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Most beginning classes in astronomy introduce their students to the Drake Equation, a way of summarizing our knowledge about the chances that there is intelligent life among the stars with which we humans might communicate. But how and why did this summary formula get put together? In this adaptation and update from a book he wrote some years ago with acclaimed science writer Dava Sobel, astronomer and SETI Pioneer Frank Drake tells us the story behind one of the most famous teaching aids in astronomy.  This is one of a series of inside looks into how astronomy works from the "Astronomy Beat" series from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 

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