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Re:Michael Crichton: Aliens Cause Global Warming by mindslight on Thursday November 06, 2008 @05:34AM (#355550)
But that's just self-deception facilitated by using a linear instead of a log scale. It's easy to choose a conservative "really small" number of 1% or .01%, but what's to say that you're still not off by many orders of magnitude?
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Re:Michael Crichton: Aliens Cause Global Warming by yummyfajitas on Thursday November 06, 2008 @06:32AM (#355577)
In simple terms, this bound tells us that the probability that aliens exist lies somewhere in [0,1].
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Re:Michael Crichton: Aliens Cause Global Warming by dejb on Thursday November 06, 2008 @08:45AM (#355662)
By definition all probabilities lie in this range. It doesn't change the fact that within this range of R (Real Numbers) the number of logarithms are uncountable.

In simple terms... for every real number >1 (let's call that number x) the number 1/x also exists. Mind blowing huh!

.. Also I was primarily talking about the TTAPS equation which seemed to be the main focus of the parent's threads.

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