Mar 10 2009
News item — Is there anybody out there? (BBC)
'Census Hopeful', by Camilla Kesterton
On a note related to my posting of March 3rd, here is a recent article on the BBC News site related to one of the Big Questions that touches upon the realms of theology, cosmogony, and astronomy. Among the respondents is Brother Guy Consolmagno of the Vatican observatory.
But really, whether or not more Earth-like planets are found, and whether or not the Drake equation really does closely estimate the number of potential intelligent civilizations out there, the likelihood of interstellar distances being traversed in time to make contact any time soon is rather low, in my view.