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The Miracle of the Earth (and us)
Around 1960 a group of scientists got together for a serious discussion on the possibility of intelligent life elsewhere in the galaxy. A lot of people were convinced ETs were out there but up to that point there hadn’t been a concerted effort to do anything about it. One result of this meeting was the Drake equation, which, assuming I get it all right, looks like this: N = R * fp * ne * Read more…