[propolo]

If you are sufficiently technologically advanced I would think that you could easily cover those issues and not be green about it...

If that were the case, then you would be living within the means of your environment, so therefore you would be green.

[Flikemommoilt]

maybe this is what is meant by "Little Green Men"?

[avavavava]

If that were the case, then you would be living within the means of your environment, so therefore you would be green.

That depends on your perspective, for example - I am not saying we will do this - but suppose we might be able to survive runaway global warming by living in airconditioned bio-domes but everything outside of those bio-domes are going to suffer. I wouldn't think that this counts as "green"...

[tramdoctorsss]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdILmgJGuvw

Very interesting BC, but what does a type 3 civilisation need from a newly formed type 1 civilisation?

[SoftrermaBioniaSat]

Very interesting BC, but what does a type 3 civilisation need from a newly formed type 1 civilisation?

Wives?

[Trikaduliana]

That depends on your perspective, for example - I am not saying we will do this - but suppose we might be able to survive runaway global warming by living in airconditioned bio-domes but everything outside of those bio-domes are going to suffer. I wouldn't think that this counts as "green"...

Well currently you would need to develop a very strong liking for lettuce and mushrooms, as your food production is going to be extremely limited.

[juidizHusw]

Very interesting BC, but what does a type 3 civilisation need from a newly formed type 1 civilisation?

Test subjects? We could be the lab rats of the universe!

[vvxtiopmx]

Test subjects? We could be the lab rats of the universe!

We already are *taps nose*
Uh oh, I've said too much...

[cyslespitocop]

Well currently you would need to develop a very strong liking for lettuce and mushrooms, as your food production is going to be extremely limited.

Yes, at this stage of our technological advancement that may be the case. But a more advanced civilisation might be able to do a little better than that...

[gogFloark]

Yes, at this stage of our technological advancement that may be the case. But a more advanced civilisation might be able to do a little better than that...

Yep. Grow tasty stuff in test tubes and petri dishes.

[nd90t3sf]

If we're manufacturing bio-domes, then wouldn't we have.food replicators like on star trek?

[Goooooblin]

If we're manufacturing bio-domes, then wouldn't we have.food replicators like on star trek?

Didn't someone recently come up with a compelling argument describing how they could not possibly exist?

[OWDavid]

As long as we're not forced to eat potatoes grown from our ears, I'm happy*

*There must also be chocolate, or it's not a real civilisation.

[bF8CCmmr]

If we're manufacturing bio-domes, then wouldn't we have.food replicators like on star trek?

Rearrange a few atoms and add a pinch of carbon and hey presto, steak and chips.

[Eromaveabeara]

There must also be chocolate, or it's not a real civilisation.

It's all chemicals...

[TimoDass]

Except we're advanced enough to know there is no such thing.....

I'm sure if we encountered an Alien species with the ability to transport matter and warp space/time, we would not be able to explain how they did it.
They would appear as magic...more an analogy or similar...

[FreeOEMcheapestPHOTOSHOP]

Very interesting BC, but what does a type 3 civilisation need from a newly formed type 1 civilisation?

Nothing I imagine...Did you watch the video?
He did use the class 3 civilisation as an analogy to the beings that installed the monolith on Earth in 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the human race as class 0, with promise to move up the scale somewhat.
He also predicts [barring some catastophric event] that we would be a class 1 within a 100 years.

[ErubTiereedig]

I suppose that the planets that aliens live on don't ever descend into deep prolonged ice ages where they would require technology just to survive and 'Nature' would be an extremely inhospitable thing. Their planets probably stay at a nice even temperature for ever and ever.

[Wsjltrhe]

Nothing I imagine...Did you watch the video?
He did use the class 3 civilisation as an analogy to the beings that installed the monolith on Earth in 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the human race as class 0, with promise to move up the scale somewhat.
He also predicts [barring some catastophric event] that we would be a class 1 within a 100 years.

Yes I watched it all; as I said very interesting. However all this talk about super beings and civilisations has a similarity of religious doctrine, where there are those with magical powers looking over us. It is almost as if these are those to whom we (most of humanity) pray.

[VottCetaVeivE]

I'm sure if we encountered an Alien species with the ability to transport matter and warp space/time, we would not be able to explain how they did it.

Not knowing how something is done and calling that same something magic are too very different things