The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.

In 1961 at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia,

a small conference was held for astrophysicists. The meaning was

organized by Cornell University professor and astronomer Frank Drake. The

subject of the conference was the search for extraterrestrial life. In preparation for the conference he jotted down his thoughts in the form of an equation, an equation that has changed how we think about life on other worlds.

Learn more about the Drake equation and the variables which make it up on this episode of

Everything Everywhere Daily. This episode is sponsored by American History Tellers.

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scandal, legacy, and even the Royals. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the science of astronomy was making huge strides.

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