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Man Uses Drake Equation To Explain Girlfriend Woes
artemis67 writes "A man studying in London has taken a mathematical equation that predicts the possibility of alien life in the universe to explain why he can't find a girlfriend. Peter Backus, a native of Seattle and PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick, near London, in his paper, 'Why I don't have a girlfriend: An application of the Drake Equation to love in the UK,' used math to estimate the number of potential girlfriends in the UK. In describing the paper on the university Web site he wrote 'the results are not encouraging. The probability of finding love in the UK is only about 100 times better than the probability of finding intelligent life in our galaxy.'"
No no no, this was a bad idea entirely. Now if he does find someone, he won't be able to tell her "you're the only one", he just proved there are 25 other women he would like to be with!
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naw -- you're probably better off if they don't know what you look like.
Right. Any story about a mathematician finding a girlfriend should be in the science fiction section.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Doesn't work either. You can't win with girls. Pay no attention to them and you won't get them, pay attention and all you get is a lawsuit for stalking and a restraining order... you just can't win.
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