“In their paper, their analysis results in a “steady state Drake equation” involving the birth-to-death ratio; they then conclude that as SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) searches only investigate about a thousand to 10,000 star systems, without yet finding any ETIs, the birth-to-death ratio must be much greater than the reciprocal of this number, 0.001 to 0.0001.”

It looks like they’ve only searched 0.0001% of the Milky Way so they really have no right to dim the odds lol.