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To: longnshort who wrote (9719)	11/11/2010 11:19:15 AM
From: Solon	Respond to of 69300

As I said--a lonely speck rushing toward the cosmic darkness. Earth in relation to the cosmos is as one dust mote in a sun beam. The rest is emptiness. One cannot imagine how any civilization could get beyond their solar system--never mind a galaxy. Even if we rode on a light beam (WOW! That is fast!), it would take us 100,000 years to get across our tiny Milky Way (which is itself a speck of dust in the cosmos). And traveling at those speeds would make procreation extremely difficult, I am sure...

To: longnshort who wrote (9719)	11/11/2010 11:20:24 AM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 69300

The Drake equation always made me giggle. It has the authentic look and feel of the sort of tongue-in-cheek science practiced by a group of exuberantly smashed postdocs. Many of the terms in the equation are educated but still wild guesses. As our observational capacities evolve, I am sure that the Drake equation will be tweaked, probably down and down. I am inclined to zero Drake's equation by invoking Brin's Conundrum: "So then where the [burst of static] IS everybody!?" cheers js