Pith Number

pith:3NLSELRL

pith:2026:3NLSELRLBC2YPBC2RTJVSORQEZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Indigenizing the Drake Equation: how Indigenous methods can help us understand life in the Milky Way Galaxy

Hilding R. Neilson

arxiv:2606.26296 v1 · 2026-06-24 · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3NLSELRLBC2YPBC2RTJVSORQEZ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-26T00:15:35.786257Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

db57222e2b08b587845a8cd3593a302642b838c81102277a8a9d89c2ea972fa2

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.26296 · arxiv_version: 2606.26296v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.26296 · pith_short_12: 3NLSELRLBC2Y · pith_short_16: 3NLSELRLBC2YPBC2 · pith_short_8: 3NLSELRL

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3NLSELRLBC2YPBC2RTJVSORQEZ \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: db57222e2b08b587845a8cd3593a302642b838c81102277a8a9d89c2ea972fa2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9681b8da9a5f0414aec4afe96a947ba95991d9b7ffe5e69471a22f999a547be5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-24T18:42:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c25587bd234732c9398cd488bc792f11a9f837080c407854b9db240a9a221c41"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.26296",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}