[Rockhounds] Number of contactable alien civilisations estimated at 36

[J Bryan Kramer]

What hogwash. Imagine a race of intelligent apes living on an island in the
middle of a vast ocean with no other close islands. They are the only
critters on the island which is covered with banana trees. One of them
proceeds to calculate that there are 37 other intelligent critter species
living on other unseen islands based on no data whatsoever.

There you have it.

BK

“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by
one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
Edmund Burke

J Bryan Krämer       North Florida, USA
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On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 8:01 PM Paul <etchplain at att.net> wrote:

> Scientists say most likely number of contactable
>
> alien civilisations is 36. New calculations come up
>
> with estimate for worlds capable of communicating
>
> with others. Nicola Davis, The Guardian, June 15, 2020
>
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jun/15/scientists-say-most-likely-number-of-contactable-alien-civilisations-is-36
>
> The paper is:
>
> Tom Westby and Christopher J. Conselice, 2020,
>
> The Astrobiological Copernican Weak and Strong
>
> Limits for Intelligent Life. The Astrophysical Journal,
>
> Volume 896, Number 1
>
> https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab8225
>
> Yours,
>
> Paul H.
>
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