Kurumi looked around at everyone and felt like burying her nose in her textbook. She wasn't really sure what the debate going on was hoping to accomplish seeing as it seemed like everyone else was agreeing that the equation was far to vague and had too many variants to actually be worth a hoot.

"Did anyone ever stop to think that THIS is the exact reason why the equation is accepted?" she asked everyone in the general area waving her arms around for emphasis. Although, Kurumi wasn't sure that accepted was the right word. Acknowledged was probably better. She was risking repeating herself, but no one had seemed to have heard her the first time. "This equation is stimulating intellectual curiosity, nothing more seeing as it is based on essentially stabs in the dark," she said firmly. She pointed back at the board. "Essentially all those properties that are listed are based on what we, as humans, consider signs of life and civilization. It makes us feel connected to the universe and helps us see just how connected and integrated we are with the universe." She suddenly felt the urge to stand, but she refrained. "As I see it, it is an elaborate metaphor for hope and chance. To make us feel like out planet isn't alone." Yep, she had definitely said that earlier.

She glanced back at her notes and at the board. "This equation doesn't take time into consideration either....there is nothing that indicated WHEN there were Earth-like planets or intelligent beings." She swallowed. "Also, when it says detectable signals...whose to say that there are planets producing signals that are beyond what we are capable of reading?"

Constellations...please?