"Beyond Drake's Equation" --New Insights into the Search for Extraterrestrial Civilizations (Weekend Feature)

[Craig]

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/12/the-seti-project-search-for-extra-terrestrial-intelligence-has-been-in-existence-in-one-form-or-another-for-several.html

 

 

The SETI project – Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence – has been in existence in one form or another for several decades, dating back to American astronomer Frank Drake’s first SETI experiment named Project Ozma. SETI is basically the search for intelligence through listening for radio waves of another civilization. For Drake back in the 1960’s, this was the sign of a technologically prevalent society, and the smartest means to search for life.

 

In 1961 the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to orbit Earth, while Frank Drake (image below) developed his now famous Drake Equation, which estimates the number of detectable extraterrestrial civilizations in our Milky Way galaxy, based on current electromagnetic detection methods.