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REMEMBERING FRANK DRAKE

One of the foremost pioneers in the search for extraterrestrial life (SETI), Frank Drake, died on 2 September 2022 at the age of 92.

Born on 28 May 1930 in Chicago, Drake first began wondering about extraterrestrial civilisations at the age of eight, when his father told him of the existence of worlds beyond Earth. At 17, he enrolled at Cornell University on a

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