#455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

2887.945 - 2909.154 Adam Frank

So, yeah, so, you know, the Drake equation is absolutely foundational for astrobiology, but we should remember that it's not a law of nature, right? It's not something that's it's not equals MC squared. And so you can see it being abused in some sense. People, you know, it's generated a trillion papers. Some of those papers are good. I've written some of those and some of those papers are bad.