The Search for Intelligence on the Internet: My man Mark Rayner plugs the numbers into the Drake equation, predicts that there should be 2.7 intelligent blogs in cyberspace. Keep watching the skies!
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5 responses so far ↓
1 Jeffwik // May 13, 2008 at 9:37 am
Rookie mistake! Unit analysis error!
6e6 websites per year times a lot of unitless numbers times 3e0 months equals not 2.7 websites but 2.7 website-months per year. Divide by 12 months in a year for the actual value.
2 Rob // May 13, 2008 at 9:48 am
So at any given time there should be ~0.225 intelligent weblogs out there? That sounds more accurate.
3 Jeffwik // May 13, 2008 at 10:22 am
About a one in five chance that, at any given time, there is an intelligent blog somewhere in the Internet, yeah.
4 Brett // May 13, 2008 at 10:25 am
We have the technology! Let’s set up SITI@home and start looking for them in earnest.
5 Foxtown // May 13, 2008 at 11:30 am
/smile
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