Are We Alone? Setting Some Limits to Our Uniqueness

Thursday, April 28, 2016 - 02:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Are humans unique and alone in the vast universe? This question-- summed up in the famous Drake equation--has for a half-century been one of the most intractable and uncertain in science. But a new paper shows that the recent discoveries of exoplanets combined with a broader approach to the question makes it possible to assign a new empirically valid probability to whether any other advanced technological civilizations have ever existed.

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