Josh Clark

Like that's all it would take.

So that's really, there's a couple of problems with it, right?

But there's also another problem that very few people can do anything about.

And that is from all of the satellites that are in orbit these days.

Yeah, they're trying to build a research center where satellite operators can test new technologies that will let satellites work but minimize radio interference.

Hopefully they get that up because there's a huge problem with radio and light pollution from satellites.

And we're just adding more and more and more every year.

Yeah, Frank Drake, we've talked about him plenty of times.

He came up with the Drake equation, which is a really interesting formula for trying to figure out how many intelligent civilizations might be in the universe.

He's the guy who came up with that.

And Green Bank is the place where he came up with it because he was working there.

And he also hosted a...

Pretty rockin' party.

A rockin' party.

That featured Carl Sagan, a guy named Melvin Calvin, who's a biochemist, John Lilly, who we talked about, the whacked-out dolphin researcher who used to give acid to dolphins.

Yeah.

And they so Frank Drake came up with the Drake equation as basically the agenda for this conference.

And then they kind of hashed it out.

And they very famously calculated that there's at least 10,000 advanced intelligent alien civilizations just in the Milky Way galaxy.

if you don't know about the Drake Equation, go look it up.