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Originally Posted by Zeraph
No offense, but no duh.
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You think agreeing with me is going to offend me? What offends me is when people state the Drake Equation is proof there is extra terrestrial life. Those people are idiots (I'm talking to you, my sophmore professor who tried to give me a C).
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Originally Posted by Zeraph
Is there anyone who thinks the drake equation actually gives a real answer?
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Frighteningly enough, there are many.
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Originally Posted by Zeraph
And it cant be the number of stars in our galaxy because at least half would be totally unsuitable for life because binary + systems. And a good part of the other half are too new of stars to have the correct compositions or burn too hot or too cold (and throught that a star's lifetime comes into account).
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That's what the rest of the equation is about
: N* = all stars, but the rest of the equation outlines that the answer must be N* minus the stars without planets, minus the stars that are incapable of sustaining life, minus star incapable of sustaining intellegent life, etc. etc.
Of course, the equation is an exercise in futility, as we don't know anything about the variables. Drake should be considered theocracy or fiction because of it's uselessness. It's like in the movie Time Cop: "the same matter cannot occupy the same space at the same time". It's unscientific dribble, meant to sound smart but completly hollow in meaning.