The Reverse Kardashev Scale: How Far Back Can Our Civilization Go?

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Accordingly, Nikolai Kardashev began to wonder if a good number of alien civilizations might be millions of years ahead of us, and if so, what their radio signatures might be like. Just how "loud," he surmised, could alien transmissions truly get? The Kardashev scale.
This prompted Kardashev to write his seminal 1963 paper.

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"Transmission of Information by Extraterrestrial Civilizations." In it, he proposed a simple numbering system — from one to three — that could be used to classify hypothetical alien civilizations according to the amount of energy at their disposal. More specifically, he wanted to quantify the power available to them for their radio transmissions.

Today, Kardashev's scale has been expanded and re-interpreted to include more than just the capacity for communications technology. Astrobiologists and cosmologists now use the scale to simply describe the amount of energy available to an alien civilization for any kind of purpose. As a result, the scale is often used to speculate about the kinds of technologies and existential modalities that characterize advanced civilizations. And not only in the macrocosm but even in the realm of the incredibly small...
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In his paper, Kardashev wrote that a Type I civilization would be at a "technological level close to the level presently attained on the Earth".
A Type I is typically associated with a hypothetical civilization that has harnessed all the power available to it on its home planet. A civilization on a planetary scale able to control earthquakes, climate and even volcanic eruptions...
Type 2 is instead a civilization that achieved mastery of their entire solar system
One way to harness the energy of a star is to build a megastructure around it called the Dyson Sphere.
Reaching other star systems they’d be able to repeat the process again slowly transitioning to type 3.
Type 4 - An intergalactic civilization. A civilization that managed to reach nearby galaxies and harness their energy.
Type 5 - A universal civilization. A civilization that managed to reach all the galaxies within their universal event horizon (aka the observable universe) and harness their energy.
Type 6 - A multiversal civilization. A civilization that managed to tap into other universes besides its own. Hinging on the possibility that there is a multiverse.
Type 7 - A transcendent civilization.

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