Please, fastline69 be honest
How many times here in this forum you claimed that other members must listen to you because you are a scientist
I never claimed to be a nuclear engineer even though it was evident that the guy who was arguing with me ,did not even know what he was talking about ( it is not your case , of course)

About the supposed " Alienology " never heard of multi discipline topics ?

Biology , Physics , geology,astronomy and statistics play an equal important role
This does not mean that you can not have a scientific approach to the problem
Obviously it is not that kind of problem where you can expect to have an exhaustive answer
Nevertheless you can cast a light on many aspects of the problem and you can refute , those claims which are absolutly false

Getting back to your "nobody knows who is it" supporter
Not only he has no references but he said also nonsenses

He gave for granted that by doubling the number of probes you can halve the exploration time of the galaxi
This is false
Obviusly the higher the number of probes the shorter the exploration time
but, beyond a certain number, the contribution of additional probes can be negligible

Imagine a region of space with 10 stars
The ideal fleet, if time savings is your main target, is made of 10 ships
A fleet of 20 ships would be of no use
A fleet of 5 ships might be acceptable , if cost saving is your second priority, since a ship can visit two or more stars which are on the same way
The exploration time will be longer but , maybe, not that longer

It depends on the distribution of the stars in the map

In other words you should run again the simulation , with an higher number of probes, to check if you can expect a reasonable time savings

It is very presumptuos of him and of you , to assume that mr Bjork did make so a silly mistake


If you read the article you can see that mr Bjork has implemented a sophisticated "research " algo to optimize the efficiency of the probes

Not to mention that he discuss, in his article, also the possibility of using more probes and even faster