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On this day in 1930 – May 28th – American radio astronomer Frank Drake was born in Chicago, Illinois.

He is best known both as a pioneer of SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) and for formulating the Drake Equation (1961) which attempts to estimate the number of technological civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy.


Mona Evans
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