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How Can Humanity Become a Kardashev Type 1 Civilization?

Season 10 Episode 25 | 18m 40s

Imagine a world where humanity masters every planetary resource available to it—our first step on the famous Kardeshev scale of technological advancement. How distant is that step? Will we even become a true Type-1 civilization, and how can we get there?

Aired: 11/06/24
Extras
The universe should've collapsed after the Big Bang, but a light Higgs boson let us exist.
Maybe dark energy doesn't exist?
Dark matter has eluded us for many decades but we may be able to discover more now.
What do you get if you combine something that’s infinitely massive and negative infinitely massive?
What does an electron really look like?
Is there a limit to how much energy you can cram into, or pull out of one patch of space?
I’d like to invite you to an even higher level of nerdom!
Gravitational tsunamis exist and we’re on the verge of being able to detect them.
New data is telling us that Neutron stars may make one of the most popular dark matter candidates.
Is Dark Energy Getting Weaker?
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