Crowded or Lonely? The Statistics of Alien Life

New research paper from the Cool Worlds Lab! Today we explore the implications of a classic result in statistics but applied to alien life for the first time. The result implies a startling conclusion, the cosmos is either teeming with intelligent civilizations, or we're essentially alone. Join us...

20 min - Space & the Universe - Cool Worlds

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