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The Drake equation involves making the same huge, and potentially wrong, assumptions that Thomas Dick made. It is good that it gets us thinking about the poten
by IndianAstronaut 12y ago
The Drake equation involves making the same huge, and potentially wrong, assumptions that Thomas Dick made.
It is good that it gets us thinking about the potential for life and drives us to explore, but I suspect some of the calculations made at the SETI institute and such will be completely wrong.
- duaneb 12y agoThe drake equation is an illustrative relationship between assumptions about life and likelihood of it happening independently. If the assumptions are incorrect (as they likely are), it doesn't reduce the value of illustrating said relationship.