On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:40:55 -0700, you wrote: >Yup it would be a guess, but doesn't science make guesses (hypotheses) >based on data and knowledge gained from data?
You can make wild guesses, but when you aren't even sure of the order of magnitude of the factors in the equation and have no easy way of testing the results, what you have is pure guesswork. (see equation, Drake) http://xkcd.com/384/ ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
