User blog comment:JERealize/Progress Bar: Issue 045/@comment-24334585-20140429203449

I always used to believe that the Kardashev scale took into account the sustainable consumption of all available resources on/in a planet/solar system/galaxy in addition to harnessing as much energy as possible. For example, in your example, achieving Type II on the scale in our solar system would entail finding a use for minerals and other substances present on all eight planets, their respective moons, the dwarf planets, and even the asteroid belt. Evidently, I thought wrong, and I'm not quite sure what led me to believe that. Your proposed concept for a ring around the Earth in conjunction with a Dyson Shell is certainly intruiging, and actually isn't too farfetched an idea.

Also, good luck in the election, as well as your videos; your alternate history idea sounds really interesting. Like you, I've also made it my goal to learn at least some Japanese, what with the rise in its usage and all, though seeing as I'm not even that great at Spanish at the moment (which I'm studying at school), I not quite sure if it would be wise for me to begin just yet. Lastly, Starla and Rebecca really do look eerily similar. Like, seriously.

P.S. I have a really strong interest in engineering, theoretical computer science, astrophysics, and the like, so when I read this post, I just had to leave a comment.