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Drake on Drake: ET Life A Certainty
astro writes "Frank Drake, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the SETI Institute applies Occam's Razor to his own Drake equation: 'Life should appear very frequently on other Earth-like planets. There will be microbial life nearby the solar system.' The simplest scenario is that 'Not Life' has a nearly identical number of assumptions as 'Life.' The contrasting view is that experimentation can prove it--but how many times did life independently create itself while the Earth changed through the whole spectrum of what biological forces might conjure up elsewhere. A sample size of 1 is in fact an experimental sample size of many--just here during Earth's climatic history."
shouldn't that be "there"?
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Anonymous posting community when IDC confirmed that on-topic Anonymous posting has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all comments. Coming on the heels of a recent Slashcode change which plainly forces Trolls To post Anonymously at 0 rather than at -1, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Anonymous posting is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Karma Whore to predict Anonymous posting's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Anonymous posting faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Anonymous posting because Anonymous posting is dying. Things are looking very bad for Anonymous posting. As many of us are already aware, Anonymous posting Trolls continue to waste time. Mod points flow like a river of blood.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Troll leader Jamie McCarthy states that there are 7000 Trolls. How many on-topic AC's are there? Let's see. The number of Troll posts versus on-topic comments posted at 0 is roughly in ratio of 50 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/50 = 140 on-topic AC's. AC's that get modded over +2 are about half of the volume of on-topic posts. Therefore there are about 70 slashbot AC's. A recent article put Crapflooders at about 80 percent of the Anonymous posting volume. Therefore there are (7000+140+70)*4 = 28840 Crapflooders. This is consistent with the number of -1 posts.
Due to the troubles of VA Software, abysmal sales and so on, OSDN went out of business and was taken over by AOL who run other troubled websites. Now AOL is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Anonymous posting has steadily declined in signal to noise ratio. Anonymous posting is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Anonymous posting is to survive at all it will be among the slashdot janitors. Anonymous posting continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Anonymous posting is dead.
Fact: Anonymous posting is dying
Using a so-called "principle" like Occam's Razor to decide whether or not there is extraterrestrial life is insane. Occam's Razor doesn't take into account any actual science. Saying that something is simpler doesn't automatically mean it's right, or even that it's more likely to be right.
And anyway, nowhere in the Bible does it mention ET life. If there really were "aliens" then Jesus would have had to come and die for THEIR sins too. No alien-Jesus, no aliens.
It sounds like this guy is just some crackpot trying to push his views on all of us in a "scientific" manner.
Dragging people kicking and screaming into reality since 1996.
You misspelled "there." You didn't use an end-quote. Francis Drake was an explorer/pirate. Maybe next time you'll use "preview."
Now my life is fulfilled and I can die in peace:|
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Pain lasts, kid. Its how you know you're alive. Sometimes I think this growing up thing is just pain management-TheMaxx