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Re: Drake Equation (was: Re: Some great Space info and dicussion)
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lugnet.space
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Wed, 22 Jan 2003 14:01:54 GMT
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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)
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> A minor tangent, but it's got a pointer to a neat toy.
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> 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
> values.
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> The basic "Drake Equation" info and site are at:
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> http://www.seti.org/seti/seti_science/drake_equation.html
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> One might also check out the book "First Contact," which
> is a nice collection of essays; it was published around 1990,
> and I forget off hand who edited it. It includes some very
> interesting musings about the possible reaction of paranoid
> civilizations to new noises in the neighborhood (including
> the idea that a probe might be placed in the system by sub-
> luminal methods; when it picks up noise, the robotic bomber
> is duly dispatched.)
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> And, of course, it need not be pointed out too sharply that
> intelligence has yet to show itself as anything other than
> an evolutionary dead-end. Our track record is not incredibly
> impressive (but I'd like to be optimistic).
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> best
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> LFB
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