The Drake equation is a mathematical equation used to estimate the number of detectable extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy.

Considerable disagreement on the values of most of these parameters exists, but the values used by Drake and his colleagues in 1961 were:

Some Spanish ships were captured, and Drake used their more accurate charts.

The Drake equation has been used by both optimists and pessimists with wildly differing results.

Others artists who have recorded with the instrument include Buddy Holly (" Everyday "), The Beatles (" Baby It's You "), The Beach Boys (" Girl Don't Tell Me "), The Velvet Underground (" Sunday Morning "), Nick Drake (" Northern Sky "), The Stooges (" Penetration ") and Pink Floyd (" The Gnome " and the re-recorded version of " Mother ", used in the movie The Wall.

Ervin Drake wrote several new songs and reinserted several songs that were not used in the 1964 production.

In the episode " Tiff of the Titans " when Finton comes to visit Lauchpad, he explains to Drake Malard that " Finton and I used to work for the same guy ".

Project Ozma, headed by American astronomer Frank Drake, used the Tatel Telescope to search for such signals from the nearby Sun-like stars Epsilon Eridani and Tau Ceti.

The English name " River Plate " is not, as sometimes thought, a mistranslation, as " plate " was used extensively as a noun for " silver " or " gold " from the 12th century onwards, especially in Early Modern English and the estuary has been known as the River Plate or Plate River in English since at least the time of Francis Drake.

The term was used by Bill Drake in the 1969 History of Rock & Roll radio broadcast, and by Rob Reiner in the 1984 mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap.

In the United States, California Baptist pastor Wiley Drake achieved notoriety for boasting that he had prayed for the death of current president Barack Obama ; he had previously used such prayers against employees of the Internal Revenue Service, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and George Tiller ; while serving as a party for the plaintiff in a 2009 case regarding Obama's citizenship, he later retracted his prayer, and called for other Christians to abstain from similar action " until Obama can be tried for treason ".

Among the more frequently seen are a miniature reel-to-reel tape recorder hidden inside the head of an electric shaver or a pack of cigarettes, and a microphone that could be embedded in a wall near the target via a shotgun-like apparatus, that used soda siphon cartridges containing CO2 as the propellant, allowing Drake to eavesdrop on conversations from a safe distance.

Fleming also used historical references for some of his names and Marc-Ange Draco's name is based upon that of El Draco, the Spanish nickname for Sir Francis Drake, a fact also used by J. K. Rowling for the naming of her character Draco Malfoy.

In the Warner Bros movie Looney Tunes Back in Action DJ Drake, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Kate Houghton visit a secret military base in the Nevada Desert, used mainly as a storage for extraterrestrial lifeforms and technology and government secrets, called Area 52.

During this era, CKLW used a very tight Top 40 format known as Boss Radio, devised by radio programmer Bill Drake.

The university also owns the Drake Theater which is used primarily by the College of Performing Arts Dance Department.

* Drake is a term used to describe ( particular types of ) dragon or similar draconic creatures.

Drake used a radio telescope with a diameter of 85 feet ( 26 metres ) to examine the stars Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani near the 1. 420 gigahertz marker frequency.

The identity of Eric the Red ( note the spelling ) was actually first used by Cyclops in X-Men # 51 by Arnold Drake and Jim Steranko.

In the third season of Drake & Josh, Peck was significantly thinner than he used to be, and by the fourth season of the show, he had lost even more weight.

Bill Drake, teamed with Gene Chenault, brought up many of their " Boss " announcers through the stations in other cities, which they used as a proving ground for talent.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Drake and Chenault formed Drake-Chenault Inc., marketing the format in the form of similar customized Johnny Mann jingle packages used on KHJ.

* Drake, Arizona, site of the old Hell Canyon Bridge formerly used by US Route 89, now on the National Register of Historic Places.

In 1960, Frank Drake conducted the first search for radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia.

The ten attendees were conference organiser Peter Pearman, Frank Drake, Philip Morrison, businessman and radio amateur Dana Atchley, chemist Melvin Calvin, astronomer Su-Shu Huang, neuroscientist John C. Lilly, inventor Barney Oliver, astronomer Carl Sagan and radio astronomer Otto Struve.

The ten attendees were conference organiser Peter Pearman, Frank Drake, Philip Morrison, businessman and radio amateur Dana Atchley, chemist Melvin Calvin, astronomer Su-Shu Huang, neuroscientist John C. Lilly, inventor Barney Oliver, astronomer Carl Sagan and radio astronomer Otto Struve.

In 1977, BBC Radio 4 broadcast the first radio adaptation of the four-act version of the play ; directed by Ian Cotterell, it featured Fabia Drake as " Lady Bracknell ", Richard Pasco as " Jack Worthing ", Jeremy Clyde as " Algernon Moncrieff ", Maurice Denham as " Rev.

Although explicitly linked with modern views on the likelihood and detectability of extraterrestrial civilizations, Drake started his career undertaking radio astronomical research at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory ( NRAO ) in Green Bank, West Virginia, and later the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

In the 1960s, Drake spearheaded the conversion of the Arecibo Observatory to a radio astronomical facility, later updated in 1974 and 1996.

During his tenure, Gold hired famed astronomers Carl Sagan and Frank Drake, helped establish the world's largest radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and the Cornell-Sydney University Astronomy Center with Harry Messel.

Former students include the award-winning conductor David Atherton, TV and radio presenter Humphrey Burton, the American film composer Jeffrey Gold and the singer-songwriter Nick Drake, who secured a record deal with a four-track demo recorded in his college room in 1968.

Two California radio programming pioneers, Bill Drake and Gene Chenault, modified the Top 40 formula and gave their version the brand name " Boss Radio ", after then-KHJ promotion director Clancy Imuslind originated the phrase.

* The History of Rock and Roll, a radio documentary produced by Bill Drake

Bill Drake ( January 14, 1937 – November 29, 2008 ), born Philip Yarbrough, was an American radio programmer who co-developed the Boss Radio format with Gene Chenault via their company Drake-Chenault.

Drake essentially put radio back into the hands of programming, instead of sales.

The Drake served as the original studios of radio station WGN when it was renamed from WDAP in 1924.

The term has also been modified to describe Top 50 ; Top 30 ; Top 20 ; Top 10 ; Hot 100 ( each with its number of songs ) and Hot Hits radio formats, but carrying more or less the same meaning and having the same creative point of origin with Todd Storz as further refined by Gordon McLendon as well as Bill Drake.

The company was founded in 1943 by radio design engineer Robert L. Drake.

Drake manufactured equipment for amateur radio operators and short wave listeners for more than three decades.

The Drake 1A receiver was the company ’ s first meant specifically for radio amateurs.

It was followed two years later by the 2B, very similar in appearance but with improved performance and a new set of controls for adjusting the selectivity ( bandwidth ) and center frequency. Drake 2B radio receiver circa 1960s