tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post8844406808423203792..comments2024-02-20T07:06:56.933+00:00Comments on THE SKINNER: Kardashev ScaleNeal Asherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933911904170752700noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post-3925175307595768912011-12-05T09:04:41.389+00:002011-12-05T09:04:41.389+00:00Huan, maybe because, at the time, thinking about t...Huan, maybe because, at the time, thinking about their lives around them wasn't that enjoyable.Neal Asherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13933911904170752700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post-16679964653025791592011-12-05T09:03:26.108+00:002011-12-05T09:03:26.108+00:00Brett, it does tend to depend on your definition o...Brett, it does tend to depend on your definition of 'harness'. How does a civilization that harnessess all the energy from a sun compare to a civilization that harnesses a bit from each of a thousand suns? And even if you closely define it as energy consumed that's not really a definition of 'civilization' since it should be per capita maybe, and even then you can get wrapped up in arguments about efficiency.<br /><br />I'll take a look there, Daniel. I have looked at stuff on deviant art before and there's certainly some good stuff there.Neal Asherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13933911904170752700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post-64602925771246356852011-12-04T13:22:51.699+00:002011-12-04T13:22:51.699+00:00halo has some very seriously cool concept work don...halo has some very seriously cool concept work done on it, but that's not an official halo image(though Halo Wars featured very similar imagery), the artist in this case is: http://phoenix-06.deviantart.com/<br /><br />i highly recommend game artbooks, particularly of high-concept series like halo - their latest one "the art of building worlds" is excellent.Jebel Kronghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18268376841818116214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post-79079070145516444372011-12-03T07:06:22.225+00:002011-12-03T07:06:22.225+00:00Depending on your definition of 'harness',...Depending on your definition of 'harness', the Polity could very well be classed as Type II or even Type III.<br />At the linked Wikipedia entry it states that a Type I civilization harnesses approx 10^16 W, a Type II 10^26 W and a Type III 10^37 W, and that '[a] Type I implies the conversion of about 2 kg of matter to energy per second'.<br />Given the average human is about 60kg, the Polity is transmitting and buffering approx 3 x 10^17 W for every human that uses a runcible, enough to classify as Type I as long as at least one human uses a runcible every second.<br />In Prador Moon a cargo runcible is used to transfer the moon Vina. Assuming Vina's mass is somewhere in the range of Phobos' 10^16 kg, this gives a 'harnessed' energy of approx 5 x 10^31 W for a single cargo runcible.<br />If at least one Vina's worth of cargo is in transit at any given moment, this pushes the Polity firmly into the Type II category.<br />If at least 10^21 kg of cargo is in transit at any given moment, the Polity enters the range of a Type III.Harperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00426304072128323871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post-12162120938072630252011-12-02T15:30:21.831+00:002011-12-02T15:30:21.831+00:00How come most of the seriously big concepts come f...How come most of the seriously big concepts come from Russian thinkers?<br />Is it the education methods that allow this kind of thought process or something else?Huanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08039728997048734241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post-79553129571865415872011-12-02T15:04:04.447+00:002011-12-02T15:04:04.447+00:00Never mind. Clickthrough works now, firefox playin...Never mind. Clickthrough works now, firefox playing silly buggers.<br /><br />Even <i>awesomer</i> in full size, and now my new wallpaper :)Northern Fophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13663744996024949654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post-20766369518954756332011-12-02T14:57:34.510+00:002011-12-02T14:57:34.510+00:00Now that is an awesome picture.
Do you have a lin...Now that is an <i>awesome</i> picture.<br /><br />Do you have a link to an embiggened version?Northern Fophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13663744996024949654noreply@blogger.com