Jill Tarter — 'It Takes a Cosmos to Make a Human'
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Drake Equation Is Really Important to You and Your Field
The drake equation is about the number of technological civilizations we might be able to detect. In order for us to be successful and detect evidence of someone else's technology, they have to be co temporal with our technology over the ten billion year history of our galaxy. And statistically, the only way that that's going to happen is if, on average, technological civilizations last a long time. From my point of view, that's what a successful detection of someone else’s technology would tell us: it's really possible to have a long future in spite of the challenges that we see today....
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