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If you're sending a message to extraterrestrials, what you want to send is what's special about us and our planet - what is unusual. Now, that's not basic chemistry or mineralogy; it's pretty much the cultural stuff and the consequences of evolution.
~ Frank Drake
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Basic
Chemistry
Consequences
Cultural
Evolution
Extraterrestrial
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Our
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Planet
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In 1957, I was studying the Pleiades star cluster at Harvard University's radio observatory. On one occasion, we saw an added feature in the data. It turned out to be an amateur radio enthusiast near the observatory, but at the time, I thought we had detected clear evidence of another civilisation.
~ Frank Drake
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Amateur
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Civilisation
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Cluster
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Enthusiast
Evidence
Feature
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Near
Occasion
Out
Radio
Saw
Star
Studying
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Time
Turned
University
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It now appears that essentially every star has a planetary system. In the very beginning, we thought at best half.
~ Frank Drake
Appears
Beginning
Best
Essentially
Every
Half
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Planetary
Star
System
Thought
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Nature never uses prime numbers. But mathematicians do.
~ Frank Drake
Mathematicians
Nature
Never
Numbers
Prime
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No company is hiring anyone to search for messages from aliens. Most people don't seem to think there's much benefit to it. The lack of interest is, I think, because most people don't realize what even a simple detection would really mean.
~ Frank Drake
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Anyone
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Company
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Hiring
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Lack
Mean
Messages
Most
Much
People
Realize
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Simple
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People presume we've been somehow monitoring the entire sky at all frequencies, all the time, but we haven't yet been able to do any of those things. The fact is, all the SETI efforts to date have only closely examined a couple thousand nearby stars, and we're only just now learning which of those might have promising planets.
~ Frank Drake
Able
Any
Been
Closely
Couple
Date
Efforts
Entire
Examined
Fact
Just
Learning
Might
Monitoring
Nearby
Now
Only
People
Planets
Presume
Promising
Sky
Somehow
Stars
Things
Those
Thousand
Time
Which
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Right now, there could well be messages from the stars flying right through this room. Through you and me. And if we had the right receiver set up properly, we could detect them. I still get chills thinking about it.
~ Frank Drake
About
Could
Detect
Flying
Get
Had
Me
Messages
Now
Properly
Receiver
Right
Room
Set
Stars
Still
Them
Thinking
Through
Up
Well
You
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The pulsar map is not dangerous at all. It will likely never even be seen by extraterrestrials.
~ Frank Drake
Dangerous
Even
Extraterrestrial
Likely
Map
Never
Seen
Will
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The story seems to be that almost every star has a planetary system... and, also, the definition of 'habitable zone' has expanded. In our system, it used to be that only Mars and Earth were potentially habitable. Now we've got an ocean on Europa... Titan.
~ Frank Drake
Almost
Also
Definition
Earth
Every
Got
Mars
Now
Ocean
Only
Our
Planetary
Potentially
Seems
Star
Story
System
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Zone
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There was a magic about pulsars... no other things in the sky had such labels on them. Each one had its own distinct pulsing frequency, so it could be identified by anybody, including other creatures, after a long period of time and far, far away.
~ Frank Drake
About
After
Anybody
Away
Could
Creatures
Distinct
Each
Each One
Far
Far Away
Frequency
Had
Identified
Including
Labels
Long
Long Period
Magic
Other
Own
Period
Sky
Them
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We send messages all the time, free of charge. There's a big shell out there now, 80 light-years around us. A civilization only a little more advanced than we are can pick those things up.
~ Frank Drake
Advanced
Around
Big
Charge
Civilization
Free
Little
Messages
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Now
Only
Out
Pick
Send
Shell
Than
Things
Those
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While NASA talks about 'Are we alone?' as a number one question, they are putting zero money into searching for intelligent life. There's a big disconnect there.
~ Frank Drake
About
Alone
Big
Disconnect
Intelligent
Intelligent Life
Life
Money
NASA
Number
Putting
Question
Searching
Talks
While
Zero
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