supercivilization

English

Etymology

From super- +‎ civilization.

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Noun

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 $Npq$ is not a very large number, where $N$ is the number of potentially life-supporting planets in the observable universe, $p$ is the probability that a randomly chosen such planet develops intelligent life to the level of present-day human civilization, and $q$ is the conditional probability that it then goes on to develop a technological supercivilization visible all over the observable universe.