Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. Here's today's news:
g Abodes - At 10:31 p.m. Pacific time on Aug. 5, NASA's Curiosity rover will begin the first direct search for habitable environments on Mars. See article.
g Message - Has the SETI Institute discovered three objects en route to our world? Alien spacecraft that will arrive in 2012? If you believe a widespread story now being circulated on the internet, and published by the ironically named “Pravda,” you might think so. But it’s all nonsense – it’s a rumor, a hoax, and a fabrication that uncritical web sites have reprinted without checking. See article.
g Cosmicus - The Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecrafts were launched on an outward trajectory from the Sun in 1972 and 1973. In the 1980s, navigators for the mission saw a mysterious deceleration on the two spacecraft. Now, researchers have determined the cause of this “Pioneer Anomaly.” See article.
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The Drake Equation
This formula estimates the number of intelligent civilizations in our galaxy.N=(R*)(Ns)(Fp)(Ne)(Fl)(Fi)(Fc)(L)
Where:- N = Number of civilizations we can communicate with
- R* = Average star formation rate
- Ns = Percentage of stars capable of supporting earth-like planets
- Fp = Percentage of those stars with planets
- Ne = Average umber of planets in those stars' habitable zones
- Fl = Percentage of those planets where life begins
- Fi = Percentage of planets with life where an intelligent species evolves
- Fc = Percentage of those intelligent species that develop communication technology
- L = Average lifetime, in years, of a civilization that develops such technology
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