RE: The problems of the Kardashev Scale 06-02-2016, 11:59 AM
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meow Wrote:How much energy you can harness =/= how much energy you use, you're getting those two confused. If you can harness enough energy to create and use the technology of a type 5 civilization, regardless of how much of it you use, you're obviously at the level of a type 5 civilization. Plus, minimal energy could mean many different things. Minimal energy to run a type 5 civilization could be the equivalent to 1,000 centillion metric tons of oil, but it could also equate to 1 barrel of oil, depending on how the energy is used. Either way, again, if you have the technology to power a type 5 civilization with whatever amount of energy, you're clearly at or above that type.
If a civ doesn't harness any or harnesses very little energy, then I doubt they would have dyson spheres around a bunch of local stars when they have no use for them. And regardless of what tech you have, it's measured by energy, thus problematic.
(Also, what happened to "stop quoting OP")
It's often the outcasts, the iconoclasts ... those who have the least to lose because they
don't have much in the first place, who feel the new currents and ride them the farthest.
don't have much in the first place, who feel the new currents and ride them the farthest.
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