User blog:YirbFpYxzhXdxfk/YFYX Explanations 1 - What Is It Like In Alien Civilizations? Kardashev's Scale

(excuse the tautologies and stuff like that)

An observable universe is a big place that's been around for more than a whopping 13 billion years. Up to 2,000,000,000,000 galaxies made up of something like 20 billion billion stars surround our Milky Way. In that alone, scientists guess there are some 40,000,000,000,000 earth-esque planets, in the goldilocks area of their stars. When we look at these numbers, it's futile to imagine that nobody's there out there. It would change our self-view eternally if we discovered alienic species. Only knowing that this vast world isn't dead would shift our view outward, and could help us resolve our unrelated argues. Though before searching for our new besties, or arch-enemies, we need to solve this ask. What are we looking for?

In a verse THAT large and elder, we have to assume civilizations start millions of years far away from each other, and progress in differing directions and speeds, so not only are we looking over distances of dozens to hundreds of thousands of light years, we want a civilization ranging from cavemen to hyperly complex. Thus, we need a conceptual framework to activate us to think improved theories which make us able to improvedly search. Are there universal rules that intelligent species abide? Currently, our civilization sample size is a mere 1, so we could mistake with a basis corely on ourselves. Still, better than nothing. We are aware that humanity began with nothing but psychology and tool-building hands. We know that humans have curiousity, competitivity, resource greed, and expansionism. The more of these qualities our ancestors had, the better they were in the civilization creation game. Being one with nature is nice, but not the path to irrigation, gunpowder, or cities. So it's reasonable to assume that aliens able to dominate their home planet also have these qualities.