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SETI's essential premises involve evolution in multiple domains: cosmology, biology, culture and technology. Comparatively little has been written about the last of these, technology, in relation to SETI's targets, but it is a crucial variable and well worth deep examination. In particular, it would seem prudent to consider carefully our assumptions about hypothetical extraterrestrial societies which...
The living Drake equation is our statistical generalization of the Drake equation such that it can take into account any number of factors. This new result opens up the possibility to enrich the equation by inserting more new factors as long as the scientific learning increases. The adjective “Living” refers just to this continuous enrichment of the Drake equation and is the goal of a new research...
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