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That civilization could program self-replicating probes to visit every planetary system in the galaxy.
A civilization from any one of millions of galaxies could have colonized our galaxy.
And I've found they often frame their thinking in terms of the barriers that would need to be cleared if a planet is to host a communicative civilization.
The development of technological civilization is a third barrier.
Purely for the purposes of illustration, let me suggest four more barriers to add to the four that people said blocked the path to communicative civilization.
If the galaxy contains a trillion planets, how many will host a civilization capable of contemplating like us projects such as Breakthrough Starshot?
A universe that's silent because technology itself forms the barrier to the development of a truly advanced civilization.
This is a graph that represents the economic history of human civilization.
Now the third area is the one that I want to focus on the most, and that's the category of existential risks: events like a nuclear war or a global pandemic that could permanently derail civilization or even lead to the extinction of the human race.
And if someday, we took to the stars, the civilization could continue for billions more.
I think that the time is ripe to make fundamental changes in our civilization.
Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization in small family groups.
But in that little story, there's a wisdom, which is, as soon as you think you know something about this extraordinary civilization of 5,000 years of continuing history, there's always something new to learn.
But here's the thing: We are the only advanced civilization in the solar system, but that doesn't mean that there is no microbial life nearby.
All together, they are telling us what started as a microbial pathway, and why what started as a microbial pathway sometimes ends up as a civilization or sometimes ends up as a dead end.
And they are telling us about diversity, they are telling us about abundance of life, and they are telling us how this life has survived thus far to reach civilization, intelligence, technology and, indeed, philosophy.
She was having a hard time making the transition back into civilization.
Every culture, every civilization has dreamed of finding eternal youth.
In millions of years, an intelligent alien civilization could easily have spread out across the galaxy, perhaps creating giant energy-harvesting artifacts, or fleets of colonizing spaceships, or glorious works of art that fill the night sky.
Maybe a single, superintelligent civilization has indeed taken over the galaxy, and has imposed strict radio silence because it's paranoid of any potential competitors.
Or, perhaps, civilization carries with it the seeds of its own destruction through the inability to control the technologies it creates.
F-sub-c is the fraction of intelligent life that develops a civilization that decides to use some sort of transmitting technology.
But while tattoo styles come and go, and their meaning has differed greatly across cultures, the practice is as old as civilization itself.
People back then even thought spreading Christianity and civilization across the world was a moral duty."
Chris Anderson: Professor, if you had to guess either way, do you now believe that it is more likely than not that we are alone in the Milky Way, as a civilization of our level of intelligence or higher?
Stephen Hawking: I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves.
They would go into towns and ask the Inca, "Where's another civilization we can conquer?
The aliens think humans look quite tasty, but their civilization forbids eating highly logical and cooperative beings.
This challenge is part of the fabric of our whole civilization.
CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally.
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