Colonizing White Dwarfs

Earliest settler to a white dwarf!

"white dwarves aren't very bright' Surprised Tyrion Lannister face 😮

Feels like Civ 4 Beyond the Earth...

This will add a lot of nuance to my sci-fi novel during the fight Scene inside of a derelict white dwarf dyson sphere.

@Isaac Arthur I just wanted to say congratulations to you and your wife on the anniversary of your marriage as well as the successes that you and your family have achieved. Thank you for also inspiring me, as a disabled combat veteran (former Air Force Special Warfare SR/ SOWT Recon Specialist), to keep focused on the things that I can still do in life, as opposed to what I no longer can do, and keeping a realistic, yet positive view on things yet to come. You and your content truly mean a lot to me, despite not knowing you personally.

"Your place in the sun"

"Most stars are younger than the universe." lol I am 99.8% that was a joke.

One day, I'd love a video that's just Isaac doing a stream-of-thought video, rambling about whatever topic comes to mind in the moment and going on endless tangents. I love listening to this channel in the background, at work and while playing video games.

Most informative as always, Isaac. And Happy Fourth Anniversary!

Man someday I want to hear you chat about your Exalt game using pathfinder 2.0. Great episode again, wasn’t expecting the wire bracelet as the method but makes sense.

With all the possibilties for statites, lagites, etc., I'd think that a civilization living "on" a white dwarf could use also use the remnant as the core of a stellar engine. If your civilization is going to be hanging around the galaxy for a few orbits, you might as well add steering to your space yacht! (or terraforming + colonization barge) It could be useful to add an inner side wall to a white dwarf bracelet. White dwarf stars generate cosmic rays, which in turn can result in cosmic ray spallation of cosmogenic, helium-3, lithium, beryllium and boron. The yield might be low, but protons absorbed by gasses like nitrogen, oxygen, and argon are protons that aren't hitting your infrastructure.

One problem with a glowing metal shell in a vacuum is that metal tends to sublime at elevated temperatures even if it isn't close to its melting point. Without an atmosphere we have nothing to counter that vapor pressure, which means that the degradation of the sphere will be that much more rapid. So the metal vapor will need to be continuously re-captured and re-applied to the shell not only on the outside but also on the inside.

"most stars are younger than the universe." That needed some elaboration.

Within the first two minutes of the episode: Space pizza is good pizza especially when one of the key toppings is space pineapple!

These are always so well timed with the end of my late shift! Thanks for the cooldown 😊

Happy Anniversary! Enjoy your trip.

Congratulations on the wedding anniversary. I hope you two enjoy your "away from the kids " time.

6:10 Here for the dog references to the Sirius star system.

Wow, another amazing video! Thank you so much!!!❤

Planetary nebulae are an excellent source of galactic nutrients. Part of a balanced cosmic breakfast.