Discussion - The Drake Equation. Please provide reference site and web site address. Instructions"Read the following question and post your answer to the discussion board.
The most promising places to look for the first signs of non-terrestrial life are right here in our own solar system. The search for intelligent life is a different story, and there is a wide variety of thought on whether or not we will ever find any.
Using this version of the Drake equation, and a value of 10 billion for NHP (the number of potentially habitable planets), provide your own values for the other factors to calculate the number of civilizations with which we could potentially communicate.