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A theoretical framework for measuring a civilization's level of technological advancement based on the total amount of energy it can harness and utilize. Proposed by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev in 1964, the original scale had three types: Planetary (Type I), Stellar (Type II), and Galactic (Type III). It’s less about culture or philosophy and more about raw, cosmic-scale power management. The scale is logarithmic; each step represents an increase of energy control by a factor of billions. It's the go-to yardstick for sci-fi world-building and serious SETI research, framing humanity's place in the universe as currently a pathetic Type 0.7.
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