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As we know, the Drake equation, first proposed by Frank D. Drake in 1961, is the foundational equation of SETI.
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Maccone, C. (2012). Societal statistics by the statistical Drake equation. In: Mathematical SETI. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27437-4_9
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