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Work and sources I intend to do for Kardashev scale

Goals

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In my opinion the Kardashev scale has 4 primary interests:

  1. A benchmark used by Seti scientists in there search for extraterrestrials
  2. A introspective way at looking at our own civilization, not a main focus by scientists due to earth-centered POV.
  3. A catch-all vocabulary term for a scale used by scientists, in classifying advanced civilizations. This has important implications when speculating on sociological structures of advanced civilizations. But also, it is a necessary analysis when talking what about clues might be left behind or generated by alien species; which then might lead the the discovery of extraterrestrials.
  4. Because it is can be used for the speculation of advanced civilizations it is a magnet for those interested in science fiction. Not many science fiction writers actually talk about the scale or the power generated by fiction species in power(WATTS) terms, but science fiction enthusiasts are interested in the Kardashev Scale.

My primary goals are in advancing the content area of number 2 and diminishing the fictional content. After all, it is a scientific not a fictional topic. My secondary goals are to find and add published content on the extension of the scale. The feedback I have gotten is pretty much divided between goals 1 or 3. And I don't want to create a editing war!

So please read the article and the discussion page and tell me what you think!!

  • 1)Is the article presently fine the way it is?
  • 2)After you read it, did you get the impression that it was a science article or a science fiction article?
  • 3)Was it too long, too short, easy to understand?
  • 4)Was the article interesting, was it boring, did it feel jumbled or was it concise?
  • 5)What do you think might be needed to be added to this article, what do you think needs to be edited out?

problems that I feel need to be addressed

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  1. A balance needs to be found between being understandable and being neutral: if it's too earth-centered then the article is POV, if it doesn't have any earth-based comparisons the article will becomes hard for a laymen audience to understand.
  2. Too many articles that link directly to Dr. Michio Kaku, great guy and all, smart as they come, but the article needs diversity or comes under fire by WP:Undue... opinions of scale have to be held by the majority of scientists, not just one.
  3. Article is visually unappealing and boring, makes it hard for a non-science user to understand. Plus if the article is ever going to be nominated for a Good article, it'll need pictures.
  4. The ever continuing problem of Sci-Fi examples which constitutes WP:List, the focus on the science fiction aspect, misleads people to thinking that the Kardashev Scale is more science fiction, than a scientific hypothesis about other civilizations.

Stuff that could go into the article right now

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Kardashev scale#current_status_of_human_civilization

Kardashev scale#Energy_development

Add Nuclear Energy to section, Need to go into fission and fusion, wish to commend 24.182.14.17 with respect for his attempted contribution, it's from him that I got the idea

Things in nuclear that have to be done, a litte about ITER, about DEMO can't go into it too much or else it'll skew article towards earth-centered POV


links:

  • http://www.pppl.gov/polImage.cfm?doc_Id=48&size_code=Doc - talks about DEMO, DEMO will generate 2500MW of power, 1000MW (efficiency of 40%) will be for sale commerically. ITER has a gain of 10 produced/consumed... Fusion power gets more efficent the larger the plant, so DEMO will have a gain of 25 of produced/consumed.

Antimatter while a viable energy source is a bit hard to nail down when a civilization would have access to it, in large quantities.

Links relating to Antimatter


Kardashev scale#civilization_implications ::*http://www.rfreitas.com/Astro/InterstellarProbesJBIS1980.htm - the first mention of Malthusian pressures with respect to advanced civilizations was first proposed by Freeman Dyson in Freeman Dyson, "Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation," Science, 131, 1667-1668 (1959). which I handily have another reprint of

Kardashev_scale#Extensions_to_the_original_scale

sections that would need work before going into article

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Technology available by type

Michael A. G. Michaud, "Spaceflight, Colonization, and Independence," JBIS, 30, 83-95, 203-212 323-331 (1977).
Gerard K. O'Neill, "The Colonization of Space," Physics Today, 27, 32-40 (September 1974).
Gerard K. O'Neill, The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space, William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York, 1977.
T. A. Heppenheimer, Colonies in Space, Warner Books, Inc., New York, (1977).
Richard D. Johnson, Charles Holbrow, Space Settlements: A Design Study, NASA SP-413 (1977).
Richard D. Johnson, Charles Holbrow, Space Settlements: A Design Study, NASA SP-413 (1977).
It'd be great if I had access to these articles... but I don't because I don't have a subscription to the Journal of British Interplanetary Society
Parkinson, Bob “Identifying Key Technologies for Space Exploration and Utilization”JBIS, 54, p. 81-88 (2001)
Parkinson, Bob "The Space Economy of 2050 AD" JBIS, 44, p.111 (1991)
Parkinson, Bobwith S. Walmsley "Advanced Structures for Future Aerospace Vehicles" 1st European Aerospace Conference,Rome, March 1987

other resources

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