"You can't fix something without listing all of its faults first. That's like trying to heal someone without a proper diagnoses." Who the heck was this guy? Making a face, Ryden sat still as he talked, reluctantly giving him credit for saying his mind. The more he talked, however, the more she had to hold her tongue. She also remembered what he had said earlier, and turned the hufflepuff boy who had wanted proof and who was currently talking to another little kid who looked absolutely lost. Hmm. "But that's the POINT - it DOESN'T work. Now we have to try and fix it, pipsqueak," she pointed out and then turned back to Eino.

Once he was finished, thank Merlin, other people started up and she sighed in frustration. Shaking her head, she raised her voice and started talking - whoever wanted to listen will listen. "About the fractions - there is absolutely no way to use actual whole numbers because then you'd be overlapping everything about a thousand times. What if ALL the planets are hospitable? Or just half? Then you're taking the number of planets into the calculation TWO times, or one and a half times, and then it wouldn't work. You HAVE to use fractions, otherwise this equation will fall apart in the only area where it is even remotely legit - the mathematics," she pointed out, somewhat disappointed that a person with such an eloquent tongue as this couldn't figure that out.

Oh well.

"I kind of agree with you there," and this was said wit much reluctance for Ryden LOVED arguing, "but not about the humans part. It DOESN'T, if you look closely, actually refer to humans - it just always says either "hospitable" or "developed life" but it never mentions the conditions. In this equations, perhaps Mars could have been eligible once," she paused, then eyed her parchment to remind herself what she'd thought of earlier.

Taking a breath, Ryden began, "This equation is only relevant because we’re coming off the assumption that aliens exist and they might have technologies far beyond what we’re aware of. Perhaps they’ve found new wave patterns; perhaps they’ve already found us and surrounded us with technology that prevents us from contacting them?" what? a little sci-fi never hurt anyone. "There are so many things we do not know, so many unknown additions to this equation that it’s impossible to ever get right. Plus, we think we know how life happened - but truly, how did it happen? There was a boom and suddenly there was life? Perhaps there's another unknown fraction that MUST be put in?" she said, and paused again to gather her thoughts - they were all over the place when she got really into something.

"And another thing, specifically about the f thingies in the equations - . It just takes fl for granted. Everything that is in this equation is by OUR definitions; who ever said that they were correct? WE defined that light speed is 300,000 km/s because we said that THIS MUCH," she extended her hands a little bit to show a specific length, "was a km and this time," the brunette clicked her fingers, "was a second. Their definitions might be different and then how would our transmitters and our satellite probe space things be able to detect anything? This equation is purely mathematical and I think it needs a little bit more science… Er, I mean astronomy, in it in order to make it better," Ryden summed up, eying the people around her as if daring them to contradict her.

Of course, the fourth year was well aware that she could occasionally spout junk out of her mouth, but the girl felt very strongly that she was the best when it came to pointing out flaws and criticising.