[extropy-chat] Drake Equation nitpicking

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Adrian Tymes <wingcat at pacbell.net> wrote:
> 
> Not necessarily.  The terms ft and fs both seem to be
> essentially unknown (despite unjustified claims that
> fs in particular and maybe also ft are both 1), and it
> seems like (R* x fp x ne x fl x fi) <= 1 for the
> volume of space we have observed so far, possibly for
> the entire galaxy.

On the contrary, we count as 1

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Mike Lorrey
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