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sweetpinkpixie · 06-02-2011, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Antarctica!

"You are correct, of course, to mention these things, Miss Hollingberry," Risu said, "but I might need to clarify a minor detail. Questions of, say, detectable signals or time are assumed in the factors of the equation. A huge number of different ideas stand behind each factor - for example, if intelligent life took, on average, a few billion years to develop, then this number would be important to consider in several of our factors; ne would only include planets surrounding a star capable of shining for at least that long, and so on."

"So...does that imply that, if we assume that this equation actually works, that we may be missing out on some forms of civilization simply because it developed faster or because the civilization died out prematurely for whatever reason?" she asked tapping her finger against her lips.

Kurumi was still holding out for an activity involving star charts, but that was seeming like less of a possibility by the minute.

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