Except he didn't.

the two ugliest books, A Feast for Crows and A Dance With Dragons

Okie dokie. Not really splitting hairs; the entire point of the Drake equation is to highlight a number of factors that we're pretty much totally clueless about — "the" value of the Drake equation is pretty much a contradiction in terms. I didn't actually realise Drake had guessed values when he originally presented…

Right. But you're not really saying the Drake equation is off. Just... some people's estimation of one of the constants.

Why?

Do you know for a fact that their tools aren't sufficiently accurate to detect Mercury-sized inner planets when they exist? Do you also know whether their statistical analysis took any measurement biases into account?

If the data ends up showing we're in a rare system... we're in a rare system. Your "worries" of "privilege" are nonsensical.

Thrusters.

The only point you made is that "there are infinite worlds" does not imply the existence of exotic worlds.

1. People always assume that "infinite worlds" means there are some where the Roman Empire never fell, or I'm dating Kate Upton, or Carrot Top is entertaining.

It's not as bad as I thought it might be. It's perhaps a little too slickly animated, but I'm glad they did stay true to using stop motion woollen puppets like the original; if they'd gone with computer animation it would have stripped away all of the soul.

Yeah, as far as I can see it's exactly the same type of puzzle. Imagine there's one door in each wall, so the question is saying you can only go through each door once. You make a graph with a node for each room plus another for outside, then connect the nodes for each doorway between the corresponding areas. The…