The reason why we are alone in the Universe

Well I got bored and tired because Ive been up for over 20 hours trying to finish the stupid presentation for work. Anyway I came across this very interesting article about this particular Russian astronomer who came up with a theory to categorized civilization base on their total energy output. It makes perfect since to me thats why were alone in this universe. Because if you applied the same rule as where we are on the civilization evolutionary scale. its like an ant trying to get hitch hike on an Autobahn full of cars. They cant see or hear you thank God they didnt obliterated us just the fact that youre mere close to its path.

In 1964, Russian Astromer Nikolai Kardashev proposed a scheme for classifying advanced technological civilizations. He identified three possible types and distinguished between them in terms of the power they could muster for the purposes of interstellar communications.

Type I civilization would be able to marshal energy resources for communications on a planet-wide scale, equivalent to the entire present power consumption of the human race, or about 10¹⁶ watts.

Type II civilization would surpass this by a factor of approximately ten billion, making available 10²⁶ watts, by exploiting the total energy output of its central star. Freeman Dyson, for example, has shown in general terms how this might be done with a Dyson sphere.

Type III civilization would have evolved far enough to tap the energy resources of an entire galaxy. This would give a further increase by at least a factor of 10 billion to about 10³⁶ watts.

And Where we at ?

On this Discriminating scale, the human race would presently qualify as roughly a Type 0.7 (yeah we're 0)

Kardashev explored the consequences of a Type II or III civilization diverting all of its non-essential power resources into an effort to communicate with other races.

Type II civilization, he estimated, could send the information equivalent of a medium-sized library across the Galaxy in a transmission burst lasting just 100 seconds (though to travel from one side of the Galaxy to the other would take it tens of thousands of years). The same amount of information could be sent across an intergalactic distance of 10 million light-years with a transmission time of a few weeks.

Type III civilization could broadcast a library of information across the entire observable universe with a transmission time of 3 seconds (although the journey to the most distant receiver, in this case, would take about 10 billion years). Kardashev argued that an Ozma-like search would be unlikely to detect a Type I civilization and that SETI programs should concentrate instead on looking for the kind of intense radio signals that might emanate from Type II or III activity .

So there you have it ! People trying to justify with space romanticism and religious emotional overtone of why we are alone in the Universe. Well just pure mathematical calculation alone has already provide us with an answer slap in the face like a bad first date Time is eternal and more than likely that our own complacency would be the architecture of our own demise.