The Kardashev Scale | 123
Hysteria 51
ForthHand Media
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🗓️ 4 February 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
How advanced is our civilization? Hot Pockets? Check. Cat memes? Check. Total control of our planet’s resources, weather, and energy? Well…we’ll get back to you. That’s the basic premise of the Kardashev Scale. It’s a simple test to judge a civilization’s technological advancement. The scale ranges from 0 (we’re a 0.7) to a 6 or 7 (think omnipotent beings). This week we explore where we are, where we’re (hopefully) going, and how we can get there. Plus, Conspiracy Bot gives himself an upgrade to SUPER C (he’s been playing too much NES), the neighborhood cats are back in his cross-hairs (he drank a bottle of Malört), and we talk how Pluto has gotten the shaft (#teamPluto). All of that and more on the podcast that didn’t know you in high school, but if we had we would have beat up any other podcasts that made fun of your Magic the Gathering collection – Hysteria 51.
Special thanks to this week’s research sources:
Research Assistant – Raymond Walden IV
Books:
Evolving the Alien: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life by Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart
Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos by Michio Kaku
Wizards, Aliens, and Starships by Charles L. Adler
Video:
Michio Kaku: 3 types of Civilizations - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GooNhOIMY0
The Kardashev Scale - Type I, II, III, IV & V Civilization – Documentary - https://bit.ly/2DQgZQq
Websites:
Futurism - https://futurism.com/the-kardashev-scale-type-i-ii-iii-iv-v-civilizationWikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption
Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Kardashev
Curiosity - https://bit.ly/2sIiZ7e
Gaia - https://www.gaia.com/article/type-one-kardashev-scale
Tass - http://tass.com/science/896683
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| 0:00.0 | All right meat sacks, time to break out your cosmic rulers as we talk the Cardiff scale this week on Hysteria 51. |
| 0:06.4 | They say I'm disturbed. |
| 0:08.4 | From city to city an incredible hysterical panic spread. |
| 0:11.4 | I think we're getting into a weird area here. |
| 0:13.0 | Well, you tell me, schools, I'm not crazy. |
| 0:17.0 | With hysteria. |
| 0:19.0 | You can't handle the truth. |
| 0:21.0 | The strain is gone. Rain is gone. |
| 0:23.0 | This is Hysteria 51. |
| 0:26.0 | Here. |
| 0:27.0 | The truth is out there. |
| 0:29.0 | It's alive. |
| 0:30.0 | But you won't find it here. |
| 0:32.0 | They're coming for you. Look there comes one of them now. |
| 0:40.0 | Welcome and Histariation to the podcast. |
| 0:43.0 | I didn't know you in high school, but if we had, we would have beat up any other |
| 0:47.1 | podcast that made fun of your Magic the Gathering collection. |
| 0:50.0 | Whoa! |
| 0:51.0 | This is hysteriasteria 51. |
| 0:53.3 | Nirds. |
| 0:54.3 | Don't make me get the hose. |
| 0:55.7 | I think really a cup of water would probably do it. |
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