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Stories about: Drake's equation

Alien Life May Not Exist After All In a new study, a team of experts proposes that the elimination of life-centric biases in our way of thinking about the prospective existence of alien civilizations could result in a lowering of our expectations to find it. The work is supported by an analysis of the famous Drake equation.This equation seeks to deter... 25 July 2011 07:34 GMT New 'Drake Equation' for Space Habitability in the Works The Drake Equation (DE) was compiled in the 1960s by now University of California in Santa Cruz (UCSC) Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and Astrophysics Dr. Frank Drake, in an attempt to quantify the number of worlds in the Milky Way that might sustain extraterrestrial civilizations. Even if its results are erroneous,... 17 September 2009 06:09 GMT Meet ET in 20 Years A new SETI tool in the search for intelligent alien lifeforms has been built. It is called the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) and it has recently been powered up in its first stage configuration of 42 antennas. When complete, in 2025, it will feature the combined power of 350 such dishes. The project, financed by Paul A... 13 November 2008 10:30 GMT