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Expanding Advanced Civilizations in the Universe

@article{Gros2005ExpandingAC,
  title={Expanding Advanced Civilizations in the Universe},
  author={Claudius Gros},
  journal={arXiv: Astrophysics},
  year={2005}
}
  • C. Gros
  • Published 7 January 2005
  • Physics
  • arXiv: Astrophysics
The 1950 lunch-table remark by Enrico Fermi ‘Where is everybody’ has started intensive scientific and philosophical discussions about what we call nowadays the ‘Fermi paradox’: If there had been ever a single advanced civilization in the cosmological history of our galaxy, dedicated to expansion, it would have had plenty of time to colonize the entire galaxy via exponential growth. No evidence of present or past alien visits to earth are known to us, leading to the standard conclusion that no… 
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