{"id":31788,"date":"2016-11-08T07:47:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T15:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/kardashev-scale-this-is-what-life-will-look-like-when-we-harness-the-energy-of-the-entire-universe"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:04:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:04:28","slug":"kardashev-scale-this-is-what-life-will-look-like-when-we-harness-the-energy-of-the-entire-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/kardashev-scale-this-is-what-life-will-look-like-when-we-harness-the-energy-of-the-entire-universe","title":{"rendered":"Kardashev Scale: This Is What Life Will Look Like When We Harness the Energy of the Entire Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/kardashev-scale-this-is-what-life-will-look-like-when-we-harness-the-energy-of-the-entire-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Brief:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Type IV civilization is a society that has managed to harness the energy of the entire universe. <\/li>\n<li>To get here, we would need to tap into energy sources unknown to us using strange laws of physics (laws that may or may not exist). <\/li>\n<\/ul>\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-this-is-what-life-will-look-like-when-we-harness-the-energy-of-the-entire-universe\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/kardashev-scale-this-is-what-life-will-l...-universe\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Brief: A Type IV civilization is a society that has managed to harness the energy of the entire universe. To get here, we would need to tap into energy sources unknown to us using strange laws of physics (laws that may or may not exist). To measure the level of a civilization\u2019s advancement, 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":[1497,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31788","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=31788"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65812,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31788\/revisions\/65812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}