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First Nerdy post plz spare me.
TL:DR
Humans are not as advanced as we thought
Source: bottom of picture
FP Edit
To clarify, i do not own and did not intend to make it like I seem I owned this. I browse the FP often and have never seen this before so I wanted to share it even if it is a repost.
Send anything :D
Replaced Sciency with Nerdy
removed science tag because it's not science according to the Imgur community
InformalProof
Minecraft taught me that humans are bad at guessing the marbles in a jar,that Dyson sphere would take 1mil planets to build, has own gravity
whyaretherenousernames
this is cool, wouldnt mind seeing more of this
railgap
And the whole scale is arbitrary from the git-go in any case. You can make anyone look bad with the right comparisons.
PianoMan2112
The best part of this post was the comparisons to Mass Effect, Star Trek & Doctor Who. And unless astronomy has its own tag, it's science!
HellaFishsticks
I prefer the Forerunner's.
uhhhnick
I heard we are a type .7 civilization.
EnterOmega
I think we're closer to .8 now
Bowmore
@shoretoplease
kermie92
Yesss
FuckTheRepostPolice
Hey now. We're a type .7 civilization. Carl Sagan said so
Howtogrowwood
Yeah we are that kid that no one wants to talk to because hes not right in the head in the interstellar comunity
WhyAmINotASaiyan
We're the kid in class who smells a bit weird and doesn't get picked up after school.
jtb1313
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Caprinicus
Heresy! The Imperium of Man is greater than a type 3!
hopey21
This is awesome and beautiful to look at! Props
webimgur
There is a fundamental problem with the scale: It is based on the human scale of intelligence. Try basing it on your dog's concepts. See?
MrMcGeeIn3D
I think The Combine would be in between Type IV and Type V.
Nagelfahr
I guess we can't keep up with the Kardashev scale.
EnterOmega
This deserves more upvotes than it has
slyphen
100-200 years if we dont kill ourselves first.
thatoneguywhoknowsstuff
Heard of abiotic theory? It's a theory currently yielding results in the field and finding oil deposits where old models wouldn't consider
MyCabbages2016
So Gurren Lagann would be type 4 yes? I mean they did literally throw galaxies.
JackieLumberBumper
Nah pretty sure he'd be type 5 at the end. They entered multiple different universes. In the movie ending they also create another universe
MyCabbages2016
Did they? I need to go back and watch it again so I can freaking track this man.
Drewndrew
We are the Protoss.
sweetfeetpete
We must construct additional pylons
Drewndrew
Aui'r Guide me!
pugsofwrath
*Types of reposts
TeraGaze
Why does everyone bash humans, yeah we do shitty things but to our knowledge we literally own a planet. We are so fascinating.
naijapotato
And that's where we go wrong. We share our planet with millions of species some more populous than we are
HopeHubris
Loads of insects in my house as well, but they sure as hell aren't helping with the rent
Imjeeves
@OP This is explained very well by this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NPC47qMJVg
brandon22660
Thank you, never seen this before :D
notirrelevant
Ironically, the Kardashians wouldn't even register on the Kardashev scale
ViolentNomad
How has nobody made this into a game yet??
WhyAmINotASaiyan
Mass effect is pretty close. Or civ 5?
MrBoJandles
We have a different meaning for "science" here
quisnon
Spare you...? For reposting someone else's content and making it seem like your own?
Legovil
It has sources at the bottom of the image...
WhatTheSimon
Wouldn't the Time Lords of Doctor Who be at or near a Type V?
ImAlanPartridge
I was thinking this too.
EnterOmega
No because type 5 would be like gods, and capable of manipulating the laws of physics, time lords just go outside of them when necessary
WhatTheSimon
Well the impression I got both from Classic and New Who, is that the Time Lords were capable of just that. 1/2
DAFUQisaLOMMY
can anyone do the math on where we would be in this scale if science wasn't constantly under-minded for one dumbass reason or another
JhericFury
Not really, discoveries have come from random places, trial and error, it's not really possible to calculate a potential rate of discovery.
EnterOmega
Probably a type 2 if everybody was productive and wars and fighting didn't occur, that's just a rough estimate though
DAFUQisaLOMMY
this is true, but I'm asking about the rate of growth if there was nothing hindering that growth, like politics and religion are the big two
JhericFury
I know, and I'm saying the best possible guess would be "faster", scientific discovery doesn't really follow a schedule well.
PingpongMuffinhead
Hah. 100 to 200 years. Doubt it.
ButtblasterMcAssmaster
That's a bold claim. 1-2 centuries is a long time. You think Napoleon had accurate ideas about the rise of the internet?
ToTheLastDrop
Me too. It's probably going to be way sooner than that, I think whoever made the estimate was just trying to be conservative.
Imjeeves
Watch this, and you will question your doubt. We are closer than you thinkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NPC47qMJVg
covertpetersen
Links broken. You didn't put a space after "think".
potshot
It's hard to judge, since we don't know how far advancement can accelerate.
ArcherGifs
Actually using geothermal energy is technically a form of using the planet's energy.
HellomynameisSatan
Why does everyone think this? Scientists believe we will fuck up the planet, and a LOT of us will die, but not all of us.
Frostgreen
Still got no hover board
PingpongMuffinhead
Damn. Go to sleep and I come back to this.
TrstmeImAnEnginer
100-200 seems alright. Just think of how fast we have advanced in every field in the last 2 decade. We are advancing exponentially.
GodOfTheBumbleBees
And now think how close we've come to extinction in a nuclear fire storm.
Element20Three
But will we have hover boards?
47MexicanWhoopingLlamas
If we don't elect Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho we might have a shot. http://i.onionstatic.com/avclub/4048/97/16x9/960.jpg
jwess222
I disagree. I understand everyone's shit's emotional right now. But he's got a 3 point plan that's going to fix EVERYTHING
47MexicanWhoopingLlamas
Make America Great Again!! Wait......
januaryonlakestreet
"Humans are not as advanced as we thought" as compared to what? A made up scale? We're the most advanced society we know of...
Sandordude
Typical Murrica World perspective
JhericFury
Thank you, this is interesting but it doesn't really say anything new, it's just organised it
SiscoVonSiegfried
Well, a small tribe on an island could also think this while they are about to learn using the fire
orthogonal411
Yep! http://imgur.com/62b5nBo (I often wonder... what if some UFO sightings really are genuine, and THAT is how we appear to the aliens?!)
jetflight
This. While God knows how much more advancement room we have, for now we're firmly the top dogs. Even if someone might be more.
orthogonal411
I do get this viewpoint. The other one, I guess, is that not yet having PROOF of alien life doesn't mean we can ignore the HUGE probability.
DAFUQisaLOMMY
our technology has advanced profoundly over the last 200 years, our society as a whole....not so much
eddiebarzoon
Scientific theory ≠ made up
NobodyTellHim
We're the most advanced society that YOU know of......
MyUsernameIsDEFINITELYNOTmyPassword
this gave me a good chuckle. thanks
abracadabra9
You know of any others?
Riddiculous
E loominarty
TheEvilRatigan
http://imgur.com/xXavoHK
thornbob1
If he does he isn't going to tell you