Това е изключителен пробив на ниво парадигма. Съпоставим със скалата на Кардашев. (Но, поне за мен, по-смислен.) Единственият познат ми автор фантаст, който го изследва в дълбочина, e John C. Wright в поредицата си Count to the Eschaton (която започва с Count to a Trillion).Във форума на „Ефремов“ [url=http://sf-sofia.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?p=47489#p47489]valentindivanov[/url] wrote:Qualitative classification of extraterrestrial civilizations, by V. D. Ivanov, J. C. Beamin, C. Caceres and D. Minniti
Context. The interest towards searches for extraterrestrial civilizations (ETCs) was boosted in the recent decades by the discovery of thousands of exoplanets.
Aims. We turn to the classification of ETCs for new considerations that may help to design better strategies for ETCs searches.
Methods. This study is based on analogies with our own biological, historical, technological and scientific development. We take a basic taxonomic approach to ETCs and investigate the implications of the new classification on ETCs’ evolution and observational patterns. Finally, we use as a counter-example to our qualitative classification the quantitative scheme of Kardashev and we consider its implications on the searches for ETCs.
Results. We propose a classification based on the abilities of ETCs to modify their environment and to integrate with it: Class 0 uses the environment as it is, Class 1 modifies the environment to fit its needs, Class 2 modifies itself to fit the environment and Class 3 ETCis fully integrated with the environment. Combined with the classical Kardashev’s scale our scheme forms a 2-dimensional scheme for interpreting the ETC properties.
Conclusions. The new framework makes it obvious that the available energy is not an unique measure of ETCs’ progress, it may not even correlate with how well that energy is used. The possibility for progress without increased energy consumption implies a lower detectability, so in principle the existence of a Kardashev Type III ETC in the Milky Way can not be ruled out. This reasoning weakens the Fermi paradox, allowing for the existence of advanced, yet not energy hungry, low detectability ETCs. The integration of ETCs with environment will make it impossible to tell apart technosignatures from natural phenomena. Therefore, the most likely opportunity for SETI searches to find advanced ETCs is to look for beacons, specifically set up by them for young civilizations like ours (if they would want to do that remains a matter of speculation). The other SETI window of opportunity is to search for ETCs at technological level similar to ours. To rephrase the famous saying of Arthur Clarke, sufficiently advanced civilizations are indistinguishable from nature
Comments: accepted in Astronomy & Astrophysics; 7 pages, 1 figure; the acknowledgements were updated in the new version.
The manuscript is available at:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13221
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.13221.pdf
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