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There are certainly no guarantees when it comes to SETI, but something called the Drake equation, named after Frank Drake, can help us organize our thinking about what might be required for successful detection.
But because L must be large for a successful detection, we also learn about our future, particularly that we can have a long future.
As I met successful business people and read profiles of high-powered leaders, I noticed some commonality.
In one study designed to measure the effects of adversity on children at risk, among a subset of 698 children who experienced the most severe and extreme conditions, fully one-third grew up to lead healthy, successful and productive lives.
In a study of the world's most highly successful entrepreneurs, it turns out a disproportionate number have dyslexia.
They embrace their trauma and hardships as key elements of who they've become, and know that without those experiences, they might not have developed the muscle and grit required to become successful.
As a teenage mother, she has proved that she is a successful wife by bringing children and descendants for her husband, who will carry on his name in the future.
So as a result, we've turned to aquaculture, and salmon is one the most successful, at least from a numbers point of view.
People with neurobiological variations like dyslexia, including such creative and inventive individuals as Picasso, Muhammad Ali, Whoopi Goldberg, Steven Spielberg, and Cher, clearly have every capacity to be brilliant and successful in life.
The successful joint mission, known as Apollo-Soyuz, in which an American Apollo spacecraft docked with a Soviet Soyuz craft and the two crews met, shook hands, and exchanged gifts, marked the end of the space race in 1975.
One was Einstein's theory of relativity, the other was arguably even more revolutionary: quantum mechanics, a mind-meltingly strange yet stunningly successful new way of understanding the microworld, the world of atoms and particles.
"R.U.R." was wildly successful, and when it was translated into English in 1923, the word robot was enthusiastically embraced.
And over the years, I've noticed a sort of pattern or kind of rule, if you will, about the difference between successful decision-making with data and unsuccessful decision-making, and I find this a pattern worth sharing, and it goes something like this.
And that's why I believe that Netflix was so successful, because they used data and brains where they belong in the process.
The few that are successful settle down in a suitable spot, lose their wings, and begin laying eggs, selectively fertilizing some using stored sperm they've saved up from mating.
If you think about it, it is a little bit like a population of predators, that are so successful in decimating the prey that they must feed on, that in the end they starve.
Because lefties are worse at using these tools, and suffer from higher accident rates, they would be less successful in a purely cooperative world, eventually disappearing from the population.
Not long after the first successful airplane flights, pilots were eager to push their planes to go faster and faster.
It also turns out, on average, people who have a growth mindset are more successful, getting better grades, and doing better in the face of challenges.
The Wright Brothers built on history's failed attempts at flight, including some of their own, before designing a successful airplane.
"By overthrowing its government and seizing power himself?" "Your Honor, as a young and successful military officer, Napoléon fully supported the French Revolution, and its ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity.
By the late Middle Ages, the Hindu-Arabic decimal system mostly replaced Roman numerals and fractions in Europe, but efforts by scholars like John Wilkins to promote standard decimal-based measures were less successful.
But here's the thing: the more successful I become, the more shows, the more episodes, the more barriers broken, the more work there is to do, the more balls in the air, the more eyes on me, the more history stares, the more expectations there are.
The more I work to be successful, the more I need to work.
That return trip gives you four options for a successful route, and a similar set of options if you destroyed this room first.
He made two documentary films with and for our team, and he's making a successful business out of very little.
This man was extremely successful: he was confident and powerful.
And it's about a man, rich, successful, powerful, who wants to live forever.
Now, successful relaunchers are everywhere and in every field.
My team went back to our complex parasite, probed it with samples from Africans who had overcome malaria to answer the question: "What does a successful antibody response look like?"
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