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A comment on Frank Drake, astronomer famed for contributions to SETI, has died.
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As an early teen I was fascinated by the fact that someone had seriously attempted to quantify this. It made me wonder, what _can't_ math do? Turns out, quite a bit. But it's a really fun exercise.
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https://superbowl.substack.com/p/digging-into-the-drake-equa...
As an early teen I was fascinated by the fact that someone had seriously attempted to quantify this. It made me wonder, what _can't_ math do? Turns out, quite a bit. But it's a really fun exercise.