[PerfectCreditForYou]

Sentience, or intelligence enough to communicate abstractly, exists at least once in the universe. This species is carbon-based and occupies a planet with a substantial amount of H2O in the form of water.

Knowing only this much information, how can anyone estimate the number, the forms, and the planetary conditions that would support life at all, let alone sentient life. Without that data or any data on how long a sentient condition on a given planet is expected to last (nothing lasts forever), an estimate as to how many existing sentient "civilizations" there might be is based on sand and cast in water.

Actually, it would be easier to test our MPG by monitoring usage in every car of a given model than to even estimate the margin for error in a giant stochastic multivatiate model with only two known data points.

[Gasfghj]

That part of the thread is coming up soon.

[vipBrooriErok]

I hate misleading thread titles. I thought this was going to be about right-wing religious extremists.