u/IsaacArthur

Fishing for topics for future episodes, haven't done that here in a bit. Title or topic is fine by itself but if you've got an episode idea, reply and preferably with at least a sentence explaining your concept. And also note if you want to help draft, edit, or outline it :)

Below is the list of episodes tentatively scheduled and already written, and beneath that the ones in my queue to write, as ideas to avoid or inspiration for any.

Genetic Bottlenecks – How Few People Can Start a World? Or Restart One?
The Tokamak Problem: Can We Ever Make Fusion Practical?
Nomadic Aliens – Cultures That Wander the Galaxy
SETI Explained - How We Search for Alien Civilizations
Fleet Unity - The Eridani Expedition - The Interstellar Beachhead
The First Interplanetary War Tactics in the Solar System
Livestream 5/19/2026
Don’t Panic - A Guide to Artificial Intelligence
The Zoo Hypothesis and the Fermi Paradox: Are We Being Watched?
The Von Braun Wheel - Building Humanity’s First Rotating Space Station
Antimatter Propulsion
Nearby Supernovae: Could One Destroy Earth — And Could We Stop It?
Merging with Alien Civilizations - Our Future in a Galactic Community?
The Moon Base: Shackleton Crater vs Other Sites
What If Humanity Never Masters Fusion?
Space Habitats: The Megastructures We’ll Call Home (Compendium)
Livestream 6/16/2026
The Physics of FTL Travel
Why Haven’t We Found Dyson Spheres Yet?
What If We Found a Second Earth Nearby?
Antimatter Containment: Bottling the Lightning
Water Shielded Starships - Surviving Radiation in Deep Space
Colonizing Ocean Worlds: Subaquatic Settlements
Is Artificial Intelligence the Great Filter
Digital Immortality: Backing Up the Human Soul
The Most Dangerous Stars in the Universe
The End of Time: Heat Death, Big Rip, or Big Crunch?
How New Space Settlements Avoid Early Collapse
The Great Lunar Boom: Building a Civilization on the Moon
Outsider Aliens – Life from Beyond Our Universe
Livestream 7/21/2026
Molecular Industry: Factories Made of DNA
Mass Drivers on the Moon - Enabling a Lunar Economy
The First Interplanetary War Tactics in the Solar System

Episode Title
The First Martian Cities: Planning Habitats
Life in a Relativistic Starship
Floating Cities Above Gas Giants
Civilizations at the Galactic Center – Thriving in the most extreme energy fields of the Milky Way.
Alien Data Arks: Preserving Knowledge for a Million Years
Making Gasoline from Air: The Science of Synthetic Fuel
Colonizing the Multiverse - Beyond the Kardashev Scale Into Infinite Universes
Water Shielded Starships - Surviving Radiation in Deep Space
Can You Survive Inside a Star?
What Happens Inside a Black Hole?
Stars That Shouldn’t Exist
The Youngest Advanced Civilizations

Pending to write:

Launch Megastructures Compendium?
Interplanetary Trains
Mining Mercury: The First Planetary Industrial Base
Cultural Drift in Interstellar Civilizations
Megastructure Mass Production: Space Habitats for Trillions
Fluorine Lifeforms – Creatures of the Halogen Seas
Subsurface Colonies: Life Beneath Alien Worlds
Terraforming the Asteroids: Turning Rubble into Worlds
The Great Retreat: Why Advanced Aliens Might Flee the Galaxy
The Cosmic Shoreline: Where Civilizations Can—and Can’t—Exist
Abandoned Megastructures
Fleet Unity – The Eridani Expedition: Worlds, Moons, and New Frontiers
Fleet Unity – The Eridani Expedition: An Uncivil War
Megacorporations in Space
Slow Aliens
10 Cool Fictional Worlds — And How Realistic They Really Are
The First Generation Problem – Who Shapes a New Civilization’s Values?
What If We Discovered Alien Ruins Tomorrow?
Could We Create Artificial Universes?
How Big Could Human Civilization Get?
Stealth in Space
How Do You Survive a Berserker Probe Attack?
What Are the Limits of Human Knowledge?
What Else Could Black Holes Be?
Where in the Universe Is Life Most Likely?
The Future Already Happened (And It Was Easy to Miss)
The First Space Elevator: Where Would We Build It?
Colonizing Europa
Technosignatures: How We Detect Alien Life

Pending to Write: