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This is a page for the diagrams of the article Kardashev scale, as the science and prediction is utterly fascinating to me.
Type 0 - Type I
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Type 0 Development of Civilization
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| 0.0 (106 W) Discovery of Fire
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0.1 (107 W) Stone Age
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0.2 (108 W) Agricultural Revolution
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0.3 (109 W) Roman Civilization
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0.4 (1010 W) Commercial Revolution
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0.5 (1011 W) Industrial Revolution
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0.6 (1012 W) Electric Power, Space Age
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0.7 (1013 W) Information Age, Fossil Fuels, Renewable Energy
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0.8 (1014 W) Solar Power, Small-Scale Fusion Power, Nanotechnology
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0.9 (1015 W) Large-Scale Fusion Power, Beginning of Space Colonization, Ocean Colonization
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1.0 (1016 W) Planetary Civilization
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Increasing levels of technology, Up to 0.5, increasing levels of fragmentation, increasing energy usage, increasing area of habitation
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After 0.5, Decreasing levels of fragmentation
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Type I
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Type I Single Planetary Civilization
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| Early (1016 W to 1019 W)
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Middle (1020 W to 1023 W)
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Late (1024 W to 1026 W) (debateable)
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| near space colonization, near space industry, Asteroid mining, Planet Mining for fuels and energy
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First Interstellar travel, Culture Orbital
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Construction begins on Dyson Sphere or Alderson disk.ß, Stress caused by size of civilization, at this point it can fragment into multiple planetary civilizations—reversion from single civilization early in type 1
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Increasing levels of technology, Increasing levels of space exploration, space based energy sources increase, offworld civilization centers increase, increasing energy usage, increasing area of habitation
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decreasing levels of centrality, societies and civilizations increasingly are not the same, due to time differences breaking single social bonds 1
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Type II
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Type II Civilization extends to the entire Solar System 2
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| Early (1026 W to 1029 W)
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Middle (1030 W to 1033 W) (debateable)
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Late (1034 W to 1036 W) (debateable)
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| Dyson Sphere completion, Exploration of the nearest star systems 1, creation of the nearest star colony
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star lifting and Shkadov thrusters, Ringworld, Star Trek type civilization,
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Stress caused by size of civilization, at this point it can fragment into multiple solar system based civilizations—reversion to single star based civilization early, Automated Galatic colonization effort may begin 3
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Increasing levels of technology, Exponential growth in stars that are colonized, centralized systems increasingly draw resources from further systems which have not had their resources harvested–– driving increased expansion
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decreasing levels of centrality, increasing likelihood of fragmentation into single star systems if resources cannot be adequately transferred from central sources, resource based wars may remerge after disappearance during Type I
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Type III, IV, V
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Type III Colonization of the Milky Way Galaxy
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| Early (1036 W to 1039 W) (debateable)
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Middle (1040 W to 1043 W) (debateable)
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Late (1044 W to 1046 W) (debateable)
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| Star Wars type civilization
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Colonization of the Local Supercluster
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Highly hypothetical at this point, there are no proposals for this level.
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Increasing levels of technology, centralized systems increasingly draw resources from further systems which have not had their resources harvested–– driving increased expansion
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Slow growth in galaxies that are colonized due to speed limitations, making centrality impossible
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Type IV Colonization of the Local Group (1046 W to 1056 W)
Can escape the universe via creating a black hole. End
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| Type V Colonization of Further Galaxies and the Cluster surrounding the Local Group, including the Visible universe (1056 W to 1066 W)
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