honestly not bad. the snout ridge looks a bit off and unsurprisingly I suck at perspective, but this is one of the least bad drawings I've made in quite a bit
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![Barrow's microdimensional mastering
The astronomer John D. Barrow of the University of Sussex has hypothesized that there are other stages beyond Type III. These Type IV, V, or even VI civilizations would be able to manipulate cosmic structures (galaxies, galactic clusters, superclusters) and even escape the Big Crunch through holes in space.[2]
Barrow also proposes an "anti-Kardashev scale": he observes that humans have found it more cost effective to extend their ability to manipulate their environment to smaller and smaller scales rather than to larger and larger ones. He, therefore, proposes a reverse classification, from Type I-minus to Type Omega-minus:
Type I-minus is capable of manipulating objects on the scale of itself: building structures, mining, joining and breaking solids;
Type II-minus is capable of manipulating genes and altering the development of living things, transplanting or replacing parts of themselves, reading and manipulating their genetic code;
Type III-minus is capable of manipulating molecules and molecular bonds, creating new materials;
Type IV-minus is capable of manipulating individual atoms, creating nanotechnology at the atomic level, and creating complex forms of artificial life;
Type V-minus is capable of manipulating the atomic nucleus and engineering the nucleons that compose it;
Type VI-minus is capable of manipulating the most elementary particles of matter (quarks and leptons) to create organized complexity among populations of elementary particles;
Type Omega-minus is capable of manipulating the fundamental structure of space and time.[33]
In Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits (1998), Barrow proposes a scale ranging from "BI" to "BVI", with an ultimate stage he calls "BΩ", the former characterized by the possibility of manipulating one's environment, while the latter allows for the modification of spacetime.[34]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oxqknd5h73cdnefceup5tpi4/bafkreianojyf4y4hykc2fkfv4oqzmmwzhfyrctdvtoxobpdspvc3dglkva)
