Lance wrote: If the Milky Way is 100,000 light-years in diameter and advanced, technological civilizations (TCs) are evenly spaced at 1,500 light-years apart, I put that at just shy of 3,500 TCs. The average thickness is just 1,000 light-years so I was only considering 2 dimensions.
Is that close to right?
Lance wrote:This is probably a question for Mactep:
If the Milky Way is 100,000 light-years in diameter and advanced, technological civilizations (TCs) are evenly spaced at 1,500 light-years apart, I put that at just shy of 3,500 TCs. The average thickness is just 1,000 light-years so I was only considering 2 dimensions.
Is that close to right?
tubeswell wrote:Depends on the backstory
Мастер wrote:That is extremely close to what I'm getting if we assume they're on a square grid. If we put them in hexagonal cells, then I'm getting that it should be about 15.5% higher. But that's after a nice 0.5 litre dunkel lager at the wurst restaurant.
Lance wrote:Мастер wrote:That is extremely close to what I'm getting if we assume they're on a square grid. If we put them in hexagonal cells, then I'm getting that it should be about 15.5% higher. But that's after a nice 0.5 litre dunkel lager at the wurst restaurant.
That makes sense to me. I just divided the area of the 100K LY circle by the area of a 1.5K2 LY square so that would make it a grid.
How do you figure it for a hexagon?
We should work on this. Maybe we can replace the Drake Equation with the Clarke/Mactep Equation.
Мастер wrote:I'm not sure how well that comes across in words; there isn't an easy way to do a diagram, is there?
Enzo wrote:"Dr.Drake, how many civilizations are there in the universe?" Oh, somewhere between one and....
Lance wrote:tubeswell wrote:Depends on the backstory
tubeswell wrote:The assumption that (TCs) are evenly spaced at 1,500 light-years apart?
MM_Dandy wrote:I hear it rains down in Africa.
MM_Dandy wrote:I hear it rains down in Africa.
Lance wrote:MM_Dandy wrote:I hear it rains down in Africa.
The wild dogs cry out in the night
Heid the Ba' wrote:Lance wrote:MM_Dandy wrote:I hear it rains down in Africa.
The wild dogs cry out in the night
As they grow restless longing for some solitary company
Lance wrote:</snip>MM_Dandy wrote:I hear it rains down in Africa.
I know that I must do what's right
MM_Dandy wrote:Lance wrote:</snip>MM_Dandy wrote:I hear it rains down in Africa.
I know that I must do what's right
Sure as Kilmanjaro rises above the Serengeti.
...It's "I bless the rains down in Africa, isn't it?
Heid the Ba' wrote:Let's try again:
I hear the drums echoing tonight
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