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How My Dad's Equation Sparked the Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence


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Frank Drake, search for ET

Astronomer and astrophysicist Frank Drake is most notable as one of the pioneers in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

Credit: Mark Thiessen, National Geographic Creative

A few days before Halloween in 1961, a young astronomer was mulling over a fairly serious problem.

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