Colonizing Giant Stars

Giant Stars are often considered too hot and short lived to colonize, but it may be that they shall be the most powerful and pivotal systems in a future galaxy.

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Credits:
Colonizing Giant Stars
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 279, February 25, 2021
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Darius Said
Jason Burbank
Keith Blockus

Cover Art:

Graphics:
Sam McNamara
Udo Schroeter

[LordBitememan]

I'm just waiting for the video "Colonizing Supernovas, " because after years of watching this channel I've abandoned the notion that anything is impossible.

[monke]

Aerobraking through a star. I love how scifi concepts can make perfect sense while sounding completely insane at the same time

[davidweikle]

This Arthursday I got off work from my night shift, kissed my wife, ran my son to school, showered and got ready to settle in for a few hours of SFIA while I sleep.

[erichtomanek]

If a star is too big and you have the technology, stellar lifting is an option. Shrink it to a yellow or orange star in time. And imagine all the mass you could use! And with fusion technology, all the elements you could create!
Gold!
Mass, Mass, Mass, that's all I think about.

[Drew_McTygue]

Great stuff Isaac. I'm thinking about moving to a red dwarf t though. My descendents might be a tad upset when they discover I've doomed them to a supernova

[IFRYRCE]

Isaac, ty for all you do. This content is amazing.

[nanoblast]

I can only imagine that, if ftl travel would ever be a thing, then data shipping will become a valuable industry.

[francoislacombe]

Fun fact. Vega is a variable star, but it was believed to be constant in brightness for a very long time, so much so that astronomers were using it to calibrate their star brightness measurements. That didn't cause too much trouble when brightness was being estimated visually, but it became an issue when they switched to far more accurate photoelectric instruments. It still took them decades to figure out why their measurements were not as accurate and consistent as they were expecting.

[feryth]

Drink and snack? I listen to Isaac while having my dinner!

[phaedrus]

How do you know when someone is from the Vega system? Just wait a few minutes and they'll tell you.

[Alphacheesehunter]

Being a cyborg, I brought my charging cable and lubricant for this episode.

[AtlasReburdened]

This episode brings back my ponderings on how we could "stir" stars that are too large to efficiently cycle through their hydrogen through natural convection.

[lololman]

Yeeeessss!
A Red Giant Stellaser Hub, the ultimate crown jewel of the Empire, perfect peacekeeper of the galaxy!

Let's see you rebel scums try to blow this one up!

[prasoongupta]

Dammit Issac, I just want to take time to say that I love you from bottom of my heart.

[ottertvmtg]

got my drink and my snack this morning in preparation!

[whatwhale]

This the earliest I ever been. Happy I get to start my day off with coffee and Isaac

[mrtspence]

As always, a wonderful episode. I remember quite a while back when these videos used to only get a fraction of the exposure they do now. It truly gladdens me to see so many people expanding their minds and enjoying this fantastic content.

[kairon]

YouTube needs to be able to exempt world builders and science channels who've been around for a while.
Exempt them from "violent" warnings due to the creative and or factual nature of their channels.

[firestarten]

Vegans tend to talk a lot about the superior efficiency of their energy use.

[darthmortus]

This whole episode I was like, *but starlifting* whenever the issue of stars "dying" came up. Luckily I see at the end that you left that for next episode rather than forgot to mention it ;)