It's intuitive to me because I try not to fall for the human-scale numbers. The Drake equation does not give an estimate. It gives us a train of multiplying fa

It's intuitive to me because I try not to fall for the human-scale numbers. The Drake equation does not give an estimate. It gives us a train of multiplying factors to which arbitrary values can be assigned, and with it a false sense of a sound estimate. It's like the lab coat archetype in ads: it looks sciency, but it really isn't.