01 January 2015

Retrospective: After Kardashev: Farewell to Super Civilizations (2006)

Kardashev's typology is based on a belief that we can categorize super civilizations by their energy consumption.  But on the one hand we can imagine an advanced civilization which conquers either its own solar system or its galaxy without reaching the second or third level of the Kardashev Scale. On the other hand it will be impossible to build a civilization which can harness the energy of an entire galaxy, unless we discover new physical laws. So it is reasonable to create a new typology which is based on the possible spatial extents of an advanced civilization.

Read more: http://mono.eik.bme.hu/~galantai/articles/After_Kardashev_Farewell_to_Super_Civilizatons.html

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