Posts Tagged ‘aliens’

“Long Weekend” Bag of Links

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

I put it in scare quotes because I am a member of the global information economy, and apparently what that means is that I have to take some meetings on those holidays that are merely national in scope. Yes, I am a grumpy about this. Well, honestly I’m mostly grumpy about having to be up [...]

Yes, I just made up the term “Doom Constant”

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Remember Nick Bostrom? And remember the Drake Equation?
Well, the two have met, as illustrated in MIT’s Technology Review this month, in Bostrom’s article, Where Are They.
Bostrom suggests, although he doesn’t put it in these terms, that the reason we haven’t met the aliens yet is that Drake’s equation is missing a Doom Constant that models [...]