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Parameterizing Drake

In 1960, Frank Drake did something extremely clever. At least it was something the people in my lab would consider clever. He wrote down an equation that would define how frequent detectable, intelligent life is in the galaxy, if only we knew the values of the variables. The Drake Equation (simple form, there are a lot of variations and adjustments): ,where: read more

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US Navy Ordered to Listen for Martian Radio Broadcasts in 1924

It seems that a SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) experiment happened decades before Project Ozma -a pioneering SETI project started in 1960 by Cornell University astronomer Frank Drake (left), at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, West...