Lucy. Kanzi. Type one civilization. Will Humans Achieve a Type 1 Civilization by 2100? - h+ Mediah+ Media. Nikolai Kardashev, a Soviet astrophysicist born in 1932, devised a method of rating advanced civilizations.
Technological advances, according to Kardashev, could theoretically create conditions where a society could maximize use of energy: first, maximizing the energy striking a planet from its local star; second, maximizing all the energy emitted by a local star, not just that which falls on that civilization’s planet; third, maximizing the energy derived from all the stars in that civilization’s galaxy; and fourth, maximizing the energy from all the galaxies and intergalactic medium within the entire Universe. He categorized each of these stages as Type 1 through Type 4. Based on Kardashev’s speculations where does our civilization sit today?
We are Type 0, somewhere between 0.7 and 0.72 producing 15 Terawatts of energy, a mere fraction of the energy a Type 1 would harvest from the physical world. How? To get to Type 2 we will maximize the use of antimatter as an energy source. The Kardashev Scale - Type I, II, III, IV & V Civilization — From Quarks to Quasars. Mass Effect citadel.
Image credit: BioWare Theorists assert that, as a civilization grows larger and becomes more advanced, its energy demands will increase rapidly due to its population growth and the energy requirements of its various machines. Homo heidelbergensis. Where Lived: Europe; possibly Asia (China); Africa (eastern and southern) When Lived: About 700,000 to 200,000 years ago This early human species had a very large browridge, and a larger braincase and flatter face than older early human species.
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