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Re:New study dramatically narrows the search for advanced li... by kartickv on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @12:24AM (#20161765)
What about intelligent life? How much more does that narrow the parameters, and how many planets are estimated to exist that could support intelligent life as we know it?
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Re:New study dramatically narrows the search for advanced li... by jonathankoren on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @12:46AM (#20161839)
I've got some bad news about that.

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-advanced-civilization-universe...

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Re:New study dramatically narrows the search for advanced li... by luc4sdreyer on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @04:06AM (#20162656)
Very interesting, I'm happy someone finally did a more statistically rigorous analysis of the Drake equation. Now I know where the aliens are hiding: in the long tail of an extremely skewed probability distribution!
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Re:New study dramatically narrows the search for advanced li... by whatshisface on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @08:03AM (#20163653)
There are hundreds of those analyses and they all give a different answer.
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