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Old 02-May-2008, 10:40 PM
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Whichever is the case, it seems likely on the evidence available that there are no billion-year-old interstellar civilisations in our galaxy.
That's speculation. In order to draw conclusions based on our very limited data, you would have to make some specific assumptions about what a civilization should do.
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