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Re:60 years later, is it time to update the Drake equation? by jcadam on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @02:26PM (#27198927)
Personally, I'm starting to lean toward the Rare Earth hypothesis.

I do, however, like the "solution" posited in the short story "The Crystal Spheres": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Spheres

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Re:60 years later, is it time to update the Drake equation? by hackeraccount on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @02:37PM (#27199095)
Everything I've read makes me think life almost certainly exists outside of the Earth, I'm even open to the idea that it exists within the solar system. Complex eukaryotic type life? I'd be that's a lot more rare - consider that prokaryotes look to have popped almost as soon was possible but then it apparently to several billion years for eukaryotes.
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