SETI & The Great Silence
I'm giving my Quest for Life presentation to the Science Seminar students at the local high school. I haven't done this one for a little while so I was reviewing my material and I found (again) this great paper, The Great Silence, by David Brin who is one of my favorite authors and political commentators.
The paper provides a thoughtful analysis of the Drake Equation, current thinking about the different parameters and ideas on why the Universe is Silent. It opens with this great line.
Few important subject are so data-poor, so subject to unwarranted and biased extrapolations -- and so caught up mankind's ultimate destiny -- as is this one.
Take a look and enjoy.
Steve
