If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life

by Stephen Webb

the likely characteristics of a young civilization that has just found itself with the technological capacity to succeed at interstellar migration. He argues that if a species has the drive and motivation to develop the necessary technologies then the species is likely to be highly competitive, since it would have had to outcompete other species during its early evolutionary development.

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