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.'"

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[Hurricane78]

He’s not really shining a nice light on himself. More like a loser who fails at women, and uses some ridiculous “explanation” to justify why he’s not a failure. (Not saying that he is, though.)

I know exactly why he’s not getting a girlfriend. It’s very simple, once you get it. Unfortunately a real (nearly scientific) explanation takes 24 hours of video time, since it’s so hard to put it into words.