{"id":30464,"date":"2016-09-24T15:47:51","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T22:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/kardashev-scale-what-itll-be-like-when-we-harness-the-power-of-an-entire-galaxy"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:13:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:13:42","slug":"kardashev-scale-what-itll-be-like-when-we-harness-the-power-of-an-entire-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/kardashev-scale-what-itll-be-like-when-we-harness-the-power-of-an-entire-galaxy","title":{"rendered":"Kardashev Scale: What It\u2019ll Be Like When We Harness the Power of an Entire Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/kardashev-scale-what-itll-be-like-when-we-harness-the-power-of-an-entire-galaxy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the Kardashev scale, a Type III civilization is a society that has managed to harness (and control) the energy output of a galaxy. Here\u2019s what that means.<\/p>\n<p>To measure the level of a civilization\u2019s advancement, the Kardashev scale focuses on the amount of energy that a civilization is able to harness. Obviously, the amount of power available to a civilization is linked to how widespread the civilization is (you can\u2019t harness the power of a star if you are confined to your home planet, and you certainly can\u2019t harness the power of a galaxy if you can\u2019t even get out of your solar system).<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/kardashev-scale-what-itll-be-like-when-we-harness-the-power-of-an-entire-galaxy\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/kardashev-scale-what-itll-be-like-when-w...re-galaxy\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Kardashev scale, a Type III civilization is a society that has managed to harness (and control) the energy output of a galaxy. Here\u2019s what that means. To measure the level of a civilization\u2019s advancement, the Kardashev scale focuses on the amount of energy that a civilization is able to harness. Obviously, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30464","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66164,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30464\/revisions\/66164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}