Easter Island Aliens (IMAGE)

University of Rochester

Easter Island Aliens

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A case study of the inhabitants of Easter Island served in part as the basis for a mathematical model showing the ways a technologically advanced population and its planet might develop or collapse together. Rochester astrophysicist Adam Frank and his collaborators created their model to illustrate how civilization-planet systems co-evolve.

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University of Rochester illustration / Michael Osadciw

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