Eating The Sun

In a series of papers led by the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science (BMSIS), a team of researchers examines what Earth’s level of technological development (aka “technosphere”) will look like in the future. In the most recent installment, available on the arXiv preprint server, they offer a reinterpretation of the Kardashev Scale, which suggests that civilizations expand to harness greater levels of energy (planet, host star, and galaxy).

Instead, they suggest that the Kardashev Scale establishes upper limits on the amount of stellar energy a civilization can harness (a “luminosity limit”) and that civilizations might circumvent this by harnessing stellar mass directly.

The Old Ways: Ben Edge’s Folklore Rising Playlist:

As I arrived at Tower Hill tube station, and walked out into the busy road, I could see in the distance a group of people processing in a line, draped in white cloaks. Completely unbeknown to me, it happened to be the day of the Spring Equinox, the time of year when night and day are of equal length, and the long darks days of winter are behind us and the long bright days of summer are now on the horizon.

Transparent, glass-like planes sweep across Daniel Mullen’s canvases, dancing across the color spectrum and layering or rotating with mathematical precision.