Some terms of the Drake equation are probabilities. The product of those terms can be very much less than 1 and we can still exist. If you accept the weak anthr

Some terms of the Drake equation are probabilities. The product of those terms can be very much less than 1 and we can still exist. If you accept the weak anthropic principle all our existence says for sure is the product is not 0, which we already knew had to be the case for any such equation.