If you could read, you would have noitced that I said — uncontradicted — that the Drake equation requires information that we don’t have.
People spend time and money on all kinds of searches that have nearly zero chance of success: ESP, ghosts, UFOs, Noah’s Ark, living dinosaurs, non-biogenic petroleum, the winning lottery ticket. Such inquiries are part of what we are. Curious.
If you could read, you would have noitced that I said — uncontradicted — that the Drake equation requires information that we don’t have.
***That’s the nature of the Drake equation. Most people understand this. So I’m trying to get at that 10^700 figure you posted.
People spend time and money on all kinds of searches...
***That’s fine, it’s a bunch of junk science. I find some junk science fascinating. But when they’re asking for money from the guvmint or even the general public, they’ve crossed into that political realm that FR is so focused on.
If the SETI project is being defended as good science, then let’s see those presumptions. Just like you wanted to see my presumptions, using unsuitable language for this forum, that’s how strongly you felt about it.