A Type 1 civilization ... can harness all of the energy of its home planet; Type 2 can harvest all of the power of its sun; and Type 3 can master the energy from its entire galaxy.

Will we remain a Type 0 civilization, or will we advance and make ... of extraterrestrial life within cosmic signals). It has 3 base classes, each with an energy disposal level: Type I (10¹⁶W) ...

Type 2 or “stellar” civilization ... Power consumption is ten orders of magnitude more than a Type 1 civilization. Type 3 or “galactic” civilization: can access and control much of ...

A Type 1 civilization ... can harness all of the energy of its home planet; Type 2 can harvest all of the power of its sun; and Type 3 can master the energy from its entire galaxy.

Type 2 and 3 civilizations—mastery of one or many ... By comparison, the Type 1 civilization is just getting started. Maybe it’s traveled to the nearest star systems and ...

Type 1 civilization is a civilization that can ... to us as the distance from Earth to Pluto. The path from Type 2 to Type 3 is hard to imagine for humanity today. Is there a way to move to ...

Though the energy productions of Type II and III civilizations are extremely high, based on an increase in energy production on Earth of 1 percent per year Kardashev calculated that humanity would ...