{"id":57755,"date":"2017-05-27T19:08:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T02:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/the-kardashev-scale-type-i-ii-iii-iv-v-civilization"},"modified":"2017-06-02T14:01:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T21:01:20","slug":"the-kardashev-scale-type-i-ii-iii-iv-v-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/the-kardashev-scale-type-i-ii-iii-iv-v-civilization","title":{"rendered":"The Kardashev Scale \u2014 Type I, II, III, IV &amp; V Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-kardashev-scale-type-i-ii-iii-iv-v-civilization.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have reached a turning point in society. According to renowned <a href=\"http:\/\/mkaku.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">theoretical physicist Michio Kaku<\/a>, the next 100 years of science will determine whether we perish or thrive. Will we remain a Type 0 civilization, or will we advance and make our way into the stars?<\/p>\n<p>Experts 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. With this in mind, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fromquarkstoquasars.com\/the-kardashev-scale-of-civilization-types\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Kardashev scale<\/a> was developed as a way of measuring a civilization\u2019s technological advancement based upon how much usable energy it has at its disposal (this was originally just tied to energy available for communications, but has since been expanded).<\/p>\n<p>The scale was originally designed in 1964 by the Russian astrophysicist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikolai_Kardashev\" target=\"_blank\">Nikolai Kardashev<\/a> (who was looking for signs of extraterrestrial life within cosmic signals). It has 3 base classes, each with an energy disposal level: Type I (10\u00b9\u2076W), Type II (10\u00b2\u2076W), and Type III (10\u00b3\u2076W). Other astronomers have extended the scale to Type IV (10\u2074\u2076W) and Type V (the energy available to this kind of civilization would equal that of all energy available in not just our universe, but in all universes and in all time-lines). These additions consider both energy access as well as the amount of knowledge the civilizations have access to.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-kardashev-scale-type-i-ii-iii-iv-v-civilization\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-kardashev-scale-type-i-ii-iii-iv-v-civilization\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have reached a turning point in society. According to renowned theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, the next 100 years of science will determine whether we perish or thrive. Will we remain a Type 0 civilization, or will we advance and make our way into the stars? Experts assert that, as a civilization grows larger and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57946,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57755\/revisions\/57946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}