List of space habitats mentioned: 5:53 O'Neill Cylinder 6:27 BIshop Ring R6viii 6:31 McKendree Cylinder R7ix 8:31 Babylon 5 O'Neill Cylinder 19:05 Banks Orbital R9vii 21:20 Ringworld - Larry Niven 22:07 Bishop Ring 23:35 Topopolis - Iain Banks 28:38 Polyhedral Habitat R7+ - Steve Bowers 29:04 Dyson Sphere, Partial Dyson Sphere

I'm so impressed by the quality and care that goes into making these videos. You are educating the next generation of science fiction artists!

@isaacarthurSFIA

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you Liam, I would be overjoyed to see the material in these videos, especially megastructures, start seeing more common use in scifi

@user-gi7kl5qu6x

7 жыл бұрын

in fact these do inspire me to do more sci-fi art and it is always interesting to learn. i am deeply thankful for these, Isaac

@isaacarthurSFIA

7 жыл бұрын

I very much would love to see those sometime :)

@shawn8093

7 жыл бұрын

@Isaac Arthur I just have to say, I love how you speak.

@jerrysearcy4063

7 жыл бұрын

I was unable to find where to send comments ("Add a public comment..." keeps opening my gmail.") so I used this method. Here is my question to Issac: At 22:18 in Rotating Habitats he says "...and they're spinning at nearly half a percent of light speed...". Is it true that they're spinning at 93.14 miles per second? That sounds really, really fast!!! Jerry Searcy jerrysearcy98@gmail.com

Your videos are beautifully sculpted, not edited. You are a breath of fresh air. Don't worry about your voice so much, the intellect and depth of knowledge make noticing such a small handicap a non issue. Keep it up, you have reignited the joy of space in the heart of my son and I. A pleasure listening to you. I hope you get to read this one day and find comfort in the knowledge of how many lives you reach.

@isaacarthurSFIA

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

No problem at all understanding your voice. It's actually a lot better than a great deal of people on KZread.

A million times Earth's surface area? Imagine being the guy who has to draw up the maps!

@kellywilson-lawson1857

7 жыл бұрын

+James Braselton we can't let Ai do everything or else we'll risk a terminator scenario

@CockatooDude

7 жыл бұрын

Well the AI would only have to be specifically intelligent enough to draw a map.

@isaacarthurSFIA

7 жыл бұрын

Which isn't too smart, the gentleman who does most of the cover art for this channel these days experiments with a lot of procedural models that will render basically infinite variations on a landscape and spew out a stream of images that are photo realistic of random terrain. So the computer doesn't have to be too smart to design the map layout or compile the equivalent of Google Earth for a Ringworld. :) Now maintaining all that might take some more brains unless we actually want to have folks drawling around the exterior repairing collision damage or running whatever monotous process is involved with covering over the slow erosion from a lack of tectonics.

@nanomachinesson2513

7 жыл бұрын

SanctuaryReintegrate Or worse, the Google Street view guy that needs to drive around to capture the photographs

@ghostsharklegs6687

7 жыл бұрын

Isaac Arthur you could just have a background swarm of nanobots repairing the landscape at the same ultra gradual pace of erosion.

I spent years in speech therapy as a kid. I am very impressed by your ability to address this in a such a calm and collected way at the beginning of each video. That being said, I love the content.

@isaacarthurSFIA

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you Austin, on both counts :)

@austindowney7473

7 жыл бұрын

You are welcome good sir. I don't need it now, but if I had seen/heard that has a child it would have really changed my perspective. Keep up the GREAT work!

It's nice seeing someone else with a speech impediment make as cool videos as you do. I used to have a terrible stutter and would never have had the courage to post videos. It definitely helps that your topics are extremely interesting.

@isaacarthurSFIA

7 жыл бұрын

:) Thank you!

@guitarplayer1071

7 жыл бұрын

+Isaac Arthur no problem. I discovered your channel last night and have been hooked since. thank you so much for making these videos.

@RCSVirginia

7 жыл бұрын

+ guitarplayer1071 Hear, Hear! I totally agree.

@jhoughjr1

6 жыл бұрын

I've been hooked for a few months now. Mind gets blown regularly.

@theutopianoutopioan464

6 жыл бұрын

guitarplayer1071 , Does your stutter still exist ?

About your voice: The sheer power of your insight and clear descriptions overcomes it. Frankly inspiring.

Another great vid. I always enjoy thinking over the challenges of building structures like these. I remember reading "Rendezvous with Rama" by Arthur C. Clarke, and wandering why we're not doing this already. thanks for the thought provoking vids, keep them coming pls.

@dougmc666

6 жыл бұрын

We didn't pay for Rama and we're still waiting for the freebie to appear just as Arthur planned.

Whoa. That got intense. Such a great series. Keep up the excellent work!

Thank you for these videos! Your videos lay out the ideas in a way that is simple without seeming dumbed down and I just want you to know that you're appreciated.

@isaacarthurSFIA

8 жыл бұрын

+ShineOn1337 Thanks! That's exactly what I aim for with these so it's good to know they're doing their job.

I love the older videos. They have their own unique charm with the lower production quality.

I am always so happy when I see a new vid from you. Thanks!

Your voice is just fine by me! I can understand everything that you are saying, and what you are saying is worth listening to. That is what counts. Just keep up the good work!

I've been binge watching your videos over the last couple of days. Your voice is one of the primary draws of why I have been watching them. Thank you for providing these videos. I honestly thought it was simply an accent.

Love your voice Isaac Arthur. Never had a problem understanding you even though I have hearing problems. I'm subscribed. I absolutely love your futuristic ideas. Many scientists and science fiction writers could benefit from listening to your KZread shows. 'A big fan, peace.'

Having listened to Isaac Arthur narration for almost as long as his videos have been on KZread I’m still surprised that he once insisted that people turned the closed captions on. The insecurities from such an intelligent man make me think he must have gone through a pretty rough time growing up, I could be wrong and I hope he didn’t but if you see this comment Arthur, I love your information, questions, suggestions, and I never really think of your speech impediment. In fact it’s one of the most soothing voices on KZread so please keep being Isaac Arthur, don’t change a thing.

Just discovered your channel 😀😀😀 it's like you tapped into the minds of all space nerds and created a channel just for us!! This is by far my favorite channel. I understand you just fine and love your unique voice. If I heard you in a crowd I'd know it was you! I'm excited to explore your channel. Thank you for making you tube intersting 💪

Super glad I found your channel, all your videos are excellent! Exactly what I was looking for, very informative. Keep up the good work!

Honestly, Futurism for me is your voice talking about the future. Thanks

Superb as usual. You are like a torchbearer pointing our way to the stars. Consider Phlebas was the first IMB novel I read and probably still my favourite. A sad loss indeed. Still, on the upside, I am greatly looking forward to the vid on interstellar colonization.

@isaacarthurSFIA

8 жыл бұрын

+al McDonald Yes, good writer, I suppose my favorite is Use of Weapons though it doesn't make for a good reread the way Phlebas, Player of Games, or Excession do.

Your voice is perfect..Your videos are just amazing and thought provoking..I truly love the information u provide, and your theories are amazing..If u had novels they would definitely sell...

I just came here bc one of the comments on a video of Scott Manley suggested to do so (and this video was featured in the side bar) and I want to say, that the subtitles are really helpful. In the beginning I was very close to leaving, but with aid of the subtitels I began to really like and appreciate your voice and especially your script. You have a new subscriber. :)

@isaacarthurSFIA

7 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the channel!

The stated tensile strength of some of those materials (kevlar, zylon, nanotubes) is the strength of the individual fibers. However as fibers are woven into a bulk material the strength dramatically decreases. For example typical carbon fibers can be found with a tensile strength of 4.3 GPa, yet the strongest carbon fiber composite that I'm aware of is at less than 1.5 GPa. They would definitely work great as reinforcement to improve the strength to weight ratio of structural pieces, but they wouldn't comprise most of the structure.

@deep_dive6699

6 жыл бұрын

Edgerino a carbon fibre rope will still be pretty close to the strength of one fibre. It depends how you load the structure, if you are using it as a spoke you can get near to the full strength. Around 1.5GPa is normally a yield for a high fibre content composite. Safety factors are way to complex for KZread comments

@dannygjk

4 жыл бұрын

That surprises me as woven rope does not decrease in strength per fiber.

Have you ever thought about extra-terrestrial minimalism. Most frontiers are conquered by individuals. What is the minimum society size that can live extra-terrestrially and how would it live? Woud burrowing into an astroid without much modification make for a good shelter? How would you mainain oxygen water food? Perhapase a blowup house that you simply dig into the center and blow it up. What kind of material would you need to support the level of pressure needed. How would you keep the gravel from gravitating toward itself in the case of being slightly off center, aka boyancy?

@d.thieud.1056

6 жыл бұрын

as he said, gravity is so low the gravels gravity wouldn't be able to overcome the friction with the outside walls, i mean these asteroids are already extremely irregularly shaped because they don't have the gravity to pull themselves into anny real compact shape, if you hollowed them out their gravity would become even less... as for the minimum population, i like to think that's irrelevant, if you buld one or more of the cheap launch systems mentioned on this channel previously, odds are it wouldn't be very long until you started looking into building the orbital ring megastructure, since its benefits would out-weigh the cost on even the short term, since it would be really cheap and probably quiet profitable to get in-space mining operations going, and once you've made it this far, building your 1st O-niel cylinder isnt realy that much of a challenge annymore. as for the materials, the prices of creating graphene are expected to come waaaaaay the f*** down, especially if you have cheaper power sources, like say fusion plants for instants.

Love what you do. Educating regular people on big ideas. You don’t talk down but make things simple at the same time. Great teacher.

Great video! Given the extreme cost of launching anything into earth orbit, having a large moon seems like universe's gift to mankind. First rotating space stations/habitats can be constructed from materials mined from moon using robots and telepresence from earth.

@isaacarthurSFIA

7 жыл бұрын

In a way yes, but at the same time a smaller moon in geosynch with us, which would be a pretty common occurrence, or very small moons right over the Roche limit, might be even more handy. Less material to work with but even a tiny moon like Phobos would be handy if closer.

Love from Sweden. You are wonderful - optimistic, able to see posibilities. Voice - perfect. True inspiration. You've made me understand how awsome we are.

Your voice is fine man. We all got are querks. Your vids and knowledge, is what I watch for. 👊

Going through classic Issac Arthur. You and Godier, my two favorites.

Mr. Arthur, thanks for making these wonderful videos. I only just discovered them today and now I'm going to have to watch the whole series.

What's great about this channel is it looks at things practically

Thank you so much Issac. As always a real pleasure to view your work :D Very interesting and informative. It's so stimulating to speculate and explore these topics. Please keep doing what you're doing!

I can understand you just fine plus all good scientists have accents.

@AnneArchibald

7 жыл бұрын

Everyone has an accent. Accents are just how you speak. In my little corner of the building I counted five substantially different accents (e.g. Canadian, Australian, Southern English...) from just the native English speakers. But yes, the language of science is English with a foreign accent.

@Cyberplayer5

5 жыл бұрын

Many great science fiction characters have unique accents too. :)

@bobbone8029

4 жыл бұрын

I came to the comment section to say the same thing! Lol! Keep up the awesome work sir, you sound fine!

@whattheglasses9904

3 жыл бұрын

this is so true

@whattheglasses9904

3 жыл бұрын

and funny

You videos are amazing! I really appreciate that you talk at length on each subject and don't try to dumb it down. That's what makes your channel the best of its kind. It's nice that you subtitle - more people should, in general, for the hard of hearing, and for those who aren't English First Language, etc. - but I have no trouble understanding your voice at all, even though I'm Australian. Actually, get this - I listen to your videos every night before bed, because your voice helps lull me to sleep (although I'm always so engaged by the content, I usually have to watch a second video before I can let myself drift. When I think about the cosmos, even my biggest problems feel smaller). I thought you just had a very special Southern US accent. I'm really into linguistics and languages, so I'm always excited by regional variations. The way you pronounce vowels, at times, is actually closer to being Australian than a standard NA accent, so it doesn't sound strange to me, but it's probably more unusual to your fellow Americans. You also occasionally mimic the intonation of certain British accents. Your speech is wonderfully unique, and just one of the many things that makes your channel special. I know it must be difficult, but there's no need to be self-conscious. :)

Just discovered your channel. Thank you SO MUCH for looking at these topics in-depth and for sharing your knowledge. Amazingly done!!

Great video, looking forward to the interstellar colonization! good to relax with after finals.

I just wanted to say thank you for the amount of effort that you put into your videos. You very obviously have a passion for what you do. It shows in the quality of your work as well as the quantity. You are efforts to respond to the comments that are made on your channel are noted as well. I'm also very appreciative as I'm sure are many of your listeners of the fact that you specifically try and keep things geared towards civil discussion and away from all of the negativity the tends of permeate comment sections these days. It's much nicer just to be able to openly discuss such fascinating topics with people who even if they're not like minded are at least interested and driven towards progression. Anyway I just wanted to thank you and you are very deserving of my subscription as well as the others that I have shared your Channel with. Keep up the good work please

Love this guys videos, very thought provoking.

I've been binge watching for over two hours! love the videos

WOW! Issac, while all of your videos are amazing, this one in particular is one of your best episodes yet! Keep up the great work! :)

Thank you, Isaac Arthur. Good video.

Great video! Keep up the great work

Glorious presentation as usual. Handsome vid mate.

waskally wabbit, lol I always enjoy your videos, and I don't give a tinker's damn about your Elmer Fudd "accent." Keep 'em coming, brother. Working my way through your videos, so please forgive resurrecting a dead comment section...

I have watched a few videos by you. And I noticed that you start each video about your speech problems. I must say, I do hear some. But also I must say it is hardly noticeable. I understand your videos very well. You do such a good job explaining stuff. Instead of watching another Netflix flick, I first go to your channel to find something interesting. Thanks for making these interesting videos and enriching our (us subscriber's) life!

Six years? I keep saying this dude is gonna run out of video ideas but they just keep rolling in!

you're amazing dude keep up the fantastic content, love this channel.

@isaacarthurSFIA

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Brennan!

@numberjackfiutro7412

4 жыл бұрын

@@isaacarthurSFIA I doubt we need Earth level gravity. Chances are that 1\3 or 2\3 of Earth's gravity will do.

Superb, as always. Many thanks for all your work.

@isaacarthurSFIA

8 жыл бұрын

+Jack Carter Thanks Jack!

Love this older videos. To bad KZread made it a pain in the neck to find them.

Great work.

thank you for producing this kind

Another great vid! thanks for sharing this!

Thank you for all these videos. They have become the basic for a more realistic SciFi game/world i've been working on for quite some time, the premise being earth is gone/destroyed and no FTL travel. Without these vids the realism in my ideas would be severely lacking.

And then some people in our rotating space habitats get really pissed off at us and drop one on Sydney.

@redoctane13

7 жыл бұрын

Operation Meteor yo!

@AnakinSkyobiliviator

7 жыл бұрын

Operation British much?

@KalashnikovPaouzzi

7 жыл бұрын

Well when someone want to drop a colony on Jaburo but the military get in the way, Sydney ends up paying the price lol

@gundism

7 жыл бұрын

haha gundam

@charjl96

6 жыл бұрын

Notice how you say "our". Typical Earthnoid

Love your channel. Thanks a lot.

Would be cool to have a movie where they live on one of these rings or tubes. The movie could be about some normal life or adventure, and they would not show where they are until the movie progresses. At some point the adventure would lead for example to outside of the habitat either through the floor or to the sky. Then the audience would realise that whoa, they weren't on a planet. There could be hints like the horizon was different, but not too revealing at first. If it was a tube, it could have an inner sky tube to hide the other side.

Incredible video makes science and technology understandable to everyone.

As an architect and civil engineer, these kind of videos are my favourites 😌 I lack a lot of the physics parts but you do a great job filling in all my missing knowledge! And it’s entertaining too!

Gerard K. O'Neill wrote in his book "The High Frontier" that in a rotation cylinder with a diameter of 5 miles, the contained atmosphere is massive enough to make the sky look blueish without having to "fake" a sky like you suggested. :)

My speech impediment is ignorance. That's why I'm listening to you, Isaac.

Awesome video!

Your voice is okay man. Very gracious of you to say...

Your pronunciation is just fine Isaac. Great videos!

When i think about what i want to do with my evening Isaac Arthur videos are usually a part of it

@isaacarthurSFIA

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Mine is mostly Trek, Who, and Stargate marathons :)

Great video!

Isaac dont be so hung up on your voice brother you sound fine man i have no problems at all hearing you and you speak very clear to this is all great stuff i love your chan dude great content keep it up bro !!!!

Great video.

So I judged your videos prematurely because I was half asleep and have a hard time processing spoken words. I was wrong for judging you so swiftly, I love your content and your content is top notch. Please forgive me!

Great video. These megastructure videos are really intriguing; I'm constantly wondering "If this is what we could (hypothetically) do now, what could we do if "x" were true?" I.e. artificial gravity, or having a decanter of endless water from D 'n D and growing massive bio-structures (a tree-house...but in spaaaace), etc. The thought of staring up at the stars from the exterior surface of some massive space donut, surrounded by trees and rivers and such, is incredibly cool.

Your videos are enthralling and full of vast amounts of interesting facts and thought experiments that even Einstein would probably enjoy :) Thank you for all the time and effort you put into these! Where has most of your knowledge base came from if you don't mind me asking? Thank You Again!

One cool thing about rotating habitats is you can literally fly by moving in the opposite direction of rotation, until you are still, relative to the rotating structure. You will then be weightless. Just move up enough to avoid being hit by structures, and wait until your intended destination comes to you. Then, all you have to do is start moving again, util your speed syncs with the rotating structure, and land. Very little fuel or energy would be needed to fly like that.

Very Interesting Video.

but still, among the best videos on KZread.

Wow! I really think living in such habitats (maybe in a dyson swarm) would be very cool (and efficient). I look forward to the future😃. I liked most the realistic rotating habitats

"Babylon 5 was an O'Neill Cylinder. Also one of the best SF shows of the '90s." HELL yeah! High-five! Heck, there was even an episode where somebody fell while crossing the center...and because there was no/little gravity there, away from the spinning sides, they kinda _floated_ down. I love this stuff. :)

@annoyed707

6 жыл бұрын

You refer to the episode where Sheridan dives out of a transit vehicle to avoid a bomb, and is heading for collision with the exterior. I won't spoil what happens.

I really like the bishop ring for some reason, especially with the "sun rod" lamp thing.

I cannot believe I did not give a like all those years ago, still amazing on second watch and have rectified that mistake🎉

problem with HAVING a rotating habitat is MOVING a rotating habitat. It's inevitable. It's like imagining a car, when there are no cars, and not wondering what it would be like to drive. Nobody even mentions what it's like to imagine driving one!

just recently discovered your channel and at the moment I'm going through the megastructures collection. and even at this point E04, there's a lot of concepts and ideas that I was not aware of, literally jaw dropping 😊 regarding your Trek comment I think your right, who needs Planets lol, I can see the advantages if you have a civilisation like this with warp technology and it would be even greater if they had replication tech as well, even if it's a primitive form, basic materials and alloys only and the energy costs would be pretty much free ( mine the stars then use gigantic solar powered replication foundry's)

Hi just found out your channel, it's very good! Congratulations.

good video Isaac keep it up

Strait up rock can be used for cement and making bricks. Tree roots have been found 400Ft under ground.

@massimookissed1023

4 жыл бұрын

Deep roots are usually for anchorage and accessing deep water, but most feed roots are within the top 3'

Congratulations on 1000 subscribers!

@isaacarthurSFIA

8 жыл бұрын

+Drew McTygue Thanks Drew, it's a great benchmark to have reached, glad to know people are enjoying the material.

@Drew_McTygue

8 жыл бұрын

+Isaac Arthur i always look forward to your videos; they're very entertaining, unique and thought provoking

@sapiensfromterra5103

8 жыл бұрын

+Drew McTygue They are, especially your Fermi Paradox videos became a huge inspiration for me, even to the point that I am now reading "50 solutions to the fermi paradox" just to learn even more about it... your videos and the Fermi Paradox certainly gave me a new outlook on the universe!

@isaacarthurSFIA

8 жыл бұрын

+SapiensfromTerra Thanks, glad to hear you're enjoying Webb's book and that this has given you a shifted outlook. That fun 'woah' moment when new material gets genuinely absorbed into the mind and shifts how you look at life, the universe, and everything has always been my favorite part of science, philosophy, history, etc.

@MarcErlich44

8 жыл бұрын

+Isaac Arthur Webb now has 75 Solutions to the Fermi Paradox. I just got it a few months ago.

very interesting! I was hoping for a touch on the halo rings though /hides. At least the smaller 10,000km diameter rings. also thanks for all these videos im currently on an epic youtube binge and im watching LOTS of your content. Very interesting and thought provoking. Also i subbed /smile you have a good day too!

A cylinder within a cylinder system w var grav levels and even adjustable spin / grav could be useful for again industrial, commercial and medical applications as well as recreational. A habitation unit w a larger ocean and heavier landscape (mountains and etc) could be of use and if turning counter ways deal w rotational stress of some aspects of the mechanical systems. Just thoughts.

Tapering one for dif grav levels could be useful for certain industrial and commercial applications, making certain materials for industry, medical and etc would be easier w less gravity. Building living structures for the rest of the cylinder would be easier in a section w less gravity. Recovery from certain injuries would be easier in less gravity, 1/3rd for some then 2/3rds and then normal grav. This could be on a dedicated medical cylinder in orbit.

My favourite that I know of is the Kalpana1 design, because unlike you I am a minimalist by nature, it only so happens I read lots of SF in my day. Kalpana design is great because it is the simplest and the smallest of the ones I've seen. Passive stabilization, passive cooling, passive lighting. 250 radius, 250 length. If I expect any to be built within my lifetime, it's one this simple. Therefore it's my favourite.

The big problem with doing low gravity for marine life is that it changes the balance of dynamic vs. static lift. What this essentially does is buff sharks, which should quickly evolve to be basically dense tubes of muscle that don't float, but use hydrodynamic lift. Their high density means low cross-sectional area would give them higher top speeds.

Your voice is great mate!

Fun fact: after 24/48 hours of nausea in space, the human vestibular system tends to shut down and the brain then relies more on the eyes and ears for spatial awareness. As a result, it's actually really hard to make an astronaut nauseous or dizzy. Given just a bit of time, most of us adapt very well. There are cool videos of astronauts on the ISS getting spun around too high Gs and when they come out of it, they recalibrate in 3-5 seconds with little or no feeling of sickness. KZread "do astronauts get dizzy in space?" It's a NASA demonstration video about what I just described :)

If it's about adding land, which you talk about at 5:22, I think Flevoland would like to have a word with you, haha. Very much enjoying this playlist.

@isaacarthurSFIA

7 жыл бұрын

:) There is a limit as to how much land we can reclaim that way of course

Delightful video! There's a charming fictional option that doesn't quite fit any of your categories: Karl Schroeder's Virga is a huge balloon of breathable air with no gravity (and a fusion "sun" at the center). Inhabitants who can afford gravity get it by constructing rotating habitats of various sizes - since these do not need to be air-tight they can be made out of whatever the inhabitants can cobble together. Since in this setting the balloon was conquered by some not-present super-high-tech society that makes impossible technology more advanced than jet engines, it makes for some charmingly retro-tech habitats, and "space travel" between them that doesn't even require air-tight ships. But the mental image of a small community cobbling together a habitat out of balsa wood and propeller engines is just charming.

@isaacarthurSFIA

7 жыл бұрын

That is a fascinating design

@AnneArchibald

7 жыл бұрын

Karl Schroeder is an interesting author generally. One of his themes is voluntary refusal of technology: communities in a larger society that, like the Amish or (some of) the Mennonites, are surrounded by far-future technology but who choose to build a society that does not use some of it. It makes for some interesting situations, and it also gives you a more approachable viewpoint through which to see some of the fancy technology.

How does heat dissipation work with a zylinder rotating in vacuum in a stationary shell? The shell would reflect back quite a bit of the heat radiation, till it is hot enough itself to radiate out into space enough. My gut feeling says that the temperature of he shell will be halfway between the average radiative temperature of space and the temperature of the rotating zylinder. So you would limit the heat you can radiate away severely.

@isaacarthurSFIA

7 жыл бұрын

You'd expect the outer shell to be decently cooler, and it would be the ultimate radiator, but you could use convective and conductive radiation to move heat from the inner spinning one to the outer shielded one. You could also have radiating fins on it, either made of a good thermal conductor or with pipes flowing up into them to move the heat.

I'd like to live on Tier, one of the habs from Look To Windward by Iain .M Banks. Great vid Isaac.

amazing

Used to have a friend with a simular speech impediment.. training for your awsome amazingness badassery

16:00 or you could even have cameras on the outer shell, relaying their images stitched together in a mozaic to be displayed on the central "sky" cylinder inside. Thus letting the population look up and see a "tv screen" of what is actually outside the habitat. I think many people would be fine with that, sure they'd know that what they see isnt the "real" sky, but just a tv image of whats outside, but still. With higher pixel size than the eye can discern at that distance (honestly wouldnt be too hard, since the sky cylinder would be so far above your heads), it'd look as lifelike as we consider a 4k television image to look.

Great stuff! Gone through about a dozen of your vids so far. Never had any need for the closed captions. Keep it up, I REALLY enjoy digging into another vid every chance I get. I noticed at least some of them aren't monetized? No commercials? You need to get paid something for your time Issac.

@isaacarthurSFIA

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! To be honest the only reason any of the videos are monetized in any fashion is that KZread has a couple special features only available if you do, so I use that tiny pop up where the closed captions go anyway, so it can be easily dismissed before I start talking. It produces a trickle of revenue that I figure compensates KZread fairly enough for hosting my material. I do have a patreon account these days that's linked in the video descriptions, and that seems to work better anyway.

@RockinSmack

7 жыл бұрын

Finally got back to this. Visited your Patreon to chip in what I can as I wish to see this content continue to be produced. Still, just to mention, I would not skip the commercials if they were to run during your youtube videos. Anyway, thanks for the great content and all the best going forward!

@isaacarthurSFIA

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and supporting the channel! But I think any additional commercial would definitely have to be of the easily skipable variety, truth be told a lot of my motivaiton for not having them is I don't want to share my audience's attention with anyone else distracting them form the topics :)

Working titanium in space will be as easy as working steel on earth as you don't have to worry about keeping it from oxidizing :^)