L factor: hope and fear in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence

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Aug 2001

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Proc. SPIE Vol. 4273, p. 230-239, The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) in the Optical Spectrum III, Stuart A. Kin

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The L factor in the Drake equation is widely understood to account for most of the variance in estimates of the number of extraterrestrial intelligences that might be contacted by the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). It is also among the hardest to quantify. An examination of discussions of the L factor in the popular and technical SETI literature suggests that attempts to estimate L involve a variety of potentially conflicting assumptions about civilizational lifespan that reflect hopes and fears about the human future.

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