Atmospheric Mining
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- Science fiction has popularized asteroid mining and cities in the sky, but could the future of mining be in cloud cities hanging far above distant worlds?
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
02:08 Venus-like worlds
08:48 Titan Moons
12:38 Ice Giants / Hycean
17:23 Gas Giants
22:02 Starlifting
26:16 Stellar Remnants
27:15 Black Hole Series
Credits: Atmospheric Mining
Episode 413, September 21, 2023
Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur
Editors:
David McFarlane
Konstantin Sokerin
Graphics:
Bryan Versteeg
Jeremy Jozwik
Ken York YD Visual
Kristijan Tavcar
Mafic Studios
Sergio Botero
Stephen Huck
Steve Bowers
Tristan3D
Music Courtesy of:
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Stellardrone, "Red Giant" "Ultra Deep Field"
Sergey Cheremisinov, "Labyrinth" "Forgotten Stars"
Taras Harkavyi, "Alpha and ..."
Miguel Johsnon, "So Many Stars" - Věda a technologie
Happy birthday Isaac ! I would like to personally thank you for this episode,since i was the one bugging you about fro about a year now. I am very satisfied with the result and i think that many other will find it useful. The one thing that is missing is a near-term solution on mining the atmosphere of earth from orbit for oxygen,so we need fewer spacex starship launches to refuel a ship heading to the moon or mars. Overall,great episode,thank you and happy birthday !
If you're interested, there have been papers on that going back to the 1950s--the "Propulsive Fluid Accumulator," or PROFAC, concept.
Human species was given stepping stones for their enlightenment.. hmmmm.. hopefully that species can understand that..
Happy birthday, Isaac!
Another informative episode as always. And great to see some progress on the adoption front. Hopefully, things will be fully settled soon.
Isaac blatantly says The Empire Strikes Back is the best film of the Star Wars franchise as objective fact. Lmaooo I don't even disagree.
Happy birthday, Issac! Good episode!
Congratulations on the adoption process proceeding.
Geometry is a great girl's name! Wish them all a great future.
If one of them becomes a tethered ring engineer in the future, that would just be great!
It's actually a boys name in this case, and a modification of the one he was born under :) He does seem to be the most STEM-tilted of the trio thus far.
@@isaacarthurSFIA Oh sorry! My mistake.
don’t know how I stumbled on this but happy birthday isaac
Congratulations
Wow - instant family! Congratulations, and kudos for still getting great quality vids out to us, your fans!
great, this is the most excited i've been for an episode in a while
Utterly fascinating. Just discovered this channel.
I was not expecting the end of this episode to be so wholesome!❤
Big congrats on the birthday and finally having permission to show the kids. You are living the dream brother!
Hope you had a lovely birthday. Love this show, and I think your kids have a great dad, and mum.
Thank you for this video. I watch a lot of popular science, but it's first thing in a long time, when I was surprised by some big topic. Very interesting and after few minutes it's just: "it's so obvious, why I haven't heard about this concept before" - like with every great idea.
i wish there was some discussion about collecting atmospheres that have been blown off the surface of a planet, like when isaac discussed the scenario of aliens blowing up a planet, and described the water vapor of the former ocean as "floating around the planet for easy collection" by the aliens
I believe some of Saturns rings are ice, that would be a pretty easy scoop and go proposition for Hydrogen and Oxygen anyway.
Well, not really EASY, but you know what I mean. lol
For diffuse gas clouds maybe we use ion scoops. Drones handle all the solid & dense gas or liquid pockets. alternatively you can also wait for the ring to coalesce into a denser ring structure, maybe even shade it to aid in retention/condensation, & then mine the resulting ice like you would any icy comet.
ROCK AND STONE!
AIR AND... CLOUDS? Maybe elves harvest gas in drg universe...
Starfield and isaac arthur... what a great combo this morning.
Cyberpunk here , 2.0 today
@@Xact-ToeBladesnot unfortunately lol at least you can actually, ya know, explore space. Plus in VR it’s next level
@@Xact-ToeBladesyou can he's just a snoy
Get a job people wtf
No man sky for me too
Forget the episode, I'm so happy for you, you family and especially you beautiful children, that you have all found one another. Wishing all of you the best.
Thank you Claire!
Came across this channel recently and I'm really enjoying the content! It's amazing what science can accomplish when using creative strategies and solutions.
Also, Happy Birthday Isaac, though I guess it's a bit belated now.
Another awesome episode Isaac and team! Isaac, congrats on all those anniversaries! Beautiful children! Very Happy for you and Sarah.
Happy birthday, Isaac, and I'll repeat my congratulations on joining me in the community of adoptive parents.
An excellent video. I will link to it in future when someone asks me why I think we should put more attention on exploring Venus as well as on Mars.
Thanks Arcadia!
taking notes for my next sci-fi tabletop game, all hail Arthursday
Congrats, Isaac, Family and Co.! Many thanks for all you’ve brought into our world. And to the stars, with sound minds and open hearts we rise!
Chilling gasses can be the preferred option when seperating them if the condensation point is different.
given the massive temperature variation of space, cooling, as well as heating, are very good ways to separate out the elements using phase transitions
I would guess it would be the msot common approach though might not be as easily implemented in some cases.
@@isaacarthurSFIA you just choose the best option for what you are doing.
I like this - atmospheric mining - seems way more eco-friendly.
Grab some snacks this is going to be a good one guys
happy bday Isaac! absolutely love your stuff :) so glad you're a part of my feed
I do love them fusion candles, nothing like that animation anywhere else. it has been a fun 10 years of futurism for sure.
Happy Birthday Isaac! Hope you had an amazing day and wishing you many more to come! Love your work! Thank you for all the education and entertainment. 🙏
You cover so many angles on every topic. It’s so easy to get lost in thought, after finishing one of your videos.
Thank you, and happy birthday, happy anniversary, happy parenting 👍.
Your pronunciation is so much better nowadays! Congrats bro!
Just listened to your first and heard you mention it and heard this one immediately after just now. Couldn’t have been too easy at times but excellent growth
Love this topic. Thank you
Happy birthday, happy anniversary and congratulations on the adoption! Love your content and I know those kids are in for a wild ride!
Ahhh what a lovely set of anniversaries! It’s so sweet to have all these overlap at around the same time. And nice name Geometry hoho. Geo is such a cool nickname for when he goes to school.
I'd use hydrogen balloons on Titan: abundant supply (methane and water both abundant) and not much combustion worry. They could be used as cranes, building supports, and buoyancy adjustments for aircraft, submarine-like.
An oxygen/nitrogen mix may not be lighter than Titanian atmosphere, temperature being equal, but warm it up to standard room temperature, and it will have a strong tendency to rise in Titan's cold atmosphere. Hot air derigible, anyone?
@@digitalnomad9985 Live inside the gasbag, eh, like Eric Vinicoff's Windrider aerostats.
Happy birthday and great episode and I'm so happy for you and your family ❤❤❤ and I can't wait for the next episodes, they sound very interesting! You almost made me cry, so happy for you!
Another top notch video, good job.
***Which is larger: Titan or Ganymede?***
So for folks wondering, the episode's cites Titan as less massive than Ganymede but larger and that's an interesting point, as some noticed you tend to get disputed answer on the matter. Titan was originally considered bigger as it is, visually, but it does have that thick atmosphere. If you measure only the diameter in terms of 'hard surface', then Ganymede is a couple percent wider, include that thick atmosphere, and its not contest at all. Whether or not you should include that in planetary radius is tricky but we do use it for both Jupiter and Saturn's radii, so using it for their moons seems valid too. Though the ending of any atmosphere is very hard to define and its no wonder we often tend to prefer to use the solid or liquid surface of a world instead. Ultimately, in an episode about mining atmospheres, it seemed like it was proper to include that atmosphere in the moon. :)
Happy birthday mate! Love your work!
Thank you SFIA team and happy birthday Isaac!
happy birthday, Isaac! Happy anniversary to Family and Show!
Another informative episode and congratulations to the near *completion* of the adoptions!
Happy birthday and Happy Anniversary, Isaac.
Nice episode.
Thanks!
Happy birthday Isaac. You do a great job. And your channel is great. Always something fascinating to talk about. Really good food for a writers imagination. Thank you
It's been a while since I could sit down and just chew through a whole episode. Thanks!
Happy Birthday! Congatulations to you and your family!
Mine the atmosphere of Venus!
Thus terraform the planet as a byproduct.
@@comentedonakeyboardforget terraforming. keep mining once the atmos is gone & then until the former crust is gone, & then until nothings left. Build many hundreds of millions of earth's worth of spinhabs with the mined materials. Maybe set aside some steel for the filler mass tanks on artificial planets for the few planetary purists left at that point.
Even considering only artificial planets with liquid helium or hydrogen ice mass fillers we'd still be talking about many dozens of earth's worth of living area.
Don't even get me started on matrioshka shellworlds. That's even better if you have the active support for it.
Plenty of nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and sulfur to mine.
Freeze the CO2 into dry ice and launch it at Mars via orbital mass driver. Enough time goes by and you will have 1mb of pressure so you could walk around without a pressure suit and just a respirator. Then attempt to restart the carbon cycle using algae initially then move to more complex plant life.
Happy birthday Isaac 🎉 never stop thinking big if you want a solution that may come from mining the Sun just ask Isaac.
Happy Birthday Isaac!
Excellent episode.
I am now envisioning huge, floating, capillary columns!
Happy Birthday! Congratulations! Take care, be safe, and know you are loved!
Issac would it be possible to send all politicians to be used for gas storage?
Unfortunately not, they emit to much hot Air.
@@comentedonakeyboard I thought there tremendous storage capacity could be utilized in a more useful way. 😂
@@vicpalushaj well, you got a point.
Depends of whether we find a way to do it before they send all their opposition
Im so happy for you sir!
Would be suited with the vid about Cloud Cities 4 years ago :3
Congrats! I'm happy for your family, Arthur! Looking forward to the 12th I need that one bad!
Happy birthday Isaac!!!!!!
Wow congratulations isaac i wish the best for you and your family 🎉
Halo 2 was the first time I'd seen this concept. Missions The Arbiter and Oracle take place on an automated gas mine facility that hangs down into a gas giant's atmosphere on a cable attached to a massive orbital ring around the planet.
Happy birthday 🥳. Looking forward to the Forge world video. I love the concept of strip mining stars, gotta show them who's the boss.
Happy Birthday! And congratulations to you and your family!
Thank you so much!
Happy b-day Isaac, you the real MVP!
Happy Birthday! Anniversary! And welcome to the little ones!
Happy birthday Isaac! Glad to see the adoption process is working out for you too!
Happy birthday and congratulations for the kids and on the channel!!!!!!! A lot happening at once ❤😊❤
Congrats man :)
Congrats on having your amazing family!
Thank you so much!!
Congratulations on all of things my man
Happy Birthday, Isaac. Congrats on the news with the kids. Here's to a bit more peaceful year 10.
Thank you!
I was adopted about that age. You're doing Gods work Isaac.
Wut
yet another disingenuous religious pillock. Issac might be fool enough to not know what sort of vile nonsense your ''holy'' book is full of, but the rest of us.. aren't.
game changer! Thanks for making this video - I'm placing it on my website as we speak.
Happy birthday Isaac.
Happy birthday bromeo!
8:42 Polycrystalline diamond! the new wonder material (not the cheap kind with catalysts or binder in it, but true micro/nano diamond crystals connected by diamond bonds e.g. CFPDC)
it's like diamond but better in every way
Hope you'll get a great aniversary!
This channel gets me through the day. You are incredible. As a father I am very curious to the SFIA and Family.
Love the picture of your family. Great job
Thank you so much!
After Star Wars my 2nd favorite SYFY franchise is Stargate. In the first series Stargate SG-1. In one of the episodes in the future they talked about the idea of being able to ignite and turn Jupiter or Saturn in a much smaller 2nd Star that could last million year or even longer if they could keep adding fuel. Anyway they talk about how this could bring much needed light and warmth to the outer solar system even helping warm up mars enough the north/south ice caps would melt creating an atmosphere.
Happy Birthday 🎂🎈
It's been a long journey and i hope it never ends!
Happy Birthday, anniversary, and congratulations. Awesome family.
Thanks and God bless you all.
Thank you so much 😊
Congrats!
Happy Birthday!!!
Congratulations guys! God Bless!
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday Isaac 🎂🎉 here's to Another 10 years of SFIA 🥂
Glad you made this because I definitely have Cloud Cities on the Gas Giants and Ice Giants in my stories, and I definitely went the antigrav route, although it never occurred to me to make the Cloud Cities out of Diamond... 🤔🤔
I seem to recall some proposals back in the '80s for collecting gas from Earth's atmosphere for use in space, either by a ramscoop vehicle that would dive in and out or a collector dangled in on a tether.
Thanks Author ;)
"the best film in that franchise"; heh I wonder who else caught that
Happy birthday, mister Arthur. Thanks for another year of great content.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: and glad to see that life is good, for your next one perhaps a semi-serious one on birth"days" in a universe that stretches from the Planc scale to the Multiworse
"I assure you, there IS no Atmosphere Crisis!"
I had gotten the impression that it was less 'Titan has a big atmosphere' than 'Saturn has a big gas ring that includes Titan.' Inasmuch as there's a difference between the two.
Congratulations to you and yours ❤ :)
Thank you! You too!
Also, congratulations on your family!
Happy birthday Isaac Arthur, you have been doing great work. I always admire the topics you make vedio on and how "out of the box" they are. I wanted to ask you how can a person get started with futurism, Is a STEM background required for it? how did you become a futurist?
yeah you need a PhD to read scifi books
A STEM background is deifnietly helpful but it doesn't necessarily have to be a full-on degree, and a heavy and diverse love of scifi is probably critical too. I didn't really become one either, I just noticed at some point folks were referring to me as one and had stuck me up on the wikipedia listing of them :) Possibly because of the name of the show but even that was a product of people calling it the Science & Futurism channel etc, I eventually started calling it that too.
@@isaacarthurSFIAThank you Isaac but I would still like you to make an episode talking about your journey because I believe it will be inspiring to a lot of people. I too have a speech impediment and you are pretty awesome.
Happy Birthday!! In a lot of scifi books gas mining H3O seems to be a thing...
Oooh! Happy birthday! And congratulations on the adoption process! The kids are so cute! Christopher and Isabella are delightful and respectable names! And I absolutely adore the name Geometry for a child, it's unique and wonderful and absolutely whimsical!
Please don’t name your kid geometry
Since it came up in the episode, have you done a video on stellar based transmutation? Things like planet sized particle colliders used to generate transuranics.
We've discussed it in other episodes but never as a standalone topic
@@isaacarthurSFIA I would definitely watch that if you put it out.
Happy birthday, Isaac.
Lets celebrate with frosted sugar bread!
Dear Isaac Arthur,
Thank you for being open about your knowledge and goaĺs in advancing civilization.
Thank you for hosting my evolving essay. My major purpose is finding people on You Tube that are open to the possibility that the second law of thermodynamics and its taxonomic root entropy is inferior to the highly supported finding that energy is not created or destroyed but may change form.
Does anyone have hypothical reasoning that supports entropy as superior in practice to the finding that energy is conserved but may change form?
Aloha,
Charlie
Happy birthday Isaac. Please visit Malawi (Africa)
Happy Birthday! As usual, good stuff.
Edit: As 22 year old, Ep3 is the best movie
Happy belated birthday and happy assorted anniversaries!