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"The Odds on Intelligent Life in the Universe" May 19, 2020 2:09 pm hank

The latest entry in the “Centauri Dreams” website:

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/

discusses a Bayseian statistics analysis of the probability of intelligent life in the cosmos They point to this video for a more detailed exposition of the problem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLbbpRYRW5Y

I can barely follow the math here, and I’m not sure I believe it, so you might want to check it out for yourself.

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