What Do Alien Civilizations Look Like? The Kardashev Scale

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Summary by Krater

This video explains the Kardashev Scale, a method of ranking civilizations by their energy use from Type 0 to Type 5 and beyond, and concludes that humanity is currently at level 0.75 and that no evidence of Type 3 civilizations has been found in the Milky Way.

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Answers: What is the Kardashev Scale and where does humanity rank on it?

Kardashev Scale
civilization energy use
megastructures
interstellar communication
Fermi paradox

What it concludes

Humanity currently ranks at about level 0.75 on the Kardashev Scale.
No evidence of Type 3 civilizations or remnants of their megastructures has been found in the Milky Way.

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