Drift Off To a Generation Ship's ENTIRE Journey to Earth 2.0

Hey guys! We’re now live on Spotify🎧 Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/show/033fToV... A world known only by four faint shadows lies eighteen hundred light-years away in the wing of the Swan, and the road to it is lined with real, named worlds. Follow one generation ship down that corridor of sky, past a star that once marked Earth's pole, an eleven-billion-year-old family of planets, and three suns bright enough to cast shadows. At the end waits a heavier, older cousin of Earth, and a door that opens only one way. What could one and a half billion extra years have done to it? CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction 1:24 A Shadow in the Swan 17:14 The Road Down Kepler's Gaze 32:39 A Ship Built to Outlast Its Builders 48:25 Leaving the Sun Behind 1:03:54 The First Waypoint at Vega 1:20:00 The Generation That Lost the Sun 1:35:35 Past the Oldest Worlds 1:52:04 Three Suns in the Wing of the Swan 2:08:11 The Halfway Mark and the Hot Bubble 2:23:56 The Small Red Suns 2:39:20 The Generations of the Middle Road 2:54:48 The Far Reaches of the Swan 3:10:36 The Older Sun Ahead 3:27:11 What One and a Half Billion Years Have Done 3:43:04 The Heavy World 3:58:38 Building the First Home 4:14:53 Home in the Stern of the Ship SOURCES NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth (NASA) — https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nas... Kepler / K2 Mission Overview (NASA Science) — https://science.nasa.gov/mission/kepler/ Re-Evaluating Small Long-Period Confirmed Planets From Kepler (arXiv) — https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00506 Quantitative estimates of the surface habitability of Kepler-452b (MNRAS) — https://academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... Spaceflight from Super-Earths is difficult (arXiv) — https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04727 Star formation near the Sun is driven by expansion of the Local Bubble (Nature) — https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158... Astronomers Discover Ancient System with Five Small Planets (NASA JPL) — https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/astrono... Extinction and the Dimming of KIC 8462852 (arXiv) — https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.07556 Kepler-452 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-452 Kepler-452b — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-... Delta Cygni — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_C... #Kepler452b #GenerationShip