Space Whales & Bioships
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- The idea of spaceships or other machines that were essentially alive and able to repair and operate themselves has long been a popular one in science fiction. We'll take a look today at how that might be possible in the future, what advantages it would have for interplanetary or interstellar colonization, and how such biotechnology might lead to entire artificial ecosystems dwelling in the void of space.
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Credits:
Space Whales & Bioships
Episode 195, Season 5 E30
Written by:
Isaac Arthur
Jerry Guern www.amazon.com...
Editors:
Darius Said
Keith Blockus
Cover Art:
Jakub Grygier www.artstation...
Graphics by:
Bryan Versteeg spacehabs.com
Fishy Tree www.deviantart...
Jarred Eagley
Jeremy Jozwik www.artstation...
Ken York / ydvisual
Sergio Botero www.artstation...
Produced & Narrated by:
Isaac Arthur
Music:
Michael Wark, "Embryonic Universe" www.amazon.com...
Miguel Johnson, "So Many Stars" / migueljohnsonmjmusic
Aerium, "Fifth Star of Aldebaran" www.youtube.co...
Sergey Cheremisinov, "Laybrinth" www.s-cheremis...
Chris Zabriskie, "Cylinder Nine" chriszabriskie.com
Phase Shift, "Forest Night" www.last.fm/mu...
No space sharks? They could even have laser beams!
Another example of someone suggesting something that I'll be kicking myself over having not thought of :)
And then the "....laser..." Will turn the astoroid into liquid "......MagM---a..."
"Sir we've encountered an anomaly! It's a Space Sharknado!
Well, if you have a space ecology, you should probably have systems to maintain population sizes :P
we'll just have to settle for some ill tempered, mutated spacebass. (sigh)
Just found the channel mate and have literally been binge watching your video's all day. Fantastic to see someone who is not afraid to take the time and go in to the details even on concepts so abstract.
Yo
This is why we love Isaac
Lel
I remember when I first found SFIA. It was wonderful. From this channel RUclips recommended some other great ones. They kinda got a super cool RUclips science group. Check out Event Horizon and JMG’s original channel, Cool Worlds is another great Chan. Scott Manley rolls different, but is great also. Frazier Cain is another with an informative, cool space show. They all do pretty good about keeping politics out. Cain is the only one that I’ve saw any politics in so I put his name last in the list despite the fact that he has been publishing space news longer than all the rest combined.
This comment got me into your channel to binge watch everything!
I find the idea of a spaceship being made from organic material, genetically modified from something like say, an insect, to be very interesting.
Lexx
Giant genetically modified space dragonflies
Giant genetically modified space spiders?
Macross Frontier's Vajra
@@y.cuevas9933 listen here Satan.
As soon as I read the title, I had the scene from Hitchhikers’ Guide of the whale falling through the atmosphere pop into my head.
Maybe the ground will be my friend.
"Whale learned Lithobraking. It's super-effective."
And now I have a sad.
@@harbl99 Ah, lithobraking. Very good, I'm going to mention that every time I jump now.
For me it was that episode of Futurama that's basically Moby Dick In SPace
I have always thought of Ant colonies as single organisms. The individual Ants are like individual cells, with specific tasks. The colony reproduces as a colony not as individual ants.
I think that an ant colony would be a good metaphor for an artificial-living ship. There would be a bunch of specific types of machines that go around maintaining the inanimate parts of the ship, bringing in raw resources, and potentially even building new ships.
Issac has clearly never been close to a snapping turtle. They will put the fear of turtle right in you.
elephants too, for that matter
They move unbelievably fast for a turtle. Fear of the turtle indeed
Finally the bioship episode and on my birthday no less. I couldn’t ask for a greater birthday present
Happy birthday!
Ahmed Wael : Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday!!
Happy Birthday!
What about a pony made of diamonds?
That's a thought, crew manifest:
1 captain
3 bridge officers
10.000 janitors :D
Roger Wilco needs a job too.
@@herbiehusker1889 True, very true. :)
But on a more serious note, check out "Planetes" - anime about the crew of the debris collection craft (a glorified garbage truck pick up junk around Earth orbit). It leans on the harder side of sci-fi giving quite realistic depiction of space and space travel (and not just for an anime but in general) - orbit mechanic work as they should, astronauts get illnesses specific to them as IRL and, shockingly... there is no sound in space.
@@demogorgonzola I'll have to check it out. Normally I cannot stand anime, but I'll see if this one is any good
@@herbiehusker1889 Have you watched Cowboy Bebop? That's more on the romantic side of Sci-Fi but it has some neat Sci-Fi concepts and ideas primarily as background detail that nonetheless helps to ground and give more credibility to the setting
The captain could be replaced by an automatic transmission but the rest would be nesesary
My user name is relevant.
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lol you guys are lucky today. I know how you feel . . . sometimes
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😂😂😂😂😂
Space Krill: * shuffles away whistling nonchalantly *
lol nice1
For anyone who is interested in the original Potter Stewart quote:
"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that."
(It was about obscene movies)
No kidding. That quote is always used as an example of arbitrary-ish condemnation. You're telling me that it was actually arbitrary-ish exoneration? Never crossed my mind to ask.
...Now I have to watch the movies he was talking about... I bet they contained allusions to pre-marital boobie-touching.
I misread his name as "Patrick Stewart" 4 times
Stephen Baxter wrote of this in his Xeelee Sequence. He had these huge living ships called “Spline” that initially evolved off of actual space whales on some ocean world somewhere. They were used quite frequently by the 40K-esque genocidal humans as freight ships.
"Kardeshev II Ecologies"
This is the phrase of the day.
*Kardashev
23:00 I'd love a solarpunk story about a dyson swarm built mostly from a spacefaring ecology
Quasi organic Dyson swarm .. dang that’s cool. Like the life around a deep sea vent.
Populate your Dyson sphere with Jurassic Park Troodons, grown em intelligent, and you've got a tale to tell sci-fi wise.
K2 ecology
@@russ1618 Kardashev scale is stupid in long run. In reality super advanced civilizations doesn't need to be more then even K0.
@@TheRezro it's a scale of one assumption that we didn't have a reason to doubt
That assumption is that as civilizations advance mortality rates drop significantly enough that population explodes.
Now Japan (the country) is making the argument that we should doubt that.
@@allhumansarejusthuman.5776 Nop. Birth control is short scale problem and I doubt he was considering it as factor, as problem need to be solved way before space travel even become a factor. Kardashew work on assumption of expansive nature of life and such civilization. Also his idea isn't strictly incorrect, just this model become less significant in comparison to superior solutions.
i found the Lexx ship interesting , it grew small ships inside it self , produced food inside itself and literally ate planets
ahh thank god someone else mentioned the lexx!
Food, as in people inside were probably eating its half digested waste product. 😅 But yeah, Lexx took the organic alive ship concept really far, the ship was a grown spacebug basically.
That show was incredibly weird; especially the first specials before it became a full series. I miss it.
Someone: "defining life is hard."
Issac arthur: " Oh, I'ma show you hard."
"I never gained much from learning to put up drywall or putting shingles on a roof."
Except for the fact that you know how to do those things
Drywall is of the DEVIL.
@@muninrob make it asbestos grade and you'd have me there..
@@plumsmuglers *folds*
That's not the point of the statement.....
which isn't much in itself.
you know... the htoughts of Radio walesongs in space is the most beautifull thought i had all week.
Thanks Arthur.
No really. Thanks.
What if it's not just "whale song"? What if they provide different "radio stations" of sorts, with different sounds and music on every "station"? Since the whole system is engineered in the first place, it should be totally possible.
Read the comic "Abraxas and the earthman" if you're interested in the concept. It's far from hard sci-fi but presents some very interesting concepts and scenes while basically being New Age Moby Dick in Space.
His name is Isaac.
Late 1800s: Jack the baboon operates a train signal station
mid 2300s: Jack 9000 processes asteroids into rotating habitats
IREV-1857/Terran Year 2020: Triangulian Cruisers Constructed And Piloted By A Single, Non-Entropic Organic Conscious.
Jacks getting busy with getting off this rock
I have a great definition for life I cooked up for a hard sci-fi book I'm writing. Life == Adaptive resistance to entropy.
I don't know if this is correct. But the Physics nerd in me absolutely loves your line of thought.
but life accelerates entropy
@@lordilluminati5836 Yeah I've heard the line that the purpose of life is for the universe to accelerate entropy increase, and settle into a stable state of heat death more quickly. Life itself may be resistant to entropy in a sense, but far from absolutely.
All obese good-for-nothing couch potatoes rejoice!
@@grant5642 the problem is that if you define life as resistance to entropy then a whole bunch of things that are not supposed to be alive enter the definition
like a thermos
I prefer to think of life as self-replicating information. that way AI and viruses are included but not toasters or lawn mowers.
I like the idea of few crew members on a giant ship many miles long. It would have whole ecosystems untouched by humans. Endless warehouses and auto factories and deep oceans of oils and coolants, with biosynthetic caretakers and ecosystems of pests and intentionally gardened symbiotic organism.
One can only imagine Issac yeeting Whales into the void 😍
@Mr Purple Also doubles as an asteroid cannon.
I came here for a Moya reference. I was not disappointed. My Farscape rewatch is currently in season 3, heh
I'm watching farscape again also. Half way through season 2. Rigell is the best lol
the crackers episode is my favorite episode of any show ever.
Son of a Hazmot! That's a frellin' good show.
I keep hearing that it's a great show, but I just can't get over how cheesy it is.
My cat's name is Moira.
12:00 I mean WH40k ships can be kilometers longhand have crews of a few thousand. But there also exists a therm called Ship-Native which are the further hundreds of thousands of people who just live on the ship sometimes devolved into warring tribes, but often they do most maintenance.
Viorp we don’t talk about Warhammer in these lands.
@@Spookstar No U
Plus tens of thousands to reload the guns! Then again are they really crew?
yes we do
Imagining genetically engineered species that travel through interstellar void and actually begin to mine and terraform the place is a beautiful idea. We could even have some type of Dyson tree that uses photosynthesis in order to captures the energy of the stars and grow fruits to feed the miners, who would in return get him vital elements ( water, nitrogen, mineral, etc...). But I think you would probably design these biomachines as a hive mind diriging the tasks of colonisation (though it would be tricky to do so in a solar system where informations take minutes or hours to reach the parts of the hive). Anyway, great video as usual; but I would love to see you doing a video covering the subject of climate change, I getting a little depressed by all the news recently, so gaving you giving us hope and solutions would be marvelous.
About the whole 'ship is too big for its crew' thing: at least in the case of Star Destroyers, the main hangars and cargo bays take up *huge* volumes of the ship and are basically just open air. In addition, even more volume is given over to power generators, drive equipment, and so on. Cross-sections, engineering renderings, and official deckplans have pretty well nailed down that, while the Empire is given to creating huge, cavernous spaces aboard their ships where not really necessary (like reactor rooms with vaulted ceilings more spacious than cathedrals), the ships aren't really particularly underpopulated, the crew is just heavily concentrated to some areas more than others. I'd be more inclined to question the numbers they offer for the mass of the ship, really.
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As for Warhammer, my rule of thumb is to assume every numerical piece of data that Games Workshop includes in their lore is off by up to three orders of magnitude in either direction. It's the only way to make that universe make any sense at all.
The other thing is that Star Wars never lists the number of droids being used as do not count towards the crew complement, but do acknowledge that the numbers of droids often equal or exceed the crew count on larger ships such as Star Destroyers. Many of these droids are tiny maintenance droids, such as mouse droids or astromechs, that normally live between the walls of the ships and are never seen.
Yet they only have a few dozen to maybe a bit over a hundred starfighters lol.
if Isaac disappears after the area 51 raid. he knew too much.
There is a famous anecdote related to nuclear research, that such disappointing in fact are the prove. But if those who participate in the raid disappear... well... what raid? But to be honest I expect more that soldiers would simply shoot on sight, as they totally have right to do that.
Reminds me of the TV show "LEXX", where the ship is actually one of the main characters.
The definition of life i often use is: a process that externalizes its own entropy and takes active measures to keep it so.
a virus is semi alive, as it needs host to start active entropy externalization.
a pc program that had the ability to increase its complexity in every part or that can repear itself completely and actively avoids deletion would be alive to.
a house is not alive, as a house and the persons living in it are not essentialy dependant for their respective function.
@Dan Nguyen
good point.
i should have said "specificaly and essentialy interdependant"
a whole ecosystem could be considered alive, but its parts can be considered alive to. The zebra does not instantly cease all metabolic actions when removed from its ecosystem.
@@Chrisspru it does if you move it to the corona of the sun.
Decades ago, when Mandrake the magician was a strip on the comic pages an “alive looking” flying saucer landed. After a while a bunch of small, inquisitive animals came out and started running around, sniffing things, looking around and such. After a while a few machine-type robots came out. They were the crew and the little animals were probes and rovers.
Interesting, Why Not Integrate The Ships With The Crew, Like Our Fleets?
Episode about living ship shows up, thinks about the Event Horizon and sweats in fear.
I think you missed the cause that led to the ship becoming that way. Nothing to do with it being a living ship. Irrelevant to the topic.
@@UnitSe7en its just a joke.
Liberate tuteme ex inferis
Destroy that planet Lexx.
You weren't even mentioned.
As you wish
Lexx was the only one that truly embraced and understood the potential of wet tech. no mention of gene roddenberry earth final conflict. no mention of doctor who tardis. no mention of command and conquer tiberium. no mention of Dune. most sci fi just goes if you want to make wet tech just make a robot and call it wet tech. LEXX is my favrote sci fi TV series even over star trek. it's just more realistic of post scarcity problems and conflicts. it's freedoms are more unchecked anarchy, that would really be in space. the tongue toilet, and the food udders that don't do potatoes well is a real likely use of bio tech.
holy cow no mention of crispr and that even has a brilliant Segway.
VAIYO A RAH!!
JERHUME BRUNNEN G!!
we are on a "class 13 planet that is destined to destroy it's self when they measure the exact mass of the higgs boson." Lexx last episode was April 2002 the higgs boson mass was not measured till 2011-2013, and it's TV not books that tends to be more dated.
Having the living spaceships emulate arthropods, as in Lexx, makes a lot of sense. An exoskeleton would be the way to go in maintaining homeostasis in the vacuum of space, evolving shielding from micro meteors and radiation, etc.
I prayed to the Emperor he would discuss the Tyranids.
Sean Lehning likewise. I’d like to hear from Isaac whether there’s any way they could actually exist. Hopefully not.
@@Rcdvst808 The chickenasaurus is well on its way. www.livescience.com/50886-scientific-progress-dino-chicken.html ""From a quantitative point of view, we're 50 percent there," said Jack Horner, a professor of paleontology at Montana State University"
@@Rcdvst808 This is something I sent to 40K Theories for consideration: This might be a tad boring but I have a theory regarding Tyranid metabolisms prompted by the realization that all metabolic processes are inherently entropic. In more practical/relatable terms we eat and we defecate because it takes more energy to turn food into flesh than that food provides and even if that process was somehow (impossibly) 100% efficient there's still the energy expenditure inherent to simply being alive, let alone being a big murderous alien fighting in an interstellar war. Now solar energy in space could offset some of that deficit but it's a heck of a crutch to rely on, aside from the logistical difficulties of keeping ground forces supplied/fed from orbit there's the fact that any hive fleet is caught in the interstellar void is essentially a fleet of defenseless popsicles. Even if they can cold start their metabolisms and warm up fast enough to defend themselves the cost of doing so is going to make it a Pyrrhic victory at best and that's assuming the enemy attacks them head on, any enemy with a fusion reactor can just kite them until they simply die of exhaustion/starvation. Which bring me to my theory, I think the Tyranids have some kind of biological "cold" fusion like super advanced mitochondria fusing hydrogen/deuterium using some kind of atomic scale diamond-anvil-cell (machines typically used in high pressure research). This isn't limitless energy, it's only "cold" fusion relative to the center of the sun temperatures of magnetically contained plasma fusion so Tyranids can only run their internal closed loop biochemistry at a certain speed without cooking themselves. But it's enough to power their bio-weaponry, psychic powers, regeneration and to enable them to turn practically everything they eat into more Tyranid without ever having to poop or spend time sunbaking to recharge their biochemical batteries. To be clear this is still entropic it's just that instead of eating biomass for fuel they're eating biomass predominately for mass and a tiny fraction of that mass is being turned into energy one pair of atoms at a time. Thus they are the harbingers of entropy itself, the true "Great Devourer".
I prayed we would hear nothing about something I know nothing about, but I'm pretty sure I'm gonna call the Inquisition now.
God Emperor protecc,
God Emperor attacc,
But after beef with his sons,
He won't write bacc 😭
Astroid squid, another thing to put in the short story war chest right beside meat apples.
Edit: Adding big space crabs too.
Catch me riding a space whale after the Area 51 raid
fine joke and all... but space whales would be about the size of a small city at minimum.
maybe if the hole of Area 51 is one space whale.
Nekogami-Crystal They store them in their huge basement.
Ill be watching out for you
@@emilandreasson9670 They would store there also those who disappear after the raid 0_0
@@MouseGoat well they also collapse under their weight like octopus do due to them living in no gravity unless they have a sturdy enough support structure in them
Watching an Isaac Arthur video. Very tempting
I’m surprised you haven’t mentioned the Yuuzhan Vong of Star Wars and their biological machinery.
All the way through this episode all I kept thinking about was Moya and Tallan from Farscape.
This video has really got me thinking. It makes great sense that huge spaceships have no option but to be bioships with organic systems...and homeostasis. Thank you Isaac !
Nobody laid out better what galaxy roaming city/ships as Ian M Banks and his Culture series exploring what a vast and friendly Mind could do with/for us.
hear hear!
Star Wars Rebels (Season 2 Episode 15 The Call) features "space whales" named the Purrgil and they are come back later in the series and featured in the finale.
Their interpretation is that the Purrgil feed on the same "gas" that is used to refine hyperfuel and travel to other star systems. It was by observing the Purgill, the galaxy discovered how to travel in hyperspace or faster than light.
Officially retconning the Rakatan infinite empire. RIP cool correlia lore :(
@@RobinTheBot Yep
In many ways, current ideas of deconstructing Mercury to make a Dyson sphere are already very biological. The process would be mostly automated, and would be able to replicate itself at an exponential rate using the energy collected from the sun, a bit like a lichen, but one that destroys it's home tree to get out of the shade.
I think for legal reason, defining life is important, but in general defining life does seem pretty subjective. Love the videos man
Funny you should specifically mention repairing drywall, as I’m finishing up repairing some whilst listening to this 😂
Roads that keep themselves warm? Highway to hell? Highway to hell.
_I'M ON THE _*_HIIIIIIIGHWAY_*_ TO _*_HELL_*
Some Leviathan class spaceship far in future:
"Today we all meet as friends. 1000 years ago our ancestors fought for waters of void gardens in star rings, engine room tribes build unpenetrable strongholds around holy engineering floors. , and We alliance of bridge and recreation tribes took ill actions of destroying lower stratum tribes of underbelly.
BUT ! now we are strongest then ever. And our journey closes to the end. All knowing mother has told me we are getting closer to promise lands. Our children may live in gardens of new world !!!"
AI motherboard:
"And how I will teach them to pilot planet landers...."
Sounds horrible. People should know better than to _be mortal_ on such a journey.
leviathan
I’ve never thought of any of these points before, absolutely fascinating. Especially about ecosystems in the large space ships.
Like the minds of Banks' Culture vessels - doing politics behind the scenes and being infinitely more intelligent than their builders...
Also imagine alien civilizations in the future bringing up terran vessals who are only manned by the AI and cats - the last remnants of earth.
Edit: and the AI simulating a cat too. That would be puzzling.
i have never heard Isaac refer to the Culture ( have you?) . I was toying with the idea of a
Culture shout out because a bloke like Isaac truly needs to read Bank's Culture. So much of what Isaac tells me I have been prepped for by the Culture.
Always these apocalyptic scenarios. Why do so many people seem to love the idea of people no longer existing?
I think the definition of what is living is, when dead matter is so complex it appears to be magical
Roger Dottin perhaps
Farscape, fantastic show, tragedy that it ended.
Ah! Another dose of wander and awe! This channel makes me so excited about the future 😍
I could see aliens being like "ohh free ships"
90% of why I like to watch these videos is because you invite me to have a snack and a beverage...I miss that.
Awesome interstellar spaceship design at 5:25 ...at least to my taste... props to the graphic artist. Would like to see more of its stories ^^
Your narration is so mellow, I can listen at 1.5 speed and comfortably follow you.
Thank god its thursday.
I have finals on monday, and need a distraction.
This dude is amazing to listen to. Growing up on Isaac Asimov books always made me wonder about such things. Thanks for thinking ahead Isaac Arthur. We need deep thinkers like you more than ever. Kudos!
Re: life and machines.
Living things are machines.
"John von Neumann Liked this."
I like Nightlord as having an example of living machine. It's mostly fantasy but it has science fiction in it to. However the best example of living machine is the main characters pet rock. That is a living mountain city that is self maintaining and growing. Eventually it grows roads, canals and other cities effectively becoming a country. The main character can communicate with it and ask it to grow whatever he needs it to. It even reproduced offspring that the main character transports to another universe and plants on an alternate earth.
Elephants, especially of the wild variety, are actually quite terrifying.
so crazy
I literally have a comic script based on the notion of exoplanet sized organisms whose skeletons are retrofitted to be space ships...essentially whale bone ships. Parallel thinking!
Living machines are a interesting discussion, so would a living machine understand what a soul or what the afterlife is, what does it mean to be alive
the graphics in these episodes are getting really really amazingly good...
The Reality Dysfunction (Nights Dawn Book 1)
by
peter hamilton
has some examples of living ships and space habitats
the Thargoids from the Elite series are a perfect example of this
always impressive. thanks for the trip, Isaac.
I need to ask, do you have an ongoing, months long wager that you can slip the kaleidoscopic hydroponics farm animation relevantly into every episode until September for $1000? 😃
You and your crew are doing an amazing job. congrats to all.
Warships have a large crew because damage (and fatalities) are expected. People are good and work-arounds and such. Look at the huge tankers and freighters with a crew of a dozen, if that many.
the Tardis on Doctor Who is an organic crystalline vessel with space for living beings
Doctor Who is a load off pungent diarrhea
Dank
Dustin Shadle - I seem to recall that the 5th Doctor said the tardis - all tardises (sp?) - gets power from a specific supernova, a galaxy's worth of power. The time lords civilization is a Kardashev type 3 civilization. And as each new companion says, "It's bigger on the inside than the outside!"
@@carlosandleon - please go somewhere else to play.
@@robertgraybeard3750 I'm already on my way to your mom's house.
The pace of this video is just as brilliant as the concept.
Pressed, like count goes 666 OH NO! unpressed it, 665. Thought about for a second. "We are going to design Space Whales Ships!"
Got rid my superstition belief pressed button 666, but kept my toes crossed. :P
I think the one of the reasons i really like the bobiverse series is how humans are often an afterthought while they go and pre-colonise systems before them.
Roads that keep warm enough to melt snow might require fusion in some climates, in which case, they might pose an ecological hazard through thermal pollution.
Solar Freakin' Roadways bro!!!
**Highway to hell plays in the backround**
Yeah a combinationt of solar collectors & antifreeze "sweat" is probably enough.
They don't need to melt *all* the snow. They could push the majority of it off themselves mechanically, piling it up like a snowplow, and just melt the thin layer that was left behind...
Great A’tuin approves this shout out.
RIP. Terry Prachett.
Isaac Arthur, you obviously never met a Snapping Turtle.
Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clark earned you a sub. The first time I remember the "giant space organism" genre was the Amoebae episode of the original Star Trek.
Awesome! Thank Arthur!
I just sat down with my soup. This is a double nei triple treat cuz the weather is super nice atm and sun is shining and I just took bath. Quad nice! I love Stargate Atlantis's living Wraith ships idea.. when one finally got a zero point module whoa!
👊🐶🌏🧙♂️👍
Mass Effect has a great discussion about if EDI, an AI, is a passenger on the ship, or if the ship is her body.
Like Warhammer 40k Tyranid hive fleets? Sweet!!!
Except we'd try to make it to where they don't eat every living (Biological, Necrons are probably safe from them.) thing in site.
Brilliant stuff, I have I think watched most if not all the episodes you've produced, I've yet to be disappointed. Thank You!
If you made a video saying space whales are real leviathan animals that fly through space we would all believe you. The Saoyshyant
nobody alive could cover this topic like isaac
not the asteroid squid, that's not tempting!
I've seen enough hentai to know where that's going
_That only makes it more tempting._
@@theuncalledfor 😳
@@theuncalledfor R/Cursedcomments
An entire half of an episode about sentient self repairing ships and sparse crews without making a reference to the Nostalgia For Infinity? Colour me surprised.
You’re well on your way to half a million subscribers! That’s amazing and you deserve it
Joe Farah why the fuck when he tells lie's?
This is probably one of my new favorites. Still no "Rare Intelligence", but up there.
I'll have to go back and watch 'Rare Intelligence' again now that I know it is someone's favourite!
Your lectures have always been great, but with these steady improvements with the video effects (some of which are definitely feats for the eyes) alongside them, your videos are becoming so professionally high quality they deserve to be on TV or some other wide medium where you can educate so many more people than ever. Have you ever given that idea any thought?
Yay, you mentioned Moya and Gamera (space turtles)!
That living road section reminded me of stranger things season 2.
I’ll be real. I love all your videos, even if I’m left wondering about something specific that drives me crazy for weeks. But this one, this video was amazing. All props to you Mr Arthur.
hey, any chance to fondly remember farscape, im onboard
I've been waiting for this episode for so long! thx SFIA!
Sir Isaac Arthur shall go throught the raid for the Area51 with his *magnificent* speech and make the Troopers to peacefully surrender; and make us access to join the -halflife3- them xterrestrial technology
I'm really enjoying the graphics that accompany the narration. This is stuff I already imagine, but having the artist's rendition adds a nice touch.
- long time sub.
This distracts me from my sore mouth (I got the wire on my braces tightened yesterday and my overbite needs to be corrected with rubber bands). I mean, they are great episodes by themselves, but they also distract you from other stuff, which can be a good thing in certain cases.
I hope you have a lot of soft food that you can eat when you get hungry and that you have other Issac Arthur video's in his backlist that you can watch or rewatch to further your much-needed distraction :)
@@orioleaszme3415 Yeah. I've had my braces since last March, but still, taking my new rubber bands on and off is a hastle.
Yeah. There's plenty of SFIA videos I can watch. Plus I got a new book for my birthday and it is so fun to read! :-)
Albert Jackinson good luck I had braces for 3years I know the pain. That’s been about 20 years ago now.
SPECTACULAR job with the video animation! It's gotten better with each episode!
I thought too long about this comment and now I already lost the opportunity to be first 😂
RUclips's vairable about timestamping remarks anyway, so the "First" often isn't listed as such anyway :)
@@isaacarthurSFIA ah I didn't know that! 😂
@Royal Carpet actually I am going for my 3rd university degree currently, but whatever
I see you are not one for lighthearted fun or common decency 😒
“I want to know about giant space aliens”
Issac author: let me tell you about how non-definebale life is.
*I WONDER IF IT WILL BE FRIENDS WITH ME!*
Schrodinger once defined a living organism as any system which uses energy from its environment in order to maintain or reduce its own internal entropy. Personally I think that's a pretty beautiful definition.
Only problem is, I think by that definition my house is a living organism whenever the air conditioner is running.
NASA uploads a woke video and now you are talking about space whales 😎👍
THIS MANS IS LEGENDARY