[Music] earth and civilization as we know it has come a long way in the past 200,000 years and has experienced a multitude of changes in that time the human species has only existed for a mere point zero zero one five percent of the immense 13.7 billion year age of the universe however humanity has conquered some of the most daunting tasks in that time period they've come from hunting and gathering in the fields of Africa colonizing the entire planet in a time period that is relatively a blink of an eye on the cosmic level some of
the greatest minds ever exist have helped push modern civilization forward and achieve goals that were once thought to be impossible in just the past 150 years we have gone from being stuck to the Earth's soil to lending on our closest cosmic neighbor the moon humanity's success is nothing short of spectacular but on the universal scale we may be rather insignificant what would happen if we met an advanced alien species with technology more advanced than we could ever imagine in 1964 a Soviet astronomer by the name of Nikolai Kardashev introduced the hypothetical scale that can be
used to measure a potential civilizations level of technological advancement based on the amount of energy this civilization can produce and as soon as a day as the Kardashev skill the skill of three traditional types but many extensions of modifications to the skills and proposed sense its creation the scale is logarithmic meaning as we go on the amount the power of the civilization has it's much much more substantial in 1964 harish have defined the three base levels of civilization based on the power available to them type 1 the smallest of the original types is also called
a planetary civilization this is no similar to our good old friend or by point civilizations are capable of storing and using all of the energy which reaches this planet from its host star which in our case is the Sun this amount of energy would amount to an enormous 7 times 10 to the 17 watts notice how I said most similar though as their modern civilization here on earth so it's not quite exactly fitting that the type one civilization category yes I know we've pathetic humans can't even fit into the lowest level of the advanced civilization
rather than fitting into a type one civilization we humans lined one of the extended types of civilizations type zero you see when this scale was proposed famous astronomer Nashville physicist Carl Sagan produced a formula to define a certain hypothetical civilization to Kardashev rating this is that formula or K represents a hypothetical civilizations car share rating while P represents the amount of power the civilization uses and what the proposed type 0 civilization will control approximately 1 megawatt or 1 million watts of power which is miniscule compared to the amount of power we use on a daily
basis the 2015 alone the total world energy consumption 17.3 5 terawatts or this huge number plugging this number into P and cranking out the numbers are Kardashev rating as a civilization will be approximately that type to 0.7 even as a civilization with seven billion humans on our planet 12 of which adventure to the moon with spacecraft spent billions of miles into the abyss of interstellar space complains to colonize Mars in the near future we still only score a measly 0.72 of the Kardashev scale according to Carl Sagan humanity is going through a phase of technical
adolescence typical of a civilization about to integrate the type one Kardashev scale Michio Kaku another brilliant theoretical physicist suggests that humans may attain type one status in the next 100 to 200 years type 2 status and perhaps next few thousand years in type 3 status in 100,000 to 1 million years this really goes to show the truly immense time skills it would take to advance to the next type of civilization however we are heading towards becoming a type one civilization in the next couple hundred years or so and this is a huge step for Humanity
as a type one civilization we would have complete control over our own planet perhaps we could influence the weather change the geological makeup of our own planet and much much more however even this amount of power is tiny compared to the next type of civilization type 2 I'll type 2 civilizations also referred to as a stellar civilization can control the total energy of its host star and transfer the energy throughout the entire solar system one popular hypothesized device to use to harness the entire energy output of a type two civilization so star are called Dyson
structures you may have seen these before as they are rather popular in science fiction the name was coined by Freeman Dyson and it is essentially a system of orbiting solar power satellites basically it's an insanely massive hollow sphere built around a civilization so star tune you'll call of the energy from it that first made a great video on this idea and you should definitely check it out I'll be here to leave a link to it in the description but back on topic another rather exotic idea to harness energy for a type two civilization would be
to seed a stellar mass for example a star into a nearby black hole and collect the photons emitted by the accretion disk now how a civilization could somehow deposit a star into a black hole is beyond me what it is the means of energy nonetheless a type two civilization would not only build these supermassive structures but would control and live within them they would control every single planet in their solar system mile the asteroids at their leisure and essentially do whatever they want inside the solar neighborhood the amount of powered civilization we have is remarkable
what is nothing when compared to a type 3 civilization a place three civilization also referred to as a galactic civilization can control the total energy of its entire host galaxy the amount of power the civilization would have is truly frightening and its order in the realm of science fiction but I'll cover it anyway you see this civilization would function extremely similar to the way a type two civilization worgen it would harness the power of stars mind planets and asteroids and so on but not only for one star but for billions of stars a civilization such
as this would use planets and solar systems like legos building and deconstructing planets to build up their empire elsewhere in the galaxy the galaxy would seemingly become their playground and everything they do and use is merely a toy harnessing the energy of quasars would be like hitting the lottery for them the supermassive black hole the center of their galaxy could be used as an energy source for a type 3 civilization galactic real-estate would become a reality with Planet Stars or even complete solar systems being auctioned off by some supreme leader interestingly enough this hypothetical galaxy
may not even be noticeable if such a civilization did exist all of the energy from these dollars would be felled and used for whatever the civilization may need this means all the star light gas an element in an entire galaxy would become like your kitchen pantry if all of the matter and their entire galaxy was exploded for energy an outside observer would view the galaxy to be completely invisible it would appear as if there were a hole in the galaxy or if they have colonized the entire galaxy perhaps nothing at all there is a place
in space known as the great employed at nearly 330 million light years in diameter the great void is one of the largest known voids in the entire universe and is commonly referred to as a super bully this region of space is seemingly devoid of life in galaxies as we know it a region of space with such a massive size as the great void contained scientists estimate there should be at least 2,000 galaxies in stereo space but today their volume in 60 galaxies that have been discovered in the great void this is a mere 3% of
the amounts of galaxies that should occupy an area this large so where of it to be type three civilizations completely dominating an entire region of space milking a 330 million Lightyear wide region for resources leave your thoughts in the comments below and I'll be sure to respond to them as quickly as I can thanks for watching
