Parameterizing Drake
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - 16:56
in Psychology & Sociology
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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