2. The Drake Equation:
(a) What, exactly, does the Drake Equation estimate?
(b) If you are like Frank Drake or Carl Sagan, you are an
optimist who believes that the development of life, intelligence,
and technological civilizations are not "vanishingly small", but
are typical. That is, that what happened on earth is not rare.
Explain them why Drake and Sagan would say that "N=L" is a good
approximation to the Drake Equation.