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Old 02-03-2019, 04:07 AM
alfa015 (Alberto)
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Do you think we are alone in the Milky Way?

So.. recent estimations for the Drake Equation (Maccone, 2012) suggest that there could be around 4,600 civilizations in our galaxy that are able to release detectable signals.

I find this number a little bit excessive, so I plugged some of the values of our Solar System into the equation and I obtained a smaller yet more realistic result, in my opinion: 50 civilizations.

Just in case someone is interested, I made a video showing the values I used: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2AIWIcn7Ig&t=5s

Do you think 50 is a more realistic number?
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