FOREWORD


I guess the best place to start would be with the THE DRAKE EQUATION: which expresses the number of technological civilizations that might exist among the stars.

N = R * FP * NE * FL * FI * FC * L
When explaining this equation, Mr. Science himself, Carl Sagan once said the formula means that at least 1 million of the 100 billion (yes, that's billion) stars in our Milky Way galaxy have planets which have developed advanced intelligent civilizations.

Now, if we consider the astronomical fact that there are over