Talk:Frank Drake

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[edit] Disambiguation

Need a disambiguation page for the Marvel comics character. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.82.253.87 (talk • contribs) 21:30, August 11 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Major update

Dr. Drake was my favorite professor at UCSC, and I thought he deserved more than a stub entry.

So I've made a major update. I added some details of his early life (mostly from http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topics/SETI/biography_drake.html) and expanded on his accomplishments. Hopefully this can get the article out of Stub status. I'll let others decide on that, however. Ocicat 22:14, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ship

I've editted the reference to the USS Albany, Originally, someone had pointed the link to the USS Albany (CL-23) and not the correct ship, which is the USS Albany (CA-123). The rational behind my change, is that Dr. Drake was born after the USS Albany CL-23 was scrapped in 1930. So there was no way possible that he could of served on that particular ship. Rmgrotkierii 16:37, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] xkcd reference

Note this reference to the Drake equation from February 2008: http://xkcd.com/384/ --Stéphane Charette (talk) 06:58, 15 February 2008 (UTC)