N = R* × fp × ne × fl × fi × fc × L

While lying on my couch,

sucking in pure oxygen from my

"Invacare Platinum XL Oxygen Concentrator,"

(No Smoking Please)

from the wonderful people at

Apria Healthcare,

I started thinking about the

"Drake Equation."  

The Drake Equation,

written I believe in 1961,

is a probability equation to arrive at an estimated number of active

and communicative

Extraterrestrial Civilizations

in the

Milky Way Galaxy.

Back in the early 1960's the group that

Dr. Frank Drake

was working with estimated that there could be as many as

50,000 Planets

in the

Milky Way

that had

Intelligent Communicative Extraterrestrial Life.

That was still in the early days of

Radio Astronomy

and a long before

SETI.

In even in those early days,

50,000 Planets

seemed like a lot of possible

Planets

for

Intelligent Life.

What came to my mind was,

every story has a

Beginning,

Middle,

and an

End.

The Drake Equation

takes only into account the

Middle Possibility.

What if

Humans

are the very

First Intelligent Life

in the

Milky Way?

Or,

even worse,

what if we are the

Last Intelligent Life?

That still bodes to the question

"Are We Alone?"

This is,

Does Not Mean That Other Galaxies Do Not Have Intelligent Life,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” - Arthur C. Clarke -

That is my story and I am sticking to it!

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