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Eniac comments on [link] On the abundance of extraterrestrial life after the Kepler mission - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Eniac 07 December 2014 11:47:51PM *  0 points [-]

I agree. However, considering that Kepler is not actually sensitive enough to detect Earth sized planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars, both these numbers are extrapolations and it must be assumed that the 7-15% or 20% are well within each other's error bounds.