{"id":150005,"date":"2022-11-12T17:23:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T23:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/low-tech-kardashev-2-civilizations"},"modified":"2022-11-12T17:23:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T23:23:25","slug":"low-tech-kardashev-2-civilizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/low-tech-kardashev-2-civilizations","title":{"rendered":"Low-Tech Kardashev-2 Civilizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oMiHioZrlOw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: <a href=\"https:\/\/brilliant.org\/IsaacArthur\/\">https:\/\/brilliant.org\/IsaacArthur\/<\/a><br \/> Kardashev-2 Civilizations are hypothetical empires which encompass entire stars, with access to billions of times the energy Earth has, often seen as builders of megastructures like Dyson Spheres. But could civilizations with only the technology we have become Kardashev-2?<\/p>\n<p>Visit our Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isaacarthur.net\">http:\/\/www.isaacarthur.net<\/a>.<br \/> Support us on Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/IsaacArthur\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/IsaacArthur<\/a>.<br \/> SFIA Merchandise available: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.signil.com\/sfia\/\">https:\/\/www.signil.com\/sfia\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Social Media:<br \/> Facebook Group: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/1583992725237264\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/1583992725237264\/<\/a><br \/> Reddit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/IsaacArthur\/\">https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/IsaacArthur\/<\/a><br \/> Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Isaac_A_Arthur\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Isaac_A_Arthur<\/a> on Twitter and RT our future content.<br \/> SFIA Discord Server: <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/53GAShE\">https:\/\/discord.gg\/53GAShE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Listen or Download the audio of this episode from Soundcloud: Episode\u2019s Audio-only version: <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/isaac-arthur-148927746\/low-tech-kardashev-2-civilizations\">https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/isaac-arthur-148927746\/low-tech-kardashev-2-civilizations<\/a>.<br \/> Episode\u2019s Narration-only version: <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/isaac-arthur-148927746\/low-tech-kardashev-2-civilizations-narration-only\">https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/isaac-arthur-148927746\/low-tech-karda\u2026ation-only<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Credits:<br \/> Low-Tech Kardashev-2 Civilizations.<br \/> Science &amp; Futurism with Isaac Arthur.<br \/> Episode 270: December 24, 2020<br \/> Written, Produced &amp; Narrated by Isaac Arthur.<\/p>\n<p>Editors:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/low-tech-kardashev-2-civilizations\">Continue reading \u201cLow-Tech Kardashev-2 Civilizations\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https:\/\/brilliant.org\/IsaacArthur\/ Kardashev-2 Civilizations are hypothetical empires which encompass entire stars, with access to billions of times the energy Earth has, often seen as builders of megastructures like Dyson Spheres. But could civilizations with only the technology we have become Kardashev-2? Visit our Website: http:\/\/www.isaacarthur.net. Support us on Patreon: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/IsaacArthur. SFIA Merchandise [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150005","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}