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Re:60 years later, is it time to update the Drake equation? by jandrese on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @02:45PM (#27199207)
I always thought it was a bit of a lark. You multiply a whole bunch of unknowns with huge errors bars together to get a totally new unknown with universe sized error bars.
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Re:60 years later, is it time to update the Drake equation? by pie420 on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @06:57PM (#27202352)
Yep, it's really silly. It's really just saying we don't know, and here's a breakdown of all the reasons that we don't know.
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