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by rohan037 5999 days ago
The drake equation is by far the most far-fetched equation I have ever since, which certainly does not deserve to be termed to have anything even close to mathematical accuracy let alone a testimony from observational confirmance.
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What's far-fetched about it? It seems self-evidently true-- it's not as though the equation even makes claims about the probabilities involved.