re: #4 freetoken

Thanks for the summary, and you have spent more time analyzing the broader picture than I have, although you sound somewhat down in general.

However In my more brief endeavor I have found clear signals for quite a few planets, even though already identified as candidates and perhaps a few less obvious ones as my skills improved.

I think though that the enterprise doesn’t depend so much on how long it continues, since the proof has already been demonstrated and we are not going there anytime soon, but the picture will remain.

Simply knowing that all of the rejections for planet candidates that I made are statistically dependent on the simple requirement that the orientation of the system must be oriented to close alignment with Earth to be detected has to mean that I rejected many planetary systems in my examinations.

I can remember only a few years ago that this was a total unknown in the Drake Equation.

To that extent it is solved and that is major. I feel a certain community with the cosmos as a result.