Galactic Civilization’s End

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 17 July 2018

⏱️ 76 minutes

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If a technological civilization manages to survive itself, how will it fare against the larger challenges of a changing and hostile universe? If humanity ascends the Kardashev scale, how will our unrecognizable and godlike descendants cope with the end of the universe itself? Join Robert Lamb and Joe McCormick for an exploration of the cosmic end times.

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1:43.3	Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam, and I'm Joe McCormick.
1:47.6	Today, we're going to be looking at a question about the future.
1:53.4	Today will be a speculative outing. So the question that we want to start with today is the broad
1:58.8	one, and then we'll break it down into specific ways of looking at this question. The question is,
2:05.0	how long could a technological civilization last? And notice, I just use the word civilization
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