From Goddard’s first rocket to space elevators and mass drivers, we explore 100 years of rocketry—and the launch technologies that could carry humanity beyond rockets.
Credits: Beyond Rockets – 100 Years of Rocketry and What Comes Next
Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur
Editor: Charles Slatkin
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:48 The Pioneering Century
5:49 The Physics of Rockets
8:20 The Coming Revolution in Launch Systems
11:50 Beyond Rockets — The Alternative Gateways to Space
12:26 Space Elevators
13:49 Skyhooks and Rotovators
15:04 Orbital Rings
17:58 Mass Drivers and Coilguns
19:05 Nebula
20:18 Launch Loops and Dynamic Tethers
21:13 High-Altitude and Hybrid Launch Systems
22:39 Toward a Continue reading Beyond Rockets – Goddard Centennial→
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UFO sightings are at an all time high. Every eight seconds, someone, somewhere is seeing something highly unusual in the skies above our planet. But what happens when hundreds or even thousands of people witness the same UFO event? The mass sighting might be the most exciting, compelling type of UFO experience. They have happened all around the world, and in an era where everyone carries a camera, they give us an opportunity to examine a sighting that has multiple eyewitnesses and an array of POVs. From the lights that terrorized Phoenix to the disappearance of an object into the Atlantic Ocean, these events amaze and profoundly unsettle witnesses. What makes these mass sightings incredible is also what makes them completely terrifying: if these UFOs stick around long enough to be seen, then what might happen next?
AI handles optimization; humans handle purpose. Explore how an AI-run economy frees us to invent, explore, and expand into the stars. The future isn’t about jobs—it’s about vision.
Electrical physicist Paul Bennewith is convinced he has located a top secret human and alien underground lab in Dulce, New Mexico near Los Alamos. The US Military thinks Bennwitz has come too close to top secret information and sends Air Force Investigators including Sgt. Richard Doty to feed him lies as part of an ansidious program called COINTELPRO. But is Doty himself a pawn in an even bigger disinformation scheme? And what about claims that surface in 1995 by government engineer Phil Schneider who reports witnessing aliens and humans in the underground lab he helped build in Dulce? Schneider spent 17 years working on government black projects and died of mysterious causes in 1996. It’s possible that he was also a pawn in a massive disinformation scheme. However, it equally possible he may really know something about the lab. After all, what better way to keep a secret than to bury it underneath layers of lies. Distracting the public from the truth isn’t solely a US phenomenon.
UFO sightings are at an all time high. Every eight seconds, someone, somewhere is seeing something highly unusual in the skies above our planet. But what happens when hundreds or even thousands of people witness the same UFO event? The mass sighting might be the most exciting, compelling type of UFO experience. They have happened all around the world, and in an era where everyone carries a camera, they give us an opportunity to examine a sighting that has multiple eyewitnesses and an array of POVs. From the lights that terrorized Phoenix to the disappearance of an object into the Atlantic Ocean, these events amaze and profoundly unsettle witnesses. What makes these mass sightings incredible is also what makes them completely terrifying: if these UFOs stick around long enough to be seen, then what might happen next?
Learn the best-kept secrets of Mercury, one of the closest planets to Earth. Discover why it has eluded astronomers’ exploratory efforts for centuries, and how missions like Mariner and Messenger have uncovered new findings.
What happens when AI controls prices, jobs, markets, and growth itself? Explore the future of an economy run by machines—and what it means for work, power, and humanity.
Chapters
0:00 Intro – The Invisible Hand Becomes a Neural Network
2:58 What Does “Running the Economy” Actually Mean?
5:30 What Does “Running the Economy” Actually Mean?
10:19 Labor in an AI-Run Economy
14:41 Who Programs the Economy’s Values?
17:01 Government, Power, and Economic Sovereignty
20:21 So, Can Humans Stay in the Loop?
22:56 The Best-Case and Worst-Case Futures
24:53 Abolish Everything
25:57 The Last Economic Decisions We Ever Make
Voyage to Venus, the hellish doppelgänger of Earth. Learn how our solar system neighbour became shrouded in a lethal atmosphere of carbon dioxide, acid rain, and fiery heat, and find out if our home planet could face a similar fate.
Buckle up and follow the experts to the literal end of the world. Watch how scientists harness the catastrophic forces of physics to create the perfect doomsday scenario that doesn’t just kill all life, but completely obliterates our planet.