Drake Equation - A Way To Estimate The Possibility Of Life Elsewhere

StuckInTheSixties
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Veronica
Veronica: no comment

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StuckInTheSixties
StuckInTheSixties: C'mon, V!

Can't I coax a little comment out of ya?
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Veronica
Veronica: there is life jim but not as we know it .
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lois_lane
lois_lane: ^^haha I love Sheldon^^
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super_sugar_fun_time
super_sugar_fun_time: I don't doubt for a minute that life will exist elsewhere.

I don't know if it would be intelligent life, or more likely to be space bacteria(or similar elsewhere)

I am with Stephen Hawkin on the prospect that we shouldn't go trying to attract the attention of alien life. He thinks it is a bad idea as space travel for any society is going to be expensive. They would need to make it worth their while to come here.

I sort of agree with him, he generally knows what he is on about.
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StuckInTheSixties
StuckInTheSixties: It's a little late now for us to consider remaining hidden from other (hypothetical) civilizations.

The moment we began broadcasting radio signals, the cat was out of the bag. Those radio signals, and other electromagnetic energy waves we produce, such as television, radar, cellphone transmissions, etc. are now streaming outwards from Earth into space at the speed of light.

It is our cosmic announcment telling the universe, "We are here, and we are technological."

I cracked up at Stephen Hawking's tongue-in-cheek warning. He had to know, when he said it, that it would be interpreted and reacted to in all sorts of interesting and humorous ways.
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Veronica
Veronica: space is far to vast for this pale blue dot to be noticed .
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StuckInTheSixties
StuckInTheSixties: It's impossible to say now, but your point is well taken. In the cosmic macro-picture, we're but a speck.

Arithmetical calculations have been made that show that there are 3-5 times as many stars in the known universe as there are grains of sand on Earth.

We're tiny, and the universe is very, very big.

Even if someone were to notice us, would they care? If an ant on the sidewalk in Times Square in New York City were to raise up on it's hind legs and wave it's front legs to get someone's attention, would it be heeded?
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Veronica
Veronica: i onced watched a lecture by georg smoot once on ted talks it will give some idea of the vastness of space

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StuckInTheSixties
StuckInTheSixties: It's very, VERY rare that I will watch a nineteen-minute long video posted by anyone here in Wireclub, but I always watch yours, Veronica.

That was a really good one!

I so hope you will continue to post "Ted" videos.
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LiptonCambell
LiptonCambell: Lol you know my opinion on the Drake Equation; Its a bad joke. Making up values to "calulate" the likihood of extraterrestial life is ridiculous. We don't know or understand the conditions that inanimate matter somehow sprung to life- so how could we possibly judge the universe?

Hell, life ALTERED our enviroment, and continues to do so- saying "this planet isn't acceptable because its too large, or too hot" doesn't negate the fact that life that lives on this planet today could not survive the enviroment it was exposed to 5 billion years ago- so to say that we can rule out planets again, takes us back to the simple fact that we don't know how life forms.
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One Bar
One Bar: Lipton is on the right track here. More precisely: the Drake Equation commits a violation known as the Probability Fallacy (PF). In order to acquire a probability of extraterrestrial life existing we would require a sample set of a large number of fully explored universes. Mathematical probability is to 'everyday usage' probability, as scientific theory is to 'everyday usage' theory. A similar yet much worse PF is the silly equation somebody famously devised to estimate the existence of God.
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One Bar
One Bar: ...I heard that that somebody is/was a statistician too. Shameful...
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BlueGamerOyon
BlueGamerOyon: wouldn't it be amazing if right now somewhere out there a type 3 alien civilization is having an intergalactic sports tournament with another type 3 civilization?

wouldn't it be amazing if right now a type 3 civilization is helping a type 0 civilization escape extinction?

it pains me that i can't see any of this. but it pains me even more knowing that we may never meet another alien civilization in the future.
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xapim
xapim: i thought they liked to surf the jet streams....and i think the u.s.a.f. found an existing solar system that has a planet suit for life, so we'r placing money into that project. go nasa ! i mean with u.s.a.f. technology theirs no teling how many bebebbbebebebeb messages we have secured away. i'm sure somewhere there's a green mask burried in the backwoods somewhere, just waiting for u.s.a.f. to share this secret ? im sure there's no proof but that of beer drinking night story ? but im sure their exploring sea,air, land internationally...........the drake equations probly somewhat onto something.......
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Koyx
Koyx: Technically it's not even an equation, it's just a platform for assumptions. That being said, I think there is a high chance of UFO's because the universe is so big. but i don't think any of them will be paying us a visit soon.
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BillyX
BillyX: STFU!
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