New planet vs. Drake's Equation

"M" == Modemac writes:

M Maybe it's the optimist in me, but the discovery of a new,
M "potentially" Earth-like planet makes me hopeful for the future of
M Drake's Equation.

M Given the state of current technology, it seems that we may not be
M able to conduct any kind of detailed study of the new planet in
M Gliese for, oh, maybe thirty to fifty years. But when that time
M comes, all eyes will be focused on it. For *if* they find some
M kind of evidence of life, it could radically alter the equation.

No, it won't. It may alter the values we assign to the various
factors of the equation, by giving us a better estimate of them, but
it will not alter the equation.

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Hogwash, ery1 knows that there are two poles in transition between any two
planets, so the relative difference as a singular body can be contradicted
in certain light of an emerging society's take on geokinetic and
astralkinetic fields of a local mecha-genesis that we'll be wrting of until
the end of the century. Noone knows that the triadic form of this equation
holds to such divisions in virtually every aspect of life, that such
realizations are granted as a mathematically sound fate, I'm not so sure....
This holds the capability to architect inter-plnaetary networks by teh
story-space of such since there had better been a crisis-risk like
Alpha-Beta-Theta for its interim study.

Patrick Ashley Meuser"-Bianca"
Cyberneticist, Crisis-risk Consultant
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"M" == Modemac writes:

M Maybe it's the optimist in me, but the discovery of a new,
M "potentially" Earth-like planet makes me hopeful for the future of
M Drake's Equation.

M Given the state of current technology, it seems that we may not be
M able to conduct any kind of detailed study of the new planet in
M Gliese for, oh, maybe thirty to fifty years. But when that time
M comes, all eyes will be focused on it. For *if* they find some
M kind of evidence of life, it could radically alter the equation.

No, it won't. It may alter the values we assign to the various
factors of the equation, by giving us a better estimate of them, but
it will not alter the equation.

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