:) I write the episodes a couple months out, and am generally only a week or two ahead in picking episode topics, and record about a week later to keep myself tinkering with episodes excessively. The visuals get put together about a week ahead though, hence why I usually 'say' what the next two episodes are, but will often 'show' the next month's worth. I just finished the video for next week for instance, but am just finishing the draft reviews for September 12th's episode and plan to record it tonight.
@@isaacarthurSFIA heh, I gathered as much, just seemed emblematic of an engineers attention to detail that in post script there was clearly an earmarked *insert date here when verified*.
@@isaacarthurSFIA also, thank you so much to you and your whole team for all the awesome content. This is by far my favourite content channel and really appreciate the breadth of subject and details there in you all provide.
Fun episode! Since mother ships/habitats will spend a lot of time in transit between working stops, having fun stuff to do along the way will be crucial to recruiting crew, especially since people will only have to work for endeavors they actually care about. So you spend weeks with minimal duties, then work like mad for a few days to load, unload, mine, trade, whatever; then back to hanging out having fun. Also, since the trips are long and the layovers potentially subject to orbital conjunctions, you will sometimes get days or weeks of waiting on the best departure time, while you do your ground-side tourism as well. The crew will BE the tourists, and you'll be able to tour in exchange for doing your part in the intermittent crew work. That's space industry in the post-scarcity age -- a casual expedition-style arrangement.
Space Tourism is something we've been planning for a long time. Did you know that back during the Apollo missions Pan-Am was selling tickets on their future flights to the moon and Hilton was giving reservations certificates for stay dates after 1980 on their Lunar Hilton in orbit above the moon?
Generally speaking, i'll believe something is happening when i'll see it happen. As is, right now, if somehow space tourism would be setup at a cost you or i could use, we'd pollute the planet so badly it wouldn't even be worth saving by that point. So space tourism is a float dream. Now, working in space for anyone, that'd be interesting. And even that is within the next generations, maybe in another hundred years by how we're dragging our feet.
Loved it, especially the part when you mentioned life extension. Life would never get boring if we got the chance to explore the universe and create realistic simulations.
It's already never boring. I just kept thinking how you can go into your backyard and look at several levels of magnification to find exotic new creatures and worlds, from insects to microbes, and that's just in one small patch of your yard - the entirety of your yard is like a universe at that scale. People don't ever get to half the countries in the world, let alone investigate what lives in damp hollows and under leaf litter in those countries or how the birds are different.
I remember reading Welcome to Moonbase by Ben Bova when I was a kid. One of the big tourist traps there was being able to fly under your own power by flapping wings strapped to your arms. I think that would be a pretty cool experience that could be replicated on the interplanetary cruise ships you are talking about.
@@MsJooy I think my spawn will be ok... They're young enough to reap the rewards of the coming biotech. Thanks though, and tell the aliens I says hey... :)
Average video length has actually increased over the years, though they are a bit shorter this month, the difference is that I don't do 40+ minute videos anymore, and I never did that many of those anyway, since it's usually better to cut it into 2+ episodes instead. But in that regard Spaceplanes and Beamed Power are 1 episode, the three black hole episodes and Fleet of Stars is one episode, this weekend's void ecology and next weeks space whales is 1 episode, etc.
I just wanted to thank you for your weekly efforts. They are the Highlight of my day.... I have gone back and watched everything you have presented and I can't tell you how much excitement and fun I have watching each ahow. I live in Dallas TX and the folks around here do not have much interest or comprehension of deep time, immense distance or the keys we hold to ch a nge the place for the better. MORE SCIENCE. I don't know the math but just like I am unable to read music I van play the guitar very well. Someone just needs to ask the right question. Grand Theory awaits.
I came up with an idea for a space cruise ship, the idea is that the habitat changes shape depending on the ship's acceleration to maintain a consistent apparent down direction thus enabling higher levels of comfort. It's called a Flower Ship. At zero acceleration the habitat is a spinning O'Neil cylinder. At low acceleration the cylinder starts to open up like a flower and the spin slows down somewhat to combine spin and acceleration. At this point there would be a gravitational gradient from one end of the cylinder to the other but people could be viewed as a positive thing. At high acceleration it opens all the way up so it's shaped like a cog with very long teeth, at this point all spin is removed and it relies purely on acceleration for gravity.
@@keithedwards9953 A "geo-eclopse" would be a solar eclipse seen from the moon. A lunar eclipse seen from the moon would be like a solar eclipse seen from Earth. It would take place during the lunar day, as the sun passed behind Earth.
Loved the episode, but I think it might have benefited from a more categorical approach. Space tourism, after all, is a rather large topic encompassing many different motivations for going and many different destinations to choose from. Perhaps these could be revisited later? My preliminary list for space tourism would be 1) Non-terrestrial Experience- the experience of microgravity/free fall and the void. Being weightless is spoken of anytime the subject of space tourism comes up, but being suspended in empty space with nothing but stars in every direction is an experience I expect people will find as thrilling and terrifying as any rollercoaster ride, but with the added quality of religious awe and grandeur. 2) Natural Wonders- you covered most of these, although I would add to your list, viewing or diving into Jupiter's Red Spot, observing on site the conjunction of all 4 of the great jovian moons, experiencing a lunar eclipse from the moon, and dropping in a comet as it transits the inner solar system as other major attractions. Of course, when we speak of a distant future in which the solar system is colonized, there will be space tourism to visit the natural wonders on Earth, some of which we take for granted today like the pacific ocean. 3) Historical Tourism- you mentioned some of these, like the Apollo landing sites and rovers. Others will include our martian landers and rovers, the ISS is Russia takes over and extends its operation, Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster in space, and of course those future historical events like the landing site of the first human on mars. 4) Man-made Wonders- mega-structures are certainly one example, but another was right under your nose. You mentioned how early on only the wealthy will get to visit space. People with indecent fortunes have a history of sponsoring obscenely expensive and exquisitely artistic architectural wonders. The boldest and most talented architects will get to design private residences, corporate retreats, political capitals/palaces, and religious buildings often in environments where terrestrial restrictions do not apply. You could build interlocking ring habitats resembling religious symbols, or design a habitat of optical illusions. Old earth wonders could be duplicated or enlarged upon or even transported into space and taken on a tour of the solar system the way museum exhibits tour the Earth today. 5) Cultural Events and Attractions- Art and music will always draw tourists. It is nice to see a picture of the Mona Lisa, but to be standing in front of the original will always be an incomparable experience. Artists will be spreading themselves all over early space with their wealthy patron eagerly sponsoring their craft. We sometimes speak of products that may only be manufactured in micro gravity, but what of art? Imagine the painting techniques that might only work in free fall, paints that can only be manipulated in vacuum, or musical performances that can only be truly appreciated when heard performed in the clouds of Venus, or under seas of Europa. Festivals, entertainers, sports, religious pilgrimages, casinos, and even political rallies offer a near infinite list of potential tourism attractions. 6) Prestige and Leisure- much tourism is just forgetting away someplace and relaxing. True, it will always be cheaper to vacation locally, but people will save or even take out a loan to spend a week relaxing at their dream resort. Bragging rights are also commodity and always will be as long we retain the impulse to "keep up with the Joneses." 7) Scientific Tourism- definitely on the margins today, but in a solar system housing a trillion or so humans, rare cosmic events and newsworthy experiments will have the potential to draw millions of science-enthusiasts with a little extra cash. Examples could include: comets plummeting through the solar system, summers on Pluto, storms on Jupiter/Saturn, or for the truly daring visiting a Coronal Mass Ejection on the sun. Of course, if we ever create telescopes using the gravitational lensing of the sun to get close-ups of exoplanets, you will have no shortage of people willing to take years of their life travelling to the scope for both the history and for excitement of being on site when the next world is imaged for the first time and to be among the very first to see those images while the rest of humanity has to wait a couple light hours to see it. 8) Virtual Tourism- you already touched on this and I really don't think there is a whole lot to say on the matter, largely because this will become a huge enterprise whether or not we ever go to space. Whether you love to explore but hate to travel, or simply can't afford the travel expense, VR is the solution even when the destination is across the street. Tech is already fast approaching making virtual tourism a reality, and when it happens it will be the next Facebook of Silicon Valley. Also, that is pretty much what all our deep space probes have been if you strip away their scientific contributions. In fact, I expect scientists and conservationists who are always in search of funding will find VR tourism a tempting solution to their problems. Applying that to space only seems logical, and I fully expect that industry to be sufficiently advanced to let anyone with a VR headset step off the lunar lander in real time with the next human to set foot there. So that's my list and why I think you could probably redo this episode as an entire series. Thank you to anyone who has read this far. Give yourself a pat on the back. You've earned it!
From a storytelling perspective, this is one of the reasons why some of my favourite episodes of Doctor Who are 'Midnight' and 'Voyage of the Damned'. They both skew in the 'gone wrong' side of things, but I love the little bits of tourism in them. Also a space-cruise liner that is modelled after the Titanic is very funny and very on brand, considering what happened to it.
All space property should belong to humanity as a whole, the only way to even achieve this would be to move past the idea of private property ownership (not to be confused with personal and public property which would be all that was left)
I can't imagine what TripAdvisor would look like in a space tourism era. You could award stars to different destinations that varied in type as well as number: red dwarf stars for low quality ones, giant blue stars for high quality. Award three black holes to the Grand Stellar Hotel on Europa to indicate "This place sucks big time!"
'' Hello; this is your tour guide Speaking: *please do Not feed the space naitilus and the martian dogs* ! Or they'll consume you along with the food you've; alright; thanks for listening; enjoy your stay! ''
Having scene the large variety of ways that tourists can hurt themselves (and their kids) at a ski resort, I worry about issues with liability insurance and alcohol.
Space Sports! I once joked with a friend, with the ~0.01 gravity of some bodies like Ceres, you could have weightlifters using army tanks instead of standard weights. Shotput with trucks anyone? I also wonder what running would be like. You could probably get up to some insane speeds very slowly, possibly using all four limbs.
Imagine taking your family on an amazing trip to some incredible location in our solar system... your 10yo boy loves every minute, while ypur teenage girl hates it.... only later will she realize this was the best family vacation ever. Lol. Human nature will never change, as we expand pur horizons, there will always be kids that are unimpressed. As always, your vlogs are amazing and inspiring! I LOVE your chan.
It is almost certain that if space travel become safer and faster someday such as cruises in sea today, it is clear that space travel agencies will make a fortune.
Great comment. I never get tired of dumb sayings. I think most people with half a brain and a minute of thought could give countless examples of how life was more exciting when they were kids. Not to mention that at a point your brain would be the equivalent of a burnouts. Not trying to be as mean as it sounds. P.S. it's a pipe dream to believe people will live two-hundred years or more as even with near constant organ transplant and everything else we could have, a person's brain would keep getting worse. I like these shows but they're way to optimistic. There is a reason we quit going to the moon, haven't gone to Mars etc. Radiation lack of gravity and cost being the biggest along with lack of motivation. We will mine asteroids, comets, meteors/ites/kids whatever the right one is. We will mine the moon, Mars and probably the first two planets but as far as how six pack going to these places it's not really going to happen. Automation will replace most jobs over the next twenty years or so. Fast food and other cooking, truck driving, cabs, clerks (retail, gas station, fast-food, grocery stores etc...) security, mechanics pretty much everything. P.s. doctors, nurses positions people wouldn't expect. 3/4's of the world's population will be almost entirely dependent on the government or hooking. We're all screwed, Rob from the rich everything not nailed down. 1% or less of the population controls 80% of the wealth, which means the other 99% of us live on the remaining 20%.
@@trunzlerclement3227 I know I'm Debbie downer on this post but realistically look at all this stuff. Musk and Bezos are just trying to get satelites for internet while playing off people's longing for something better and probably so before they die they can travel to Mars or wherever and securing their legacy. I think the plan is to turn large parts of Africa into National Parks (It's already started) to return the great plains to their pre Columbian existence, same with other areas of the world while the average person becomes poorer with no real chance of coming up. I'm not sure what kind of chance we actually have now but from my post you can see where I think it's heading. Another thing all the bs on jobs lost being replaced is just that bs. Look at how man people GM, Ford etc used to employ, look at all the lawn care jobs that will be gone. I'm for the legalization but thank of all the income that will be lost (mainly by poor to middle class people) by drugs becoming legal, same with gambling and probably prostitution although to a lesser extent. I'm for all three being legal as I don't see the legal authority to ban them, at least in the USA. What's the biggest nonskilled jobs in the world. I'm just guessing but truck driver is probably one of the bigger ones and it will die off over the next thirty years at most. If you're not well off now or already on your way I don't see a way to get there for most of the people born today's kids at the least. Manufacturing will become more and more automated and don't be fooled for a second that those jobs will be made up for by maintaining or building those robots, or that some union will protect you. They've already sold us all out. Colleges will (and should) get rid of most of the upper level people, especially anyone being paid to do anything with diversity. Look at the scandals with people buying their way on to soccer teams. The whole things corrupt and hemorrhages money. Construction jobs won't last, and who can afford the property taxes. Sorry for the rant and his early videos got me a little excited but the magnitude of everything is too much to overcome significantly in our lifetimes. I do believe most heavy industry will relocate to the moon but even that is a ways off. While I'm at it why are we not using a track on Mt. Everest to get higher and already be traveling a significant speed. You can't tell me it would cost much more than what the competing private companies and NASA are spending on next generation space suits. Rant done sorry if I rained on anyone's parade.
@@kevindodson1604 yeah all this scrap is sad, but if our end could be "easier" when we think about everything we could do and the spatial expansion we could complete, I think it's good. Human race have all tools to build a better future, they just need to put money on scientist projects and not in football or Jeff Besos wallet... Cause of this dawn system, capitalist system, money system, we are losing our wealth and if aliens exists and see us, I am pretty sure they are laughing at us... Dawn, mankind can make wonders, but this shitty system is gonna crush us down... And no one figure it. But I am ok, I have a feeling than the actual mankind will not perform to go through the next century, we will degrade because of wars, inegalities, lack of ressources and global warming... My last faith on mankind is disappearing slowly... (Sorry for the grammar, I am French XD)
Thanks :) and yeah, I typically check in on the comments a few times on the first day a video is out but I usually lurk actively for the first half hour or so in case there's some glaring error that slipped through.
Hey Isaac, Great work by you and your team once again. Honestly, space tourism is a very interesting topic and, in my opinion, will probably be one of the greatest driving factors in space development in the near future, especially since most people and governments have shown very limited interest in space exploration. That being said, you brought up a really interesting point during the video when talking about using beaming ti accelerate craft to higher speeds which got me thinking on the idea of "space highways" and what the possible ways to build and use such infrastructure would be. Personally, I think it'd make for a fun episode. Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing your videos with us! Cheers, D
I'd like to see a video dedicated to Safety in space. Safety features on every scale, personal: Suits, emergency situations, daily apparel for personal safety. Like I can imagine everyone wearing skin suits and some kind of quick deploying face shield/helmet for oxygen in the case of a failure. How individual rooms or buildings could be rigged to stay independent, ect. What happens when domes fail, when an asteroid unexpected fractures, when a space ship takes an impact or sabotage.
You know what my dream stop would be in the solar system? Saturn. Those rings would be so much more gorgeous up close! I'd imagine proposals being made up there. Either on the moons watching the sunriss/sunset or watching that from a ship. That'll be incredibly interesting and a wonderful sight to behold! As Isaac said at 0:04, "Space is awesome"!
Saturn would be beautiful. Personally I'd like it to visit one of Jupiter's moons, looking up at such a colossal planet with all it's storms and swirls and colours would be something else. If Europa has a particularly bioluminescent ecosystem it might be quite the tourist destination. I would love to see giant glowing alien squids, wether or not there are any or if we would be allowed to see them is another question.
Isaac, consider making an episode about the notion of other dimensions and possible life in those dimensions. For example, a two-dimensional universe would have length and width, but no depth. Creatures in a two-dimensional universe would be completely flat.
hanggliding on venus? damn, i couldn't imagine a more frightening experience. Have a failure in your glider and no parachute is going to save you if you miss one of the floating cities and slowly sink down into the deeper atmosphere of the planet...
John Varley has written some very interesting near Earth stories. One of his anthologies of short stories is named Blue Champagne . The story with the aforementioned name is about tourism on the moon. A good read by a great author !
I wouldn't pass the physical so I'm all for the Total Recall style experience. VR would allow to simulate technology and experiences we aren't yet able to produce in real life, so I could enjoy a trip to Titan in 20 years. Looking forward to it.
We need movies that deal more with outward bound ideas and how humans have colonized the solar system. So much potential with industry and colonization in space.
on zero G sports, i'm going to imagine something along the lines of harry potter's dunking balls through a hoop will probably be one of them, magic brooms replaced with jetpacks or something. i'm also hoping zero G martial arts would be a thing, replace the ring with a circular cage where they can push off from to then start grapling and the like while floating.
Maty83 under standard MMA rules a zero-g fight would just devolve into a midair wrestling fight. Not much point in striking if it’s just going to send you flying.
It would be interesting to see what kind of micro-gravity martial arts might develop. Its difficult to brace yourself for punch and kick based combat sports and throws won't work very well either so I guess unarmed martial arts would be mostly based on holds and so forth.
Yeah, that would be interesting to see. I was surprised how many new sports and variations we came up with when brainstorming and writing up that Space Sports episode
Nah, this is juvenile. Technology will soon make martial arts or really any physical confrontations obsolete. You can affect the nervous system with both electricity and magnetism, and the body is sensitive to chemicals so much that nothing a human can do to another with only his body will matter
@@DanielGenis5000 People don't tend to fight each other with swords on a regular basis and yet HEMA, fencing and Kenjutsu are all still popular and fun.
Who here pictured that cute, funny animated running T-Rex (sometimes used in these shows at the mention of awesome dinosaurs!) ...WHENNN Isaac said “space is AWESOME”!? Lol Or am I the only one?
A few days ago Warframe, a game I already love to play alot, announced a sweepstakes to pay for a trip to space and you get more chances to win just by playing, it would seem handily timed with you episode coming out just to illustrate even more about why this is an awesome opportunity, even if it's only a trip to the edge of space and back currently
Yes this is making the solar system more interesting. Viewing it through the lens of potential tourism makes you ask some really interesting questions.😁
It would be really cool if you were to orbit the station where one side of it is always on the night side of the orbit and visitors can view the night sky from onboard telescopes much like you see on mountain pass rest stops.
Like the saying goes - "Every Corpse on Everest was once an extremely motivated person." I've imagine space tourist locations will have their share of these. Probably best to stay with VR. :)
Asteroid carved info a human head. So...Space Zardoz! Also wanted to suggest the books Starship Titanic, and The Road to Mars by Terry Jones and Eric Idle.
3:40 YES! A sort of hobby of mine. But, not being an athlete, astronaut, or physicist, I'm always lacking a certain confidence that my detailed sports are actually doable. So I'm looking forward to this for what would be professional reasons... if I were making any money. 15:18 "...freighter, retail store, sports arena, hotel, casino, and resort." Don't forget brothel and drug din. ^_~ An entire television series could be built around LEO tourism, with later seasons including the Moon. Series finale: opening of the first O'Neill habitat.
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0:04 "Space is awesome"
Whelp, you got my vote 👍
What made it better for me was when i saw your comment and Isaac said it while I was reading your comment.
Came here for this. Pretty much the slogan for the channel.
Still love the spiel 9mins into machine rebellion, do not piss off the raining champions of distruction
Lol, Isaac is such an engineer
" We will do one sometime this year"
*shows exact date on screen*
:) I write the episodes a couple months out, and am generally only a week or two ahead in picking episode topics, and record about a week later to keep myself tinkering with episodes excessively. The visuals get put together about a week ahead though, hence why I usually 'say' what the next two episodes are, but will often 'show' the next month's worth. I just finished the video for next week for instance, but am just finishing the draft reviews for September 12th's episode and plan to record it tonight.
@@isaacarthurSFIA heh, I gathered as much, just seemed emblematic of an engineers attention to detail that in post script there was clearly an earmarked *insert date here when verified*.
@@isaacarthurSFIA also, thank you so much to you and your whole team for all the awesome content. This is by far my favourite content channel and really appreciate the breadth of subject and details there in you all provide.
LOL!
Just make sure you'll offer us an 'ISAAC' discount code when the first trips start
:)
Good one!
After like 10 years of hearing commercials on RUclips for Audible, this is the one that got me to sign up.
I recommend all space tourists to try Isaac's Drink and Snack on the Big Bang Burger Bar. Gnib gnab.
LMFAO omg. I wonder what that would be!
I'm looking forward to commercials for the new location at the L2 Lagrange point.
Patrician profile there.
Right next to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
Both should be open for business before James Webb goes online.
Fun episode! Since mother ships/habitats will spend a lot of time in transit between working stops, having fun stuff to do along the way will be crucial to recruiting crew, especially since people will only have to work for endeavors they actually care about. So you spend weeks with minimal duties, then work like mad for a few days to load, unload, mine, trade, whatever; then back to hanging out having fun.
Also, since the trips are long and the layovers potentially subject to orbital conjunctions, you will sometimes get days or weeks of waiting on the best departure time, while you do your ground-side tourism as well.
The crew will BE the tourists, and you'll be able to tour in exchange for doing your part in the intermittent crew work. That's space industry in the post-scarcity age -- a casual expedition-style arrangement.
The. Best. Channel. On. RUclips.
Space Tourism is something we've been planning for a long time. Did you know that back during the Apollo missions Pan-Am was selling tickets on their future flights to the moon and Hilton was giving reservations certificates for stay dates after 1980 on their Lunar Hilton in orbit above the moon?
Generally speaking, i'll believe something is happening when i'll see it happen. As is, right now, if somehow space tourism would be setup at a cost you or i could use, we'd pollute the planet so badly it wouldn't even be worth saving by that point. So space tourism is a float dream.
Now, working in space for anyone, that'd be interesting. And even that is within the next generations, maybe in another hundred years by how we're dragging our feet.
@@aserta Space travel wouldn't necessarily pollute the planet
That never happened! It went down like a lead balloon!
@@numberjackfiutro7412 that because none of it exists...sun&,moon same size by accident lol funny how you never put 2&2 together
Loved it, especially the part when you mentioned life extension. Life would never get boring if we got the chance to explore the universe and create realistic simulations.
It's already never boring. I just kept thinking how you can go into your backyard and look at several levels of magnification to find exotic new creatures and worlds, from insects to microbes, and that's just in one small patch of your yard - the entirety of your yard is like a universe at that scale. People don't ever get to half the countries in the world, let alone investigate what lives in damp hollows and under leaf litter in those countries or how the birds are different.
I remember reading Welcome to Moonbase by Ben Bova when I was a kid. One of the big tourist traps there was being able to fly under your own power by flapping wings strapped to your arms. I think that would be a pretty cool experience that could be replicated on the interplanetary cruise ships you are talking about.
I have worked in tourism my whole life, I truly hope that I am alive when we can finally enjoy space sightseeing for everyone. Super exciting times!
We need an episode on sexy aliens!
perhaps it could touch on alien/human hybrids, like our boy Spock
I keep telling people that I want to live forever for just this reason... lol
Thanks Isaac...
U can live for ever, i have contacted alliens and adapted the technology to increase ur life spawn tremendously
@@MsJooy I think my spawn will be ok... They're young enough to reap the rewards of the coming biotech. Thanks though, and tell the aliens I says hey... :)
I miss the old documentary leagth episodes 45 mins to an hour, your shows seem to be getting shorter and shorter.. still super amazing stuff Isaac!
EchoDelta I loved the long in depth science heavy episodes where you had to be googling formulas and taking notes just to keep up
Average video length has actually increased over the years, though they are a bit shorter this month, the difference is that I don't do 40+ minute videos anymore, and I never did that many of those anyway, since it's usually better to cut it into 2+ episodes instead. But in that regard Spaceplanes and Beamed Power are 1 episode, the three black hole episodes and Fleet of Stars is one episode, this weekend's void ecology and next weeks space whales is 1 episode, etc.
Maybe I don’t have to try as hard because you’re actually making me smarter
Happy Arthursday. Thank you for your work Arthur.
I just wanted to thank you for your weekly efforts. They are the Highlight of my day.... I have gone back and watched everything you have presented and I can't tell you how much excitement and fun I have watching each ahow. I live in Dallas TX and the folks around here do not have much interest or comprehension of deep time, immense distance or the keys we hold to ch a nge the place for the better. MORE SCIENCE. I don't know the math but just like I am unable to read music I van play the guitar very well. Someone just needs to ask the right question. Grand Theory awaits.
I came up with an idea for a space cruise ship, the idea is that the habitat changes shape depending on the ship's acceleration to maintain a consistent apparent down direction thus enabling higher levels of comfort. It's called a Flower Ship.
At zero acceleration the habitat is a spinning O'Neil cylinder.
At low acceleration the cylinder starts to open up like a flower and the spin slows down somewhat to combine spin and acceleration. At this point there would be a gravitational gradient from one end of the cylinder to the other but people could be viewed as a positive thing.
At high acceleration it opens all the way up so it's shaped like a cog with very long teeth, at this point all spin is removed and it relies purely on acceleration for gravity.
That's a neat idea! It would make sense for private space yachts where short travel times (and high accelerations) would be needed.
10/10 content as usual. One of the most pure and efficient in terms of delivery of content. Deserves more. Legend.
Yay, let's go! Venusian sunsets!
I honestly think that Titan will be a popular tourist destination in the future.
I'm a simple man…..I see a new Isaac Arthur notification…..I immediately click like…I grab my snack…and I enjoy.
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I highly recommend the short film "Wanderers" for an idea of what is out there.
Love your videos
4:30 I wouldn't mind seeing a lunar eclipse from the moon.
"Hey look, it's a New Earth... now Waxing Earth... Crescent... Gib-- man this is a rip off!"
Wouldn't that be called a Gaia eclipse? 😁
You can see a Sunrise from the space station.
aserta Exactly. The whole entire time I was thinking why not stay on a space station orbiting Earth. XD
@@keithedwards9953 A "geo-eclopse" would be a solar eclipse seen from the moon. A lunar eclipse seen from the moon would be like a solar eclipse seen from Earth.
It would take place during the lunar day, as the sun passed behind Earth.
Thank you for another wonderful episode. I look forward to your shows every week!
Loved the episode, but I think it might have benefited from a more categorical approach. Space tourism, after all, is a rather large topic encompassing many different motivations for going and many different destinations to choose from. Perhaps these could be revisited later? My preliminary list for space tourism would be
1) Non-terrestrial Experience- the experience of microgravity/free fall and the void. Being weightless is spoken of anytime the subject of space tourism comes up, but being suspended in empty space with nothing but stars in every direction is an experience I expect people will find as thrilling and terrifying as any rollercoaster ride, but with the added quality of religious awe and grandeur.
2) Natural Wonders- you covered most of these, although I would add to your list, viewing or diving into Jupiter's Red Spot, observing on site the conjunction of all 4 of the great jovian moons, experiencing a lunar eclipse from the moon, and dropping in a comet as it transits the inner solar system as other major attractions. Of course, when we speak of a distant future in which the solar system is colonized, there will be space tourism to visit the natural wonders on Earth, some of which we take for granted today like the pacific ocean.
3) Historical Tourism- you mentioned some of these, like the Apollo landing sites and rovers. Others will include our martian landers and rovers, the ISS is Russia takes over and extends its operation, Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster in space, and of course those future historical events like the landing site of the first human on mars.
4) Man-made Wonders- mega-structures are certainly one example, but another was right under your nose. You mentioned how early on only the wealthy will get to visit space. People with indecent fortunes have a history of sponsoring obscenely expensive and exquisitely artistic architectural wonders. The boldest and most talented architects will get to design private residences, corporate retreats, political capitals/palaces, and religious buildings often in environments where terrestrial restrictions do not apply. You could build interlocking ring habitats resembling religious symbols, or design a habitat of optical illusions. Old earth wonders could be duplicated or enlarged upon or even transported into space and taken on a tour of the solar system the way museum exhibits tour the Earth today.
5) Cultural Events and Attractions- Art and music will always draw tourists. It is nice to see a picture of the Mona Lisa, but to be standing in front of the original will always be an incomparable experience. Artists will be spreading themselves all over early space with their wealthy patron eagerly sponsoring their craft. We sometimes speak of products that may only be manufactured in micro gravity, but what of art? Imagine the painting techniques that might only work in free fall, paints that can only be manipulated in vacuum, or musical performances that can only be truly appreciated when heard performed in the clouds of Venus, or under seas of Europa. Festivals, entertainers, sports, religious pilgrimages, casinos, and even political rallies offer a near infinite list of potential tourism attractions.
6) Prestige and Leisure- much tourism is just forgetting away someplace and relaxing. True, it will always be cheaper to vacation locally, but people will save or even take out a loan to spend a week relaxing at their dream resort. Bragging rights are also commodity and always will be as long we retain the impulse to "keep up with the Joneses."
7) Scientific Tourism- definitely on the margins today, but in a solar system housing a trillion or so humans, rare cosmic events and newsworthy experiments will have the potential to draw millions of science-enthusiasts with a little extra cash. Examples could include: comets plummeting through the solar system, summers on Pluto, storms on Jupiter/Saturn, or for the truly daring visiting a Coronal Mass Ejection on the sun. Of course, if we ever create telescopes using the gravitational lensing of the sun to get close-ups of exoplanets, you will have no shortage of people willing to take years of their life travelling to the scope for both the history and for excitement of being on site when the next world is imaged for the first time and to be among the very first to see those images while the rest of humanity has to wait a couple light hours to see it.
8) Virtual Tourism- you already touched on this and I really don't think there is a whole lot to say on the matter, largely because this will become a huge enterprise whether or not we ever go to space. Whether you love to explore but hate to travel, or simply can't afford the travel expense, VR is the solution even when the destination is across the street. Tech is already fast approaching making virtual tourism a reality, and when it happens it will be the next Facebook of Silicon Valley. Also, that is pretty much what all our deep space probes have been if you strip away their scientific contributions. In fact, I expect scientists and conservationists who are always in search of funding will find VR tourism a tempting solution to their problems. Applying that to space only seems logical, and I fully expect that industry to be sufficiently advanced to let anyone with a VR headset step off the lunar lander in real time with the next human to set foot there.
So that's my list and why I think you could probably redo this episode as an entire series. Thank you to anyone who has read this far. Give yourself a pat on the back. You've earned it!
From a storytelling perspective, this is one of the reasons why some of my favourite episodes of Doctor Who are 'Midnight' and 'Voyage of the Damned'. They both skew in the 'gone wrong' side of things, but I love the little bits of tourism in them. Also a space-cruise liner that is modelled after the Titanic is very funny and very on brand, considering what happened to it.
Isaac Arthur for president! The nasa budget would probably go up again finally! 💖
All space property should belong to humanity as a whole, the only way to even achieve this would be to move past the idea of private property ownership (not to be confused with personal and public property which would be all that was left)
Happy Arthursday!
I can't imagine what TripAdvisor would look like in a space tourism era. You could award stars to different destinations that varied in type as well as number: red dwarf stars for low quality ones, giant blue stars for high quality. Award three black holes to the Grand Stellar Hotel on Europa to indicate "This place sucks big time!"
This comment was truly beautiful
@@briandiehl9257 Thank you for your compliment. I aim to please.
'' Hello; this is your tour guide Speaking: *please do Not feed the space naitilus and the martian dogs* ! Or they'll consume you along with the food you've; alright; thanks for listening; enjoy your stay! ''
Having scene the large variety of ways that tourists can hurt themselves (and their kids) at a ski resort, I worry about issues with liability insurance and alcohol.
Space Sports! I once joked with a friend, with the ~0.01 gravity of some bodies like Ceres, you could have weightlifters using army tanks instead of standard weights. Shotput with trucks anyone? I also wonder what running would be like. You could probably get up to some insane speeds very slowly, possibly using all four limbs.
Imagine taking your family on an amazing trip to some incredible location in our solar system... your 10yo boy loves every minute, while ypur teenage girl hates it.... only later will she realize this was the best family vacation ever. Lol. Human nature will never change, as we expand pur horizons, there will always be kids that are unimpressed.
As always, your vlogs are amazing and inspiring! I LOVE your chan.
Isaac went full Sagan at the end and it's beautiful.
How are there already almost 200 episodes of this show? Great work Isaac!
Thanks! Technically we're already over 200 episodes, but I only count the official Thursday episodes to the total :)
Again, I love your positive videos. Thank you.
It is almost certain that if space travel become safer and faster someday such as cruises in sea today, it is clear that space travel agencies will make a fortune.
your little science and futurism cards you put on these videos, they keep reminding me of TranStar keycards from prey
Those multi-purpose asteroid belt cruise ships remind me of Culture GSVs
It crossed my mind :)
"Okay folks, we are approaching the KFC store at Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 1. Be careful not to provoke any space serpents when we get there!"
Boring people will always be boring. Boredom is a bad argument.
Great comment. I never get tired of dumb sayings. I think most people with half a brain and a minute of thought could give countless examples of how life was more exciting when they were kids. Not to mention that at a point your brain would be the equivalent of a burnouts. Not trying to be as mean as it sounds. P.S. it's a pipe dream to believe people will live two-hundred years or more as even with near constant organ transplant and everything else we could have, a person's brain would keep getting worse. I like these shows but they're way to optimistic. There is a reason we quit going to the moon, haven't gone to Mars etc. Radiation lack of gravity and cost being the biggest along with lack of motivation. We will mine asteroids, comets, meteors/ites/kids whatever the right one is. We will mine the moon, Mars and probably the first two planets but as far as how six pack going to these places it's not really going to happen. Automation will replace most jobs over the next twenty years or so. Fast food and other cooking, truck driving, cabs, clerks (retail, gas station, fast-food, grocery stores etc...) security, mechanics pretty much everything. P.s. doctors, nurses positions people wouldn't expect. 3/4's of the world's population will be almost entirely dependent on the government or hooking. We're all screwed, Rob from the rich everything not nailed down. 1% or less of the population controls 80% of the wealth, which means the other 99% of us live on the remaining 20%.
@@kevindodson1604 yeah issac is way too optimistic, but dawn I want to dream before the end
@@trunzlerclement3227 I know I'm Debbie downer on this post but realistically look at all this stuff. Musk and Bezos are just trying to get satelites for internet while playing off people's longing for something better and probably so before they die they can travel to Mars or wherever and securing their legacy. I think the plan is to turn large parts of Africa into National Parks (It's already started) to return the great plains to their pre Columbian existence, same with other areas of the world while the average person becomes poorer with no real chance of coming up. I'm not sure what kind of chance we actually have now but from my post you can see where I think it's heading. Another thing all the bs on jobs lost being replaced is just that bs. Look at how man people GM, Ford etc used to employ, look at all the lawn care jobs that will be gone. I'm for the legalization but thank of all the income that will be lost (mainly by poor to middle class people) by drugs becoming legal, same with gambling and probably prostitution although to a lesser extent. I'm for all three being legal as I don't see the legal authority to ban them, at least in the USA. What's the biggest nonskilled jobs in the world. I'm just guessing but truck driver is probably one of the bigger ones and it will die off over the next thirty years at most. If you're not well off now or already on your way I don't see a way to get there for most of the people born today's kids at the least. Manufacturing will become more and more automated and don't be fooled for a second that those jobs will be made up for by maintaining or building those robots, or that some union will protect you. They've already sold us all out. Colleges will (and should) get rid of most of the upper level people, especially anyone being paid to do anything with diversity. Look at the scandals with people buying their way on to soccer teams. The whole things corrupt and hemorrhages money. Construction jobs won't last, and who can afford the property taxes. Sorry for the rant and his early videos got me a little excited but the magnitude of everything is too much to overcome significantly in our lifetimes. I do believe most heavy industry will relocate to the moon but even that is a ways off. While I'm at it why are we not using a track on Mt. Everest to get higher and already be traveling a significant speed. You can't tell me it would cost much more than what the competing private companies and NASA are spending on next generation space suits. Rant done sorry if I rained on anyone's parade.
@@kevindodson1604 yeah all this scrap is sad, but if our end could be "easier" when we think about everything we could do and the spatial expansion we could complete, I think it's good. Human race have all tools to build a better future, they just need to put money on scientist projects and not in football or Jeff Besos wallet... Cause of this dawn system, capitalist system, money system, we are losing our wealth and if aliens exists and see us, I am pretty sure they are laughing at us... Dawn, mankind can make wonders, but this shitty system is gonna crush us down... And no one figure it. But I am ok, I have a feeling than the actual mankind will not perform to go through the next century, we will degrade because of wars, inegalities, lack of ressources and global warming... My last faith on mankind is disappearing slowly... (Sorry for the grammar, I am French XD)
Hi Isaac, long time fan i have enjoyed your content for years keep up the good work. I know your lurking at the comments after upload :D.
Thanks :) and yeah, I typically check in on the comments a few times on the first day a video is out but I usually lurk actively for the first half hour or so in case there's some glaring error that slipped through.
Hey Isaac,
Great work by you and your team once again. Honestly, space tourism is a very interesting topic and, in my opinion, will probably be one of the greatest driving factors in space development in the near future, especially since most people and governments have shown very limited interest in space exploration.
That being said, you brought up a really interesting point during the video when talking about using beaming ti accelerate craft to higher speeds which got me thinking on the idea of "space highways" and what the possible ways to build and use such infrastructure would be. Personally, I think it'd make for a fun episode.
Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing your videos with us!
Cheers,
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0 D There’s already an episode on that. Enjoy!
0 D The episode you’re looking for is called “Interstellar Highways”. Enjoy!
So many great SF books showing local off-earth futures depending on tourism. From Heinlein's Menace from Earth right up to Artemis.
I'd like to see a video dedicated to Safety in space. Safety features on every scale, personal: Suits, emergency situations, daily apparel for personal safety. Like I can imagine everyone wearing skin suits and some kind of quick deploying face shield/helmet for oxygen in the case of a failure. How individual rooms or buildings could be rigged to stay independent, ect.
What happens when domes fail, when an asteroid unexpected fractures, when a space ship takes an impact or sabotage.
That sounds like a great topic.
You know what my dream stop would be in the solar system? Saturn. Those rings would be so much more gorgeous up close! I'd imagine proposals being made up there. Either on the moons watching the sunriss/sunset or watching that from a ship. That'll be incredibly interesting and a wonderful sight to behold!
As Isaac said at 0:04, "Space is awesome"!
Saturn would be beautiful. Personally I'd like it to visit one of Jupiter's moons, looking up at such a colossal planet with all it's storms and swirls and colours would be something else.
If Europa has a particularly bioluminescent ecosystem it might be quite the tourist destination. I would love to see giant glowing alien squids, wether or not there are any or if we would be allowed to see them is another question.
Can't wait to go to space.
Absolutely no one:
Captain Archer: Zero-G Water Polo
It's my first stop if I ever win the lottery. Not likely since I don't by tickets. But if...
You've got about the same likelihood of winning as anyone who does buy a ticket.
It's already so unlikely that you win the lottery you might as well throw in another improbability of finding the winning ticket on the street
Isaac, consider making an episode about the notion of other dimensions and possible life in those dimensions. For example, a two-dimensional universe would have length and width, but no depth. Creatures in a two-dimensional universe would be completely flat.
i hate thursdays, cause it is a hard day at work. but i get to wake up to isaac ...so evens out :)
hanggliding on venus? damn, i couldn't imagine a more frightening experience. Have a failure in your glider and no parachute is going to save you if you miss one of the floating cities and slowly sink down into the deeper atmosphere of the planet...
Might finally have to use that isaac audible deal! That series sounds really cool
John Varley has written some very interesting near Earth stories. One of his anthologies of short stories is named Blue Champagne . The story with the aforementioned name is about tourism on the moon. A good read by a great author !
SPACE VISION!
Very interesting concept! Great video!
Great video. Thank you sir.
Thanks for reminding me why I subscribed to your channel!
Yay! Happy Authorsday! :D
Well I was about to start winding down for the night, but then I saw you uploaded this video. Bed can wait.
I wouldn't pass the physical so I'm all for the Total Recall style experience. VR would allow to simulate technology and experiences we aren't yet able to produce in real life, so I could enjoy a trip to Titan in 20 years. Looking forward to it.
We need movies that deal more with outward bound ideas and how humans have colonized the solar system. So much potential with industry and colonization in space.
Visit Sleipnir Fossa and take a canyon tour on the back of a Robotic 8 legged horse!
on zero G sports, i'm going to imagine something along the lines of harry potter's dunking balls through a hoop will probably be one of them, magic brooms replaced with jetpacks or something.
i'm also hoping zero G martial arts would be a thing, replace the ring with a circular cage where they can push off from to then start grapling and the like while floating.
The martial arts could be interesting, though I expect there to be some structure at least since otherwise it would be a question of momentum.
Maty83 under standard MMA rules a zero-g fight would just devolve into a midair wrestling fight. Not much point in striking if it’s just going to send you flying.
It would be interesting to see what kind of micro-gravity martial arts might develop. Its difficult to brace yourself for punch and kick based combat sports and throws won't work very well either so I guess unarmed martial arts would be mostly based on holds and so forth.
Yeah, that would be interesting to see. I was surprised how many new sports and variations we came up with when brainstorming and writing up that Space Sports episode
Nah, this is juvenile. Technology will soon make martial arts or really any physical confrontations obsolete. You can affect the nervous system with both electricity and magnetism, and the body is sensitive to chemicals so much that nothing a human can do to another with only his body will matter
@@DanielGenis5000 People don't tend to fight each other with swords on a regular basis and yet HEMA, fencing and Kenjutsu are all still popular and fun.
I'm picturing a martial art that has people running and attacking on all fours.
11:50 now i know what happen to those halo frigate after the human-convent war but for real they remind me of those frigate
Who here pictured that cute, funny animated running T-Rex (sometimes used in these shows at the mention of awesome dinosaurs!) ...WHENNN Isaac said “space is AWESOME”!?
Lol
Or am I the only one?
Yes! Bioships. I asked for that theme some weeks before.
A few days ago Warframe, a game I already love to play alot, announced a sweepstakes to pay for a trip to space and you get more chances to win just by playing, it would seem handily timed with you episode coming out just to illustrate even more about why this is an awesome opportunity, even if it's only a trip to the edge of space and back currently
Isn't Blinding White Death Ball the name of a metal band?
Don't know, but if not it should be. :)
i call dibs
Oh man, Space Whales? Brilliant
Nop, just a bowel of petunias
I'm new to your channel I really enjoy the way you explain things you're highly intelligent
Yes! Back to using Markus Junnikkala, "Hail the Victorious Dead" for the opening music!
Happy Arthursday!!!
Yes this is making the solar system more interesting. Viewing it through the lens of potential tourism makes you ask some really interesting questions.😁
Love this topic ! Thanks !
And happy SciFriday to all the Australians.
Hanging out a few hours in the future.... handy when the Y2k bug was going to kill us all
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I recall one of Kim Stanley Robinson's novels featured a sport where people surf through the rings of Saturn for fun.
Very good, well done
I love your dreams, they are so big
Have you ever seen _anyone_ who thinks bigger than I.A.?
@@ChrisBrengel erm...me?
"A giant burning orb you dare not look upon" sounds like Mordor's Tourism Board describing Sauron's eye.
Isaac: Space is awesome
Me: As long as you don't get lost or run into hostile aliens "Rise sheild fire the rail gun"
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Hey everyone 👋 sfia ftw
this guys voice is amazing
Maybe SFIA will take us to the stars :D
I hope you get to experience some of this.
Excellent
It would be really cool if you were to orbit the station where one side of it is always on the night side of the orbit and visitors can view the night sky from onboard telescopes much like you see on mountain pass rest stops.
If we could swim in liquid gas oceans, I bet it would be rather interesting, as well as surfing on them :)
Like the saying goes - "Every Corpse on Everest was once an extremely motivated person."
I've imagine space tourist locations will have their share of these. Probably best to stay with VR. :)
A Drink And A Snack
As a Beluga Liner pilot (top 1% for the record), I can confirm that space tourism is the best!
Asteroid carved info a human head. So...Space Zardoz! Also wanted to suggest the books Starship Titanic, and The Road to Mars by Terry Jones and Eric Idle.
Non-fiction Ben Bova, The History of Light was also a really good read, ( another really good episode, guys )
This episode should be swapped around with void ecology in The SFIA Chronology of Episodes because this is indeed the previous episode.
yes.
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YES! A sort of hobby of mine. But, not being an athlete, astronaut, or physicist, I'm always lacking a certain confidence that my detailed sports are actually doable. So I'm looking forward to this for what would be professional reasons... if I were making any money.
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"...freighter, retail store, sports arena, hotel, casino, and resort."
Don't forget brothel and drug din. ^_~
An entire television series could be built around LEO tourism, with later seasons including the Moon. Series finale: opening of the first O'Neill habitat.
I'd love to see a bigassgiant!
Your a good man