The Geopolitics of Space Colonization part 2(feat. Isaac Arthur).

[platypus]

A colab with Issac Arthur Is like a dream come true!

[badmothxl]

When I first saw the alert from Issac Arthur, I thought “huh, that’s interesting”. Then this came out and *Glory hallelujah*

[senorswordfish]

It wouldn't be called "geopolitics" since we're not on Earth anymore, right? I prefer Astropolitics cause it sounds like a bad-ass word

[Rastek]

"Oh brazil my dear boy why do you keep disappointing me"
Brazil: *Proceeds to lose a soccer championship in their own country*

[cplhotpockets]

I fucking love space. I love that he's covering the geopolitics of space because it seems right up his alley

[AspectPL]

Warhammer 40k actually has a quite plausible take on a multiplanetary empire where each planet is very different and has its own separate culture or in fact cultures. There is a common language used by the administration and nobility, but the planetary societies have their own languages. High gothic is kept operational just like latin was in middle ages. The bureaucracy is taking ages and often planets are lost or rebel years or tens of years after anyone in the administratum acts upon the report. Everything is kept in line under the same state relligion and administration which holds power through strength. It requires regular payment and loyalty, but it doesn't care how you perform your rituals and what you believe in as long as it can be connected into the larger imperium of man. Those who separate themselves are devoured by the ridiculously dangerous enemies of humanity. We would obviously hope that the galaxy isn't as dangerous and dreadful as in 40k, so there would be no pressure into forming this totalitarian empire in the true world.

[awesomesauce]

People: "Why haven't we discovered aliens yet?"

Our absolute very first broadcasts: Look man, light can only travel so fast

[LucasDimoveo]

If hardcore Marxist-Leninists, social justice folks, and anarcho-capitalists ever come to blows in an American context, it will be on Mars. The British Empire was able to end slavery after some decades of activism by Quakers. The US damn near imploded over it.

edit: I've been waiting for this collab for years! You should do some videos on Transhumanism

[CantusTropus]

"I would love to see a science fiction book about radical ideological factions battling it out on an alien planet" - may I introduce you to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri?

[nobodyofimprotance]

If there's one trope that I find super unrealistic it's the idea that every planet in a world will be a single country. Even if some planets (especially new colonies) are that way, it makes no sense for that to be true to every country.

[timothydavis]

Americans on mars in 200 years... "Gimmie Somthin to Shoot" "GoGoGO" "You must construct additional Pylons"

[arturomorelli]

Dude, I love how this turned into a geopolitics channel. I am a different human being for having discovered this. Keep up the geopolitics stuff please. I know other people think so too.

[nathanseper]

"Italy has trouble holding together" Oh, that was spot on. XD!

[grahamturner]

I know a few years ago, there was a Stellaris series on the YouTube channel The Templin Institute, where they streamed gameplay on Twitch, but the YouTube videos explained what happened to the empire they were playing as (Antares Confederacy). The way it formed was that in the 2150s, the UN launched a colonization fleet of 6 million people, which ended up going to a huge trinary star system, which was named as Antares. The colonists split up into 19 groups, all of which colonizing different parts of different planets in the system, with all being pretty isolated from each other. The way it unified was when all of the colonies got together to form a confederation that was meant to defend everyone while not sidelining anyone. Of the 11 colonies that survived, all had somewhat different cultures, which were based mostly off of South American, Middle Eastern, and Southeast Asian cultures.

[Austin_Schulz]

Watch/Read "The Expanse." It's so well done.

Incidentally, it also features Mormon colonizers. 😆

[Wackaz]

Whatifalthist covering the geopolitics of space? My god, this is a dream come true.

[dalegribble]

0:11 I'd honestly consider Warhammer 40K a bit of an exception because it is the least Central empire to ever exist think of it like the holy Roman empire but in space

[nicolassoderberg]

This collaboration is out of this world!

[magicthegatherer]

The Imperium of Man having a centralized administrative structure? Whatifalthist, what are you on?

[Toix]

Obviously your opening makes sense, but it's like before America became a country, people wouldn't think America being split between the British, French and Spanish as well as the native tribes would one day become a whole country. Like I said again your opening makes sense, but we don't know what the future holds, we can only predict.