Drift Off To What Life Would Be Like If We Colonized The Entire Solar System

Hey guys! We’re now live on Spotify🎧 Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/show/033fToV... Imagine every planet and every moon of the Solar System settled, each with a port of its own. On Mercury, a city creeps around the planet at walking pace to stay in the light of dawn. Above Venus, whole cities float on the very air their people breathe, and on Titan the air is thick enough to fly with wings strapped to your arms. So which roads would carry this whole civilisation between the worlds, and why would no one ever need to build them? CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction 1:36 The Departures Board of a Settled Sun 17:07 The Harbour Above the Sky 32:08 The Moon, the First Harbour 47:17 Mercury, the Port at the Edge of Daylight 1:02:56 Venus, the Cities That Never Touch the Ground 1:18:32 The Long Crossings Between Worlds 1:33:34 Mars, the Crossroads of the Inner Worlds 1:48:48 The Belt, Harbours Without Ground 2:03:52 Jupiter, the Kingdom of Storms 2:18:48 Io, Europa and Ganymede, Moons of Fire and Ice 2:34:44 Saturn and the Ringed Harbours 2:49:26 Titan, Where People Learn to Fly 3:04:11 Uranus, the Sideways Kingdom 3:18:55 Neptune and Triton, the Deep Harbour 3:33:48 Pluto and the Last Lights of the Frontier 3:49:54 A Civilisation Measured in Light-Hours 4:05:28 Life Under a Hundred Different Gravities 4:20:11 The Roads That Were Already There SOURCES NASA Study Proposes Airships, Cloud Cities for Venus Exploration (IEEE Spectrum) — https://spectrum.ieee.org/nasa-study-... Nuclear Electric Propulsion for Artificial Gravity HOPE Missions to Callisto (NASA NTRS) — https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20040... Space Colonization Using Space-Elevators from Phobos (NASA NTRS) — https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20030... Ice Confirmed on Mercury Despite Planet's Solar Proximity (Scientific American) — https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar... Meet Mercury (ESA) — https://esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_... LCROSS (NASA Science) — https://science.nasa.gov/mission/lcross/ A Space Elevator Is Possible With Today's Technology (MIT Technology Review) — https://www.technologyreview.com/2019... What Is the Interplanetary Transport Network? (Universe Today) — https://www.universetoday.com/article... Florida Tech Researchers Explore the Mars Cycler Concept (Florida Tech) — https://news.fit.edu/academics-resear... Terraforming the Dwarf Planet: Ceres Megasatellite World (arXiv) — https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07487v4 Saltwater Ocean on Enceladus (Sky & Telescope) — https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy... Cassini Answers Titan Secrets, NASA Plans Helicopter Mission (NASASpaceFlight) — https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/... Jumping the Tallest Cliff in the Solar System (NASA Space Place) — https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/cliff-jum... New Horizons Finds Evidence of Recent Liquid on Pluto's Surface (NASA Science) — https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/scienc... #SolarSystemColonization #InterplanetaryCivilization