supercivilization

English

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Etymology

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From super- +‎ civilization.

Noun

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supercivilization (plural supercivilizations)

  1. A very advanced civilization that includes an interstellar presence
    • 2015, Vilhelm Verendel, Olle Häggström, “Fermi's paradox, extraterrestrial life and the future of humanity: a Bayesian analysis”, in arXiv[1]:
      The Great Filter interpretation of Fermi's great silence asserts that   is not a very large number, where   is the number of potentially life-supporting planets in the observable universe,   is the probability that a randomly chosen such planet develops intelligent life to the level of present-day human civilization, and   is the conditional probability that it then goes on to develop a technological supercivilization visible all over the observable universe.