Kardashev

Unless supremely advanced Kardashev III level aliens seeded the galaxy like the Hainish in Ursula Le Guin's Ekumen, this life will be an independent genesis, enabling biologists to define which requirements for life are universal and which are parochial.

Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: Once Again With Feeling: The Planets of Gliese 581 Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2010

Unless supremely advanced Kardashev III level aliens seeded the galaxy like the Hainish in Ursula Le Guin's Ekumen, this life will be an independent genesis, enabling biologists to define which requirements for life are universal and which are parochial.

Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: Once Again With Feeling: The Planets of Gliese 581 Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2010

Analysis of the gravitational signals from a newly discovered Kardashev II civilization in the Sombrero Galaxy: Part 1 by Whimbrel et al : Feeling Rejected - Alastair Reynolds

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Feeling Rejected - Alastair Reynolds Blue Tyson 2010

Analysis of the gravitational signals from a newly discovered Kardashev II civilization in the Sombrero Galaxy: Part 1 by Whimbrel et al : Feeling Rejected - Alastair Reynolds

Archive 2010-05-01 Blue Tyson 2010

SFS: You've talked about the Kardashev civilization scale in other publications.

INTERVIEW: Dr. Michio Kaku 2008

I still hold by my belief that Trek should take it up a level: travel out into some heretofore unexplored quadrant and find that it is heavily populated by Type II Kardashev cultures, lovecraftian ancients, Kirby-esque star gods, Matrioshka brain AIs trying to tap reality's source-code, post-singularity societies like Banks Culture or Hamilton's Edenists, etc.

Is a Star Trek "Re-Imagining" Overdue? 2006

Also, a "Type 2 civilization" on the Kardashev scale is pretty challenging to mess with, and "virtually immune to extinction."

Week 35: That Most Dangerous of Animals Douglas Wolk 2007

Also, a "Type 2 civilization" on the Kardashev scale is pretty challenging to mess with, and "virtually immune to extinction."

Archive 2007-01-01 Douglas Wolk 2007

Some years back, I was doing an interview with Michio Kaku and made a confident statement that we 'knew that no Kardashev type III civilizations existed in the intergalactic neighborhood,' to which Kaku responded with disbelief.

Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

Mankind travels to the stars through Kardashev tunnels--dangerous 'wormholes' that are unstable and unpredictable sometimes you make it, sometimes you get torn to pieces.

Bright of the Sky by Kay Kenyon 2007