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A quick thing to notice, if you fiddle a bit with the variables, you can get the answer "1" to the number of civilisations in our galaxy. Just decrease the probability of life or intelligent life. After all, it took 3 bn. years before the first multicellular life developed on Earth and 1bn. years for intelligence to develop afterwards.


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