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Old 09-01-2022, 01:21 PM   #836 (permalink)
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The real tragedy is all that energy the earth doesn't encounter, and is unutilized by us forever.
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The Kardashev scale: Classifying alien civilizations | Space
4 Dec 2021The Kardashev scale is based on how much energy a civilization uses. (opens in new tab) The Kardashev scale classes a civilization with a Dyson sphere to harvest its sun's light as type II.
At our present stage of awareness the only way we can concieve is to completely surround the Sun.

There has to be a more subtle way.
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