Michio Kaku Explains the Kardashev Scale

In this short clip, Michio Kaku dives into the fascinating Kardashev Scale, explaining the three types of civilizations that may exist in our universe. From harnessing planetary energy to controlling galaxies, learn how humanity fits into the cosmic scale of advancement. Watch this intriguing conversation from the Joe Rogan Podcast.

[SMU.Cosmos]

The Kardashev Scale measures a civilization's technological advancement based on its energy consumption, ranging from planetary (Type I) to galactic (Type III) scales.

[kcdavies]

What’s cool is, if art and culture remains documented, some enthusiast will build a replica millennium falcon

[sherwaine]

I play with black holes but I’m no type 3 - no diddy btw

[sfdgag]

Star track is smth like type 1.2-1.3, star wars is 1.5 and Warhammer 40k is 1.7 (imperium only). People don't undertand that every level is 10 000 000 000 times more powerful. Type 2 power equals roughly to 10 000 000 000 000 modern earth power. We are now aproximately 0.75-0.79 type civilisation.

[josedelarosa]

Type 3 sounds more like the forerunner of halo than the empire in Star Wars.

[schematic]

We’re so busy fighting each other, working and trying to survive that the universe ain’t spoken about enough there’s endless possibilities I believe there’s so many planets with life that there’s more than not, I believe we’ve been visited in the past when civilisation wasn’t so advanced

[ygstraightout]

If humanity will become a type 3 civilazation, we will forget earth and its history, if you think about it, in the star wars universe humanity evolved into telepatic beings that follows (part of them) a religion that focuses on the force and its power, the first quote once a star wars episode begins is "once upon a time in a galaxy far far away" that suggests that earth exists

[FantasyZoneGaming]

Sometimes i look for michio kaku to ask what i should watch at night. Lmfao

[geekchameleon]

I have always found it interesting that on the Kardashev scale, we don't even exist. It makes much more sense to me that type 1 would be a hunter/gatherer nomadic civilization, type 2 would be agrarian/village, type 3 would be industrial/city and type 4 would be spacefaring. Only after a civilization has the capacity to orbit its own planet would it have the capacity to control its weather on any legitimate scale, which would be type 5.

[phatheffer]

Meanwhile i'm struggling to boil an egg.

[toyot]

Today I let the team down and our quest for type 1 status- I soiled my pants.

[UBenevolence]

Type 3 reminds me of some really good cartoons

[armanabelino]

I hope I can live longer and hope I can join those future civilizations.

[MiniGunnR]

I wonder what it would be like to live in a type 3 civilization. I wonder after we've died, if we can observe from the other side how far human beings can go.

[sprdctns]

He knows because he comes from the type 3 civilization

[thesage]

Playing with black holes is actually quite funny

[Master-nguj]

I like how you used the music from Interstellar on this.

[woodrobin]

Michio Kaku knows a lot of things, but Star Trek and Star Wars aren't among them.

There's exactly one Type 2 civilization remnant shown in Star Trek: a Dyson Sphere that was apparently abandoned when the star it was built around became unstable and began lashing the inner surface with intense solar flares. There are arguably groups that exhibit Type 2 or Type 3 sorts of power levels, but could also be argued to be off the scale: the Organians and the Q. But there are also civilizations that can't be tied down to the scale because we don't know enough about their society: the Metrons, the First Federation, the Borg, the Dominion, the Olympians (as exemplified by Apollo), etc.

Star Wars has a long-stagnant galactic society that lives among the relics of technology that they maintain but rarely modify or improve upon. They didn't even map the hyperspace lanes they use to travel their galaxy (a now-dead race did over 40, 000 years ago) and rarely try to improve upon them (which is why Han Solo mapping a route for the Kessel Run that was shorter than 12 parsecs netted him galactic fame). They don't "play with black holes" -- there's a non-canon super-weapon that could disrupt a star and cause it to collapse by manipulating hyperspace, but that's not playing with black holes, it's a grand-scale physics parlor trick.

If you wanted to point to a Type 2 civilization in science fiction, the Pak Protectors in Ringworld built the Ringworld (basically a slice of a Dyson Sphere but also much more manageable while still giving the equivalent living space of a million Earths).

[rjmondo]

galactic black hole player sound like a fusion jazz band

[jtlr]

And then you get type 4, like Rick Sanchez that use entire universes as car batteries 😂😂😂