[Bender2]

The beauty of the Drake Equation (N = N* fp ne fl fi fc fL), which even Frank admitted, is that you can plug in just about any figures you wish--

Of course, by the year 3000... we know life exists on Omicron Persei 8 and other such worlds.

[Kevmo]

Then, as you have seen on the other thread, the original values for #4 were 10^-3, whereas the Coppedge numbers show that to be off by several hundred exponents.

Here, plug them in for yourself. I was using 1% for #4, one thousand years. Let’s just start with something.

http://www.msnbc.com/modules/drake/default.asp