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Old 12-01-2012, 11:25 PM
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I think the Drake equation is often misunderstood. I was not an attempt to seriously define the probabilities of life or civilisation elsewhere, but to define what we need to know to make that estimate, and to show that even if the odds are large against any one term in the equation that the sheer size of the universe and the number of stars still leaves a very real probability of life.
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