Sixty years ago at the Green Bank observatory in West Virginia, a small conference was held for astrophysicists. The meeting was organized by Cornell University professor and astronomer Frank Drake.

The subject of the conference was the search for extraterrestrial life.

In preparation for the conference, he jotted down his thoughts in the form of an equation.

Learn more about the Drake Equation on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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