Stuff You Should Know – Earth 50k years from now

From July 2012:

 

-One-billionth of sun’s power reaches the earth, and currently we harvest one-millionth of that one-billionth portion

-”Types” of civilization:  Type 0 (what we are now); Type 1 (ability to harvest all energy of a planet–humans could get there in 100 years); Type 2 (harvest all energy of a solar system); Type 3 (harvest all energy on a galactic scale)

-Moore’s Law:  Speed of human computing doubles every 18 months

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