Carl Sagan thought we are currently at about 0.7 on the way to type 1. Kaku thinks itвЂ™ll take another 100вЂ“200 or so years for us to get to Type 1 status. If thatвЂ™s the case, we are not quite there yet. Physicist Michio Kaku thinks a planetary civilization should be able to control such things as earthquakes, the weather, volcanoes, and would be building ocean cities. Type 1 civilization can gather all the energy that reaches the home planet in the form of solar but it can also obtain the energy its home planet gives off, like thermal, wind, hydro, etc. We choose energy that isnвЂ™t renewable and it will one day run out. 7 because we do collect some energy from the sun, water, and air, but that is not the main source of energy. Type 0 civilization is any civilization that is not capable of harnessing all the energy from its home planet. To realize how dangerous it can be, I need to explain what type 0 and type 1 civilizations are. This could be because the transition from type 0 to type 1 is so dangerous. The mathematics shows that there should be thousands of types 1, 2, and 3 civilizations, but we just donвЂ™t see any. There have been some adjustments to the kardeshev scale over the years, and now it shows the amount of energy required for the types of civilizations and what they are capable of. In 1964 a Soviet astronomer by the name of Nikolai Kardashev introduced a hypothetical scale that can be used to measure the potential of a civilization based on the amount of energy it can produce.

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