SETI pioneer Frank Drake, of 'Drake Equation' fame, dies at 92

[SKORPI0]

Astronomer Frank Drake with his famous equation, which estimates the number of potentially detectable alien societies in the Milky Way galaxy.

Astronomer Frank Drake, who pioneered the modern search for intelligent life in the universe, passed away Friday (Sept. 2) at the age of 92.
Drake is best known for the equation that bears his name, a formula that estimates how many detectable alien societies may exist in our Milky Way galaxy. Drake devised his famous equation in 1961, a year after he initiated Project Ozma, which used a radio telescope to hunt for possible signals from extraterrestrial civilizations.

https://www.space.com/seti-pioneer-frank-drake-obituary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Drake

 

[Racan]

RIP

 

[esquared]

RIP

 

[sdifox]

RIP

 

[brianmanahan]

dave nearly went to prison to achieve this man's vision

 

[Captante]

RIP

 

[JEDI]

Astronomer Frank Drake with his famous equation, which estimates the number of potentially detectable alien societies in the Milky Way galaxy.

https://www.space.com/seti-pioneer-frank-drake-obituary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Drake

it's a conspiracy.

1st they shut down SETI@Home:

Analyzing the data from the 20+ year Seti@Home project to search for alien life

http://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_36759062baa6d236d764d95260f0fd1c "Scientists at the University of California Berkeley's SETI@home project say they'll stop sending new work to the network of volunteers, who've been using their computers to search for aliens since 1999. The project is going...

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Then the man himself is killed off.
He was getting close and apparently the Aliens among us were getting worried.

And RIP

 

[SKORPI0]

dave nearly went to prison to achieve this man's vision

I wonder how he is doing these days.

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