What Do Alien Civilizations Look Like? The Kardashev Scale
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The observable universe is a big place that has been around for more than 13 billion years. Up to two trillion galaxies made up of something like 20,000 billion billion stars surround our home galaxy. In the milky way alone scientists assume there are some 40 billion earth like planets in the habitable zone of their stars. When we look at these numbers it is hard to imagine that there is nobody else out there.
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Imagine a galactic civilization knows we exist but our galaxy was chosen to be left alone like a national forest or park
Or as a lab experiment.
@@racoonlittle1679 very likely
possibly we are one of their computer simulations
Or we are their car battery
Or it is like one of those do not interact with tribes on earth. "They aren't techonologically advanced enough and are happier how they are currently. Let's leave them to their own devices."
Humans: “Lol look at this stupid tiny ant. It can’t even understand life” Type Ω: 😐
Hold my universes
I hope the comment-format of: X; something Y: another thing .. dies soon. Making everything into a meme-dialogue is a lazy way to express thoughts! I'm empathetic to the shrinking expanse of our attention, and this format is easy to consume, but it's being used FAR to much.
@Colin Mike Don't mention the bible here. It makes any rational conversation almost impossible.
😂😂😂
Colin Mike but....what if _we are not?_
The fact that humans can think on this large of a scale is really impressive in its own right. As long as our extra-terrestrial gods will hear us out, I think humans will survive. Let’s hope they don’t run into flat-earthers.
Why would they care about a single planet of primitives
@@manicstatic370 Maybe they’ve moved past harming other creatures for dumb reasons. I think in that regard us humans are still primitive.
@@ValouroverFear type one civilizations can be considered primitive as well
@@ValouroverFear If humanity doesn't self destruct in the next 500 years and invests more resources in technology within that time we for certain will be a Type 2 civilization. Mastering space flight within our Solar system would be key. Mining asteroids and certain moons starting with ours for helium 3 we'll get there. I'm sad I won't live to see it. Look how far we came in 100 or so years with the Einsteins, Tesla's and now Elon and Bezos. Enough innovation and we'll take over this Solar system and maybe even colonize other moons even planets! Imagine colonizing a dwarf planet by building a small space station and mining it for precious metals because in the end it all comes down to resources.
@@ValouroverFear we kill millions of members of our own species every year, either by violent crime, or war, or simply hoarding vital resources. we prioritize our individual selves over our whole species. i doubt a type 2 civilization like us in that way could ever even become a type 3 in the first place, since the more they advance, the faster they push back against their own progress via war. even if they don't eradicate themselves with antimatter bombs or some other super sci-fi weapon we haven't even conceived of, they could still destroy themselves faster than they expand, and never actually go further than controlling a few solar systems as result. even if they did become a type 3, they'd likely change their ways as result of it. a type 3 civilization has virtually unlimited resources and energy, far more than they could ever use. things like killing other species would no longer provide any advantage to them, so even if they were selfish they still wouldn't have any reason to do that. there aren't any materials on earth that they can't get unlimited of from other parts of the galaxy, and if anything it'd be more of a hassle for them to take from us than from planets without life, since our nukes could still delay them from mining whatever it is they want from earth for a few weeks at least. there's just no point in stealing or war when you become that powerful, it actually becomes more trouble than it's worth, so it makes no sense that they'd be "evil". compared to that, we're pretty primitive.
Imagine an alien being from a Type 0.75 Civilization in some planet and watching a video about the possibility of life outside their planet.
@ᴍᴜsᴋᴇᴛᴇᴇʀ an increase of 0.1 would mean 10x more energy so i believe they would a bit more advanced
pfff that's probably happening now
Somewhere in a distant galaxy, someone is watching a video like this
sounds gross
Cough cough us cough cough humans cough cough
Ants: Thinks we’re Gods Also Ants: *Bites us anyway*
God of War intensifies
Those antheists will die for rebellions.
Lets be ants and infest some aliens house. If we work hard enough we can affect the value of the home
You can't tell me there's not at least thousands of humans who would try to punch a god just for the bragging rights
@@samuellafleur890 _Cant say I wouldnt try)_
I think The narrators voice is a really important part of This channel now
if they replaced him with some dude with a texan accent the rate of gain and rate of loss of subscribers would be the exact same.
He's type Omega GOD
Yes! He is incredible. He is one of the reasons I prefer this channel over The Infographic Show channel.. among many many other things.
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Bleak Furball that is not correct.
The concept of the dark forest combined with the Fermi paradox and the Zoo Hypothesis, it could be possible that we are shielded by an even more advanced civilization so as to protect us from the other inhabitants of the Dark forest until we mature enough to venture out on our own
But why would they do that? What could we possibly give them for them to spend their efforts hiding underdeveloped monkeys?
@@darklex5150 Could be that they like to study us or keep us as a form of reason to continue existing. after all, the example being that they are so advanced, we are just mere ants or wild animals to them. their reasons being beyond our comprehension, or they could just be bored
@@CairoFaustine i don't see the point in studying us, we can't bring anything to them, it's like studying about monkeys, but way more useless. If we talked about a single individual then maybe yes, they could be bored but we are talking about an entire civilization; civilizations don't get bored. Besides, i refuse to believe that we cannont comprehend the motives of such a civilization, they aren't type 3.
@@CairoFaustine or we could possibly be their creation, why? Maybe they just want to keep their legacy in our DNA, *or maybe a teenage alien got SO bored one day and created us on pure accident*
Just to think that aliens could be watching us right now with a telescope that can see over 500,000 light years away
Something i think about a lot, is "the need for oxygen, water and the right temprature" (a lot of people say this) to be able to be alive, but isn't it possible for other creatures in outer space to live/breathe from other maybe unknown elements?
The thing is, almost any element that can exist in non laboratory environments/circumstances have already been documented extensively. Any unknown element would be too unstable to help support life in any way. Even the speculated "Island of Stability". Other carbon based lifeforms can breathe gasses other than oxygen, but still require water. And there is no known carbon based lifeform that doesn't need water in some way. Maybe silicon based life, but at that point it isn't known what they would need, as silicon likes oxygen too much to be viable in an oxygenated environment as far as I know.
the thing is aliens could be so different and not apply and known means of life, for example it is possible for a mass of liquid to be sentient if the right conditions occurred allowing it to behave like a brain. if aliens did not have the right biology and were not driven to get more resources like earth life because they didnt need to reproduce or eat, they might not evolve and realize the need to get more resources and have to expand off of their planet. the properties of earth life were a result of chaotic and random change and perfect conditions, if time was rewinded to 3 billion years ago and made to repeat, an electron might have not altered an organism's DNA causing life to be different, there is no way to expect aliens to even come close to multicellular life
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Theoretically, yes, but statistically no. Even something like non water based lifeforms (ie fluoride) they loose a substantial amount of chemical complexity due to limited bonding options against water. There's probably Creature's who do run on fluoride or are built from silicon, but it'd be a low percentile and essentially none of them would be comparably complex to us
Questions like that are so effective at disabling any structure or strategy for searching, that scientists HAVE to ignore them or else they wouldn't get anything done basically. A common strategy for these kind of surveys involves taking gas chromatograms of an exoplanet's atmosphere, looking specifically for any molecules that don't have any known way of forming without biological processes. Yes, aliens might not even rely on their atmosphere for their biological processes, but it's something we can measure in detail and we have to apply SOME kind of metric that we know COULD work, knowing it can never be perfect.
Everyone gangsta till the space condom steals half their star
7:56 lol,
Lmaoooo
ikr I was like, don't give 2020 any more ideas lol
This had me dyyyingggg hahahahahah
Earth has just been downgraded to a civilization of monkeys
Everyone gangsta until they see aliens extracting energy from a black hole
Hehe
I'd consider them munching a black hole I wonder if they'd be sucked up from the inside
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6:14 I just noticed they snuck the lead melody of their Dyson Sphere music in when the Dyson swarm was mentioned.
Nice spot :)
Even our current civilization sample size is amazing. The amount of things that had to happen for humanity to exist is just cosmic.
exactly, the vast complexity of all the factors had to be aligned together and many other options had to exist around us to be here is almost beyond our understanding, we keep realizing more and more factors around us that actually had a huge play in the evolution of humanity, basically the relative "peace around us" has millions of elements to be able to exist this way to have a rich undisturbed life in the last 50 million years to leave the evolution enought time to create humanity as we know today.
One might even call it a…miracle.
Whatever the animator is getting paid, it’s not enough.
Whatever politicians are getting paid, it is more than enough
@@Lion10104 ironic coming from the fbi
Lol
@@Lion10104 IRONIC
I bet there is more than one. But yea they’re good.
Kurzgesagt: finding alien life is our doom Also Kurzgesagt: here's how you find aliens
as I heard somewhere: what about they reply to us "Stop broadcasting, You are in danger!" ?
@@marcoottina654 or shush, I'm trying to sleep. Imagine if our radio calls are like those annoying cats meowing at night to them
@@marcoottina654broadcasting isn't the problem. EM waves have a relatively low travel distance where they are still usable. I mean the waves won't go away but they would be basically noise .
Мади Тургунов troll face song
He's like: its not good idea but If you are interested here's gow you do it
It's entirely possible for all of the species to just be too young to be doing anything. All of us on the relative first couple of steps together, wandering into a seemingly empty void
But with the current age of the universe, it's hard to think that most civillizations are just starting NOW.
@@Valigarmanda It's not, the rate of advancement is not consistent across civilisations, there is no rule saying that every species advances evolutionary and technologicaly at the same speed lol
@@misere4 You kind of just contradicted yourself though, because if they all advance at different rates, the chances are that some would advance even faster than we have and have had more time as well. You can't argue that we shouldn't make assumption about alien's based on our experience but then say actually the other civilisations are round about the same stage as us, that would be ridiculous. I think the most likely answer to the whole Fermi paradox thing is the most boring one. Firstly I think the idea of type 3 or above is a fantasy and civilisations will hit a hard limit due to the limits of space of travel, you end up with fragmented type 2 civilisations. On top of that life is probably just so insanely rare and then complex life on top of that it's too far apart to ever encounter other life. The universe is just so big that I find it really unlikely that we really are the only intelligent civilisation, but at the same time because it's so big I think it's completely reasonable to assume we will never ever encounter or find evidence of other life so are effectively alone.
You didn't watch the video
Yo I love your videos and they are definitely good to watch when you are board or listen to on a bus or other. Its crazy how you pack so much knowledge into 10 minute long videos. Great work to all of the team at Kurzgesagt. Keep up the great work!
"hey dude I'm bored" "why don't we create a universe" "yeah okay i'm down"
I would love to if I could, so why not
they probably dont even know what boredom is, or they are in eternal boredom
“Hmm dude I made a mistake” “I left the end button in the universe let’s hope the humans or those weird green looking dudes don’t find it” “I’m sorry pls don’t erase me”
Ignorance.
Yep those are literal gods
There's a type 1 civilization watching their own version of this video right now
we are a type 1 though
@@bluedonkey180 almost
@@bluedonkey180 they never said we werent? And it has nothing to do with the comment anyway, and we arent even type 1 yet
@@StanbyMode CARDANO TO THE MOON 🚀 but CARDANO if it’s under 1.50!!!!! YOU WILL MISS OUT
Somewhere at least
I've always been incredibly fascinated by the Kardashev scale (and its connection with the Fermi paradox). Love this video!!
Question: Would humanity gaining access to commercially available fusion reactors be enough to bump us up to level 1? Or are there other factors that need to be considered before that can happen?
Probably since it will be a source of basically unlimited energy and it would give us all the tools to expand outward (as far as energy goes).
By definition, I think not. There are other sources of energy we need to be able to deploy on industrial scales like fossil fuels, such as solar, geothermal, tidal, etc. Though fusion power will bring us closer to being a type 1, a type 1 civilisation needs to be able to harness and exploit all the sources of energy on their home on a scale that they can rely safely on said sources, so not that much.
@@condor5912 with what is being hyped about fusion would, to my basic understanding, would solve that problem if not contribute signiiiiificantly towards solving it by a fat margin. Bring it on, science
@@Chaosrain112 Over time we will just find better and better sources of energy, who knows we might be able to spice up fusion and make, uhhh, super fusion. Also, before we get there, we gotta use fission. I think small villages and farms could use solar and wind, but on a much smaller scale it is not nearly enough to power the earth. Y'all dream about going to fusion but we already got a very good source of nuclear energy. Everyone is just to scared of it for no good reason.
We'd destroy ourselves. Have you seen youtube videos where they eat tide pods.. i cant imagine what humanity will do with a commercially available fusion reactors just for views on tiktok or youtube 😅🤣🤣
Imagine if type Ω beings have their own Kardashev scale, and they classify themselves only as the type 1.
Yesss and their type 3 is a civilization controlling all universes and ALL MULTIVERSES (alternative realities/universes)
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Maybe they do exist. Maybe just maybe religions are telling the truth. Maybe there's one ultimate god that rules over all and everything that exist.
Yes, its us when we play sims
yeah, or 0.75
Alien: we need your planet... Humans: for what? Alien: ah...just to fuel my space scooter...
😂😂😂😂
I can actually think of this being Tru 😂🤷♂️
Like we are just taking the hard earned honey from honeybees. They probably don't give a F if they took away our sun
Just like how humans need animal's lives just to look cooler.
@@thehammerandsickle2490, that was an important thing you just pointed out.
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Whoever is the narrator, has a amazing voice just eight for the job, and your team works really good with animating . And you guys are very smart. I know a0 much information now!
Name is Steve Taylor.
Kurzgesagt: to ants humans are gods *my little brother drops an m&m* ant: the gods are generous today
they better be grateful for my clumsiness -
But why do they sting their gods?
@AntsCanada
@@Stickyybenzz probably non-believers
@@sibusisomkwanazi3124 😂😂😂 good one.
Why haven't aliens visited our solar system yet? They looked at the reviews... only 1 star.
Take my like and get out
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"Mostly Harmless"
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This was great!!! By any and every metric! Hats off to you who produced this.
Summary; Type 0 - Us, today! Type 1 - Space 1999, Ghost In The Shell Type 2 - Futurama, The Jetsons, Federation Type 3 - Stargate, The Borg, Battlestar Galactica, Red Dwarf Type 4 - Timelords (Dr Who) Type 5 - The Q (Star Trek) Type 6 - Gods
Well a more accurate summary would be this: type zero: ants, type 1: futuristic earth, type 2: Star Trek, type 3: Star wars, type 4: futuristic version of The 2022 light Year movie on Disney+ type 5: we have no movie that references this, type omega: the more than two universe cycle's old civilization that controls the entire universe and monitors all intelligent life forms and only interacts with them once they finally overcome their self-destructive tendencies and has become a type 4 civilization mind you a universe cycle is 10^10^10^10 ^10^10^1.1 power years and if humanity wants to become this kind of civilization it'll take us a minimum of 19 Duodecillion years to a maximum of two universe cycle's but you don't need to take my word for it this is just my own opinion. Okay? 😅😅😅🤔🤔🧐
“That was fun!” said the Type Omega as he dissembled the universe and put it back in the box.
Let's hope we're not part of a toy, forgotten on the floor by an alien child
Toy story intensifies
@@krishangshah7384 ikr
"That was fun and relaxing! - but bugs grew in my toy so this one go bye"
why did I read it with Bill Wurtz's voice?
Current human exploration of the stars feels like someone dipped their head into the ocean and shouted “hello!” Hoping for someone to shout back.
I find this thought very fascinating
The method of contact is rubbish but the understanding is getting better.
Imagine if the response was from a Type-3 thinking we were some kind of spam callers.
I like that example and it's very true.
A very advanced hello, but useless because civilizations might not even be able to comprehend it because the odds are that they are not similar to us. I think it's going to be a chinese guy saying hello to a daft englishman type "hello".
The most informative and least clickbait/speculative video on this topic, from what you can find on youtube. Thanks kurzgesagt!
Statistically speaking, the Universe is so big that there has to be a solar system out there where atleast 3 earth like planets exist and where intelligent life evolved and innovated at around the exact same pace on all 3 of them. Then they all started exploring space at the same time, found eachother, and had battles just like some kind of marvel movie. That must be so epic, wherever it is happening.
Man, I would TOTALLY wanna play a civilisation style game with kurzgesagt graphics!
this comment needs more exposure
@@starlightstarbright4689 then like the comment everyone, so kurzgesagt can see it 😁
stellaris
nah an age of empires style game would be better
That would be sick.
I mean sure, I guess its important where aliens rank on the Kardashev Scale, but lets be honest, the real question we need the answer to is where aliens rank on the tier list.
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yo tierzoo is here guys
Good one tierzoo very funny I laugh
man humans are C tier at most
That would be A rank ahahaha
The abstract drawings in this vid are so awesome, very alien and complex!
I love how you put that together because this is interesting to know how they look like
The quality of your content is just astronomically astonishing.
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Eyy your puns are out of this world
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"To ants, we are so complex and powerful, we might as well be Gods" Human: *accidentally steps on ant hill Ants: *TONIGHT WE TASTE THE FLESH OF IMMORTALS*
Bernard Werber's Ant Trilogy basically!
if the aliens try to kill us we are going to try to kill them
well if we see alien life wich just started we will probably nuke em
@Suman Mudi Our nukes will be like 'ants bite' to them lol..
@@buggyboy2849 There is a trilogy?! Empire of the Ants was the shit
Watched this because I heard meditation teacher Brad Laughlin on the latest episode of his Spiritual Weather Report podcast talk about humanity becoming a Kardashev Scale 1 civilisation in the near future, with civilisations further up the ladder probably watching right now, and I wanted to know in detail what he was referring to. Cleared up quite a bit of my confusion. I absolutely love your animation style, colourful and humourous yet also complex and detailed.
When ever I feel bored I always come back to watch this video
Imagine if humans reached type omega and it said: *T U T O R I A L C O M P L E T E*
Omega level human: *wait tf*
Do you think the language they'd speak be one that's already made, or one that's inconprehensible to us now? Or one in-between idk
@@TheUnderscore_ definitely one that would be incomprehensible to us now. Languages generally get more complex with time, and as we expand and colonise the stars, evolution and genetic engineering will increase our intelligence many times over to the point where a more complicated language will become an inherent desire.
@Ariana Khan Do you think it'd be like all humans (or most) speak the same language, maybe some less advanced ones for less advanced people, or like different places speak different languages?
@@TheUnderscore_ probably different languages, after all, we already have so many different languages just for our own planet, if we expand across the stars then we can only really create more as we stray further and further from each other and create closer communities within planets. I do think that there would be some sort of universal way to communicate or perhaps a most popular/international language like how today we have English, but I think generally a planet will have its own language or perhaps multiple of its own languages. Though I think in such a society where there are so many different languages, knowing more than one would probably be the norm.
Humans: how many light years away is your home world? Aleins: pfft. You still use light years?
Type 3 Aliens: how many dark energy years away is your home galaxy? Type 5 Aliens: pfft. you still use dark energy years?
I imagine they would still use lightyears, but their lightyear would be different from ours due to their planet having a different orbital period than ours.
Holy sh't this is a good comment
Captain_Cupcake I was about to correct you, but the I noticed I was dumb
Primitive aliens: what's light and what's a year
the Starship Heart of Gold was an amazing touch to the graphics. thank you so much for that. :) love from Maine.
That was an easter egg reference.
The animation is really good props to animator The quality of this channel is always impressive
Type Ω art homework: Create universe EDIT: Thank you all for 1.5k likes! Really appreciate it. :D
Imagine if the person who made our universe was just a fuck up and our planet was the only one they could get to work
Student cluster: with how many spatial dimensions? Teacher cosmic entity: We want to see how you deal with less than 4, get creative Whole cluster class: * sighs in dissapointment *
What does that symbol mean?
@@JonPicoCokeJones omega
M A thanks
Our whole civilization is programmed by a teenage alien who failed his computer science degree.
Explains the bugs in 2020
@@DigitalJedi more like he/she forgot to do a weekly virus scan
JK. MadLad, hahahahahah.
2020 is what happens when he clicks on the ads for alien porn hub
damn this aliens
I love this channel. Thanks for the edutainment.
The music on the background made this video so dynamic🔥
Born too late to explore the Earth, born too early to explore the stars, born just in time to watch KZhead videos
Yes.
Can't really decide if I should be sad about this. Guess we'll leave it up to our descendants to experience the wonder of space. For us,we'll simply just look to the heavens and dream extraordinary dreams.
We live in a pivotal moment in history. The invention of the internet alone will probably make our time as talked about as the rise and fall of the Roman Republic.
Don't worry you don't actually die😂😂😂
@@sffb8295 we might be just in time to explore the moon and Mars or even beyond
can we just appreciate the fact that something with THIS amount of quality is free
you comment this on literally every one of his videos
I broke the 69 likes
@@sunshineboyy4564 that just shows that he's an epic gamer
It's not free. Money is not the only form of payment in life. Time and influence are worth much more than money, especially on KZhead. And you give yours away while thanking those taking them from you. Oops!
@@DrewBoyd83 I think he's talking about how you don't have to spend money every time you want to watch a video lol
The most important thing is that we become civilization type 2, i.e. that we can use all of the sun's energy. From this point onwards, we can spread throughout the universe at will and apply the same principle to every solar system. In this way, we scale almost boundlessly into the universe, decentralize ourselves and become immortal because no catastrophic event can affect all of humanity. Not even dangers emanating from our own sun. I love the Kardashev Scale. 😅 Keep up the great work and greetings from Cosmic Wisdom!
"It's like comparing an ant colony to a human metropolitan area" That's get me understand the huge difference 👌
"if aliens have to follow the same laws of physics" Some super advanced alien watching video: lol imagine having to obey physics
Facts tho
Imagine if physics was something as simple as drag, and we just had to make something more aerodynamic.
Karuiko basically just a big tracheon lmao
@@Karuiko thermodynamics: am I a joke to you? Super advanced alien race: get outta here with your friction shit
Yeah I think I'm just gonna float
"Hey man what's up" "I'm fine, but I'll have a dull journey" "Where are you going?" "To my aunt's house" "And where is it?" "At the other side of the supercluster"
"Uff tell me about it. 3 hours wasted am I right?"
Use the uss enterprise modified by the traveler
A millenia later, this comment will be normal and relatable tho 🙃
Their videos are just so good no-one can do it like them.
In light of recent fusion breakthroughs its kinda crazy how close "the power of a star" is becoming
"the ants consider us gods" *Steak falls off the grill* Ants: the gods rain down food for us, bröthërs
xD
Are ants Scandinavian?
@@lonewandererfo3 *Yes*
When I was around 7 years old I cover random ant holes on my house's exterior with sugar. I don't know if those ants were considering it a blessing or a cruel joke by a deity XD
This is funny xD
Everybody says "Kurzgesagt narrator and animators are great" but what about the background music creators? they are becoming better and better every year.
Flarex Epic Mountain Music is Pretty Great.
Kurzgesagt videos does everything well to me
hell yeah i like it a lot!
Not every year but every video
Epic Mountain smashed that Asteroid video.
6:45 nice detail that the background music sound like the one in the stellar engine video just as the stellar engine comes in the video
I think type 5 is the max because of multiverses might be a bit too much to handle.
Type 2 Civilization : Feeling cute, might build a dyson sphere later
c o m e d y
Haha meta comedy goes d e e p
That feels like a type 3 thing though. A type 2 civilisation only has one Dyson sphere
Videos like this really make me wish that when we die, we enter a sort of "spectator mode", where we can travel anywhere and observe the universe unfold and progress. We can't interact or influence anything, we had our time to do that when we were alive. Now, we can only watch and observe. Sort of like spectator mode in any multiplayer game.
Maybe that's what ghosts are?
Wow that would be very boring. I guess thats a purgatory.
it would be nice XD
@@evrensaygn1017 Not if you have the control over time speed ?
For some reason i always just assumed that is what happens after death. That in some way you hang around and learn all the secrets of the universe
Feeling lonley 😂? Loved the hitchhiker's guide reference
Everytime i start watching his vids, i can't stop.
Omg the artists must have had a field day with this o.o
FleX I was thinking the same! So many fun graphics in this episode
Love the sci-fi references. Did not expect the Mass Effect's Mass Relay.
Ayahuasca, DMT, Acid, makes things better
We are gods to ants? Me: *Accidentally destroys an ant colony* A different ant colony: ODIN IS WITH US!
Kid:burns colony with glasses Ant colony trying to conquer it:the gods have silenced the heathens
Me: pouring water into holes, the god has washed the unbelievers!
@@electronx5594 Me: pisses on a colony colony: acid rain!
@@diegokiwi1854 good one
@@CrimesForDimes thanks
Thank you for being such an inspiration
Love your videos!keep it up
Born too early to be a fully-fledged type 1 civilization, born just in time to post dank memes
That is clever
@the fadhel Minecraft lives forever
are we really born to early though? i think everyone alive now below the age of 55 has a miniscule chance of never dying. if people could realize how much we shoot ourselves in the foot, we could really turn things around very fast for humanity. who knows how different the world would be in a decade if we took the reigns now.
Sounds terrible to have never lived life then.
Damn, imagine being born during the information revolution just to use it for the literal worst form of humour
When the world needed Kurzgesagt the most, he returned
You're profile name wasnt lying.
You copped this from vsauces new video, didn’t you?
Very Original
YESSS
Niceeee 👽👽
that was fun to watch, thank you
Ok here's a different take on it, lets imagine highly advanced marine worms living around a geothermal vent. They might speculate on the possibilty of other vents and whether there might be life around those vents, ways to cross the cold dark ocean to get to those vents and the possibilty of a civilization harnessing the resources of a vent or an entire ocean ridge or ultimately the entire geothermal energy of the planet. Meanwhile other life has broken free of the vents entirely by utilising an entirely different energy source, sunlight. Now for vents think stars. There's a leap of imagination needed to go from interstellar to post-stellar.
So our sunlight could be dark matter or another source interesting thought
Plot twist: The ants are Type-Omega but they’re so unfathomable that we consider them inferior
That explains why they taste like the universes all in one
Ant overlords gang
Like neural cells of a gigant consciousness
@@ghettohouseinla this is so cursed
LIFT
Imagine if our Universe is just a high school project of a type Omega student
Bruh that guy would be so confused if they manage to see what we are doing.
I'm surprised why a type Omega civilization would have highschool instead of instantly downloading knowledge and becoming omniscient.
@@hubertfarnsworth6824 I would be surprised if they still had corporeal forms and some kind of reproduction system
Our creator is “that” kid who just keeps resetting everything that he doesn’t like and is probably going to fail the project
@@Edgeperor Bullshit lol, we are living in 21st century yet People believe in a creator
Ok. The video is great and all, but I'm listening to this on headphones. The absolute banger of a background track is great.
8:42 yeah I love taking over universes whenever I’m bored
“Ooh boy I can’t wait to become lvl omega!!” *dies at lvl 1
Sad reality for everyone alive right now
@Rishabh YOHANNAN Because our life lasts for as long as a fraction of a second compared to the time scale we're talking about here. Do you not understand just how abysmal and big the numbers onto the future are? You'll be long dead before we even reach Type 1.
@Rishabh YOHANNAN Either way does it seem even a tad bit realistic that humans will reach galactic space in the next 100 years? Calculations made on our technological advancement rate says otherwise, and as far as a sane person knows you should never argue with math; Especially when it's correct.
0.72*
@@DoomRLC but we base our calculations on what has previously happened to us so it can be inaccurate, I'm not saying we will reach galactic space but there is a chance we will reach a type 1 civilization in 100 years. like we might find or create some material the can withstand the sun's surface heat and can be used like solar panels for example.
I love how there is always dyson sphere theme playing whenever it appears in the video
And Stellar engine theme
It's all in the book
AAAAAHHH MOTIFS MAH FAVORITE
I feel like fitting a dyson sphere in every video as a default mechanism of getting an energy from a star is like people in the 19th century imagining all of futurisctic things having steam engines.
I'll take a No. 9 large.
看这些内容真的是心情激动澎湃，又感到十分治愈
A theory I had was that maybe we can't detect other civilizations because we don't have the physical senses to do so. We're limited to our few senses- sight, hearing, etc, but maybe aliens have different senses and can't be detected with what we have. Or maybe they're living in another dimension we can't access.
it can be compared to bacteria trying to talk to us...they can try as hard as they can...we cant listen to them nor can they listen to us...cos we are on a different scale
Or we are surrounded by a Type 4 civilization, and simply don't recognize it because we don't have anything to compare it to
Thinking of this, what if the galaxy we are in IS the type 3 or above structure and we are microbes on a spec of dust floating around a lamp in that structure?
@@mimivrc4148 don't give me an existential crisis
@@TheSmith645 I don't think bacteria and unicellular organisms in general have a brain or are capable of communication. Technically, any civilisation close to a Type 1 should be able to have at least super basic communication with a much more advanced one. Or perhaps the technological gap is so vast we can't even perceive them, but I am leaning more towards the first scenario.
Omega teacher: *checks students' universe project* Humans: "monke bahahahah" Teacher: F
lmao
What do you mean?
@Kimon Nakhleh the meme is monke thats why he/she/it/dog/giraffe wrote monke
@@aubymori1333 what joke?
@@aubymori1333 not a joke people take that shit way to seriously nowadays mate
KZhead videos in 1002020: "How to create a new universe in just 5 minutes"
Good one
@ICEFIRE ASMR The universe will be fine for much longer than we are ever going to live as a species.
“THEY DONT WANT YOU TO KNOW!! 🤫 galactic overlords HATE this LEGIT and FREE method to building your own galaxy WITH 0 DARK MATTER!!! *works in 8095*”
@ICEFIRE ASMR bruh whats more scary is KZhead being around 100,000 years from now. imagine the power they would have
@@Chocolatnave123 youtube like platform may exist but it'll be much more complex than we can imagine rn . Explain a guy from middle age what is internet and things will certainly go over his head. Pretty much like that.
These kinds of videos make me think about how we will be looked at in some hundred years
Btw, at 4:35, the text coming out of the alien dishes is star wars aurebesh. It says "Is it me you're looking for"
Alien 1: "Im bored!" Alien 2: "You wanna terraform a planet?" Alien 1: "Did that yesterday" Alien 2: "Wanna make a star go supernova?" Alien 1: "Sure!"
outer wilds moment
what if we're all in a universe sandbox gameplay lol
Lol
Type-Ω alien 1: hey wanna make a universe? Type-Ω alien 2: lmao sure
"Yo Jim, how's your ant farm doing?" "Great! They just started space travel!"
Kurzgesagt: we would be like ants to them Me: but you told me ants were small, warmongering tribes that dedicated most of their resources of fighting each other on a global scale, so- *ohhhh*
This is fucking genius. I wish I had commented that... the egg video: you did.
Underrated Af
C'est la vie.
This comment makes no sense
I agree that the comment above me doesn't make sense too!
this channel is way to advanced for my neurons but still i cant stop watching it
thanks for the information
Kurzgesagt: *publishes a new video* Me: existential crisis time babyyyyyy
Sejin Kim so true
My favorite 😂💀
Honestly!
As someone who grew up on Star Wars I appreciated seeing the Aurebesh 4:36
It's fascinating to contemplate the potential diversity and scale of civilizations in the universe. The Kardashev Scale offers a thought-provoking framework for understanding the progression of civilizations based on their energy usage. The prospect of eventually reaching Type 1 status is both exciting and daunting, raising questions about our responsibility as stewards of our planet and our place in the cosmos. As we continue to explore and search for signs of extraterrestrial life, it's a reminder of how much we have yet to discover and understand about the universe and our place within it.
"They also look at the stars and look for others" such a chilling Line
The Audio Guy. I agree
I think we're not afraid of how different they could be, we may actually be afraid that they're just like us.
@@MSIXVI06 if they're just like us and they find us first, we're doomed.
@@MSIXVI06 My hope is that civilizations that don't learn to get along eventually destroy themselves. So humanity would have two paths ahead. Become better or go extinct.
This is an interesting vlog about Prof Kardashev adapting Prof Leslie White’s Culture Law (Culture = Energy × Technology) to search/compare colonies or civilization & then expanded by Prof Carl Sagan. Technically it can be used to compare human colonies/countries/civilizations with non-human colonies/countries/civilizations (e.g. apes, wolves, ants, corals, fungi, algae, etc.) although anything beyond Class/Тип 3 sounds too hard/crazy to comprehend. Sadly if one compares US, China & Russia, it is sad to watch these “Super Power” nations are caught between the devil (terrorists, brutal-police, corrupt-officials, etc.) & the deep blue sea (fascism, pandemic, economic-depression, etc.). However this is Not very surprising since Dr Kaku & the late Prof Hawking have already warned that humanity will face greater & greater hardships+dangers as it progress towards Тип 1 status. Unfortunately there is also no/little chance of turning back the clock as the late Prof Sagan (& his team) has calculated that humanity has moved pass the Тип 0.7 status. In addition Dr Crabtree & Dr Woodley discovered evidence that with each passing generations, many humans are getting genetically/biological weaker, dumber, slower or fearter despite improved/improving food, water, healthcare, nutrition, internet, telecom, education, sanitation, infrastructure, etc. To make the situation worse, scientists has uncovered the 1st Species/Lifeform of Mass Destruction/Extinction (SMD i.e. a species/lifeform that literally had directly/indirectly cause massive destruction/extinction to multiple species/lifeforms). As such it is believed that there are now at least 2 active SMDs on Earth & a 3rd one maybe emerging/awakening. Hopefully cooler heads will prevail over the fanatics+hardliners & allow humanity to overcome these hardships+dangers. May the deaths+suffering of the innocents be merciful 🙏
We’re just like the Precursors from the Halo franchise. There are no “ancients”, because we are the “ancients”.
ngl that would be awesome. Imagine future human empires in space trying to uncover our planet's history.
Didn't the Precursors become the Flood?
@@billybobmonroe3166 Ehh, I always wanted to be a spaghetti monster
The precursors are not, nor were they humans. Try again.
@@olivercao2641 a true fan of carrion 😊
Type 3 civilization before we existed: Alright guys, we're gonna conquer the milky way with the press of this button! The great filter: *You sure about that playboi?*
My favorite idea as to why we haven't seen other civs yet, is because the universe just isn't old enough. Its possible that all the current not even level 1 scale civs are the ancient beings that rule the universe in a billion years. We would be the ancient race that collapsed under their own hubris in the stars.
Douglas Adams: “In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
love those books
That quote made me smile, what an awesome book it was
@@metaomicron72 i can't get that quote. could you explain it?
@@JaviGiralte it basically means that everyone hated the birth of the universe, and the universe itself.
Javier It’s kinda hard to explain. It’s a quote from a book. It’s referencing how everyone always seems to complain about everything, even things that are beneficial to us. So it stands to reason that people would also complain on an interstellar level about existence itself.
*_the universe ends_ Type Omega: hey guys! Hope you enjoyed that simulation, if you did please bang that like button. Also, feel free to leave an alternate timeline below 5k for a collab with God?
Can you imagine if humanity became a type 5 Civilization and when finally the last human space ship runs out of energy the type Omega says that
this comment is GOLD
you've got the right idea! these others might be *type .79* - - but NOT us! Lol.
I'm making an alternate timeline.
Don't even bother looking for Humans in the leader board. it'll take half a second to find our rank, either way it's a disappointment.
1:00 "Hello darkness,my old friend"- first line of the legendary song- sound of silence by DISTURBED
The DART Spacecraft crashed into Dimorphos, which is an asteroid orbiting Didymos, another Asteroid. This happened still fairly recently ago, and it was to see if we could redirect object’s orbits. It was successful. This mission just shows how close we are to becoming a Type I civilization.