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Advanced stellar civilizations are expected by the Drake equation to live for 106–107 years. Since the interstellar transport of resources is unrealistic, they would manage to have such long lives only if they would adhere to a practically zero growth in all of their matter and energy related activities. The social implications are discussed.
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Papagiannis, M.D., ‘Regional jurisdictions in our galaxy, a possible explanation for the absence of extraterrestrial signals,’ Bioastronomy: The Next Steps, ed. G. Marx, D. Reidel Publ., Dordrecht, Holland, 1988.
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Papagiannis, M.D. (1988). The Evolution of Technological Civilizations within the Limits of Their Own Solar Systems. In: Marx, G. (eds) Bioastronomy — The Next Steps. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 144. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2959-3_42
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