Gee, I wonder what it would be like to live on a planet you can't leave.

"...this isn't a space opera, so we don't have to assume villains doing evil things for the sake of twirling their mustaches..." Hey, I like twirling my mustache.

Ripley had the right idea when she said, "I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

They sabotaged Arecibo to prevent our one recourse: filing an injunction with Alpha Centauri.

Man. As someone attempting to write a sci-fi novel, this channel has been BY FAR the most invaluable resource on the planet. It has changed and modified my story in ways I could not have imagined. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the work you put into these videos. Keep it up 👍

One of the short stories I started writing back in college had as part of the premise that all new colonies on worlds with an existing biology would have a minimum of a 75 year quarantine. Colonists could arrive and land would be cheap, but almost all travel off world would be prohibited for 75 years as a buffer against an unknown disease / contagion getting off the planet before it was fully studied.

Cognito hazard has breached containment, planetary quarantine in effect.

Could you do a take on the mass relays ? Always loved the concept of bridges being left around inactive

"Its an ugly planet. A bug planet" - Unknown Soldier

Nursing a dog with cancer at the end of his life. Your voice is a pleasant distraction from the hell I am currently in.

I just began to understand Herberts use of the worms and spice as a mcguffin. It represents a world changing invention or discovery that reshapes human society and even causes evolutionary pressures to be exacerbated, much the same way the disovery of the properties inherent in crude oil, and how the pursuit of the resource can be both bane and boon to mankind, the sword of damocles (?).

A most informative look at another popular sci-fi topic and trope. Good work as always Isaac.

Lord Nurgle in the corner taking notes on a SFIA video.

I'm surprised subnautica wasn't mentioned when talking about pathogens. The Architects had a biolab on 4546B where they were trying to find a cure for Kharaa and one of them messed up badly enough that the bacterium got out and the entire place had to be locked down under quarantine.

Containment barrier 1: District and sector the planet. Containment barrier 2: Orbital ring dependency. Containment barrier 3: Shield array around planetary system. Containment barrier 4: System wide area of denial. Last ditch effort barrier 001: One way ticket to new nebula or black hole purge. Deep space stations: Every door is an airlock, built in sectors and wards easy to purge the quarantined viruses and detain undesirables.

It would be nice if he mentioned that we should get a drink and a snack more often

The plot of Symphogear is a quarantine scenario as well. Containment of a memetic/information contagion

""Oh no it caught the Human!'"

What great timing, I've just started another stay at Planet 4546b

On AquaTerra, we quarantine primatives from the bulk of humanity. The two most famous are the Uncontacted Tribes of the deep Amazon Rainforest and the natives of North Sentinel Island. An example of self quarantine is North Korea.

13:20 "chip everyone", wasn't that part of the backdrop to an old game called Syndicate Wars. fun game with cool human augmentations, however, it's so old the graphics would be shunned today. I would so love to get a replacement back for my aging one, oh well, lol.

I was expecting more references to well known examples in fiction, like Alastair Reynolds's Melding Plague, or the Library from Doctor Who. Still a good episode, but I guess I also wanted a little bit of analysis on how realistic some examples were too.

That AI generated office at the beginning is a good example of "worse the longer you look at it"

Catches Covid (again) -> looks through notifications -> notices this. On point as always Isaac, lol. Thanks for brightening up my personal little quarantine with your videos.

In relation to pocket universes for quarantine, or at least something like a zoo exhibit, is the trilogy of the Time Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke in conjunction with Stephen Baxter. Lots of magic there!

21:10 I really like that picture.

I had this idea of putting Earth in quarantine after the exodus of mankind... In one of my background stories for possible novels. The point of the quarantine was that of preserving life and the planet entirely from being destroyed by natural or by artificial hands. Some drastic solarpunk stuff.

There was an old Orson Scott Card book (Not a part of the Ender series) called Treason or A Planet Called Treason, that talks about an entire civilization that was quarantined on a prison planet. All of the founders had been convicted of treason of some kind, and ditched on the planet and were forced to survive. The inhabitants of the planet had been there for generations and had formed civilizations based entirely around the culture or profession of the founders of their family lines. It quickly delves into science fantasy, body horror, and moral/ethical questions, but was a really good read when I found it twenty odd years ago.

Maybe our local cluster is the subject of a very long running court case where no one is allowed to land until it's settled

Within the first 20! New record!

"Malady of mind body or ethics" is a great name for a sci fi story

salute from Toronto love your content :).

Just to point out, at the risk of sounding like a broken record: "USE THEM TOGETHER, USE THEM IN PEACE" does NOT appear in the novel. It was in the movie. That was a Hollywood concession to the "benevolent aliens" trope of wise elder races coming to save us from ourselves. The imminent war between the US and USSR also was not in the novel, but was thrown in as a dramatic flair so that everyone back on Earth could hold hands in a "kumbaya" moment while watching the new sun in the sky.

Our species being (partly) quarantined on Earth without knowing it is the premise of my first two hard sci-fi novels.

If you want a thorough example of planet-wide quarantine, Armored Core VI's own Planetary Closure Administration plays a major part in that game's story. Don't know if you play many games yourself, but I think you'd enjoy the narrative around the Coral substance as a general science-fiction reader.

Quarantine-, prison- and farming-planet describes exactly our situation

The Alien homeworld would be a good candidate :) Before Ridley Scot made them into a modern creation anyway.

Very important considerations! Thanks for teaching the latest awesome discoveries.

Thanks for another great video!

I love that you invoked the term of "glassing" a planet. I know this is the right place to ask this question, is that just a term from the Halo universe, or has it propagated elsewhere?

This channel really is something special... great episode, as always

Isaac's videos are the only ones that I have to watch at 0.75x, way too many mind-blowing ideas at a too fast rate for my stupid silly brain.

The Cytonic series by Brandon Sanderson is about aliens trying to contain humanity. 9:15 basically describes the setup for the first book

Can you do pleasure planet next

Getting into some deeper layers of sci-fi,I enjoyed this one

Love the channel and I try to listen to episode every week, either when I go for a walk or before the bed... I have only one complaint, background music being same between most of episodes is slowly driving me nuts. Especially "Stellardrone - Ultra Deep Field" being in basically in every single episode. Is there any chance for more variety in the future?

An advanced enough space power could use kessler syndrome could be deliberately put in place to aid a long lived quarantine blockade. If anything coming up/going down needs to thread a needle it leaves a lot less chances for a ship to slip unnoticed past or survive a blockade fleet.

Dont worry it will only be for two weeks that last for two years somehow galactic years

It's looking like earth will be a quarantined planet again just before November.

Having seen some subnautica speedruns being stuck on a quarantined planet is really just a minor inconvenience

This episode made me keep thinking of Sentinel Island.

Space Australia. Nuff said.

First thoughts i had was. Simply induce a Kessler syndrome event to quarantine a planet

Not sure about this channel but this has made me wonder. Well See! Thank you.

Skibidi toilet doomed us to another millennia of planetary quarantine.

Vernor Vinge explored the dangerous meme concpt in great depth in "A Fire Upon tge Deep"

Oh good one!

I think there is a great episode idea in Botworlds such as Stanislav from OA, i.e. machine ecosystems left from some form of non sentient but self replicating machines intentionally or unintentionally left on a world by another agency.

We might just build gigantic ringworlds to sterilize the galaxy, but make it so that only a race of apes can activate it, who has never heard of the rings.

What do you think, would you be more curious if the aliens had just told us "we are sheltering a new species that has emerged on Europa, do not interfere with their development." As opposed to just leaving the reason a massive ?

The truth seems to me that physically quarantining is incredibly difficult while putting subjects into a virtual life without their knowledge would be just fine according to a morality that’s evolved with the capability for centuries. As life in Virtual might be preferable for a majority, as it promises godhood to everyone, removing a population from the physical universe might be considered a gift. What’s interesting is that this could happen in layers; imagine an already simulated society evolving to the point where they can be Space Nazis or something, and then uploading Space Mud People from within a simulation… and again, and again. In an infinite universe that would have to be the case, among the other possibilities!

Sci-fi Sundays are the best Sundays

Amazing

Yessss I'm finally early to one of his videos 😊

The Urantia book posits that we are a quarantined planet.. but that fact is about to change

The planet MIranda in Serenity. Wipe the records

Would you ever do a video on traveling to other universes?

Are we quarantined now? This would be a worth while show.

Another fantastico episode! Let us not quarantine it like a dangerous memeplex. Let us spread it through the internet!🧐

The video didn't really talk about methods on how to quarantine that much. I think it would have tied in to the whole stealth in space episode. I think another reason to quarantine a planet, which may have been touched on, would be for terraforming. Like perhaps it's a delicate and violent process, megastructures and processes literally reshaping the planet, and you would really rather not have people trying to settle on it or interfering. Maybe the planet is simply slated to be terraformed in the future and you don't want cities sprouting up. That's something about terraforming Mars that I see not working out. We're going to establish colonies on it long before we consider terraforming and once we do we could have millions on the planet that would have their homes underwater or otherwise destroyed if we tried terraforming.

So that's why aliens abduct cows. They want to take some of that prion disease 😂😂😂

As the days go on, i really start to think earth is quarantined from the rest of civilation

If you look at North Sentinel island and everything that goes with it you find all the answers to our own fermi paradox.. some people care, more people dont, nobody bothers them, theyre protected, if we uplifted them what good would it do for them.. all the answers are there

Not really sure you'd want to accelerate something to interstellar speeds within your planet's atmosphere, given that likely causes something far worse than a sonic boom. Plus the fleet quarantining a single planet has access to the resources of the rest of that solar system, and their infrastructure can be mobile.

When I saw the title, immediately thought about Planet 4546B!

Can anyone tell me has isaac commented on the use of navies for interplanetary or interstellar civilizations, would species capable of leaving and entering a planets atmosphere still maintain dedicated navies? (The water kind)

Maybe aliens look at Earth as the interstellar equivalent of Gary, Indiana...how many tourists do they get? Not a quarantine as such, just not a pleasant place to stop...

MEGA !!!

excited for some good old, lithoids

How would space shipping/trucking/trains work realistically?

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Here's this for an idea: The humans are dangerous. Devastating, even. Why? Well, you see, they are incredibly magical beings. Why do you think there was so much worry about Voyager? We knew we should have put the anti-magic field outside the Oort Cloud, but that's expensive. We didn't know what chaos the miniscule residue of the humans' magic on Voyager would cause when it breached the field, but, luckily, it ended up being manageable.

Dark Forest Theory sounds more favorable as time passes.

26:57 A quarantine would answer the question of the Fermi Paradox.

Episodes on Homesteading and Quarantined planets and no mention of Pern. :(

😂 "Killamagig" 😂

I bet we've BEEN uder a universal quarantine.

I actually reread David Weber's Dahak trilogy just last week, which has planetary quarantines as a significant plot point. Spoilers for a trilogy that was originally published from 1991 to 1996). In Mutineers Moon, an astronaut named Colon MacIntyre is flying a solo mission on the dark side of the moon when his ship is captured and taken inside what he originally thinks is a base built inside the Moon by extraterrestrials. He learns that the Moon is actually a warship of the 4th Imperium named Dahak, which has been orbiting the Earth for 51,000 years. He also learns that the chief engineer had created a fake drive failure as part of an attempted mutiny. The captain order Dahak to flood the ship with poison gas and radiation causing the crew of 250,000 to escape in lifeboats, while the 3,000 mutineers escaped in sublight warships. All modern humans are descendants of Dahak's crew. As the first descendant of the crew to return to Dahak, Colon is made Captain and given the mission of subduing the mutineers who have remained alive through a combination of stasis and brain transplants. There is a clock because an extraterrestrial threat that periodically sweeps through the galaxy and was responsible for destroying the first 3 Imperiums has been detected and will reach Earth in less than 3 years. In The Armageddon Inheritance, Colon takes Dahak to find out why they can't contact the 4th Imperium so that they can get help. They ultimately discover that the 4th Imperium had become the 4th Empire and that it had been destroyed 45,000 years ago because of the accidental release of a bioweapon designed to exterminate all life on a planet. Because the Empire had developed a mat trans that allowed near instantaneous travel over hundreds of light years, it had spread throughout the Empire, apparently killing all humans everywhere but Earth. When the weapon was discovered, all planets deactivated their mat trans, and most set up weapons in their solar systems to prevent a ship from either entering or leaving their system. Colon ends up going to the capital system of Birhat, where a computer charged with controlling Battlefleet and guarding the succession makes Colon the new emperor because he is both the highest-ranking Battlefleet officer and civil official. He had declared himself governor of the "colony" of Earth so that he could pardon mutineers who had assisted him and had pledged (under an imperial lie detector) to help defend Earth. As Emperor, he is able to reactivate the Emperor's personal fleet of planetoid warships (that are larger and more powerful than Dahak) and save the Earth. In Heirs of Empire, Colon's twin children survive an assassination attempt that leaves them stranded with 3 friends on a sublight battleship hundreds of light years from either the Capitol or Earth. With no way to contact help, they head for the nearest star hoping to find Imperial technology they can use to build a hypercom. What they actually discover is an inhabited planet with an active quarantine system. They survive the missiles fired at them and reach the planet, where they discover an agrarian theocracy. The religion bans any technology powered by anything but muscle, water, or wind. When the computer speaks, they think it is the voice of God, and their holy days are things called Fire Tests and System Check. The kids need to get to the computer in the temple but can't use Imperial tech within 100 kilometers of that temple because of the weapons systems controlled by the computer. (The book doesn't explain why the Empire used the Metric System 45,000 years ago.) The kids need to equip and train an army to overthrow the temple so that they can get home. Fans of David Weber might recognize this book as where he got the idea for his Safehold series.

What kind of time passes outside the atmosphere of planets?

Ah yes good old 4546B, Ive been stranded in planet wide quarantine before so Ill be ok

Quarantine is only if you speak about a infection or transmissible diseases , informational quarantine is actually censorship, sometimes is necessary(you don't want good people to supply with information a hostile enemy), but usually is a bad idea, whole this arguing about banning ideas is under umbrella of "ignorance is bless" and big brother knows better doctrine.

2:17 so what you are saying is that amogus could be the solution to the Fermi paradox...

How about planetary Nature Reserves.

Instantly reminded me of subnautica

Earth and humanity has been quarantined since the events of...

10:40 Can there be a quarantine against the pandemic of stupidity, servility, and general pointless panicking?

There has been recent evidence to support the existence of an Earth sized planet deep in the kuiper belt most likely a captured rogue planet. It would be really interesting to see whst terraforming a planet like that would be like. Can it be pushed closer to the solar system? Can Neptune capture it and turn it into a moon?

Prison colonies may be unethical - as an Australian I felt that!

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