Whatev.

No, not whatev. Are these odds real???

I don't know!!!  871 seems as good a number as any, but the chances of meeting even one of them...?

Still great compared with the chances of being born in the first place!

That is the best possible way of looking at it.  :-)

Lol, I don't think the Drake equation means what they think it means.  I bet the odds are even lower if you wanted to marry an Alien.   Speaking of which, "The Great and Secret Show" and "Imajica" where books that sort of covered the subjects of inter-realm God, sex, love, gender, and death.  

isn't a soul necessary to have a soulmate?  

<awkward silence>

Just saying I don't buy Elizabeth Gilbert's idea of a soulmate...it is a weird thing to try and calculate  

Interest Graph, yes.  Soul Graph, nope.