The baffling Drake equation reads: N = R* x Fp x Ne x Fi x Fc x L, and helped pioneering scientist Professor Drake to predict that there could be 10, 000 civilisations in our galaxy.

这一令人费解的“德雷克等式”为N = R* x Fp x Ne x Fi x Fc x L，先驱科学家德雷克教授曾利用该公式作出预测：银河系中可能存在1万种文明。

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But there's a scientist in Brooklyn, N. Y., who says he has a solution to all of these problems.

但是纽约州布鲁克林市的一位科学家声称他掌握了针对上述所有问题的解决方案。

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Behind the record temperatures was a dome of high pressure over the center of the country, which combined with a powerful drought to create the scorching temperatures, said Jake Crouch, a climate scientist at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.

WSJ: July Marked Hottest Month on U.S. Record