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A look at creating artificial planets, ones vastly bigger than Earth.
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We return to the Megastructures series to discuss various ways of creating artificial planets, the special issues with making an Earth-like planet much larger or smaller than Earth, and the maximum size they can be, potentially larger than entire solar systems.

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Graphics Team:
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Jarred Eagley
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Script Editing:
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Naomi Kern
Philip Baldock
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Tiffany Penner

Music:
Markus Junnikkala, "We Roam the Stars"
Aerium, "Fifth Star of Aldebaran"
Kai Engel, "Endless Story About Sun and Moon"
AJ Prasad, "Aether"
Dan McLeod, "Mysterious Universe"
Sergey Cheremisinov, "White Atlantis"
Lombus, "Doppler Shores"

An in-depth look at Cryptocurrency & Blockchain, what they are, how they differ from existing methods, and what the advocates and critics have to say about them.

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Further Reading:
Original Paper on bitcoin:
Satoshi Nakamoto, "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System"
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Charles Stross Blog Entry "Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire"
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-...

Daneil Jeffries rebuttal, "Why Charles Stross Doesn’t Know a Thing about Bitcoin":
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/...

Abrahim Ladha’s “Hypothetical Problems concerning the Theory of Relativity on Cryptographic Currency Implementations”:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.04265

Paul Krugman's paper "Theory of Interstellar Trade":
https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/i...

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A look at Dark Matter, what it is, what it isn't, and what it might be used for.

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A look at revolutionary new materials with seemingly impossible properties.
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Metamaterials offer many properties normally not found in nature, from superior lenses and communications to stealth applications, potentially offering invisibility. Today we'll examine the science behind that and look at many other possible applications.

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Script Editors
Derek Hightower
Keith Blockus
Luke Parrish
Mitch Armstrong


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Music:
Dracovallis, "Hero's Destiny"
Sergey Cheremisinov, "Seven Lights"
Denny Shneidmesser, "Across The Universe"
Miguel Johnson, "The Commanders"
Brandon Liew. "Floating through Space"
Markus Junnikkala, "Heartbreakingly"
Markus Junnikkala, "We Roam the Stars"
Lombus, "Time Slip"
Ayreon, "Patterns"

A quick glimpse of our upcoming series on possible Great Filters of the Fermi Paradox, which might make intelligent extraterrestrial life so rare there are no other civilizations in our galaxy.

Music: "Cosmic Soup" by Liam Davis of Lombus
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