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Life on Other Plants, An Algorithm?
What is the name of the algorithm used to calculate the chances of finding
life on other planets? BV. |
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"Benign Vanilla" wrote in message
... What is the name of the algorithm used to calculate the chances of finding life on other planets? BV. The Drake equation. |
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Dice.
"Benign Vanilla" wrote in message ... What is the name of the algorithm used to calculate the chances of finding life on other planets? BV. |
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So which one is it, Drake or Dice?
LJ |
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"Lloyd Jones" wrote in message
... So which one is it, Drake or Dice? LJ Drake ( 'cause we all know that God does not play dice with the Universe ;-) |
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dice, because any equation is nonsense, since there's no known case of life
elsewhere in the universe but Earth. There's no possible way any scientist could make a meaningful equation to predict the probability of life on another planet. "John Zinni" wrote in message . .. "Lloyd Jones" wrote in message ... So which one is it, Drake or Dice? LJ Drake ( 'cause we all know that God does not play dice with the Universe ;-) |
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"Algomeysa2" wrote in message
hlink.net... dice, because any equation is nonsense, Whether the equation is nonsense or not is another question entirely. I believe BVs original question was about the name of the specific and well known equation. .... and the answer is the Drake Equation. since there's no known case of life elsewhere in the universe but Earth. There's no possible way any scientist could make a meaningful equation to predict the probability of life on another planet. "John Zinni" wrote in message . .. "Lloyd Jones" wrote in message ... So which one is it, Drake or Dice? LJ Drake ( 'cause we all know that God does not play dice with the Universe ;-) |
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"John Zinni" wrote in message . .. "Benign Vanilla" wrote in message ... What is the name of the algorithm used to calculate the chances of finding life on other planets? BV. The Drake equation. Thanks. That's exactly what I was looking for. BV. |
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"Algomeysa2" wrote in message hlink.net... dice, because any equation is nonsense, since there's no known case of life elsewhere in the universe but Earth. There's no possible way any scientist could make a meaningful equation to predict the probability of life on another planet. snip It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination. -Douglas Adams |
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Hi BV Best to go with positive thinking and that means our universe has
all the right stuff for life. Best to look for single medium stars like our sun.(they could be the most common. Earth type planets(liquid water on surface). BV the universe has so much of these right conditions for life we need not fantasy other conditions. In our solar system Europa is the best place to look Bert |
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