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September 6 2012
Visualizing the possibility of intelligent life in the Milky Way http://t.co/ricQiN1B #TED
September 06, 2012
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Visualizing the possibility of intelligent life in the Milky Way
05 September 2012 How many detectable alien civilizations are out there in our galaxy? In 1961, astronomer Frank Drake developed an equation to estimate the number. Now data journalist David McCandless, who gave the talk " The beauty of data visualization" at TEDGlobal 2010, has created a information graphic for the BBC calculating the Drake Equation - with a twist.
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