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Re:Galactic-Scale Energy by nknight on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @04:19AM (#2840264)
I think the real implication is that we would have to be a Type III to survive at that point.

I suspect this is a practical impossibility. Certainly the speed of light presents significant challenges.

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Re:Galactic-Scale Energy by arethuza on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @05:00AM (#2840345)
If we did produce a Type III civilisation I don't think it would be based on anything remotely like a collection of biological humans. Probably more like the god like entity playing with humanity in Missile Gap by Charlie Stross:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/04/missile_...

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