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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Exactly.
They also presupose that intelligence race = technological civilization.
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NASA scientists might (though I doubt it) but the Drake equation does not. It includes terms for both the chances of intelligent life developing and the chance of such life developing a technological civilization.
What the Drake equation is really trying to do is give us a rough estimate of whether there is a reasonable chance we will ever detect signals from an alien civilization; that does presuppose technology.... or aliens who communicate directly using really powerful E/M radiation.
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Bill