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Scientists say most likely number of contactable alien civilisations is 36
- noble_pleb 6y agoI remember watching a show in which Indian scientist Yash Pal had proclaimed that number to be zero. Argued that more a civilization progresses, more the chance of it being devastated by forces of nature, etc., thus its highly improbably that civilizations exist on other planets (or rather, we on earth are a very odd case scenario).
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoSo it IS between 23 and 42! Who would have thought...
- rotexo 6y agoWow that is also my estimate of how many angels can dance on the head of a pin! In all seriousness, I would think that a) finding life on another planet in our solar system and b) determining whether it shared a common ancestor with life on Earth is the next thing that needs to happen to refine our assumptions for terms in the Drake equation.