The Kardashev Scale

The Kardashev Scale

Update: 2025-01-241
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MYS348: Humanity has come a long way in the last few thousand years, but we still have a long way to go. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli ask, as we continue to progress, is there a way of classifying our civilization and making reasonable predictions? Some scientists have come up with a scale to do just that.Get all new episodes automatically and for free:Follow by Email | Watch this episode and subscribe on YouTube



Help us continue to offer Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World. Won’t you make a pledge at SQPN.com/give today?Links for this episode:* Michio Kaku’s book The Physics of the Impossible



* John Horgan’s book The End of Science



* Kardashev’s 1964 paper (English)



* Kaku’s article “The Physics of Extraterrestrial Civilization”



* Kaku’s article “The Physics of Interstellar Travel”



* The Great Filter Hypothesis



* Silurian Hypothesis



* John Horgan’s new doubts about his book The End of Science



* Sabine Hossenfelder video on the end of science debate



* Philip Metzer’s paper “Nature’s Way of Making Audacious Space Projects Viable”



* Nicholas Loris on “Drilling our way out of the problem”



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The Kardashev Scale

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