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The Fermi Paradox and the Aurora Effect: Exo-civilization Settlement, Expansion and Steady States — mentioned by 300bps

Wed, 03 May 2023 12:03:29 GMT

Here’s a paper that shows how a civilization could colonize the galaxy in under 300 million years: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.04450.pdf Here’s a YouTube visualization of the timeline: https://youtu.be/hNMgtRf0GOg

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The Fermi Paradox and the Aurora Effect: Exo-civilization Settlement, Expansion and Steady States — mentioned by xcq1

Mon, 23 Sep 2019 05:24:58 GMT

https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04450

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The Fermi Paradox and the Aurora Effect: Exo-civilization Settlement, Expansion and Steady States — HN submission

Sun, 22 Sep 2019 22:07:26 GMT

The Fermi Paradox and the Aurora Effect: Exo-Civilization Settlement

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The Fermi Paradox and the Aurora Effect: Exo-civilization Settlement, Expansion and Steady States — mentioned by naasking

Fri, 08 Mar 2019 17:31:48 GMT

They link directly to the new paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04450 Snippet from abstract: > Our steady-state model can constrain the probabilities for an Earth visit by a settling civilization before a given time horizon. These results break the link between Hart's famous "Fact A" (no interstellar visitors on Earth now) and the conclusion that humans must, therefore, be the only technological civilization in the galaxy.

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