Posts tagged civilization.

When we return to shore, jaded from all these natural wonders, think how we’ll look down on those pitiful land masses, those puny works of man! No, the civilized world won’t be good enough for us!

Conseil, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne

Planets Could Orbit Singularities Inside Black Holes

“Advanced civilizations may live safely inside the supermassive black holes in the galactic nuclei without being visible from the outside,” [says Vyacheslav Dokuchaev — a cosmologist at the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow]

read more at MIT’s { Technology Review }

A limitless power source for the indefinite future ›

via { Kurzweil AI }, a member of the { National Space Society } board of directors presents a new solution for the energy crisis, findings from which will be officially presented on Monday (11/14/11):

In 2002, Dr. Martin Hoffert, Professor Emeritus of Physics, New York University, proposed a radical solution to what appears to be a serious coming energy shortfall (Science, 2002): space solar power (SSP) — collect energy from space and transmit it wirelessly anywhere in the world.

“…harvesting solar power in space and transmitting it to earth is no longer science fiction,” says author [of the report,] Howard Bloom … “It is sound, current-technology-based science fact.  And it is a green energy option we can’t ignore.”

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Is it possible that we are inching towards { Type 1 }?