{"id":233176,"date":"2026-03-12T19:06:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T00:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/we-found-evidence-of-a-type-ii-civilization-michio-kaku"},"modified":"2026-03-12T19:06:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T00:06:31","slug":"we-found-evidence-of-a-type-ii-civilization-michio-kaku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/we-found-evidence-of-a-type-ii-civilization-michio-kaku","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe Found Evidence of a Type II Civilization\u201d \u2014 Michio Kaku"},"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\/233176?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this clip, physicist Michio Kaku explains to Joe Rogan why the strange behavior of Tabby\u2019s Star briefly led scientists to consider something extraordinary.<\/p>\n<p>Planets usually block less than 1% of a star\u2019s light.<br \/> Even Jupiter would block about 1%.<br \/> But Tabby\u2019s Star dimmed by nearly 20% \u2014 something astronomers had never seen before.<\/p>\n<p>Because of that extreme and unusual dimming, some scientists explored whether an intelligent megastructure \u2014 like a Dyson sphere built by a Type II civilization on the Kardashev Scale \u2014 could explain the observations.<\/p>\n<p>This video focuses on *why the idea was considered*, not a confirmed conclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this clip, physicist Michio Kaku explains to Joe Rogan why the strange behavior of Tabby\u2019s Star briefly led scientists to consider something extraordinary. Planets usually block less than 1% of a star\u2019s light. Even Jupiter would block about 1%. But Tabby\u2019s Star dimmed by nearly 20% \u2014 something astronomers had never seen before. Because [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233176","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=233176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}