Biological and sociological aspects of the origin and development of terrestrial civilization and the SETI problem
Abstract
The view is expressed that the processes of planetogenesis, biogenesis, and development of rational creatures are common in the universe. However, the failure of SETI programs indicates that industrial civilizations are rather rare, that their communicative phase is very short, and moreover they develop at different times. The number of simultaneously existing communicative civilizations in the Galaxy may be so small that even a large-scale SETI program is doomed to failure. A greater chance of success is open to programs involving the search for the trace of former civilizations.
- Publication:
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Postepy Astronautyki
- Pub Date:
- 1979
- Bibcode:
- 1979PoAn...12...55S
- Keywords:
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- Biological Evolution;
- Evolution (Development);
- Human Beings;
- Project Seti;
- Social Factors;
- Exobiology;
- Milky Way Galaxy;
- Planetary Evolution;
- Radio Signals;
- Space Sciences (General)