Are we alone? Setting some limits to our planet's uniqueness
Thursday, April 28, 2016 - 13:00
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.