Kardashev Scale

You maybe wondering what the Kardashev Scale is and what it’s purpose is with Aerospace Engineering? The Kardashev Scale is basically a scale that shows where we are on our path to become a advanced civilization capable of control our entire galaxy. As of right know what type of civilization are we at the moment in 2020 well the answer may be disappointing but we have barely reached type 1 status we are only at type 0.7 on the Kardashev scale.

Type 1

A type 1 civilization is given to a species who have been able to harness all the energy that is available from a neighboring star, gathering and storing it to meet the energy demands of a growing population. This means that we would need to boost our current energy production over 100,000 times to reach this status. However, being able to harness all Earth’s energy would also mean that we could have control over all natural forces. Human beings could control volcanoes, the weather, and even earthquakes!

Type 2

A Type 2 civilization can harness the power of their entire star. Several methods for this have been proposed. The most popular of which is the hypothetical ‘Dyson Sphere.’ This device, if you want to call it that, would encompass every single inch of the star, gathering most of its energy output and transferring it to a planet for later use. Alternatively, if fusion power had been mastered by the race, a reactor on a truly immense scale could be used to satisfy their needs. Nearby gas giants can be utilized for their hydrogen, slowly drained of life by an orbiting reactor. What would this much energy mean for a species? Well, nothing known to science could wipe out a Type II civilization. Take, for instance, if humans survived long enough to reach this status, and a moon sized object entered our solar system on a collision course with our little blue planet–we’d have the ability to vaporize it out of existence. Or if we had time, we could move our planet out of the way, completely dodging it. But let’s say we didn’t want to move Earth are there any other options? Well yes, because we’d have the capability to move Jupiter, or another planet of our choice, into the way.

Type 3

A type 3 civilization is a species that has become galactic travelers with knowledge of everything having to do with energy, resulting in them becoming a master race. In terms of humans, hundreds of thousands of years of evolution may result in the inhabitants of this type III civilization being incredibly different from the human race as we know it. These may be cyborgs, with the descendants of regular humans being a sub-species among the now-highly advanced society. These wholly biological humans would likely be seen as being disabled, inferior, or unevolved by their cybernetic counterparts. At this stage, we would have developed colonies of robots that are capable of ‘self replication’; their population may increase into the millions as they spread out across the galaxy, colonizing star after star. And these being might build Dyson Spheres to encapsulate each one, creating a huge network that would carry energy back to the home planet. But stretching over the galaxy in such a manner would face several problems; namely, the species would be constrained by the laws of physics. Particularly, light-speed travel. That is, unless they develop a working warp drive, or use that immaculate energy cache to master wormhole teleportation, they can only get so far.

Soon we will reach type 3 status which will allow us to essentially become controllers of everything in our Milky way Galaxy. This is our end goal and there is only one way to reach that level we need more Aerospace and Aeronautical Engineers because they are the future that will lead us to the Stars.