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Posted on 9/5/14 at 4:47 am to
Posted by KBeezy
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Member since Dec 2004
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Posted on 9/5/14 at 4:47 am to
Sure there is

The Drake equation

The seager equation

Stephen hawking wrote that life, and many forms of life, is almost a given, and that intelligent life is highly probable. But that humans on earth discovering intelligent life is unlikely before we, or they (whichever form we happen to be close to discovering one day) destroys itself one way or the other
Posted by Spock's Eyebrow
Member since May 2012
12300 posts
Posted on 9/5/14 at 5:07 am to
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Sure there is

The Drake equation

The seager equation


Nope. Any fool can create an equation and make up numbers to plug into it to create a result. It has nothing whatsoever to do with reality. Stop watching "documentaries" that are like the worst of Omni magazine. Unsurprisingly, xkcd already said it far better than I could aspire to:



Read what I quoted from Sagan. He's got the right idea.
Posted by tigersbh
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2005
10333 posts
Posted on 9/5/14 at 8:59 am to
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But that humans on earth discovering intelligent life is unlikely


Heck, there isn't much intelligent life on Earth. lol
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