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The Effect of Cultural Drift on Interstellar Colonization
- Physics
- 2018
Often called the Fermi Paradox, the apparent failure of other intelligent species to have invited humanity to join a galactic civilization suggests that intelligence may be very rare in the cosmos,…
The Relationship between Nonprofit Organizations and Cloud Adoption Concerns
- Education
- 2017
The Relationship between Nonprofit Organizations and Cloud Adoption Concerns by Dana Haywood MS, Colorado Technical University, 2014 BS, Colorado Technical University, 2012 Doctoral Study Submitted…
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If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life
- Physics
- 2002
Given the fact that there are perhaps 400 billion stars in our Galaxy alone, and perhaps 400 billion galaxies in the Universe, it stands to reason that somewhere out there, in the 14-billion-year-old…
A Computational Analysis of Galactic Exploration with Space Probes: Implications for the Fermi Paradox
- Physics
- 2009
Temporal explanations to the Fermi paradox state that the vast scale of the galaxy diminishes the chances of establishing contact with an extraterrestrial technological civilization (ETC) within a…
Eavesdropping on radio broadcasts from galactic civilizations with upcoming observatories for redshifted 21 cm radiation
- Physics
- 2007
The question of whether intelligent life exists elsewhere is one of the fundamental unknowns about our Universe. Over the past decade extra-solar planets have been discovered, providing new urgency…
A failure of serendipity: the Square Kilometre Array will struggle to eavesdrop on human-like extraterrestrial intelligence
- PhysicsInternational Journal of Astrobiology
- 2010
Abstract The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will operate in frequency ranges often used by military radar and other communications technology. It has been shown that if extraterrestrial intelligences…
Cultural evolution, the postbiological universe and SETI
- BiologyInternational Journal of Astrobiology
- 2003
This paper argues for the necessity of long-term thinking when contemplating the problem of intelligence in the universe and provides arguments for a postbiological universe, based on the likely age and lifetimes of technological civilizations and the overriding importance of cultural evolution as an element of cosmic evolution.
Slingshot dynamics for self-replicating probes and the effect on exploration timescales
- PhysicsInternational Journal of Astrobiology
- 2013
Abstract Interstellar probes can carry out slingshot manoeuvres around the stars they visit, gaining a boost in velocity by extracting energy from the star's motion around the Galactic Centre. These…
Biosignatures and the Search for Life on Earth
- Geology, Physics
- 2010
Earth is the only life-hosting planet in the Universe that we currently know of; however, it is just a matter of time until other Earth-like planets are detected. At that time, by analysing their…
Temporal dispersion of the emergence of intelligence: an inter-arrival time analysis
- PhysicsInternational Journal of Astrobiology
- 2011
Abstract Many reasons for why extraterrestrial intelligences might avoid communications with our civilization have been proposed. One possible scenario is that all civilizations follow the lead of…