Labels:book | bulletin board | hakham OCR: The Drake Equation What are the chances that there could be someone or something out there sending signal? Read on .. N=p where p=fp ne fl fi fc How can we estimate the number of technological civilizations that might exist among the stars? While working as a radio astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank West Virginia, Dr. Frank Drake (now President of the SETI Institute) conceived an approach to bound the terms involved in estimating the number 01 technological civilizations that may exist our galaxy The Drake Equation, as has come to be known was first presented by Drake in 1961 and identifies specific factors thought to play role in the development of such civilizations. Although there is no unique solution to this equation, it is a generally accepted tool u ...
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