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First, I was gently poking fun, not seriously criticizing. But since this is apparently that sort of conversation: no.

> There is no such thing as a "probability" of any of those terms...

There is a probability for each term in the Drake equation, but I assume you mean that we don't have a way of judging what it is. I agree.

> That said, there probably are intelligent civilizations somewhere in the universe

"there probably are" does not equal "I dunno, maybe" -- I'd argue it's a direct summarization of the nonsense that is the Drake equation, but just semantically it at least means greater than 0.5 probability, which we clearly can't establish.



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