[Curiosty Thread] Will humanity ever go beyond a Type 4 Civilization?

PunkX 75

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We aren't even a Type 1 Civilization yet.

Within the next few billion years, would we reach Type 4 status?

Our sun will destroy Earth within the next 5 billion years or so. Assuming humanity would have achieved intergalactic travel by then and settled in a different galaxy, how far would we be able to reach on the Kardashev Scale?

Love to hear your thoughts on this!
 
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PunkX 75 said:
We aren't even a Type 1 Civilization yet.

Within the next few billion years, would we reach Type 4 status?

Our sun will destroy Earth within the next 5 billion years or so. Assuming humanity would have achieved intergalactic travel by then and settled in a different galaxy, how far would we be able to reach on the Kardashev Scale?

Love to hear your thoughts on this!
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The chances of us surviving another 100-200 years is doubtful itself. Resources like water are already becoming scarce throughout the planet, soon they will be wars just for that. But it would be sweet if we somehow don't blow ourselves up and actually progress our tech far enough to allow space travel.
 
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DigitalDude said:
baby steps... first a moon base and a mars base... this is the max thinkable in our life times. Let our descendants worry about other things :cigar:
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True, was just curious about the (hypothetical) possibility of it all.

P.S - I swear I'm not high right now :playful:
 
It’s quite possible. Imagine if the K–T extinction never happened, it’s likely that another species could have risen to dominate the Animal Kingdom, with a really huge head start over us. They’d probably be far more advanced by now maybe even approaching or surpassing a Type 4 civilisation (personally, I think this is an over exaggeration lol). From that perspective, imo, I’d say the biggest obstacle to reaching a Type 4 civilisation isn’t capability, but the risk of mass extinction events resetting the progress.
 
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It’s quite possible. Imagine if the K–T extinction never happened, it’s likely that another species could have risen to dominate the Animal Kingdom, with a really huge head start over us. They’d probably be far more advanced by now maybe even approaching or surpassing a Type 4 civilisation (personally, I think this is an over exaggeration lol). From that perspective, imo, I’d say the biggest obstacle to reaching a Type 4 civilisation isn’t capability, but the risk of mass extinction events resetting the progress.
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Although the chances of another K-T-like mass extinction would be lower now, mostly due to better predictability and detections.

Unless humanity manages to create another Ice Age for itself lol.
 
Skoomahed said:
The chances of us surviving another 100-200 years is doubtful itself. Resources like water are already becoming scarce throughout the planet, soon they will be wars just for that. But it would be sweet if we somehow don't blow ourselves up and actually progress our tech far enough to allow space travel.
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I think at this point no matter how badly the planet gets ****ed up, humans will survive somehow, even if it is very few rich people in bunkers. But something like the fall of Rome and a regression of civilization could happen. In fact it would be a miracle something like that didn't happen in the next million years.

The interesting question to me is what will the resurgence look like when we've already used so much of the easily accessible resources.
 
Iridium said:
I think at this point no matter how badly the planet gets ****ed up, humans will survive somehow, even if it is very few rich people in bunkers. But something like the fall of Rome and a regression of civilization could happen. In fact it would be a miracle something like that didn't happen in the next million years.

The interesting question to me is what will the resurgence look like when we've already used so much of the easily accessible resources.
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That scenario reminds of the Horizon games, where civilization was reset after the planet went to shit, thanks to humanity's own doing.

I know it's a video game, but makes you wonder.
 
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