Last time, we talked about the Kardashev Scale and looked at type 0 civilizations.
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Today, we are going to discuss what a type 1 civilization would be like.
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According to the Kardashev scale, a type 1 civilization would have mastered all the energy
available to its home planet including energy that reaches the planet from its home star.
It is for this reason, we sometimes refer to this type of civilization as a planetary
civilization. In terms of its energy use, a type one civilization can consume around 10^17 watts.
This would be possible since it extracts its energy and raw
materials from fusion power rather than fission.
It also utilizes a vast pool of hydrogen available in its oceans as well as other
renewable energy resources such as solar, hydro, thermal, and wind.
So it's not far-fetched to think that individuals living in this type of society
probably won't have to worry about their electric bills
simply because of the total efficiency at which a type 1 civilization would harness it.
Now, being able to harness all of its planet's
energy would also mean that it would have control over all natural forces.
According to Physicist Michio Kaku, a planetary civilization should be able to control things such
as the weather, earthquakes, and volcanoes. Furthermore, it would even influence global
flora and fauna, change the geological makeup of its planet, and a lot more.
But perhaps a very cool feature of this civilization
would be its ability to build cities on top of its oceans.
Just imagine how cool it could be to live in a city like that!
So when will humanity be able to live on ocean cities and control the entire earth?
Well, first, we would need to boost our current energy production
over 100,000 to 1,000,000 times more than what we have now.
This means fossil fuels and other nonrenewable resources that we heavily rely on have got to go.
So, it will most likely take another 100-200 or so years for us to reach type one status.
This is of course, according to some calculations based on our current progression.
As of now, we are about 0.75 on the Kardashev Scale according to most experts.
So it is very likely that we should reach type 1 soon.
In fact, Nikolai Kardashev himself described Type 1 civilization as
having “technological level close to the level presently attained on the Earth”.
But Ofcourse, this is all based on whether humanity will be able to survive without any
natural disasters or nuclear wars that could completely destroy us all in the near future.
Now, a type 1 civilization's level of advancements might be hard to believe but compared to the
advances beyond a type 1 civilization, these are just basic and primitive levels of control.
As a type 1 civilization advances to type 1.1 and beyond,
it will be able to start space travel within its solar system to nearby planets.
It would also be able to colonize the moons of its home planet.
Perhaps even begin to terraform some of the planets in its solar system.
Apart from this, as a type 1 civilization gets more advanced,
it may even be able to manipulate its genetic makeup and cure most diseases.
And at a certain level of advancement, a type 1 will begin to set its eyes on its home star
and start to come up with a plan to extract all of its energy.
It is at this stage it would have begun its transition to a type 2 civilization.
But that's a topic for another time!
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