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What about intelligent life? How much more does that narrow the parameters, and how many planets are estimated to exist that could support intelligent life as w

What about intelligent life? How much more does that narrow the parameters, and how many planets are estimated to exist that could support intelligent life as we know it?

jonathankoren 7y ago
I've got some bad news about that. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-advanced-civilization-universe.html https://phys.org/news/2018-06-advanced-civilization-universe...
- luc4sdreyer 7y ago
  Very interesting, I'm happy someone finally did a more statistically rigorous analysis of the Drake equation. Now I know where the aliens are hiding: in the long tail of an extremely skewed probability distribution!
  - whatshisface 7y ago
    There are hundreds of those analyses and they all give a different answer.