SETI founder honored 50 years after starting his search for alien life
AUG 16, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024588
SPACE.com : Astronomer Frank Drake, the man who 50 years ago founded the SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) Institute, was honored Saturday in California at SETIcon . The convention featured talks and panels centering on the science, and science fiction, of extraterrestrial life. In Drake’s first experiment in 1960, called Project Ozma, he pointed a radio telescope located at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia, toward two nearby Sun-like stars, to try to detect a signal that might indicate intelligent life. Drake also formulated an equation to calculate how many intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations are likely to exist in the Milky Way. At 80, Drake is still active in SETI.
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