{"id":6264,"date":"2014-01-30T03:44:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T03:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6264"},"modified":"2014-01-30T13:06:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T13:06:34","slug":"video-interview-with-seti-pioneer-frank-drake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6264","title":{"rendered":"Video: Interview with SETI pioneer Frank Drake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seti.org\" target=\"_blank\">SETI Institute<\/a> posted this interview of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seti.org\/drake\" target=\"_blank\">Frank Drake<\/a> conducted during the\u00a0June 2012 SETIcon\u00a0by astronomy educator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foothill.edu\/ast\/fraknoi.php\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Fraknoi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u00a0The discussion ranged widely over Dr. Drake&#8217;s career and current thinking, and included reminiscences of Project OZMA, the very first experiment searching for signals from civilizations among the stars, and his current view of the Drake Equation (estimating the chances of intelligent life out there). He also reflects on a number of modern developments, including the discovery of numerous planets orbiting other stars and new ways of searching for extra-terrestrial civilizations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HPQz-kdaxNo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Also from the caption:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Special Note: The audience at this special event received a reprint of Frank Drake&#8217;s personal history of the Drake Equation, published by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in a series edited by Andrew Fraknoi. Because of its historical importance, this article is now available freely on the web at:\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/www.astrosociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ab2010-46.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.astrosociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ab2010-46.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.astrosociety.org\/wp-conten&#8230;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the SETI Institute posted this interview of Frank Drake conducted during the\u00a0June 2012 SETIcon\u00a0by astronomy educator Andrew Fraknoi. \u00a0The discussion ranged widely over Dr. Drake&#8217;s career and current thinking, and included reminiscences of Project OZMA, the very first experiment searching for signals from civilizations among the stars, and his current view of the Drake &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6264\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: Interview with SETI pioneer Frank Drake<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-seti"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1D2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11032,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11032","url_meta":{"origin":6264,"position":0},"title":"$100M initiative announced for the search for extraterrestrial intelligent life","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 20, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Announcement of a major donation to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) with the\u00a0Breakthrough Initiative: Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking Announce $100 Million Breakthrough Initiatives\u00a0to Dramatically Accelerate Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe 10-year, Multi-disciplinary Search Effort Will Harness World's Largest Telescopes to Mine Data from Nearest Million Stars,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;SETI&quot;","block_context":{"text":"SETI","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=41"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5301,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5301","url_meta":{"origin":6264,"position":1},"title":"Video: A galaxy full of planets &#8211; discussing the Kepler conference results","author":"TopSpacer","date":"November 15, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"SETI Institute scientists \u00a0Jason Rowe, Doug Caldwell and Kepler mission scientist Natalie Batalha\u00a0discuss the latest Kepler exoplanet findings and the plans for the future in this Google+ Hangout\u00a0\u00a0moderated by SETI Institute scientist Franck Marchis. http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=paN1OrwDd1Y Check out also the recent talk by SETI pioneer Frank Drake: Kepler and Its Impact\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Astronomy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/paN1OrwDd1Y\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9794,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9794","url_meta":{"origin":6264,"position":2},"title":"Review: &#8220;Five Billion Years of Solitude&#8221; by Lee Billings","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 29, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Zooming in on the universe has\u00a0not been easy or quick. 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