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Old 14-November-2007, 06:57 PM
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Originally Posted by neilzero View Post
As others have posted, we don't know. There is a slight possibility that humans are the first.
Of course, right now we don't know whether it's a "slight possibility" or a "virtual certainty" or somewhere in between.

If you want to play with a modified Drake equation to guesstimate your own number of interstellar civilizations, you can use this web page calculator: http://frombob.to/drake.html

Keep in mind how many WAGs you're entering into the parameters, of course...
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