In the 1960′s, U.S. astronomer Frank Drake started the first real search for alien radio signals being beamed across the Universe. Off the back of this work, he came up with an equation that is at best, an educated stab at the number of civilizations in our Galaxy with which we might actually be able to communicate right now. [...]
So this is the exciting bit, plug those numbers all in to the equation and you come up with… (drum roll please) …50!
Is that really it?
The number of contactable civilizations in our Galaxy, right now, that we might communicate with, is just 50… fifty? It’s estimated that there is around 400 billion stars in our Galaxy and, according to my numbers (which, by their nature are educated guesses), there are just 50 alien civilizations that we could communicate with.
Estimate: There are 50 Alien Civilizations in Our Galaxy That We Could Communicate With
Estimate: There are 50 Alien Civilizations in Our Galaxy That We Could Communicate With
In the 1960′s, U.S. astronomer Frank Drake started the first real search for alien radio signals being beamed across the Universe. Off the back of this work, he came up with an equation that is at best, an educated stab at the number of civilizations in our Galaxy with which we might actually be able to communicate right now. [...]
So this is the exciting bit, plug those numbers all in to the equation and you come up with… (drum roll please) …50!
Is that really it?
The number of contactable civilizations in our Galaxy, right now, that we might communicate with, is just 50… fifty? It’s estimated that there is around 400 billion stars in our Galaxy and, according to my numbers (which, by their nature are educated guesses), there are just 50 alien civilizations that we could communicate with.
SETI Temporarily Shuts Down One of Its Telescope Arrays
Due to a loss of both state and federal budget cuts at the University of California Berkley, the university had to withdraw some of its support of the The Allen Telescope Array used by SETI scientists to monitor signals from outer space SETI principal investigator Franck Marchis revealed on his blog. According to CNN, the array will go back up in 2013, and it’s not the only array that SETI uses to collect transmissions.
(via Anthropunk)
From http://technoccult.net/archives/2011/04/26/seti-temporarily-shuts-down-one-of-its-telescope-arrays/