December 17th, 2010 | 
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This is a video adaptation of a poem written by my brother, RW Bell. This poem originally appeared in a 1993 issue of “Odyssey,” a science education magazine that commemorated man’s Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). It was originally written to honor two of SETI’s pioneers, Drs. Frank Drake and Carl Sagan, both of whom were provided marble paperweights containing the poem etched upon its surface. The Drake Equation, which appears at the beginning of the poem is a means of estimating the possible number of advanced civilizations existing throughout the universe. Carl Sagan felt as many as 10000 intelligent worlds could exist in our own galaxy, the Milky Way, one of 100 billion galaxies. Frank White, a science writer, suggests that if only one intelligent world exists within each galaxy (each galaxy having, on average, 100 billion stars), there still would be an amazing 100 billion worlds throughout space with intelligent life forms–Earth being but one in 100 billion worlds.
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