"I prefer an inverted V over a vertical but in 5H3 deep in the bush filming wildlife on a TV contract I didn't always have trees at hand!"
Hm...where has creativity gone to? Use to giraffes as I did! :) The Drake equation is: N = R(200 billion) x Fp x Ne x Fl x Fi x Fc x L where: N = the number of civilizations in our galaxy with which radio-communication might be possible (i.e. which are on our current past light cone); and R* = the average rate of star formation in our galaxy fp = the fraction of those stars that have planets ne = the average number of planets that can potentially support life per star that has planets fl = the fraction of planets that could support life that actually develop life at some point fi = the fraction of planets with life that actually go on to develop intelligent life (civilizations) fc = the fraction of civilizations that develop a technology that releases detectable signs of their existence into space L = the length of time for which such civilizations release detectable signals into space before going extinct. In the Orion "spur" of the Perseus arm of the galaxy known as the Milky Way...Earth is located. The universe will last about another 100 trillion years. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com