00:00And here is where the really big, almost absurd idea comes in.
00:05Elon Musk classifies the whole thing according to the so-called Kardashev Scale,
00:10named after a Soviet astrophysicist. This scale measures the progress of a civilization
00:16not by wars or economic output, but by a single number, namely by how much energy it can control.
00:25Type 1 controls all the energy of its planet. Type 2 controls the energy of its star. Type 3 controls
00:34the energy of its entire galaxy. And now comes the sobering part. Humanity currently uses far less
00:43than one trillionth of the energy our sun emits. We are practically unmeasurable on this scale.
00:51The sun is so incredibly massive that it makes up about 99.86 Taus of the total mass of our
01:00solar system.
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