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Advanced Civilizations Could be Indistinguishable from Nature (www.universetoday.com)

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Article is a response to the paper:

“THE SUSTAINABILITY SOLUTION TO THE FERMI PARADOX”

https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.0568

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

The article is wrong. You don't need high growth, any amount of growth more than 0 over a long time frame will inevitably see a civilization spread throughout the galaxy. If there was a civilization a hundred million years old in our galaxy it would be noticeable.