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The Scale Was Created for a Scientific Broadcast, Not an Academic Journal

Many assume that the Kardashev Scale was introduced through a prestigious academic publication, closely followed by global astronomers. However, it first appeared in a Soviet-era radio astronomy publication in 1964. Nikolai Kardashev developed the scale while preparing for a program investigating extraterrestrial signals detected by the Soviet space program. The scale’s original purpose was to evaluate civilizations based on their level of energy consumption, with the broader goal of interpreting potentially artificial signals in space. It wasn’t until Western scientists later studied and expanded upon Kardashev’s ideas that the scale was more widely recognized within the global scientific community.