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Frank Drake's 'Drake Equation' estimates (July 2008) as indicated on the PBS NOVA Science Now website:

n = 10,000, Number of communicating civilizations

R = 5, Rate of star formation per year in our galaxy

fp = 50%, Percentage of stars that form planets

ne = 2, Average # of planets that could support life per star

fl = 100%, Percentage of those planets where life occurs

fi = 20%, Percentage of those planets where intelligence develops

fc = 100% Percentage of those civilizations that produce interstellar communications

l = 10,000 yrs, Average lifetime of a communicating civilization

Click here to make your own estimates.

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Aside from the subjects covered by the links on the top left hand side of this page, some upcoming explorations on this website and the Monthly Meeting will include:

ASTRONOMY INCLUDING ASTROGEOLOGY and ASTROMETEOROLOGY - speculations on possible environments of E.T. life.

SOCIAL IMPACT - predicting possible social impacts from 'not much' to 'overwhelming'.

EARTH-SENT-PROBES, TELESCOPES AND COLONIZATION - what will be the effects on E.T. and ourselves of our reconnaisance and expansion into the universe?

MONOLITHS, RELICS AND REMNANTS OF E.T. CIVILIZATIONS - on the detectibility of E. T. civilizations and their longevity.

MACHINE LIFE AND ITS IMPACTS ON BIOLOGY

PARTICIPATORY SETI - How the public gets involved.

SETI PHILOSOPHY - How the great minds of history and the present approach the search.

WHY "HABITABLE ZONES" ONLY APPLY TO SOME FORMS OF EARTH LIFE

DOES DARWINIAN EVOLUTION OCCUR ON A GALACTIC SCALE?

THE EXTRASOLAR PLANET REVOLUTION AND ITS IMPACT ON SETI

FUTURE SETI PROJECTS - Lunar far side radio telescope, Space based SETI, infra-red SETI and innovations that could revolutionize SETI.

WHAT HAS BEEN CHECKED ALREADY? - Looking into what search spaces have been investigated to date.

The New Search for ET video appearing on the adjacent youtube link was also featured on an episode of Nova Science Now that aired in July 2008. here's the link to the NOVA SCIENCE NOW - THE SEARCH FOR ET website where you can also watch online in Windows Media player or Quicktime. They have other interesting things on that website like a short (44 second) plug 'video extra' for SETI@home which ran at the end of the PBS NOVA Science Now SETI episode. Also on their website it says (as of April 20, 2009) that 81% of respondents to their online poll said "Yes" to the question "Do Aliens Exist in the Milky Way?" 12% said "No" and only 7% are "Undecided.

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This website is dedicated to the promotion of SETI News, SETI science (which is dependent on all other scientific exploration), and SETI philosophy. Join the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence here, and for the latest SETI news go to our forum at The SETI Society Google Group; you can read it without joining, but feel free to sign up and participate!

A SAMPLE OF POSTS AT THE SETI SOCIETY GOOGLE GROUP:

Optical SETI observations with the NAYUTA telescope (Japanese OSETI)

Article - Listening for E.T.: 42 of 350 dishes installed; $40M needed for rest

Article - Tiniest extrasolar planet found

SETI@home certificate of computation for team

Article - Vatican says aliens could exist

Article - Looking for ET's neutrino beam

Article- Is there anyone out there? New observatory seeks aliens' signals

AP - Hawking: Unintelligent life is likely on other planets

Instant/faster-than-light communications and SETI

AbSciCon '08 concludes with very interesting results.

Article - New Rocky Planet Found In Constellation Leo

Article - Robot aliens? Space opera gets it right