The Kardashev Scale: Type I to Type VII Civilizations

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[JustMe-rfno]

Born too late to explore the earth, and born too early to explore the galaxies.
I'm Fucked.

[kingleo]

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.

[definitely.not_geetha]

Imagine we're an experiment from a type 7 civilization 😂

[CrankyStuff]

Imagine earth was actually created by someone in a type IV civilisation doing a YouTube video 💀 “creating a planet with life and seeing what happens”

[ahmedalalawi]

0:05 imagine if we could control earthqua-

[popolpolpolz]

Things wont change for humans even if they learn to colonize the entire universe. We would still be looking for more.

[EvaandJavier]

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

[happymusics]

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.

[hamtik]

Anybody who made such scale is literally INSANE.

[dmar]

A Dyson sphere feels like one of the most brute force ways to capture energy possible.

The entire Kardashev concept seems ludicrous in general.

[moboogie]

The only way humanity can transition from type 0 to type 1 is eliminating politics and candy corn

[MadnezZ]

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.

[macwelch]

Being a citizen of the galaxy sounds like the most fun, and the most dangerous

[_Kitetsu]

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!"

[allenpeterson]

God speaks through intuition. The stronger your spirit, the clearer the voice and the bolder your actions.

[deep]

Man, type V and type VI are god-like powers 🔥🔥🔥

[tut]

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.

[Cosmic-Wisdom]

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. 😅 Keep up the great work and greetings from Cosmic Wisdom!

[jlwdith]

I'm a 567lbs and struggle with food and cannabis addiction in Canada. Thank you for your space video with AI voice. It is soothing and helps reduce the voices in my head that tell me to harm my own genitals when I'm trying to relax and use the techniques recommended to me by my psychologist.

[thibio_x]

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