Robin Ince, "The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity" (Atlantic Books, 2021)
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The Drake Equation
i love the drake equation, frank drake e he basely came up with an equation of what we believe is necessary for there to be life on another planet. The story that i loved, and i found it in a beautiful book by dian acemon called a slender thread, which is about working for phone help lines. And the lovely story of frank drake was that frank drake would spend much of his professional career listening out for possible signals of extra terrestrial life. But then he volunteered at night, though, for this samaritan's like help line of listening out. He was professionally and privately a listener. So he listened out for the tial life that was out
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