On Monday 2003-12-22 08:45, Alberto Monteiro wrote: > Trent Shipley wrote: > >> I have done some estimates on this. From data from GURPS Uplift and > >> from Contacting Aliens, I estimate: > >> > >> * about 2 million populated planets at each time > > > > Across how many galaxies? > > All five of them. > > > (Note that for the 1000KY +- Contact Galaxy 4 was > > fallow, so it doesn't matter. The real question is whether the GIM > > populates 2M planets in Galaxy 2 or throughout GIM controled space.) > > My estimate includes all five. Of course, as in Drake's equation, > each factor has an error from 10% to 900% :-) > > >> * about 10 planets per race > >> * about 200,000 races
Alberto, as I recall Drake's Equation has no factor for "Planets Fallow by order of the GIM." Are you proposing there 2M habitable planets, some of which are Fallow or that there are, perhaps, 6M habitable planets 2M of which are *not* Fallow? Have you made any allowance for an increase in the number of habitable planets due to terraforming? (Do you need to?) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
