The Fermi paradox: an approach based on percolation theory.

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May 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998jbis...51..163l&link_type=abstract

Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, Vol. 51, No. 5, p. 163 - 166

Mathematics

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Extraterrestrial Intelligence

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If even a very small fraction of the hundred billion stars on the galaxy are home to technological civilisations which colonise over interstellar distances, the entire galaxy could be completely colonised in a few million years. The absence of such extraterrestrial civilisations visiting Earth is the Fermi paradox. A model for interstellar colonisation is proposed using the assumption that there is a maximum distance over which direct interstellar colonisation is feasible. Due to the time lag involved in interstellar communications, it is assumed that an interstellar colony will rapidly develop a culture independent of the civilisation that originally settled it.

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