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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Regino Jes Chanco
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@Petter 76 oh
Petter 76
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@Regino Jes Chanco i do not want to play roblox
Petter 76
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No swedish subtitles:(
宋飞
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真好还有中文翻译要不然啥也听不懂😂
The legend Of Minecraft
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Hah u think I have have luxury of a apartment?
Lucifer Rising
2 tundi tagasi
Since we are talking about “might be”... maybe What we think is God is actually Aliens and we really were created.
Baby Yoda
3 tundi tagasi
So you mean to say solar energy is more advanced than primitive? Surprise, surprise.
somiya patra
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Whats the use if even in type 5 the hands would be the same as today, but guns bigger. Highly intelligent people don't make a good world, Good people do.
browboy 12
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3 billion you are crazy it's been 100 000 years
Ren
10 tundi tagasi
I'm not religious, but I think it's funny how, science, specifically this scale, admits to the possibility that there exist beings/civilizations able to control or even create universes even though the idea of god is ridiculous to us. It's like we're back to square one.
jayzee
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do you even know that there are up to type XXI civilization? check it up guys
Exauce Mayunga
12 tundi tagasi
This is what it looks like:
Nasrin Al-Masoud
12 tundi tagasi
5:25 i think i've seen this one before... and i didn't like the ending
Mad Frog
14 tundi tagasi
I watch man on black and i Saw big alien bigger than a galaxy....and the galaxy is Marbles for them
G GG
15 tundi tagasi
If we find any intelligent alien civilisation,it’s a dead cert we would seek to trade--> Colonise--> Exploit-> Commit genocide against the intelligent,indigenous lifeforms.End of.
Somil Chaturvedi
17 tundi tagasi
Kurzgesagt animator is at least from type 2.5 civilization or beyond.
TotalRevengeance
17 tundi tagasi
One thing id love to do with an alien is talk about the names for different planets and galaxies. We call it Jupiter? they might cool it Sk-Ja-Id or some alien shit like that
The#Number Six6
18 tundi tagasi
I wish Kurzgesagt would make a civilization tycoon building game with this animation.
Isaac Araya
20 tundi tagasi
Maayybe the universe is really just one big organism and the reason we haven't seen evidence of other sentient life is because it has an immune system. Maybe the development of consciousness in any ecosystem is really a misstep, equivalent to the development of cancer from previously normal cells. We've fallen out of balance with the natural flora and fauna and are overgrowing our planet. Maybe we'll eventually trigger an immune response.
Ronaldo Zimbalist
20 tundi tagasi
Is it just me or does anyone feel any Stellaris vibes? 1:00
Arnoics
21 tund tagasi
God I fucking love the music in this video, gives me shivers as it changes with every level
Mayur kathane
22 tundi tagasi
We want civilization game by you and it's have to be free
Tony Kinoti
22 tundi tagasi
you are pretty enough doll 💩
Randomrofi
22 tundi tagasi
So basically they have put a screen around us so that we can't find them.
Cobra gamer
23 tundi tagasi
guys i heve a theory what if gods all around the world where aliens takeing ower forms to see how easly we are to manipulate
Mr. Smiles
23 tundi tagasi
What if we are a type 3 civilization and we just don’t know it?
WielkiTana
23 tundi tagasi
It's funny that in a "scientific" video you place global warming (climate change or whatever they call it now) as a human activity result altough there is no ultimate proof of that. Making people scared and buy electric cars? What if you are wrong and your materials are going to create anxiety (because Al Gore was not enough) that will make people choose totalirary antiprogress type of civilisation?
Marchosias
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Soyjak Omegas: NOO!!!! You can't just make turd flinging monkeys at the edge of the universe Chad Omega 1: Run the program bro? Chad Omega 2: Yes
你女朋友真棒
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fabulous！
Zihan Zhao
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An advanced (such as type 3) civilization may have learnt to hide themselves from potential observers, which would explain why we have never observed any trace of them yet. You can explore this idea further in the science fiction Dark Forest by Cixin Liu.
Leftover Films
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It all has to mean something... right?
Crystalist Gaming
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What do alien civilations look like? The star trek scale
7rae
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I feel like if there was highly intelligent extraterrestrial life out there, they would be anthropomorphic. (Resemble humans in some way) Since human kind seemed to work out pretty well? Maybe somewhere there 'is', 'was', 'could' or 'will' be another being that will've evolved similarly. But honestly, I have no idea. I'm not a philosophy wiz lmao
The Devilman
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What's beyond Type Omega you ask? *Only the Outer Gods can even begin to comprehend that concept.*
ViceIo
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What’s with all the one eyes in this?
Caleb Tsega
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why do their heads look like butts 4:13
Mo' Ami'
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The thumbnail is me looking over my Sims.
Nowledge
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What about the great filter? How do you even get to type 3 of you are at the filter
Hailmanz
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Is it just me or is it that the background music sounds like star vs. music?
Aaron Seet
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Type omega: It's time for The One to return back to The Source.
tsjoencinema
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It's always about the expansion outwards. What if our civilization expands inwards instead? Alien civilizations could have done the same. A digital ascension.
TDThe Destroyer123
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"Knowledge is power" Kurzegagst: UNLIMITED POWER!!!!!!!!!
hereticsaint100
2 päeva tagasi
Yeah, if you believe what our overlords tell us... If you do, then you really need to do some research.
David Van Loo
2 päeva tagasi
1:46 it's really sad that that's the case :(
Gaurav Bishnoi
2 päeva tagasi
I don't know why we are looking for aliens in outer space when aliens are living amongst us in the form of viruses and bacteria
I NIGHTCORE [いないとコル]
2 päeva tagasi
what do you think is out there in the edge of space?
Christian Ali
2 päeva tagasi
"There may even be type Iomega civilisations. Able to manipulate the entire universe on a scale that we cannot even begin to imagine." Squeals in Judeo Christianity.
Christian Ali
2 päeva tagasi
Sure, blame signal decay. That's why we don't sound intelligent. Nothing to do with a, I don't know, the fact that we are not as intelligent as we think we are. How to advance as a species: rule one: facts and opinions are not the same thing. If something happens to be true it doesn't matter how you feel about it. Something doesn't just become fake news because you don't want to hear it, and scientific facts about things that have always been true not immediately going to change just because of how you feel about them personally. Forgive my rant, but it needs to be said. We are smart, but we could be so much smarter if we were just willing to learn more often then we teach.
Wil Rogers
2 päeva tagasi
God : let see if they can get out from this sandbox.
Wilfred
2 päeva tagasi
Technically speaking when we create universes ourselves (fictionally like comics, movies, etc) we are a type omega class civilization to them. This is evident when a character breaks the 4th wall.
Xeath 999
2 päeva tagasi
I don't agree with you at 8:50 because I think the last time I looked this question up it said that we've only seen 5% of our observable universe. So we very well likely could at some point, when we create more advanced telescopes, see remnants of a type 3 (maybe even type 3+) civilization in the future.
ARPIT KAPOOR
2 päeva tagasi
Just imagine if we are just a science project of a student of omega civilisation.
Bryan Morales
2 päeva tagasi
Hello darkness. My old friend. I've come to see you again.
Estelle Bright
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When are we gonna get a video on the Kardashian scale, which measures the ratio between your number of Instagram followers and how much plastic surgery you've had?
Yoris Beal
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im watching this while wearing your sweater. its so comfy
Liam Wood
2 päeva tagasi
7:04, nice reference.
Christian Osemwengie
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If you're watching this video while reading comments like this
Paul G
2 päeva tagasi
Key word here: **should**
BookUnbinder
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As a librarian, I'm begging you for a Kurzgesagt Cardigan sweater. Something light with a few buttons down the front.
Nexgo
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How can we be friends with aliens, when half of our population is racist.
Shiva49
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Honestly I don't know... It's a good question !
Naveen Nidhurshan
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Type 2, Type 3, Type 4 and Type Omega civilizations are ambitious, greedy, expansionist who colonise everything in the universe *Britain intensifies*
• DKSP •
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What the fuck, ur animation is so fucking good.
א
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religious: we believe in god. atheist: we think about omega civilization.
Shiva49
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Me : I belive in Hinduism and reincarnation !
Noah Oxley
3 päeva tagasi
Couldn’t there be type 2 or 3 civilizations out there but we just haven’t gotten to see their remnants her due to being so many thousands of light years behind in “seeing history”
Rachel Fox
3 päeva tagasi
Humanity is not a type omega civilisation. Rick Sanchez of universe C-137 is an outlier, and should not have been counted.
Sips of Hell
3 päeva tagasi
4:42 A civ not actively transmitting radio waves into space is obviously wiser than us and not a measure of it capabilities you arrogant twat
Life is a Game
3 päeva tagasi
Omega type civil right?now how is it that we r In a holagramistic world then?well someone might say Is because it's built like that?that's fine but science cant prove that even tho quantum physics point to that exactly so what I am trying to say is type omega civilization can't exist because it's beyounr our imagination right we can imagine it but our soul can't prove it otherwise God maybe created us but everything in this reality is 3d fabricated so Golden Ratio is the ultimate state of the universe by that in mind big bang, Evolution, Consciousness and life are an product of nature it's simple like that so peace out forever peeps I have helped you guys enough.
nguyen khanh quoc
3 päeva tagasi
ok
abdul manan tatla
3 päeva tagasi
the scale is of a foolish person SERIOUSLY
abdul manan tatla
3 päeva tagasi
universe has not that long time brother _-_ BIG CRUNCH
Tyler Davis
3 päeva tagasi
Sadly aliens are probably not real even though I wish they were but as far as I can tell we are the only ones god created
Hm Grraarrpffrzz
2 päeva tagasi
Well, considering the size of the universe the chances are good that they exist somewhere.,
Astral'o Pithecus
3 päeva tagasi
Problem is that we imagine all civilizations to be technologically advanced and harvesting energy from whatever they can. What if the advancement of a civilization should not be technological? Technology has done good things for us, but it's (together with capitalism) ultimately destroying our planet unless we start using alternative technologies. What if this alien advancement is not technological, what if it's spiritual?
Richard & Leaf's Gacha Life & Transport Videos 2006
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7:50 Alien spaceship: (steals water) Humans: (scream)
Smith Rosimhighimer
3 päeva tagasi
LE HONQE
TheOffshoot
3 päeva tagasi
This is quite an interesting concept that can be approached from different perspectives. Taking into consideration things like the great filter, kardashev scale etc. The question is how long would it take for us to reach a civilization in regards to technology that will place us in the advanced category. It will take at least a couple 100 to 1000 of years. For now however i believe GRAPHENE utilization is the key to advancement. We can worry about other civilizations in the universe when the time gets there, we have to prepare for that now. Remember the word GRAPHENE🙏🙏💫
Logan Strait
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How could a civilization achieve interstellar travel without destroying their planet via emissions from energy consumption first? The math just doesn't add up. There is not enough energy on a planet to support a spacefaring civilization in the first place.
Paniflex
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Damn, goes deep
Tanngnjóstr M
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Why doesnt the third eye have an eyebrow?
tom cruis
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Omegans be aware, we the humans are coming.
DomScatterbrain
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Omega being reading knowing this comment: "How cute, let me shake this particular star snow globe and see if you are all can survive"
jhxu27
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I like it!!!
A2Z Solution
4 päeva tagasi
There are no aliens...We are the only one advanced civilization in the whole universe
BLAZING BLIZZARD
4 päeva tagasi
Maybe the other advanced aliens are just in the opposite corner of the universe and are so far away from us that even with our super telescopes can't see them or the other aliens are somewhere where our technology is capable of and still can't travel that far
Fart Vader
4 päeva tagasi
Alien civilizations have not being able to find us because the can't use TRIVAGO
Colin R. Topp
4 päeva tagasi
If a civilization is consuming all the energy from a star, then that star wouldn't be emitting into space beyond the civilization. We should be looking for holes in space.. dark areas. There are plenty of areas in space that astronomers refer to as 'voids' and there are an unusual absence of stars. Rather than looking at stars we can see, I'd be looking into those voids. A type 3 would make an entire galaxy effectively disappear.
kangourouuu1
4 päeva tagasi
Spoilers about 9:10 : our galaxies are flashing with their activity. They created stars, nebulas, planets and everything we consider "mindless space nature". We are just bacterias living on their unclean tools and structures. :)
Cris Graham
4 päeva tagasi
I like the reference to the Improbability Drive for interstellar travel. Douglas Adams ❤
Eric
4 päeva tagasi
Human are so stupid, ignorant, and racist If I'm alien I would fly past us too lol
Marmota Digitala
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Biological aliens with qualities like ours, are doomed to go extinct by their own greed, competitivity and curiosity. If advanced beings do exist, they are not what we think they are. They might be entities that can travel instantly by mind anywhere in the Universe.
Alessandro Peri
5 päeva tagasi
I would bet anything that if we met aliens their language is English.
Amy Lee
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The type omega theory scared the shit out of me.
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Type 10 be like : /killall
Emergency Food Paimon
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God watching this video: Intersting...
Clins S
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Humans:where are aliens🤔? Aliens: we are in quarantine 🤷
Clins S
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Humans:where are aliens🤔? Aliens: we are in quarantine 🤷
Arikan Celikok
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Imagine, you’re a student in a type omega civilisation, and your high school project is to create a universe. But you still get an F because your universe has bugs in it (black holes)
Bananappleboy
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We... Are a mistake?...
Suzanne F.
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Haha😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Roachzz
5 päeva tagasi
We’re to dumb
Kevin Pagkatipunan
5 päeva tagasi
Type omega could be Beerus 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Corey S Burgess
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So close you’re far away
Justin Henley
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8:41 pizza time
username
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"Type Omega Civilizations" You cringelords need to stop pretending and finally admit it: It was God who created us. Humanity has literally always known this, stop trying to reinvent the wheel lmao
Charlie Bamford
5 päeva tagasi
but aren't we like a type 0.1 because we can't manage our planet sustainably and we divid ourselves our civilisation is very flawed and once we all equal the entire milky way will bow down to our communism jk
Dreckbob Bratpfanne
5 päeva tagasi
I like the music that was used, does anyone know the name?
xxhellspawnedxx
5 päeva tagasi
Am I the only one who'd like to see Kurzgesagt - The historical through to sci fi age city building game?
Marcus C
2 päeva tagasi
so, like a better Spore?
Greco Conduris
5 päeva tagasi
If we are aware of our position on Earth relative to Ants as an example and we are conscious of it. And we know we come from humble beginnings and with enough time where we are going in terms of advancement. (Towards level 2 and 3) Do you think its possible that other civilizations are aware of this themselves whilst they have advanced to level 2 and 3s have actively hidden their activities or presence so they don't freak out or influence the level 1s?