Space Homesteading: Life On The Final Frontier

In the future we will not simply travel to visit new worlds but seek to build homes and forge lives on them. So what would being a pioneer in space truly be like?

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Credits:
Space Homesteading
Episode 433; February 8, 2024
Produced, Written & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur

Graphics:
Bryan Versteeg
Fishy Tree
Jeremy Jozwik
Katie Byrne
Ken York
Real Courte
Sergio Botero
Tactical Blob
Select imagery/video supplied by Getty Images
Music Courtesy of
Stellardrone, "Ultra Deep Field", "Red Giant"
Sergey Cheremisinov, "Labyrinth", "Forgotten Stars"
Taras Harkavyi, "Alpha and ..."
Miguel Johnson, "So Many Stars"

[alfredotto]

Most farmers I know are mechanics, inventors, machinists and all around problem solvers.

[littlegravitas]

Home is where the heart is. Sometimes that will end up being several light years from earth.

[FallenAnvilForge]

LOL "Everybody shut up, dad's gotta record." That's awesome Isaac LOL, Great video as always, looking forward to the next one. :)

[jsbrads]

In space, you can always receive ballistic Amazon. They will fire it toward you from a railgun, the only limit is your catching speed.

[christophernoneya]

I think the key difference between homesteading and farming is the intention. If you own a garden we dont call you a farmer, you arent intending to make a living selling what you grow. Homesteading is about intending to survive off of what you grow, not sell.

[MikeJones-yoen]

I love your usual release times- I get to go to space while going to work

[smoore]

Another fantastic SFIA video! I loved the warhammer 40k STC tie-in, totally great idea! I have suggested several times that Isaac and Leutin09 should do a collaboration episode over on leutins comments, i think that could be a great episode or short series. I recently started rewatching all the SFIA videos as I have been doing a lot of world building in my own universe and SFIA is my "reality" check for when I want to know if I am getting too far out of known science for my own comfort. Thanks for the thought-provoking and fascinating videos. You, sir, are a treasure and an amazing resource for someone who wants to write good science fiction!

[Gauldame]

You have died of Techno Dysentery.

Venus Trail... probably.

[arcadiaberger]

It makes perfect sense that most of the early settlements will be small, often begun by families, which makes them homesteaders by definition. Since there is already a well-developed culture of unusual forms of homesteading (urban homesteading seasteading), it makes perfect sense that it will expand in future into space.
Once again, it is clear: Octavia Butler was right to say that *_it is the destiny of Earthlife to take root among the stars._*

[placeholdername]

Another option for Venus. Thermosiphons, sucking heat from the lower atmosphere into a heat engine, with the waste heat going into the colder upper atmosphere. This would not only produce power, but also cool Venus over time.

[SAINT-ANTONIO]

🔵 TOPIC: ASTRONAUT SPACE SUIT HYGENE

Important is also how to keep things hygienic and comfy.


Space suits might need specific wardrobes that wash, decontaminate, desinfect, treat, deodorant harmonize space suits.

Such as putting it inside a wardrobe on a holding structure where then shower and spray tubes go in and around.

Then UV light treatment while drying with inside tempered wind drying.

[greggweber]

18:49 The Robinson Caruso method of survival being to take steps just big enough so that you have the time/resources to solve all the issues before this one again becomes critical. Not good to die of thirst in a mansion.

[ltsgobrando]

I've gotta be blunt here... Issac I adore your speech impediment 😅

I realize that being different can be hard and whatever, but like... get over it man 😂😂😂. I seriously love your voice, imperfections and all. I have a really long and extremely precise memory (like I can recall conversations verbatim months after the fact) and I cannot recall a single instance of me misunderstanding a single word you've said. I'm okay if you pronounce world as "woahwrld", it's okay man. We are all unique in our own ways, and part of that for you is how you sound. I really do think that you are too hard on yourself. Yes a speech impediment can be challenging, but like realistically if you didn't bring light to it the vast majority of your audience wouldn't even realize it was an impediment.

Seriously dude, you are perfect as you are. Stop with the apologies, stop with the surgeries. You are who you are and we love you flaws and all.

On a more serious and personal interpretation note... it comes across as the victim card. Like I fully understand that you have a speech impediment, and I don't want to come across as insensitive... but I got a cousin who I live with who has a stutter so bad he actually is indecipherable at times, and I fall asleep to the melody of your voice.

You're not broken dude, you're different. Don't be ashamed. You're different and that's okay!

[MrGrumblier]

10:49 The Grayson's did not have counter-grav. At the time of "Honor of the Queen", they could barely build impellers and inertial compensators. They also lacked the advanced building materials to build large-scale domes for farming for some reason. Weber made it a point of showing that they still used rivets to build their space stations and ships.

[scottthomas]

Heinlein's "Farmer In The Sky", though aimed at teenagers, is a good basic space homesteading novel, that holds up fairly well despite its age.

[hakonsgaming]

The end of this reminds me of the last books of Schlock mercenary (spoilers) where they eventually realize that the galaxy is surrounded by an orbiting halo of what amount to tons of different variations on matryoshka brains, because any civilization that arose within the galaxy eventually inevitably realizes that being in the galaxy is detrimental to long term survival because new potentially disruptive civilizations keep arising and eventually they all get anti matter weapons and gravity control tech that there is no perfect defense against so on a long enough timeline the only true survival strategy is to go where no one else is and they have little to no chance of detecting you or deciding to come into existence anywhere near you.

[bigjermboktown]

I love this channel. There's a comfort I find in watching and listening to you talk

[mcmaldek]

Imagine a blimp with breathable air inside it. That alone is an awesome concept.

[ornu]

Also known as 'humans are here, abandon all hope, ye who trespass.'

[annoyed]

The Homeschool Hooligans - future band name