Frank Donald Drake (Born May 28, 1930) is an American astronomer and astrophysicist.
He is most notable as one of the pioneers in the search for extraterrestrial intel...
A thing we do get a lot of is people who claim they are in telepathic contact with extraterrestrials and we don’t need to bother. They are already in contact. That is a fairly common one we get. But what they report is clearly nonsensical. Frank Drake
A thing we do get a lot of is people who claim they are in telepathic contact with extraterrestrials and we don’t need to bother. They are already in contact. That is a fairly common one we get. But what they report is clearly nonsensical.
There’s technologies you could learn. How to provide clean energy or nuclear fusion. If they could teach us how to build a nuclear fusion reactor, that would be good. Frank Drake
There’s technologies you could learn. How to provide clean energy or nuclear fusion. If they could teach us how to build a nuclear fusion reactor, that would be good.
Some people worry a reply might excite an attack on you—not likely. However, we might decide we shouldn’t say anything to them; go and hide somewhere. Frank Drake
Some people worry a reply might excite an attack on you—not likely. However, we might decide we shouldn’t say anything to them; go and hide somewhere.
We may receive purchase orders of some nonterrestrial life. How do we respond to a bunch of purchase orders? Frank Drake
We may receive purchase orders of some nonterrestrial life. How do we respond to a bunch of purchase orders?
So just the fact they exist isn’t good enough to send some useful message. You need to start off somehow, which may be difficult. ...We want to tell them about us and what is special about us, what we think is special about us. Frank Drake
So just the fact they exist isn’t good enough to send some useful message. You need to start off somehow, which may be difficult. ...We want to tell them about us and what is special about us, what we think is special about us.
Almost anyone we find will be more advanced than us. In any case, to answer your question, you would not tell them anything until you knew something about them, until you knew what might make sense to tell them. Frank Drake
Almost anyone we find will be more advanced than us. In any case, to answer your question, you would not tell them anything until you knew something about them, until you knew what might make sense to tell them.
It is not likely that we will come across a less advanced species because less advanced would not have developed radio yet so there would be no way to detect them. Frank Drake
It is not likely that we will come across a less advanced species because less advanced would not have developed radio yet so there would be no way to detect them.
Well, we do send average humans but we have never sent a picture of a homeless person or a goth or other peculiar type. Frank Drake
Well, we do send average humans but we have never sent a picture of a homeless person or a goth or other peculiar type.
We have always felt we should be totally honest; we shouldn’t guild the lily. Although when you think about it sometimes, for instance, we all like to send pictures of humans because we think they’re interesting; we don’t send ugly humans. Frank Drake
We have always felt we should be totally honest; we shouldn’t guild the lily. Although when you think about it sometimes, for instance, we all like to send pictures of humans because we think they’re interesting; we don’t send ugly humans.
I have all kinds of frozen cadavers in my basement. People actually believe that! Frank Drake
I have all kinds of frozen cadavers in my basement. People actually believe that!
This discovery, which I fully expect to witness before the year 2000, will profoundly change the world. Frank Drake
This discovery, which I fully expect to witness before the year 2000, will profoundly change the world.
I see a pressing need to prepare thinking adults for the outcome of the present search activity – the imminent detection of signals from an extraterrestrial civilization. Frank Drake
I see a pressing need to prepare thinking adults for the outcome of the present search activity – the imminent detection of signals from an extraterrestrial civilization.