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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
From that article:
As to the Drake equation, it's one flaw IMO is lack of consideration for the odds that multiple intelligent races will exist at the same time relative to each other.
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Huh? That is what the Drake equation is trying to figure out. Ok, technically civilizations, and they have to be capable of sending us (intentionally or not) a signal we can detect, but it factors in the life time of the average civilization (obviously a guess for alien civilizations) to figure out how many we might expect at any given time.
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Bill