The Kardashev Scale

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.

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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”

* Average U.S. gas prices (not adjusted for inflation)

* U.S. inflation calculator

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