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These are the values originally used by Drake et. al. when they proposed the equation in 1961. Many were outright guesses. Nevertheless, 50 years later, we still don't have much better guesses, but this may change soon for proportion of planets with stars (is probably higher) and stars with earthlikes (coming soon).


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