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...that's why next year the Oscars won't be able to count me as its 6 billionth viewer, or whatever number they claim is slightly higher than the population of the planet. Because I don't care if my favorite actor doesn't win. It's not as if the guy isn't overloaded with babes and money already. Richard Farnsworth is going to be fine. It just takes him a little longer than most people to get going at the urinal...
...million Estimated number of returns filed last year with the wrong Social Security number...
...million Estimated number of children in the U.S. who live in homes where there are firearms...
Still, Drake, 70, who devised the definitive equation for calculating the possible number of technologically advanced civilizations in our Milky Way galaxy, remains convinced that he will be around when one of them calls. "We're just at the beginning of our search," says Drake, who reckons that there are some 10,000 high-tech worlds scattered among the Milky Way's 100 billion or more stars. That's a much more modest figure than the late Carl Sagan's estimate of 1 million intelligent civilizations in just our galaxy--one of perhaps 100 billion galaxies scattered through the universe...
...good news is that just such a detection system, after a slow start, is rapidly gearing up. Four small groups of dedicated astronomers in Arizona and California, totaling fewer than the number of employees at an average fast-food restaurant and using mostly off-the-shelf equipment for their telescopes, have been mapping the heavens and steadily adding to the number of known near-Earth objects (NEOs...