Five Billion Years into Humanity’s Future
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00:00 What If Earth Became a Type III Civilization?
21:54 The Entire Kardashev Scale Explained in 20 Minutes
39:10 What If We Relocated Humanity to Proxima B?
47:12 What If NASA Built a Moon City by 2032?
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1:32:21 What If You Traveled Five Billion Years Into the Future?
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@andrewharbit7449
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
Molecular reconfiguration device is one key to advancing in the type 1 direction. A system that can break apart compounds and reassemble them. This solves resource demands while also fixing waste stream issues.
The more likely reason we haven't heard or seen anyone else is possibly due to digitized existence. It's likely easier to solve for energy and create a digital paradise for a population then to build ships to survive the dangers of the universe.
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July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
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@EdisonArthur1215
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
But the sun might be a red giant in 5,000,000,000 years.
@tanindunn8379
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
Yeah, let me throw the spoiler alert out there…… in 5 to 7.6 billion years the earth simply wont exist anymore. Indisputable. The sun will expand and destroy our planet. Not to mention the Kardashev scale is pure speculation. Its science fiction to think someone can enclose a star and use it for power. Our suns surface is 10,000°f…….. thats the surface. Deep within our sun, the temp is 27 million °f. Then, theres the radiation. The combination of extreme heat and radiation would prove fatal to amyone, or anything, that even got close to the sun. Metal would melt. Not a single civilization would ever encompass their sun……… thays absurd. The K scale is science fiction. A massive assumption based absolutely nothing. We dont even know if there are other civilizations to begin with………
@ThorTyrker
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
No spieces ever lived unchanged for millions of years. Here is my prediction: Homo Sapiens will either turn into somethig entirely and unrecognisebly different in 100 million years, like tiny rodent live in holes or a scavenger barks in packs or just go extinct. A new spieces will evolve into intelligent in about 300 million years, then they will also go extinct. By the fifth billion years Earth will be home for the tenth intelligent spieces that build civilizations, no-one even think there were once humans on this planet, probably there even won't be any mammals around but brand new kind of life we can"t even imagine now.
@christidwell9530
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
Haha SB we will be long gone du then
@LordCritish
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
I wonder will sex still be fun for a type 3 and beyond civilization?
@Dan-hx4lc
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
This would be an even better video without the background music.
@REI_edits_7
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
What if we're borned in 4d dimension ?
@punctmov
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
În weekend smart as you say then the moon it Will be a mini earth the second one.
@GovindVaishnav-lq5le
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
Let us leave all this stupid fantasies.
Let be all become consciousness in doing everything we do. All are as sleep.Lets become awake.its enough❤
@josephpasquarella2123
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
Our only way forward is to become sustainable stewards of earth, improve our technology and make the most of our solar system ( terraforming, mining, resources, colonization) that may take us a few thousand years to master. But we will never, ever ever ever become an interstellar species.
@Immakunt
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
Aliens are giving us a wide berth, we have muppets that think men can become women
@NightHawk-15
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
POV: 20:26
Avatar Way Of The Water
Be like, the humans Re-Arriving On Pandora
47:10
The Year 2126
Thats 15 years after i die, i die in 2111 cause i was born 2011, that is if i live a healthy life too 100 years
@richard8417
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
Who picked the annoyingly loud “background” music?!
@BoldRealities
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
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@StrangeWorldArchives
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
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@rowdyverboven9286
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
what if the the world unity as one no wars
@Iammuhammedmohi
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
Either we are alone in this universe or not.
Both concepts are terrifying.
@TonyaLove-hm1bq
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
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@TonyaLove-hm1bq
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
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@PhoeunPhoeun-e9g
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
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@DaSource
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
Only way to get to type 1 is for there to be no political noise and just pure cooperation from everyone on earth.
@nxllson
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
💯💯
@Dealus72
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
You know why anything farrr away from each cant see us because the farther you are in space the lest interesting it gets for example rigth if their is alien life out there they can just see us with their advantage things did are not giong to city big city and advanced thing they giong to see the past like I told you already the father in space you see things less interesting they will probably see dinosaurs because ligth takes a lot of time to u
@BeatsFoundry
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
That's such a binary perspective to say not advanced enough or looking for the wrong things, very polar what about wrong time?
Why cant ot be too soon or too late to see them? We know light takes millions of years to get to us, so we are seeing their history not their present, so its time not what or how its when.
@NoorahmednoorNoor
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
This was super helpful, thanks!
@zhaolang1215
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
Could you imagine the cost of that design flaw? The Earth habitat fails or its destroyed somehow, then Earth's gravity pulls the millions and billions of tons of debris twords the surface to destroy everything. I'd not go for that horrible design in reality
@Kiyomi100
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
One of the biggest threats to our civilization and going backwards is in the White House currently
@AndrewMerritt-e3k
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
Beautiful graphics 👌
@Daguhl
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
"Hello AI, solve the problem of our planet continuing to heat up."
AI starts to kill al humans.
@MahetaSurekha
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
This was very informative, appreciate it.
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July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
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@kanamiracle-u8t
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
very interesting, but full of REPETITIONS
@sivabharath_
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
Mass na nee 💥
@jaypeetolentino7037
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
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@georgepaton-cartner2982
July 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
The goat posts again
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