What Do Alien Civilizations Look Like? The Kardashev Scale
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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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