 | | Drake Equation (was: Re: Some great Space info and dicussion) —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | (...) A minor tangent, but it's got a pointer to a neat toy. The Drake Equation (1961) is the classic articulation of the potential for technological--and communicative--civilizations. There's a neat toy at www.seti.org, too, that lets you plug in (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | Re: Drake Equation (was: Re: Some great Space info and dicussion) —Gil Shaw
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| | | | | I thought the Drake Equation was: Massive Collection + Endless Aquisition = Tha' Original Freak ;) In lugnet.space, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes: (snippage of great stuff) (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | | Re: Drake Equation (was: Re: Some great Space info and dicussion) —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | | | (...) That could actually apply to quite a few of us. *cough cough* ;) best LFB PS: The Takao site's almost ready to go up. (22 years ago, 22-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Drake Equation (was: Re: Some great Space info and dicussion) —Gil Shaw
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| | | | | | Ahhh...to one day be part of that lofty crowd. 'Sigh'. I've gotta earn more money :) -G (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | Re: Drake Equation (was: Re: Some great Space info and dicussion) —Paul Baulch
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| | | | (...) You must be joking, right? Intelligence has already done immeasurable things for our species. If you're talking about our capacity for conflict and self-destruction, blame our million-year-old instincts. IMO, intelligence is about the only (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | Re: Drake Equation (was: Re: Some great Space info and dicussion) —John P. Henderson
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| | | | | (...) Depends on how you look at it. Yes, there are some great things to being intelligent at this level. However, LFB said that it is "an evolutionary dead-end". If you think about it, that is somewhat true. We are less likely to evolve from our (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | Re: Drake Equation (was: Re: Some great Space info and dicussion) —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | (...) Redemption is, of course, an ethical concept, not an evolutionary one. Yes, our propensity towards violence is rooted in the competitive nature that very probably *gave* us our intellects to begin with; but that aggressive nature in itself (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | Re: Drake Equation (was: Re: Some great Space info and dicussion) —Paul Baulch
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| | | | (...) There's some analogy here about blaming the gun rather than the wielder, but it's a little too late in the night for me to tell whether it changes the argument... (...) So would I! I hope I didn't unintentionally imply otherwise. (...) (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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