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Consider trying to understand Frank Drake's \textbf{Fermi Paradox} which estimates the number of technological civilizations that might exist among the stars. stars.\\  ($R$ is the annual rate of star formation, $n_e$ is the average number of habitable planets, $f_p$ is the fraction of stars that have planets, $f_p$ is the fraction of stars that have planets, $f_l$ is the fraction of habitable planets, $f_i$ is the fraction of life-bearing planets that develop an intelligent life-form, and $f_c$ is the fraction of intelligent life-forms that decide to communicate) \begin{equation}\nonumber  N =\underbrace{\overbrace{R}^{\approx10} \times \overbrace{f_p}^{\approx 1} \times \overbrace{n_e}^{\approx 0.2}}_{\sim 2} \times \underbrace{f_l \times f_i \times f_c \times L}_{?}  \end{equation}