Grabby Aliens & The Fermi Paradox
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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The Kardashev Scale and the K4 Civilizations
There are about 7,000 intergalactic empires out there. There's a little under 3,000 whose galactic capital homewards are busy somewhere between developing photosynthesis and discovering fire while some of the older ones already have empires a billion light years wide. If the oldest and biggest GCs had already settled 10% of the Azovian universe between them then that means they'd average 20 billion billion stars each. The one big takeaway from the model is that us and any other alien who's smart enough to be able to look up at the night sky and see stars has a good chance of becoming the ancestors of a civilization which will control every one of those dots of light even the sm
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