I was grilling outside today, playing #KendrickLamars diss record #notlikeus . As I was cooking, I looked up and saw this giant pickup truck pull up front and park in the parking lot. This buff white Larry, the cable guy looking ass heard the song and started singing:
"AMINOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!!!!" With the song.
When Rednecks are singing a Drake diss song ,you know Kendrick Lamar won. Not a good look, #Drake .
Happy Birthday to Frank Drake (May 28, 1930 – Sept 2, 2022), astrophysicist, astrobiologist and creator of the Drake equation, which is used to estimate the number of active, communicative extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy.
The equation was formulated in 1961 as a way to stimulate discussion at the 1st scientific meeting on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory site at Green Bank, WV.
Frank Drake wrote -
At the conference, we plugged in our best estimates for each of the factors, and found that the product of the first six factors on the right hand side came out to roughly the value of 1. Thus the value of N seemed to hinge solely on the value of L — how long intelligent, communicative civilizations could survive. At the end of the meeting, Struve offered a toast: “To the value of L. May it prove to be a very large number.”
Frank Drake on the Drake Equation:
"It amazes me to this day to see it displayed prominently in most textbooks on astronomy, often in a big important-looking box.
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I’m always surprised to see it viewed as one of the great icons of science, because it didn’t take any deep intellectual effort or insight on my part. But then, as now, it expressed a big idea in a form that a scientist, even a beginner, could assimilate."
The “Vault Plate” for the NASA Europa Clipper spacecraft carries a number of inspirational messages from Earth for posterity, including the Drake Equation! In Drake's own handwriting.