Kardashev Scale Of Extraterrestrials

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Kardashev Scale of Extraterrestrials
Life can be found in almost every nook and cranny of our planet Earth. Leaping, swimming, flying, sprinting, slithering, crawling or rooted firmly in place, organisms appear, die, and are replaced by new generations and new species. Whether a similar bounty of life exists elsewhere in the universe is one of the oldest and most tantalizing questions of science. Considering the wide breadth of the universe and the countless stars it contains, the odds would seem in favor of the answer being "yes." How would we categorize such forms of life? Are some more advanced than others? Using the Kardashev scale, believers in extraterrestrials are better able to understand the theoretical possibilities of classifying …show more content…

He was born on April 25th, 1932 in Moscow, Russia. After receiving his PhD from Sternberg Astronomical Institute in 1962, he began to work with the first Soviet effort to find extraterrestrial life under quasar CTA-102 (SETI). He later became a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences on in 1994.
During his work with SETI, he created the Kardashev scale. The scale has a number of different categories. In recent years, scientists have expanded this scale to measure hypothetical civilizations—civilizations that are galactic, intergalactic, and even multiverse in nature. The Kardashev scale breaks civilization into 6 categories: Type 0, Type 1, Type 2, Type 3, Type 4 and Type 5. While the scale is only hypothetical, it puts energy consumption into a cosmic …show more content…

Theoretically, if they exist, white hole energy that is expelled out of the hole would able to be harnessed to create large amounts of energy. Also these civilizations would be able to capture the energy of gamma-ray bursts as well as quasars, which have the energy of small galaxies. It is expected that Earth could reach this level of classification in upwards of a million years.
Type 4 civilization would be an intergalactic culture, spanning the breadth and width of the Universe. They would travel across the cosmos, commanding the power of a billion trillion suns. These societies would be capable of attempting projects of gargantuan, superhuman proportions, such as changing the structure of space-time or the deliberate slowing of entropy to achieve ultimate immortality. For humanity, such accomplishments might be forever beyond our reach.
Type 5 civilizations will have transcended their universe of origin. It would be capable of universe-scale manipulation; for example, jumping between multiverses that contain varied forms of matter, physics, and space-time. A civilization such as this would be home to beings of unimaginable power and

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