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@grumpybozo@toad.social
2025-06-04 22:06:12

We need a Drake Equation for political clout fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app

Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath.bsky.social)
Let’s say half of Musk’s followers are real. That’s 110 million. Let’s say half are American. That’s 55 million. Let’s say 10% of those see his post. That’s. 5.5 million. Let’s say 10% of those call. That would be more than half a million calls. We’ll see if he has the capacity for mobilization.

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2025-06-01 20:42:03

from my link log —
Dissolving the Fermi paradox.
arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404
saved 2025-04-18 dotat.at/:/U1H2Q.html

Dissolving the Fermi Paradox
The Fermi paradox is the conflict between an expectation of a high {\em ex ante} probability of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe and the apparently lifeless universe we in fact observe. The expectation that the universe should be teeming with intelligent life is linked to models like the Drake equation, which suggest that even if the probability of intelligent life developing at a given site is small, the sheer multitude of possible sites should nonetheless yield a large number of pot…