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The Technological Adolescent Age Transition: A Boundary to Estimate the Last Factor of the Drake Equation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2017

Guillermo A. Lemarchand
Guillermo A. Lemarchand*
Affiliation:
Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía (CONICET) and Centro de Estudios Avanzados (UBA). E-mail:lemar@cea.uba.ar

Abstract

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Based on the study of several long-term societal indicators we estimate the phase transition between the “Technological Adolescent Age” (TAA) and the “Technological Mature Age” (TMA). Assuming the “Principle of Mediocrity” and using the Drake Equation we estimate a lower threshold for the number of technological civilizations in the galaxy.

Type
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 213: Bioastronomy 2002: Life Among the stars , 2004 , pp. 460 - 466
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

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