Abstract
Nobel Prize Laureate Didier Queloz talks about realistic ways to explore Proxima Centauri b and other potentially habitable planetary systems such as TRAPPIST-1 using technologies that are currently available. He also discusses his interdisciplinary research activities on abiogenesis and the search for life on other planets.
Highlights
Nobel Prize Laureate Didier Queloz talks about realistic ways to explore Proxima Centauri b and other potentially habitable planetary systems such as TRAPPIST-1 using technologies that are currently available
Note: the Drake Equation predicts the number of extant advanced technical civilizations possessing both the interest and the capability for interstellar communication as N=R*×fp×ne×fl×fi×fc×L, where:[1]
Fi is the fraction of such inhabited planets on which intelligent life arises during the lifetime of the local star;
Summary
Nobel Prize Laureate Didier Queloz talks about realistic ways to explore Proxima Centauri b and other potentially habitable planetary systems such as TRAPPIST-1 using technologies that are currently available. No I think the Drake Equation is based on a very simplistic concept of life; that the only possible life would be like the one on Earth. It has given a very nice simplification to build up a program like SETI, looking for radio signals.[5,6] this is not the way people are addressing the problem of extra-terrestrial life.
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