it kinda teaches me about what I need to now.

@PeterKurtiSlovakia

6 жыл бұрын

Every Thursday is Arthursday.

@ivx8345

6 жыл бұрын

Go go go! The world needs beautifull brains that apply themselves to thrust humanity forward. Guys like me (heart for science but unfortunally lacking the brains for it) are counting on you guys!

@tylersoto7465

Жыл бұрын

Boss: why do you need the day off Worker: cuz Issac Arthur made a new KZread video Boss : WHAT 😱, your a fan too , that's it everyone is off today it's very important to watch them lol

18:30 I just cackled at the Coffee Mug promotion. Oh I needed that laugh, thanks Isaac. A fantastic episode.

@edthoreum7625

6 жыл бұрын

18:33

@henrihamalainen300

6 жыл бұрын

Seeing that mug made me realize that i need more caffeine. And so went to make some coffee...

"A big giant laser is also known as a _death ray"_ *AH*

@shanerooney7288

6 жыл бұрын

Him: a big giant laser. Me: a what? Him: a death ray. Me: Ummmm...? Him: *sigh * G.D.I Ion cannon. Me: oh, I get it now.

@logicbuilder1204

2 жыл бұрын

@@dyln84 this looks like a virus

"Sir, you appear to be in violation of the 'no weapons of mass destruction in space' law." "What? no, this is a power transfer system. Totally peaceful" "And what about that other one that has a dozen high-powered lasers designed to completely wreck something you aim it at?" "......mining lasers." "And the one you are pointing at me right now is a laser pointer, i assume?" "Nah, that one IS a death ray..."

@Bobsry16

6 жыл бұрын

i don't agree. Everything worth doing has risks and downsides.

@jamesedwards3923

5 жыл бұрын

You have much to learn.

@Russmayra

5 жыл бұрын

If we don"t someone else will.

@wtuanmu

5 жыл бұрын

A huge solar power satellite can certainly power a laser which easily destroys any incoming missiles.

@wtuanmu

5 жыл бұрын

Does a set of space-based lasers which intercept all ICBMs at boost phase qualifies as 'weapons of mass destruction in space'?

I know Isaac Arthur really said "more durable" but I preferred it when I thought he had said that solar panels would get "more adorable" as time goes on :-D

@MaviShmail

4 жыл бұрын

living in china atm that made me feel very very weird to much anime!!!

@thiagom8478

Жыл бұрын

"more adorable" is a less safer bet, I think. However, the good old man do recognizes himself as an ""optimistic" sometimes. He could have taken the risk.

The most inspirational channel on KZread.

Fifty wascally wabbits fowgot to hit CC. You make my Thursdays worth waiting for, Mr. Arthur. Thank you for the stellar productions! ;-)

Issac, you are so eloquent and seemingly effortlessly intelligent. Please, lead us...

@squirlmy

6 жыл бұрын

such a man is too intelligent to get roped into political leadership positions. Apparently we need morons to fill that role. (who might I be thinking of?)

@enlightedjedi

6 жыл бұрын

@Curtixo The Marvels of today plotlitics :)!

@enlightedjedi

6 жыл бұрын

Or should I say plotlithics as every loser ends in in the dirt :)!

@gumunduringigumundsson9344

6 жыл бұрын

Open democratic governing thats as close to 100% ethical and responsible as we can possibly make it is what I call common sense.. especially regarding operations of useful tools.such as powersattellite/doomsdayweapons. Isaac would be a very fine candidate in such establishment indeed.

@larrybeckham6652

6 жыл бұрын

Silly people. The Man *IS* leading us - in a Zen way. Not by taking power in office but educated us about way the future could be. He is "making the Future Great Again"!

Powering my thursdays as usual! Happy Arthursday everyone :)

In a waiting room with a new specialist, he is running behind. Being a professional patient means a lot of hurry up and wait. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to put up these.

@isaacarthurSFIA

6 жыл бұрын

Been there, done that, boring as hell :)

another great video, thank you Isaac.. you truly brighten ones day, illuminating us with how bright the future can be.. thank you

Man, Isaac, you ever feel you were born in the wrong time? I sure do. Wish I had been born 200 years from now. Aubrey DeGrey needs to make this life extension thing happen!!!

It's Arthursday my dudes

@Falcodrin

6 жыл бұрын

Chrisket yep been waiting hours

@TheAmericanCatholic

6 жыл бұрын

Best day of the year

@RobinPillage.

6 жыл бұрын

woot woot

@thetruth45678

6 жыл бұрын

A fellow subscriber to Matt. Well met, my dude. You have good taste. ;-)

@cypheir

5 жыл бұрын

Sure are a lot of Arthursdays....

the last few weeks have been quite hard at the office... it is allways so great and relaxing to watch your videos. you have such a easy-to-understand way of explaining topics it baffles me every time! not to mention your sceduel of upcoming topics at the end of every video, you are working hard for this channel and are deserving of many more subscriber in my oppinion. thank you for being here!

Crop netting Crop netting is used more frequently. To get power from it would be a plus. Many alternate power supplies are better used regularly for individual purposes on small scales. Some single gigantic power station is a less practical solution.

@tonikotinurmi9012

5 жыл бұрын

I would prefer active-support tower, building-phase is bit difficult but on the plus side, you would build it near shore, you could topple it to sea in worst case scenario, plus you'd have (when building done) the large nuclear powerplants in ship(s) ready to go help power Haiti (it seems to frequently get hit by everything and anything Earth has to offer) or somewhere else. Also, once one tower is up your fleet of ships is mostly free to power construction of next etc...These towers would make desert bloom (slowly), Sahara full of daisies anyone ? :)

Thank you for another master piece

@mesosleepy5152

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, Isaac for your effort. Your low number of subscribers is an insult to intelligence and profoundness. Take it as a reassurance that your doing it right.

@UNSCPILOT

5 жыл бұрын

Can't upvote this comment enough

Its crazy you bring a 30 min. episode every week...almost feel guilty watching it for free.

Hey stop/pause Im gonna bring my pillow and my dried fruits here. Ok Isaac im good :)

Thanks for putting this out Isaac, sure it is another great video as ever and for me personally it helps fill a desire for more K0 to K1 videos.

Thanks a lot for your channel Mr Isaac Arthur! I learn a lot and find your videos relaxing to listen to.....and I learn stuff!

*gets a drink and snack*

@Roxor128

6 жыл бұрын

I sit down with lunch then load up the video from my inbox.

I love your videos, recommended you to my friends and they look forward to your videos as well. (Orbital rings are my favorite) this particular episode intrigued me because I’m a calibration technician for microwave equipment. As I’m writing this you just started talking about orbital rings! Lol weird. Keep up the awesome videos!

"Watching SFIA without sufficient caffeine may cause existential dread." LOL!

Imagine what base jumping in a wing-suit from a Karman tower would be like?

I found this episode inspiring. It was very well-presented and thought-provoking. We need to move beyond terrestrial-based, heavily polluting energy production. Satellite-based solar and nukes would no doubt have a powerful effect on human civilization and our environment. Problem: once governments around the world, particularly our own, discover that space-based power would represent an existential threat to the powerful fossil fuel industry, a lot of politicians would start complaining that returning to the moon is too expensive and we need to cut back on funding. Existential threat eliminated, progress thwarted.

This video is incredible. Thank you Isaac and the team!

As much as Iron Stars is my favourite episode (9-10 watches), I do love these near-future-possible ones. I'm preparing to study my masters soon in Politiics, Law and Ethics and I'm making futurism and its principles a major focus.

When I went back and finished watching all of the old episodes from before I found you..... I had the exact same crisis that one would have when of their favorite series ended. There was a week where SFIA was 4 or so hours of my day lol

dang, every episode in august looks amazing! cant wait, keep up the great content!

I was so relieved to get the notification it was Arthursday. I was on the other side of KZread...

@arithmetikmilitantpoetry9548

6 жыл бұрын

Nobody yes me too. I feel you so nice comming to the constructive side of youtube. He needs millions more subs

Two years of watching this week - and of course I caught up with the rest. Love the Channel (my first Subscription) Thank you Isaac!

pop the popcorn, its Isaac Arthur Thursday!

Oh, yes! A messy day at work and then I come home to a new Isaac Arthur video! It doesn't get any better than this!

Another well thought out and produced video, thanks mate great work!

You're very bright. You attack a topic from all angles. Very informative. We love it.

I love that intro song the most out of all of them, please use it more often. To me, it invokes a powerful suspense for the episode, and reminds me of what I call classic Isaac Arthur.

It's great to hear that these are nearing the point of being economical, at least in theory, but I have a feeling that overcoming the regulatory hurdles will be more difficult and take longer than overcoming the technical problems. However, I can definitely see prototypes going up in the next few years, and perhaps the first commercial ones within 10. I think though that people will have to become more comfortable with active support for structures a couple kilometers high before we reach for 100. This definitely seems like a good option for the 2030s and beyond, especially if they are cheaper and quicker to build than fusion reactors.

Another awesome video. Upward and outward bound are my favorite series so fat.

This has the best intro music... Gives me goose bumps every time I hear it.

I was always freaked out by the idea of the powerful microwave beam wandering off course and making lamb roasts out of sheep. Neither have I ever liked the idea of fully opaque PV panels rendering vast land swathes unusable for conventional photosynthetic crop farming. Even though I've considered handshaking and sliver cells respectively, this video offered significant relief of my anxieties! Thanks again.

Also the platform can be used as an orbital smelter!

This subject I can understand better than some of your more recent topics and found this video most informative> Thank you very much for keeping it simple for us laymen out here.

Only discovered this channel a few weeks ago. Have been binge watching 2-3 episodes a day since!

Yet another superb video, thank you Isaac. Happy Arthursday to my fellow viewers!

Thank you so much for these videos. I take so much away from them. I really hope the future is as bright as the possibilities you show on the weekly.

It's funny. Beamed power reminds me of Sim City 2000. That actually had a bunch of things in it you didn't see back in later iterations of the game (or only in some versions.) Arcologies, and several forms of powerplant. The game had coal, oil, gas, garbage burner plants, fission... Wind turbines and solar plants. (mirror concentrator hot oil/sodium plant, not photovoltaic). And of course, at the very high end, Fusion. But, just below the top end fusion plant, you had the beamed power plant - which basically looked like a large radio dish, but was designed to pick up a beam from a solar array in orbit. The other interesting thing is the disasters you could get randomly depended on various things in your city. For instance, if you had a lot of water you'd be more likely to get a hurricane, otherwise you'd get tornados. Lots of forest meant more fires. If you had an airport, you could get plane crashes. Having military bases made the alien and monster attacks more likely. If you had a nuclear (fission) plant, you could have the worst disaster, a nuclear meltdown. (it's the worst because it leaves radioactive contamination that the game provides no method of removing, so parts of your city become permanently uninhabitable.) But, the other power plant with a unique disaster associated with it was the orbital plant. And sure enough, the disaster is the beam targeting going wrong, and thus instead of hitting the powerplant it starts cutting a path through your city... (the beam is invisible, but you see it cut through buildings, destroying stuff and starting fires.) I miss those subtle touches... XD

Amazing content, quality, and delivery, as usual.

I saw a Popular Science article about "someday we will go to other stars in ships like this" or something to that effect. After watching this channel I can say either you raised the hell out of the bar or they just hit rock bottom and began to dig (or both). On an unrelated note, I wrote an article for a Star Wars D6 RPG fan pub about spacefaring bird people who use O'Neill cylinders and engage in starlifting. I added dramatic elements that don't make sense in the scientific sense, but it is an RPG with space wizards and such.

I always listen to your videos when I'm sleeping, helps me fall asleep and I keep playing every video until a new one arrives! Thanks for helping me sleep better, cheers ♥️

Thanks Arthur I don’t have the time to look and study all these topics but think I have a good understanding with the information i get

Forget about popular science programs on TV. SFIA dwarfs them all :-) Superb content. Thanks team Isaac :-)

You're the man, Issac. Keep it coming sir.

Lets goooooooo!!! I wait all week for these videos!!!!

I just love the intro and end music, is there more of it? And thanks for these amazing weekly videos Arthur!

This stuff is what made me want to get into energy policy. Freakin' love your work, man.

Great video as always. Awesome way to stimulate my brain before work.

Love the co-host episodes. Makes it feel like a space Community

great video as always! thanks Arthur

Great episode.

If we develop a network of solar power satellites, I vote we name it Greyskull. Thus, many things could be achieved 'by the power of Greyskull." ;) Also, I only recently discovered your channel and have been working my way through the back catalog of videos. So much good, thought-provoking stuff. Keep it up.

Seeeeeet! Gonna design and make one happen! At least one! Thanks and have a great week mister Isaac Arthur!

My work week starts on Thursday, these videos make it worthwhile lol.

I was just thinking about how i should watch one of your videos but i have seen them all but here is a new one thank you sir your amazing content is what i need😁

At 7:25 , I was amazed (had to do the math) and yep, 600 watts from _only half a m^2 !_ I think that's about 43 watts for the top of the line, wow! Excellent video because so much time put in to it. Precise, covering all the angles and even a bit Arthoritive!

08:30 "We are more interested in the next decade that the next century " These words explain why I love this channel

Thank you once again. Another fascinating video.

Thursday the best day of the week ! And it begins when Isaac upload his video

This content is the best on KZread. Nuff said.

I enjoy this channel, it makes me think about interstellar travel, and many other things that if we could, possibly unite as one and expand into Interstellar space and make an interstellar civilization. Thanks for the awesome videos.

Love what you do so much Isaac. Thank you so much. and I’ll definitely check out skillshare!

"Rectenna", not sure I'd be too comfortable with that...😂

He's back!!!

Fabulous video! Thank you!

Best channel on KZread, bar none!

I loved the advertizing!

Your videos give me hope for the future.

As far as backup energy generation and storage go, I think it's important to note that you CANNOT remove a hydroelectric damn without creating an ecological catastrophe, so no matter what future power generation we have, we will still have our existing hydro electric plants. And since they convert gravity into electricity as long as you have water stored behind them, they act as energy storage devices, too.

Awesome episode,..., Please, keep up the great work.

Fantastic episode!! Would you consider a follow-up video about all the various options for beaming power upwards? For example, DARPA just declassified a project to that effect.

Great episode! I've been saying for years that the only way we are ever really going to establish a permanent foothold in space is to develop a return on the investment of getting there (beyond just research). Power satellites has always struck me as the most obvious and immediate avenue for that return.

Great work, ive always found space and physics to be very mind blowing, fact can be stranger than fiction.

Future looks brighter every time it's Arthursday! Cheers

great cheers wish we had people like you making big decisions

why are you not the biggest KZreadr yet??! Your videos are just amazing.

Informative and nice graphics.

Happy Arthursday!

So excited.

THIS STUFF IS GREAT

The intro music gets me pumped!

Excellent video!

Total US cost spent on the Iraq war 2.4 trillion, not including Afghanistan. Could of built at least half a planetary ring mega structure with that, or a vacuum train network under the united states allowing coast to coast travel in 30 mins, or a base on the moon and mars easily, or again easily fully commercial fusion power.

The old intro is back!! Yes!!