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==Once== | ==Once== | ||
we are no longer concerned about | we are no longer concerned about intelligent life in counting those worlds which could support it a reevaluation of the Drake equation causes the next to last two parameters to drop out and the last to be taken as the period during which it a world would be amenable to that role, taken for example as 1 billion years giving: | ||
:''N'' = 7 × 0.5 × 2 × 0.33 × 10 <sup>9</sup> = roughly a billion worlds | :''N'' = 7 × 0.5 × 2 × 0.33 × 10 <sup>9</sup> = roughly a billion worlds | ||
as the amount of real estate for development in a galaxy such as ours. This figure can be fudged in a number of ways by observing current estimates of the ancientness of life on earth, terraforming by advanced cultures, and the | as the amount of real estate for development in a galaxy such as ours. This figure can be fudged in a number of ways by observing current estimates of the ancientness of life on earth, terraforming by advanced cultures, and the known state of planets in our neighborhood such as Gliese. | ||
Thus the overall picture is of a (relatively) dense cosmic culture and a (potentially) no less crowded one at the local galactic level. | Thus the overall picture is of a (relatively) dense cosmic culture (with an average ~1 humanity or better per galaxy/100 million stars) and a (potentially) no less crowded one at the local galactic level. | ||
==Assuming== | ==Assuming== | ||
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==I think== | ==I think== | ||
we can conclude that this galaxy isn't the home of any species which have reached the omega point substantially before us, unless of course we are the result of same. | we can conclude that this galaxy isn't the home of any species which have reached the omega point substantially before us, unless of course we are the result of same. | ||
== See Also == | |||
*[[Therapod]] | |||
