[eartharxiv.org] The Drake equation was designed to estimate the number of communicative technological civilisations, not the prevalence of life. Its lifetime term therefore describes a detectable technological phase that may […]
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Multistage Rocket Optimization, Geophysics, and the Spacefaring Envelope of Habitable Super-Earths
[astro-ph.EP] Habitability is typically defined by whether a planet can support life, rather than whether it can support a technological civilization capable of escaping its gravity well.