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Re: Are we ever to become a Type III civilization?
Yeah, interstellar/intergalactic travel is the biggie IMO. The distances between stars and galaxies are simply too vast. I feel like the only civilizations capable of making the leap to that kind of travel are those who are already in solar systems that have won the lottery: Having multiple inhabitable planets within reasonable distances.
Either that or we figure out wormhole technology if wormholes are even possible. While wormholes may be viable solutions to Einstein's equations, that doesn't mean they exist. |
Re: Are we ever to become a Type III civilization?
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It might be a one time deal, or something we do only for colonization, and at that point the planning and the money you would need to put into it would again put a huge cap on our energy resources (we're not talking billion dollar investments anymore, moving that many people we're talking trillions). There's just nowhere readily feasible to get the energy we would need for such a thing. We'd have to hope we can perform some sort of magic voodoo in the future and tap directly into zero point energy while violating conservation of energy or something, because every other alternative is going to turn up pretty much moot in respect to FTL travel D: Fusion/antimatter rockets could reach *near* c speeds, but that's not going to get us past Type 1. Sure, it might help us survive, but even then, distant planets are going to take generations to reach and people will have to be cryogenically frozen until arrival...by the time they get there everyone on Earth would be gone themselves or dead, preventing advancement to the next civilization type yet again. tldr; unless a miracle happens, we'll be lucky to scrape past Type 1. |
Re: Are we ever to become a Type III civilization?
Yeah, apparently to open and maintain the throat of a wormhole 1 meter in diameter, you'd need a negative mass (exotic matter) the size of Jupiter.
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Re: Are we ever to become a Type III civilization?
we are not even half way to type I.
maybe in a couple millennium if we don't kill ourselves first and work together. also quick reference: people do not have the capability to harness an element like hydrogen to the maximum potential yet, let alone travel through space at speeds equal to or less then light speed. technically if you can move space around you through some x factor that i do not know about, you could travel faster than light speed. but seriously we gotta fix up earth before accomplishing any of this, otherwise whats the point? we go around the universe and start shitting everything up |
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