{"id":123944,"date":"2021-06-18T13:22:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T20:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/we-dont-have-much-longer-to-become-a-type-1-civilization"},"modified":"2021-06-18T13:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T20:22:21","slug":"we-dont-have-much-longer-to-become-a-type-1-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/we-dont-have-much-longer-to-become-a-type-1-civilization","title":{"rendered":"We Dont Have Much Longer to Become a Type 1 Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-dont-have-much-longer-to-become-a-type-1-civilization.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those not in the loop, the Kardashev Scale is a system of measurement invented by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev in 1964. It quantifies how advanced a civilization is according to how much energy they\u2019re able to harness.<\/p>\n<p>Type 1 civilizations have harnessed 100% of the accessible energy of their own planet. Type 2 has harnessed 100% of the accessible energy in their solar system. Type 3 has harnessed 100% of the accessible energy in their galaxy. There is no official Type 4 but it is conceivable that eventually a civilization could harness 100% of the accessible energy in the universe, and Type 5, which has harnessed all the accessible energy in the multiverse.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s some heavy stuff, well beyond the scope of this article. The public\u2019s focus on near term manned spaceflight efforts these days belies a problem with our priorities. Grand, ambitious projects like settling the Moon and Mars grab our attention, while there\u2019s still much left to be done on Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those not in the loop, the Kardashev Scale is a system of measurement invented by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev in 1964. It quantifies how advanced a civilization is according to how much energy they\u2019re able to harness. Type 1 civilizations have harnessed 100% of the accessible energy of their own planet. Type 2 has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}