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>> No.7244502 [View]
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>>7244204
>Life rarely gets off its home world
Absolutely no proof
>Our own civilization has long planted the seeds of its own comprehensive collapse
Proof...
>We're embarrassed and dismayed to ever admit it
I'm not, because it's not true
>but it's still true
Still no proof
>The Drake Equation is a good means of examining the situation
It never was. It was written to get funding.
http://www.sentientdevelopments.com/2007/05/drake-equation-is-obsolete.html

>Pic very related

>> No.6886406 [View]
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Well, Stephen Hawking postulated that maybe it's not a good idea to communicate with other intelligent species.

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>> No.3559980 [View]
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>(a chance of 400 billion:1)
[citation needed]
There are enough planets for any chance of life to likely mean there is some. That does not, however, mean we can make up statistics like this. The drake equation is totally speculative and contains so many variables I can't see it as any use.

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What advice would you give to a kid in high school (11th) who wants to go into a math related career?
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>> No.3169652 [View]
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Drake equation and alien life is bull

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>>3145662

>> No.2800937 [View]
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What is the expectation of a variable Z that has the property that the ln of the variable (ln Z) is normally distributed around 0 with variance X^2?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation

These are your odds.

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>>2290401
Courtesy of XKCD.

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