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Re: Panspermia and the Drake Equation

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On Friday, August 21, 2015 at 8:30:22 AM UTC-7, Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
> PANSPERMIA AND THE DRAKE EQUATION
> 
> By Gwynne Dyer
> Op-Ed
> The Pioneer
> http://www.dailypioneer.com
> Monday, August 17, 2015
> 
> One by one, the empty boxes in the drake equation are
> being filled in with actual numbers, and it's looking
> good. So good that Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner is
> spending $100 million of his own money over the next 10
> years to fund the search for non-human civilisations
> orbiting other stars. But it's a pity that the Philae
> lander from the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission
> didn't have more time to look for life on Comet
> 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
> 
> Mr Milner is a Silicon valley billionaire who was working
> on a PhD in theoretical physics at the Russian Academy of
> Sciences before he moved to the United States and got
> rich. His money will buy thousands of hours of radio
> telescope time each year to look for radio transmissions
> from other star systems.
> 
> This represents at least a tenfold increase in the amount
> of work being done on finding intelligent life elsewhere
> in the galaxy, and Mr Milner is no fool. Why does he
> think it's worth spending this money now?
> 
> Probably because the drake equation is finally coming
> into its own. It has seven terms, and American astronomer
> Frank Drake could not give a value to any of them when he
> first wrote it in 1961. It was just a formula that would
> let us estimate the number of civilisations in the milky
> way galaxy when the relevant data eventually became
> available.
> 
> Using the data acquired in the past 20 years, National
> Aeronautics and Space Administration now estimates that
> there are 144 billion habitable planets in our galaxy.
> Not all of them will harbour life, of course, but that is
> a very encouraging number. Other questions remain,
> however. How many 'habitable' planets will actually have
> life on them? On how many of those planets will an
> intelligent species appear? How many of those intelligent
> species will build civilisations that use electromagnetic
> communications? And how long, on average, would those
> high-tech civilisations last?
> 
> Continues at:
> 
> http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnists/oped/panspermia-and-the-drake-equation.html
> 
> Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
> Om Shanti
> 
> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.jai-maharaj

Proplem with aliens say 5 million light years away is they might just be using radio waves,and we have to wait 5 million years before they hit Earth.Also in 5 million years we will be to advanced to think of other life in the universe.TreBert

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