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6 posts • joined Thursday 2nd April 2009 11:37 GMT

MJF

Re: Correlation != Causation

Well:

http://www.icc-ccs.org.uk/news/737-piracy-increasing-in-west-africa-latest-report-shows

and

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217286/Global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago-reveals-Met-Office-report-quietly-released--chart-prove-it.html

MJF

1. outrage people 2. sue for free speech 3: profit!

The group, which has barely 100 (mostly family) members, also has a lucrative sideline in suing those who attack them, of whom there are many.

Sideline? Isn't that actually what they're about? The more people they provoke, the more opportunities to keep the money rolling in.

MJF

Re: Drake?

Not much change, I'd think. The Drake formula is just a long catalogue of things you would need to know to make an informed estimate of the likelihood of life elsewhere: values for all the terms were guesses depending on how keen you were for SETI funding. Fraction of stars with planets was an optimistic guess of around 1.0; just a guess. All we have now is a tiny bit of data suggesting there may be a a lot of planets, making the fraction somewhere in the range >0 to 1.0.

Still no information on all the other terms in the equation.

(I do wonder at the habitability index: for all we know, that's a guess too, and we may as well be using OLGA's formula of Gy=c)

MJF

Enough of this ethnic monitoring nonsense, tell them you're of central African origin.

Like everyone else on Earth...

MJF
Mushroom

Oh my. It's the End of the World of Warcraft?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVknVfIW-z0

MJF

Staring at goats?

So have they given up using psychics for remote viewing?