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Shiftheads - Seeing UFOs Sent Him Down a Math Rabbit Hole
Dr. Lee Kuhnle calls himself a skeptic, but a night spent stargazing with his young son left him with an experience he couldn't fully explain. That moment sent him looking for actual math behind the question of alien life, and what he found split into two completely different answers.
The first is the Drake equation, built in the 1960s by an astrophysicist working alongside SETI, and it produces a real number for how many advanced, communicating civilizations might exist in our galaxy right now. Dr. Kuhnle runs the current numbers live and lands on a figure that reframes the entire question…
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