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0 pointsglitch0038y ago0 comments

>How do you even measure that?

Probably like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation

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The probability I was referring to is fl " in Drake's equation ("the fraction of planets that could support life that actually develop life at some point"), and Drake isn't really helping us here.

Quoting wikipedia:

The last four parameters, fl, fi, fc, and L, are not known and are very difficult to estimate, with values ranging over many orders of magnitude

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0 pointsglitch0038y ago0 comments

>How do you even measure that?

Probably like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation

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bnegreve8y ago

The probability I was referring to is fl " in Drake's equation ("the fraction of planets that could support life that actually develop life at some point"), and Drake isn't really helping us here.

Quoting wikipedia:

The last four parameters, fl, fi, fc, and L, are not known and are very difficult to estimate, with values ranging over many orders of magnitude

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