Kennedy Center Opens Earth To Space Event In Washington, DC (Image via Getty) The Kardashev scale, invented by the Russian astronomer Nikolai Kardashev, measures a civilization's technological ...

Tech mogul Elon Musk has recently brought attention to the Kardashev scale, a theoretical framework for measuring a civilisation's technological advancement based on its energy consumption and ...

THE KARDASHEV SCALE. We have no idea what an alien civilization would look like. Humans are evolved primates. What if an alien species is reptilian? Or more like an insect? Or a hybrid of these?