Do you believe in aliens?

[3.4 slow to go]

so is rodman

[G-Force]

Simply, yes. The Drake Equation is used to obtain an estimate of the number of communicating civilizations in our own galaxy. Current estimates for the variables in the equation lead to a result of 10,000 technologically advanced civilizations in the Milky Way alone.

[j_downey50]

Originally posted by G-Force:
Current estimates for the variables in the equation lead to a result of 10,000 technologically advanced civilizations in the Milky Way alone.

-Humans
-Klingons
-Romulans
-Ferengi

...sorry [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[V8 Killer]

Originally posted by G-Force:
Simply, yes. The Drake Equation is used to obtain an estimate of the number of communicating civilizations in our own galaxy. Current estimates for the variables in the equation lead to a result of 10,000 technologically advanced civilizations in the Milky Way alone.

Where did he even get those numbers from to answer the equation?

[j_downey50]

Originally posted by V8 Killer:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by G-Force:
Simply, yes. The Drake Equation is used to obtain an estimate of the number of communicating civilizations in our own galaxy. Current estimates for the variables in the equation lead to a result of 10,000 technologically advanced civilizations in the Milky Way alone.

Where did he even get those numbers from to answer the equation? </font>[/QUOTE]The aliens.

[Loochy88]

Originally posted by V8 Killer:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by G-Force:
Simply, yes. The Drake Equation is used to obtain an estimate of the number of communicating civilizations in our own galaxy. Current estimates for the variables in the equation lead to a result of 10,000 technologically advanced civilizations in the Milky Way alone.

Where did he even get those numbers from to answer the equation? </font>[/QUOTE]drake actually came up with his own numbers based on his own predictions, but its sort of a fill in the blanks equation. at this point its impossible to fill in all those blanks for certain. after taking an entire class on this the best reason i could come up with to believe in aliens was the principle of plentitude, or simply that there are a ton of planets and one must have life on it.

help find aliens, go to www.setiathome.com and you can find an alien!

if you really want to read some wild theories read up on the Von Neumann machine.

[V8 Killer]

The von neumann machine is complete quantum BS.
Way too radical.

[G-Force]

As Loochy said, the Drake Equation relies on the near infinite number of stars to make a case for inteligent civilations. The point is, even if the numbers used in the Drake Equation are fractions of a percent, the result will still be greater than zero. Meaning that even if the chance of life is one in a trillion, with the vast amount of stars, there will be life somewhere else.

[andrew.brandon]

Von Neumann machine
Last modified: Monday, August 05, 2002

(pronounced von noi-man) An early computer created by Hungarian mathematician John von Neumann (1903-1957). It included three components used by most computers today: a CPU; a slow-to-access storage area, like a hard drive ; and secondary fast-access memory (RAM ). The machines stored instructions as binary values (creating the stored program concept) and executed instructions sequentially - the processor fetched instructions one at a time and processed them. Today "von Neumann architecture" often refers to the sequential nature of computers based on this model.


I take it this is not what your talking about

[V8 Killer]

Part of it..the weird part is the "self replicating" machine.

[andrew.brandon]

your not talking about like in the movie I Robot are you? Where eventually random code bits come together to *evolve* intelligence?

[BLLDOGG]

i flert with the idea

[V8 Killer]

Originally posted by andrew.brandon:
your not talking about like in the movie I Robot are you? Where eventually random code bits come together to *evolve* intelligence?

Dont think so.Never seen it..

[00firebird]

Originally posted by G-Force:
As Loochy said, the Drake Equation relies on the near infinite number of stars to make a case for inteligent civilations. The point is, even if the numbers used in the Drake Equation are fractions of a percent, the result will still be greater than zero. Meaning that even if the chance of life is one in a trillion, with the vast amount of stars, there will be life somewhere else.

this is true.
and even if you came up with one in a trillion... the odds of one in a trillion would probably come on to having a trillion civilizations since there are just so many stars

[ January 26, 2005, 12:43 AM: Message edited by: 00firebird ]

[V8 Killer]

Big numbers dont mean anything.The chances could get lower and lower.