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The possibility of an interstellar empire

Transactions of IAA RAS, issue 22, 42–52 (2011)

Keywords: Extraterrestrial civilization, SETI, exoplanet, interplanetary empire

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For as long as people have looked in the sky, they have imagined extraterrestrial civilizations populating the planets and the stars. The idea of interplanetary empires has already entered the realm of science-fiction and many science-fiction writers have even elaborated on such empires. The reality may be otherwise. Is it possible that an Alien civilization could have really established colonies outside its own star system? This paper will make a survey of possible motivations and technological capabilities, within the reality of Physics, for the establishment an interstellar empire

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S. Dumas, Yu. Dutil. The possibility of an interstellar empire // Transactions of IAA RAS. — 2011. — Issue 22. — P. 42–52.

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  abstract = {For as long as people have looked in the sky, they have imagined extraterrestrial civilizations populating the planets and the stars. The idea of interplanetary empires has already entered the realm of science-fiction and many science-fiction writers have even elaborated on such empires. The reality may be otherwise. Is it possible that an Alien civilization could have really established colonies outside its own star system? This paper will make a survey of possible motivations and technological capabilities, within the reality of Physics, for the establishment an interstellar empire},
  author = {S. Dumas and Yu. Dutil},
  issue = {22},
  journal = {Transactions of IAA RAS},
  keyword = {Extraterrestrial civilization, SETI, exoplanet, interplanetary empire},
  pages = {42--52},
  title = {The possibility of an interstellar empire},
  url = {http://iaaras.ru/en/library/paper/741/},
  year = {2011}
}

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