by slaven41 » Thu Jun 02, 2011 2:44 pm
I think the Drake equation is a fine thing, provided you don't actually think you can use it to calculate how many communicative alien races there are in the galaxy. As long as everyone recognizes that we don't have any idea what the values are for some of the parameters, it's good harmless fun.
"It's only Neutron. We call him that because he's so positive." --from This Island Earth