The Kardashev Scale: Type I to Type VII Civilizations
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All Comments (21)
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Born too late to explore the earth, and born too early to explore the galaxies. I'm Fucked.
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People are too busy arguing which race of humans is going to get the most instead of coming together as one group of people to grow. Just imagine what 7.5 billion people could do working together for a common goal of advancing humanity to the next level instead of working against each other.
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Imagine we're an experiment from a type 7 civilization π
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This guy's voice reminds me of Connor in Detroit: Become Human. Love it. "My name is Connor. I'm the android sent by CyberLife. I'm here to teach you about Civilization types!"
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The only way humanity can transition from type 0 to type 1 is eliminating politics and candy corn
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Things wont change for humans even if they learn to colonize the entire universe. We would still be looking for more.
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The most important thing is that we become civilization type 2, i.e. that we can use all of the sun's energy. From this point onwards, we can spread throughout the universe at will and apply the same principle to every solar system. In this way, we scale almost boundlessly into the universe, decentralize ourselves and become immortal because no catastrophic event can affect all of humanity. Not even dangers emanating from our own sun. I love the Kardashev Scale. π Keep up the great work and greetings from Cosmic Wisdom!
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Humans are incredible. We appeared approximately 100,000 years ago. From hunter gatherers to farmers took us 90,000 years. From farmers to industrialists: 10,000 years To achieve atomic power: 200 years To advance to Information Age (computers): 50 years This compound model means we will reach type 1 in 100 years, and type 2 in 1000 years
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Being a citizen of the galaxy sounds like the most fun, and the most dangerous
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So inspiring and at the same time, these ideas make me feel sad that I'll never know/see much of even type 1 because I'm old already. I wish that humanity will go on and thrive and continue the fantastic journey ahead.
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The idea of a monkey understanding magic is the equivalent of me understanding how they got a Dyson sphere to handle the gravitational pull of the sun while being so close to it
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Maybe once you reach the point of type VII, if you get board with nothing more to obtain, you go back to Type 0 to experience it, again. Maybe, we've already done this.
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Man, type V and type VI are god-like powers π₯π₯π₯
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using natural disasters as energy producers in type 1 alone is already a crazy plan like... there is a huge, i mean... MASSIVE advantage for that if used with right and sturdy huge devices/equiptments for it not to mention using tectonic collision or an active volcano for engineering is already an insane idea which just basically means that type 1 is where energy is as essential as oxygen
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I don't know if I'm the only one who thinks this way, but humans are probably going to go extinct with our own wrong choices. So far, we've developed with human curiosity and the ability to imagine the invisible, but that's it. Even a single mistake leads to nuclear war, and humans are over. These emotions, such as human greed, selfishness, jealousy, and anger, become more and more deadly to ourselves as technology advances. The reason is that the destructive power of weapons is incomparable to the present.
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Iβm a Christian and I still think all this fits and works with my faith. Just getting closer to the source.
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Type 4 and up is where we transfer our souls into a super computer and control everything around us. We would be able to live forever creating our reality around us.
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We are Type 0.78 right now and a long way from Type I...Type III is like the galactic empire in SW
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As a person who lived in a third-world country, this is an absolute win.β¨
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Kardashev doesn't question the fairness and peace where a civilisation would live in, which speaks for itself imo