It has been more than sixty years since Dr. Frank Drake (father of the Drake Equation) and his colleagues mounted the first Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) survey. This was known as ...

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In a recent podcast, Andy Mcgrillen and Dan Zetterström covered a wide range of topics, with a standout subject being the Kardashev scale—a system for classifying a civilization's advancement based on ...

Imagine a world where humanity has not only gained the ability to travel and to populate space but has progressed even further than that. Humanity can now control and navigate multiple universes.

The Kardashev Scale, first proposed by Russian astronomer Nikolai Kardashev, measures the technological advancement of civilizations by the amount of energy they can harness and use. In its original ...

In context: Radio waves from distant galaxies are too faint to provide meaningful data for potential space observations. However, a sufficiently advanced alien civilization could harness energy in ...

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Nearby galaxies in our universe show no signs of advanced alien civilizations — at least for now. A new study that examined the most promising galaxies we can see out of a collection of 100,000 found ...