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chaosmage comments on Can we make Drake-like Fermi estimates of expected distance to the next planet with primitive, sentient or self-improving life? - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: chaosmage 10 July 2013 01:34AM

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Comment author: chaosmage 15 July 2013 01:57:33PM 0 points [-]

Correct. That is why all serious treatments of the Drake Equation give low and high estimates for every factor, and low and high results from those estimates. The same could be done with the equation I'm proposing.