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Re:Model predicts we're the only advanced civilization in th... by kamaal on Monday June 25, 2018 @08:42AM (#17391907)
And yet 100,000 years back where were we? Intersecting timescales is all.
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Re:Model predicts we're the only advanced civilization in th... by caf on Monday June 25, 2018 @09:00AM (#17392031)
It doesn't matter. The point is that the only local-galaxy civilizations we would fail to detect for being "too far" would be those that were born only yesterday, on the timescales involved. All things being equal this should be an irrelevant fraction of the total.

A different matter is "too short lived", which is taken into account in the Drake equation (the last factor, L).

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