Tuesday, November 5, 2013

One term better defined at least

Far-Off Planets Like the Earth Dot the Galaxy - NYTimes.com

So there may be 40 billion habitable planets in the galaxy. Depending, of course on what you call "habitable."

But that comes closer at least to nailing down one of the variables in the Drake Equation, which I still view as a WAG (wild-ass-guess) multiplied by Who Knows? multiplied by Not Bloody Likely and allowing for the accelerated rotation of the status quo....

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