I lost my dad two months ago to a motorcycle accident. We lived far apart but we’d constantly share podcasts and KZfaq videos about space exploration and sci fi together. Both of you have been a huge part of that. Thank you for the content you guys produce. It means more than you might realize. ❤

Isaac + JMG is futurism KZfaq's The Avengers.

You bring such an EPIC show to the podcast world. Thank you so much. What an awesome collab.

Michael Crichton couldn't seem to write an ending worth a damn in the vast majority of his books... but _Sphere_ had one of the best sci-fi horror endings I think I've ever read. Highly recommend it to anybody looking for a good read.

Irishman Sam Neill was amazing in Event Horizon. Greetings from the west coast of Ireland 🇮🇪

Space elevator won't be possible unless you take care of space junk

I could listen to you two together all day. Literally my favorite thing on KZfaq. Best wishes to both of you.

I don't think they'd throw you out the airlock when you died. You'd get composted and recycled.

"I am Legend" is one of the best books ever written! When I first read it, I cried at how good it was and how bad the movie was. Honestly, I had been lied to when they said the movie was better than the book. Totally wrong.

This is exactly the kind of science/science fiction blend that appeals to a very wide audience hungry for the best of both. The seasonal twist is sauce for the goose 🖖

Cixin Liu's Trilogy, "Three-body Problem", "The Dark Forest", and "Death's End" are a must read.

I think we'll get gravity manipulation tech before we have space elevators, rendering them obsolete.

41:00 Imagine an intergalactic space war run by AI-governed civilizations fighting over a proper way to maximize paperclips

The Thing is the best horror sci-fi movie in my humble opinion.

I love it when my subscriptions intersect.

Man it's kinda comforting to know that isaac and JMG are also futurist tech luddites who keep the eldritch entity known as pad and paper nearby at all times.

The real aliens were the colonies we made along the way.

My favorite guest 👍

As creatures we evolved in an environment of challenge and struggle, a utopian heaven would bore us.

The bit about staying awake and occupied on a long-term asteroid spaceship trip around 17:00 reminded me of Hugh Jackman's character in "The Fountain" where he's flying through space in his little bubble with his Tree of Life, eating bits of it for immortality and living as a kind of Buddhist monk doing Tai Chi and meditating for centuries while he waits for his arrival at the Xibalba nebula. Always loved that film. Also, what if humanity is currently in a cryosleep right now heading to a new world, and this life we have right now is a dream simulation of living on our old planet with all its major social, economic and environmental issues, the point being to have some fresh insights before we wake up to our new homeworld? Would be nice, maybe.

Thank you both for taking the time to get together and sharing your ideas with us. It's always awesome!

Did someone say SCOTT MANLY?? DID SOMEONE SAY COLLABORATE WITH SCOTT MANLY?????

Scariest movie i ever saw is Idiocracy

I love when you guys reference Mass Effect or sci fi in video games. Its super relatable!

One of my favorite guests. Thanks!

Quatermass and the pit , was a great sci-fi horror movie from the 60s.

AHAH, Event Horizon, the movie ...

I really liked Space: above and beyond. Very underrated show. The Chigs were really obscure.

I imagine this is what Asimov and Verne with Lovecraft chiming in all doing a podcast would sound like. You guys are great.

I love listening to Event Horizon. These guys have superhuman imaginations and they talk about things that haven't been proven yet, but have to be real because of high probability, and scientific evidence. Some of these podcasts have left me absolutely mind blown.

Love seeing a cross between Isaac Arthur and John Michael Godier.

I can never look at paper clips the same way ever again.

Golovachev had this horror-like concept of a distant bright future but with the very fabric of the universe going wrong, making the initial manifests of it doing all kinds of solar-system-wide catastrophes hinting at the actual scale of looming doom. He invented some sy-fy tech in those books not seen anywhere since btw.

Arthursday and Isaac Arthur with JMG on my birthday. Thanks

Oh my god, it finally happened. The two best KZfaqrs have united!

Hyperscience, nanomachines, advanced cyrogenics: now we can conquer the stars and crawlonize the galaxy! JMG: Finally, the uber nap!

I watched the movie "Event Horizon" on TV as an adult with other adult friends and I must warn all of you: IT IS VERY SCARY!

I started reading Iaian Banks 'culture' series a few months ago. Really interesting to speculate about the integration of A.G.I. into a society and the sociological integration of a sentient creation. I'm not sure if the series explores a more blatant dystopian potential or realization associated with A.G.I (I'm only on book 5, 'excession' ). Excession seems to water the seeds planted in some of the previous books that the minds have an agenda that the culture is willfully or otherwise unaware of. I droned on, but I had to delete because I don't want to start throwing out spoilers. Great series of novels nonetheless. I'm interested to know what John's and Isaac's impressions are of this series...

I really enjoyed this talk, and I would love to get more.

Been waiting for this for a long time , thank you!

I feel like a space elevator would be a tube, basically a triangle of maybe graphene rolled so it's thickened at the top but the interior diameter is constant. It could be pretty tough against anything but a concerted attack. And multiple tubes could be clustered to give throughput in each direction, and different sizes for different types - like passengers and freight.

9:28 - with Peter Watts's Blindsight I felt like he was able to constantly feed the reader information and it stayed interesting just based on how many novel threads were evolving and (spoiler) he kept just enough back for there to be worthwhile surprises.

I think the book Snowcrash deals with nanite swarms and other swarms that deal with those swarms and more swarms to deal with those and on and on. I always found that interesting along with ICE and Black ICE from william Gibsons sprawl series. Those are two of my favorite science Fuction "tropes"? I guess they could be called now. I just found ICE and Black ICE very conpleling since i grew up working with computers and at internet based companies.

What a great podcast. I found you via isaac years ago on your other channel sir John. So nice too see the both of you together considering yall are my fav creators ❤

16:20 When you don't survive the generation ship journey because you ate too much banana pudding at the going away party.

this is the team-up i was waiting for

Godier and Arthur in a show? My God! The singularity has happened again!

Spooky future stories for the spooky season. Thanks to you both for keeping the world's imagination that much more open to the possibilities.

So much for "Live forever or die trying."

You don't make a space elevator because you want the cheapest orbital access - After all, launch loops and orbital ring systems are way cheaper. No, you do it because you can DANGLE a whole city-scale space habitat on the other end, that means your counterweight is also a major location with millions of people living there. Even if it's low-throughput, the one tether invites more tethers, since it's a major location anyway.

Yes!!!🙌 fantastic episode

Since I spent Thursday talking with Kip Thorne, this is only the 2nd best Science/Sci Fi discussion for me this week.

I’ve thought about being put in a sleep state - but I was recently put in a drug induced sleep/coma in the hospital for 2 months. It took me many weeks to learn how to walk again and almost all my muscles in my legs I lost, all over really. I can’t imagine a year or longer. I had no idea 2 months had passed, I really thought it was the next morning, the dreams I remember were out of this world, of course I’m sure the drugs had something to do with them.

A trip around the universe and some philosophy about it. Thank you both! 👁

Great show.....I will listen again soon.

This was GREAT! Please do Again!

Please do a video about escapism problems that arrive with future technology. * wakes up in 2080 “ this sucks” * Goes back to cryo-sleep “ wakes up in 3150 “ this sucks go back to sleep”

YESSSSS i love you guys together

I am gushing over this episode ahhh

55:00 that's an interesting idea Jean-Luc

Pathetically excited at getting a 40k reference ... The Event Horizon DEFINITELY dropped into the Warp and met the Gods of Chaos :P

Iaian Banks' Culture civilization would be an awesome place to live.

Great video and information !

14:27 :) I am listening this while playing Civilization III during a period of insomnia.

Thank you for the channel🎄 and merry Christmas to all

you both are great! happy Halloween!!

Lifeforce from 1985 with Patrick Stewart could be worth watching. It has astronauts, aliens and zombies!

My two favourite KZfaqrs together again, what a wonderful day.

My doctor told me not to take Multiple sleeping pills togather. But I couldn't resist these two Giants pondering togather.

My favorite podcast!

Charming enjoyable conversation that perks fantasies of event horizons for astronomy and mystery lovers

John, don't worry about it. You can come stay at my compound, you and your kin. Minds like yours must be protected. You let me handle the warlord of the wastes aspect, you keep looking at the stars.

I'm more worried about getting "bored" staying here on Earth!

Event Horizon! Yes! And In the Mouth of Madness is another great! My favorite horror movies are Alien and Jaws. Perfect 10/10

I loved The Color Out Of Space, i thought it was a really good modern adaptation of a Lovecraft story that freaked me out as a teenager.

Wonderful show.❤

Event Horizon + Isaac Arthur wow ❤ together you can rule the galaxy

My biggest futurism hope is a John and Issac joint podcast.

Please don't let be another year before you meet again. GREAT EPISODE 😊

As kids If we mentioned being bored my mother always said only boring people get bored. Stuck with me to this day

The intermission was great 😊

A hanging tether would be secured to the ground somehow, so it would push up, also.

YES!!!

My absolute two favorite people on all of KZfaq. They should do a channel together! ❤❤❤

At the end of a day of mondain boring work, getting something not only from Event Horizon, not only from Isaac Arthur, but BOTH TOGETHER? Did I die and go to heaven?

Yay hes back!

My two favorite people on KZfaq!!!❤

Star Trek... almost utopian science fiction. Close enough.

7:08 "You gotta get a nice fence" 😂😂😂

Great program fellows

My two favorite KZfaqrs!

Christmas came early this year, boys

This is so wholesome. Crack open a cold one and just chill and talk with the guys. Great segment.

Wow Isaac. Good job on the voice traing my man!😊

Have either of you acutely tried extended time in VR?

just today i was wondering if there was a jmg and sfia collaboration soon. nice to know my sci-fi timer is still working.

This episode was great! Like just hanging out with the guys, drinking beer, and talking all-things sci-fi 😁

I didn't even read the title, 59 seconds into it and I'm like. I know that voice...

Is the Opossum available for an interview? 😄

Childhood’s End by Arthur C Clarke gave me nightmares for like a month after I read it as a young teenager (like 11 or 12). My mom thought it’d be a good book for a kid 😞