What Do Alien Civilizations Look Like? The Kardashev Scale

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The observable universe is a big place that has been around for more than 13 billion years. Up to two trillion galaxies made up of something like 20,000 billion billion stars surround our home galaxy. In the milky way alone scientists assume there are some 40 billion earth like planets in the habitable zone of their stars. When we look at these numbers it is hard to imagine that there is nobody else out there.

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[TierZoo]

I mean sure, I guess its important where aliens rank on the Kardashev Scale, but lets be honest, the real question we need the answer to is where aliens rank on the tier list.

[UV_Lightning]

Imagine a galactic civilization knows we exist but our galaxy was chosen to be left alone like a national forest or park

[markmuller]

Imagine an alien being from a Type 0.75 Civilization in some planet and watching a video about the possibility of life outside their planet.

[Locket.L]

The fact that humans can think on this large of a scale is really impressive in its own right. As long as our extra-terrestrial gods will hear us out, I think humans will survive. Let’s hope they don’t run into flat-earthers.

[anaphylaxis]

The quality of your content is just astronomically astonishing.

[themandownstairs]

"hey dude I'm bored"
"why don't we create a universe"
"yeah okay i'm down"

[punkbuster]

The concept of the dark forest combined with the Fermi paradox and the Zoo Hypothesis, it could be possible that we are shielded by an even more advanced civilization so as to protect us from the other inhabitants of the Dark forest until we mature enough to venture out on our own

[JessicaM]

Something i think about a lot, is "the need for oxygen, water and the right temprature" (a lot of people say this) to be able to be alive, but isn't it possible for other creatures in outer space to live/breathe from other maybe unknown elements?

[ElSoMbRiO]

Everybody says "Kurzgesagt narrator and animators are great" but what about the background music creators? they are becoming better and better every year.

[teegsy]

I think The narrators voice is a really important part of This channel now

[spikedpsycho]

Summary;
Type 0 - Us, today!
Type 1 - Space 1999, Ghost In The Shell
Type 2 - Futurama, The Jetsons, Federation
Type 3 - Stargate, The Borg, Battlestar Galactica, Red Dwarf
Type 4 - Timelords (Dr Who)
Type 5 - The Q (Star Trek)
Type 6 - Gods

[qaaris]

6:14 I just noticed they snuck the lead melody of their Dyson Sphere music in when the Dyson swarm was mentioned.

[rummusLoL]

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[BIackMirror]

Omg the artists must have had a field day with this o.o

[hankschrader]

Statistically speaking, the Universe is so big that there has to be a solar system out there where atleast 3 earth like planets exist and where intelligent life evolved and innovated at around the exact same pace on all 3 of them. Then they all started exploring space at the same time, found eachother, and had battles just like some kind of marvel movie. That must be so epic, wherever it is happening.

[grantdotjpg]

It's entirely possible for all of the species to just be too young to be doing anything. All of us on the relative first couple of steps together, wandering into a seemingly empty void

[gingembrecarlate]

Imagine if type Ω beings have their own Kardashev scale, and they classify themselves only as the type 1.

[trapozlite]

“That was fun!” said the Type Omega as he dissembled the universe and put it back in the box.

[doktorspock]

Even our current civilization sample size is amazing. The amount of things that had to happen for humanity to exist is just cosmic.