Fermi, Drake, me, and Fairbanks, AK.

There’s a point, I promise.

The thing I like about Frank Drake is that he’s right, he knows it, and is very humble about it. Sure, the variables have changed over time with more and more research, but it’s generally accepted (by everybody expect for the whackjob Tipler) that the the result of the Drake Equation has always been greater than one at any given point.

I did some research with f_c, with a specific concentration on parts of the Fermi Paradox (It didn’t work out, I was totally incorrect, and we don’t talk about this), so this whole idea hits pretty close to home. It’s pretty easy to analyze your world when you tear it down to contributing factors. Literally. But the hard part isn’t defining the variables, it’s trying to figure out the value of the variables. 

So, why bother, right?  But here’s where Drake, Fermi and I disagree.  In the mid 20th century, when Drake and Fermi were looking to answer these questions and spark discussion, nobody was really thinking about how space and time are related, or really, what space and time looked like. Time went one way, space went three ways, and that was that. Plain and simple. But that’s not really how things are put together.

Basically, they were thinking in a straight line, when in fact, gravity’s a bitch, and time and space are altered by something existing.

Or, also, even not existing.

My point, as promised, is that this document needs to be edited for Fairbanks, Alaska.