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Ok, so the story kicks off in the Soviet Union, An astronomer Nikolai Kardashev developed a theoretical system for ranking how developed civilization is. He concluded the more advanced a civilization gets, the more energy it needs to fulfill its goals. Humans only needed fire back in the stone age, but now even chemical fuels, like coal or natural gases do not seem to fulfill our energy needs. The energy resources we use indicate how civilized we are. Kardashev built the Kardashav Scale to measure how developed civilization is, based on energy resources. He initially divided them into 3 possible development levels, which were later increased to 7.
Type 0
That’s us. Humans sit at around 0.72. Disappointing? Don’t worry, we are just getting started with this amazing journey. And if the development pace keeps up, we might be able to witness being type 6 or higher and being immortal. A type 0 civilization entirely depends on chemical fuels like wood, natural gases, and fossil fuels. They are hugely impacted by volcanoes and earthquakes, and they are just starting in this quest to be the greatest. It can be described as the baby civilization, in the grand scheme.
Type 1
Now we are talking. We can’t find out how long it would take us to reach that level because human development is kinda random. Maybe another cold war could make it a million times faster. Seriously. A scientist during the cold war, could go to the American government and say one word “Russia” and the government would reply with two words, “How much?” This was the era when we saw amazing development in an amazingly short period. The current American monopoly doesn’t make it seem important to the government to fund those scientists more.
Ok, coming back to type one, when we become the planetary civilization. Now our main fuel source is NUCLEAR FUEL. But you would argue, isn’t that a thing today? Well, yes it is, but it is 1, dangerous to operate so not used in bulk, and 2, we use nuclear fission for our energy. The type one civilization will be based on nuclear fusion. Fusion releases a lot more energy and can be performed with simple elements like hydrogen, compared to fission, which needs rare metals like uranium or plutonium. We would have propulsor technology which would allow us to launch rockets into space without using that absurd amount of fuel, and make interplanetary travel easy.
Type 2
Now we are a stellar civilization. The main source of our energy is nearby stars. We are now so developed that energy from nuclear fusion is not enough to fulfill our development needs. So, we take the next leap, Energy From Nearby Stars. No, I don’t mean we would plant solar panels in the oceans, we would plant them on the star…yup. Freeman Dyson, a theoretical physicist originated the concept of a Dyson sphere. We would build a system of rings around a nearby star and obtain all its energy, for our use.
A very interesting event happened with a star names Tabby’s Star. Its intensity suddenly dropped by 22 percent! Scientists suspect the only way this is possible, as far we know is if someone built a Dyson sphere around it, someone who is already a type two civilization. Here is the quote from the wiki,
Tabby's Star (also known as Boyajian's Star and WTF Star, and designated KIC 8462852 in the Kepler Input Catalog) is an F-type main-sequence star in the constellation Cygnus approximately 1,470 light-years (450 parsecs) from Earth. Unusual light fluctuations of the star, including up to a 22% dimming in brightness, were discovered by citizen scientists as part of the Planet Hunters project. In September 2015, astronomers and citizen scientists associated with the project posted a preprint of an article describing the data and possible interpretations. The discovery was made from data collected by the Kepler space telescope, which observed changes in the brightness of distant stars to detect exoplanets.
Type 3
Introducing the Galactic Civilization, and the final level according to the original scale. Our energy source would still be Dyson’s sphere, however, this time we will build them all over the galaxy to fund our experiments. We would be able to access wormholes and zap through space. It is a theoretical object if you don’t know what that is. Imagine the universe as a piece of paper. You are on a point on a paper and want to go to some other point. Instead of traveling, you fold the paper in such a way that the point you are on and the point you want to go in touch with each other. Then you make a hole in your location and enter the place you want to go to. This is roughly how wormholes would function. A type 3 would not be able to build wormholes but can zap through preexisting ones.
Type 4
Now we are a universal civilization. Our main energy source is supernovas! That is when a star explodes, releasing an absurd amount of energy. We would be traveling through multiple galaxies and extracting energy from supernovas. At this stage, humans would become immortal, like seriously! We would be able to upload our consciousness, the feeling of existing, along with our memory and experiences into a computer, and live in the metaverse or download that consciousness to another body, like the body of Ultron, and switch avatars and stuff. Being free from our biological bodies would open up new horizons for this civilization. We would also be capable of creating type 0 civilizations. They are kinda god-like, but not quite there yet.
Type 5
Being a type 5, humans realize something amazing, they find that multiverses exist. This might sound like science fiction, but remember going to space was also fiction in the early 1900s, having self-driving cars was fiction in the late 1900s. So now we are MULTIVERAL CIVILIZATIONS. An unimaginable amount of energy would be required to go multiversal. A type 5 civilization will probably be looking for White Holes at a time. They are only theoretical but their existence can be proved using Einstein’s Field Equations. It has been estimated that a white hole can emit energy equivalent to 14 million times that of an average galaxy! Now humans might assume they are at the peak of civilization, but soon they will realize the greater truth.
Type 6
We have always lived in a 3D world. Our brains are not capable of imagining things in the 4th dimension. But a type 6 can make their brains for their conscious selves. Their bodies are nothing but pure consciousness, and even going up by one dimension we would become a hundred times more efficient.
Type 7
But now, humans think they have reached the peak of their civilization. There is no greater truth that they do not know. It is now time that Humans realize the existence of a type 7 civilization, the one we all worship, yes I am talking of the existence of Gods, the real type 7 beings…would be pretty cool right?
Many scientists consider we would never really reach the status of a Type 7 civilization. A type7 can manipulate the laws of physics it can make matter from the vacuum, and generate a tremendous amount of energy with its Godly Power. That’s why type 7 has been rightfully called The Creator Civilization, which can build its universes, with any laws of physics, and play with the laws of physics and manipulate them the way it pleases. Millions of type 6 civilizations together cannot compare to the immense power of type 7. Feels sad no one will be able to develop to a type 7 or will we?
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