Denmark the 22 proposals have been agreed upon by a parliamentary majority. Denmark shares strong cultural and historic ties with its Scandinavian neighbours Sweden and Norway. It has historically been one of the most socially progressive cultures in the world. In 1969, Denmark was the first country to legalise pornography, and in 2012, Denmark replaced its "registered partnership" laws, which it had been the first country to introduce in 1989, with gender-neutral marriage. Modesty and social equality are important parts of Danish culture. The astronomical discoveries of Tycho Brahe (1546–1601), Ludwig A. Colding's (1815–88) neglected articulation of the principle of conservation
Planetary civilization is planetary, consuming all energy that is available from a neighboring star, or about 10 watts. A Type II civilization is stellar, consuming all the energy that their star emits, or 10 watts. A type III civilization is galactic, consuming the energy of billions of stars, or about 10 watts. Carl Sagan suggested defining intermediate values (not considered in Kardashev's original scale) by interpolating and extrapolating, according to his calculations, the modern state of the present human civilization is expressed by a value about 0.7. Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, in a book, "Physics of the Future", published in 2011, stated