Black as the rest of space, the beady eyes stare into the soul of the human, as butterflies flutter through his stomach as he questions if he can live to tell the tale. The eyelids of the creature drop and pop back up eerily slowly, slowed by the slime oozing from the eyes. The seemingly elastic skin, gray as clouds before it rains. He imagined the skin would feel like a rubber glove, the same way it fits against every bone in the thing’s body, the bones poking out like spikes. If it has a mouth it might not know how to use it. Even if it did, the sounds it might make he might not even be able to hear. He waited for some sort of communication, or any other movement. Thoughts rushed through his head like a newsreel. Am I safe? What is it?
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Enrico Fermi was a brilliant physicist who raised the question in during a social gathering in Los Alamos, New Mexico in 1943. Virtually everyone has asked this question at some point in their lives, wondering if we are alone in the universe. This has come to be known as “The Fermi Paradox”. The Fermi Paradox, although it predates the Drake Equation, exists because of the odds of alien life the equation brings light to.
Created by Frank Drake, the Drake Equation’s purpose is to take estimates of many different factors of what makes life according to astrobiologists, and give a number of civilizations believed to have the possibility to exist and have the capabilities to communicate with us.
The Drake Equation is “N = R* fp ne fl fI fc Lc”. Unless you are a physicist, astronomer, astrobiologist or in a career similar to these, the Drake Equation looks like a random assortment of letters based on a real mathematical theory.
In reality it is pretty simple, N is the number of civilizations in the Milky Way we might expect to communicate, the other variables are in relation to what biologists believe creates life, and the possibility of that life to have the ability to
Enrico Fermi was a brilliant physicist who raised the question in during a social gathering in Los Alamos, New Mexico in 1943. Virtually everyone has asked this question at some point in their lives, wondering if we are alone in the universe. This has come to be known as “The Fermi Paradox”. The Fermi Paradox, although it predates the Drake Equation, exists because of the odds of alien life the equation brings light to.
Created by Frank Drake, the Drake Equation’s purpose is to take estimates of many different factors of what makes life according to astrobiologists, and give a number of civilizations believed to have the possibility to exist and have the capabilities to communicate with us.
The Drake Equation is “N = R* fp ne fl fI fc Lc”. Unless you are a physicist, astronomer, astrobiologist or in a career similar to these, the Drake Equation looks like a random assortment of letters based on a real mathematical theory.
In reality it is pretty simple, N is the number of civilizations in the Milky Way we might expect to communicate, the other variables are in relation to what biologists believe creates life, and the possibility of that life to have the ability to