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How long does a civilization live?

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Nobody knows how long a technological civilization would live on average.

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  1. Claudio Maccone, “The statistical Drake equation,” paper #IAC-08-A4.1.4 presented on October 1, 2008, at the 59th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Glasgow, Scotland, U.K., September 29–October 3, 2008.

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  2. Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Random House, New York, 1983. See pp. 298–302 in particular.

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  3. Claudio Maccone, “The living Drake equation of the Tau Zero Foundation”, a paper presented at the Sixth IAA Symposium on “Missions to the Outer Solar System and Beyond”, Aosta, Italy, July 6–9, 2009 and later published in Acta Astronautica, 68 (2011), 582–590.

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  1. International Academy of Astronautics and Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Via Martorelli 43, 10155, Torino (Turin), Italy

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Maccone, C. (2012). How long does a civilization live?. In: Mathematical SETI. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27437-4_5

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