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Amory, are you ready to do some physicist phrases of your?

Sure.

Do you know what the Drake equation is?

No, no I do not.

So a lot of people think that the Drake equation is like late night plus you needing my love equals he is to come

myself, but that's not actually what the Drake equation is.

You're only embarrassing yourself.

So the Drake equation is this like it's this probabilistic argument used to estimate the number of active

unicative extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy.

Just rolls right off the tongue.

Yeah.

So basically the probability that there are aliens, right?

So what about the Fermi paradox?

When I say the Fermi paradox, are you like no doy?

Not exactly. I mean I know it's like aliens, the existence of extraterrestrial life, but I couldn't give a Ted talk on it no.

Okay, so the Fermi paradox simply stated named by the way after physicist Enrico Fermi.

Yeah.

This is the idea that there's this issue where the mathematical probability of intelligent life beyond planet Earth, aka the Drake equation doesn't really line up with the total lack of evidence we have been presented with of aliens.

So what you're saying is you're not an avid follower of ancient aliens, the air quotes history channel show.

Yes, the existence of the pyramids tells you more about humanity's terrible propensity for slavery than it does past visits from interstellar travelers.

Yeah.

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