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The Drake equation is not a serious thing.
by dinkumthinkum 4y ago
The Drake equation is not a serious thing.
- metadat 4y agoPlease elaborate, this is crossing over into strangely absurd territory. What model are you using to reason about and evaluate the question of life throughout the Universe? Or, what makes Earth such a special environment that there could only ever be one such place, and no other planets also meeting similar criteria supportive of life? There are nearly innumerable other chances for this to exist throughout the vastness of the Universe. Our human brains can't truly grasp the scale, it's far beyond what we encounter in day to day life. I'll take those odds.
- dinkumthinkum 4y agoIt is well known that the Drake Equation is not a serious thing. The history of it was that it was basically a conversation starter. There may be documentaries that likened it to something more solid like Standard Model, but that’s not the case. It’s a hurried back of the envelope pop-culture math-y thing that is full of vague uncertainties. We have a non-random sample of one. How can you estimate anything based on that? You can look this up; the Drake Equation is not considered something really serious, downvotes aside.