What If Kardashev Was Wrong? | Unveiled

Is the Kardashev Scale REALLY the best way to measure a growing society? In this video, Unveiled uncovers the DARK SIDE of the Kardashev Scale... and we look at some of the alternative ways in which the future might unfold, instead. What do you think... are you a fan of the Kardashev Scale? Or are there better models available?

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[unveiled]

What do YOU think? Does the Kardashev Scale work?

[vitalibertas]

There's a big difference between "being able to harness a certain amount off energy" and "sucking dry all recourses".

[jayedgar]

The Kardashev scale only measures energy creation (output), but the real measure comes from the utilization of energy. Example; the earliest computers took up huge space (the size on 1 or 2 office building floors, or more) and took a large amount of energy to operate (up to the size of a small town). We now have better computers than the early computational monsters that require only 0.001 % of the energy it took to run those early computers. And, we can hold them in the palm of our hand. That was only 50+ years ago. Power utilization is doing more with less energy (efficiency). So, the power generation applied to technology as it improves it's efficiency equals more work done with far less energy. Technology is not measured by the energy we create, but the combination of energy and the utilization of energy applied to the work being done. The level of technology is also not about the information storage scale (as Dr. Carl Sagan pointed out) rather what we do with the information we have and applying it towards technological improvements (energy efficiency).

[youtoobization]

Maybe we're the first civilization ever. Maybe billions of years from now, we could develop into a type-3 civilization and another primitive civilization would emerge and see us as the all powerful alien civilization.

[raphaellavictoria]

Barrow makes a LOT OF SENSE. That's a great scale.

[thomash]

I read: "What if Kardashian was wrong"

[dangelle]

No, I suspect a highly advanced civilization wouldn't use energy as we do they would have found a better way.

[skipperofschool]

everyone is right until proven wrong i guess

[isaisolano]

You missed Bootes Void, an enormous, approximately spherical region of space, containing very few galaxies. A type 3 could be consuming those galaxies.

[notsure]

Believing that we are the only one in the universe is like picking up water with a help of a spoon from the ocean and saying that whales and sharks do not exist

[vonbrendt]

Tabby’s star still has yet to be sufficiently explained. It could be a Dyson sphere. Probably not but the possibility is there. Also you forgot to mention the recent technological signature coming from Proxima Centauri. That could be the signal of one of those advanced civilizations we’ve been looking for.

[jerrymuns]

Distance and the speed of light keep us from observing what is happening right now. The visual confirmation we may see today using the most advanced telescopes would only be remanence of the past. A civilization that has been long gone may seem to still be active at the right distance. Maybe we will never witness life other than what we see here because we are only within our timeframe and not theirs.

[seanbrazell]

The problem with the kardashev scale is that a civilization with the ability to utilize enough energy to be a type 1 2 or 3 wouldn't necessarily DO IT.

[aakashlamba]

I was getting bored and unvield uploaded video 🙂🙂 thanks 😊😊

[beardedroofer]

Humans have a time bias, although possible to imagine, the extreme past of the universe is often lost in the "now".

[buckeyeman]

I think type 1 is very, very unlikely. I don't think a type 2 or 3 is even physically possible by any stretch of imagination or in any feasible amount of time.

[anishaditya]

We humans are always this way, we always try to make things smaller and more portable rather than grand outcomes...

[CustomJ]

The super duper advanced ones have probably cracked perpetual motion and zero point energy production already. Dyson spheres most likely aren't even an elegant solution for these guy's. Kardashev may not have been all the way right.

[ashleyo]

LOVE your videos! Keep up the great work!

[firebladetenn]

It has always occurred to me, that it would be easier to make antimatter than a Dyson sphere.