Moscow 1963 pastoral physicist Nikolai
Kardashev examines an unidentified radio
emission coming from a quasar named CTA
102 it is the first official Soviet
effort in the search for
extraterrestrial intelligence and it
inspires Carter chef's to speculate that
alien civilizations could exist that are
millions or even billions of years ahead
of us he creates what is known as the
Kardashev scale a classification scheme
ranking 3 levels of civilizations based
on their ability to harness energy
a type one civilization has the energy
of an entire planet
they might for example control the
weather earthquakes volcanoes they can
modify them they have the power of a
planet that's type 1 a type two
civilization has mastered the energy of
a star
they've colonized the nearby planets
very similar to the Federation of
Planets like in Star Trek Star Trek
would be a type two civilization then
there's type three galactic
they roam the Galactic space lanes they
harness the power of black holes that's
like the Empire of Star Wars that would
be a time free civilization now on this
cosmic scale whatta we do we control the
earth do we control the Stars do we
control the galaxy we are type zero we
get our energy from dead plants some
scientists suggest that if humans were
even to ascend to what carnage have
called a type one civilization
our current understanding of the laws of
the universe would be dramatically
altered now some of my colleagues say
bah humbug the stars are so far away
aliens can't possibly reach us but that
assumes that they're just type 1 what
happens if they are a thousand years
ahead of us or for a type 3 civilization
a hundred thousand years more advanced
than us then new laws of physics begin
to open up and all the bah humbugs have
to be thrown out the window because a
new scale of physics emerges once you
are type 2 or type 3
you