New Category… My Quotes. Why repeat things? Post ‘em, reference ‘em, be done with it. First up, explaining the results of Drake Equation…

“To explain the results of the Drake equation to other people — especially people who understand the Fermi Paradox — I would say, consider first that life as we know it, is rather small relative to the scale of the Universe. And second, that there are forgotten factors in the Drake equation, things like time, or the distribution of civilizations over such a factor as time or even space. So, because life as we know it hasn’t evolved on the scale of the Universe and has only ever thrived on the planetary scale, it is unlikely given the results of the Drake Equation, given observations like the Fermi Paradox, given existing physics, and given the size of the known Universe, that we shall come to contact some alien intelligence of a form of life as we know it. Though, I believe of all that rubbish… the greatest constraint is really philosophical and it is in how we define things like alien, intelligence and life.”