(August 14, 2014 at 9:52 am)Michael Wrote: Carl Sagan on the odds of extraterrestrial life. Not sure I agree with some of his assumptions, but at least it's a structured way of thinking.
Wait, hold on, are you using the Drake Equation to refute my post? Really? My argument and presentation is not "structured"? Really? The Drake Equation is actually presenting the idea that there are abundant ETs in the universe. The Drake Equation would be expressing that most ETs would be limited to communicate with other ET civilizations. The darkest part about the Drake Equation, not expressed in the video, is the possibility that some ET civilizations would colonize and possibly enslave/utilize the less technologically developed species on other planets while mining and stealing resources. There are many ETs trapped on their planets because they have not developed space travel yet and may not even developed their own belief systems yet. Many ETs (of the same race/species) are probably, using the Drake Equation of course, planning to attack each other with weapons on the same planet they are living on. Or having interplanetary warfare in the same star system. This is what the Drake equation I expressing the brute reality of existence and survival. Unless, we could stipulate that most ET civilization which have interstellar travel are atheist(because they have grown out of the silly notion of a supernatural being) or some may have attained interstellar travel and still believing in some supernatural entity.
