The Drake Equation

The Drake Equation, created in 1961, is an assumption of our chances of finding extraterrestrial life from other star systems.

In the 1950’s, the United States government chose the sparsely populated community of Green Bank in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, to establish a “National Radio Astronomy Observatory” with the world’s largest radio telescopes. Surrounded by 30.000 square kilometres, the so-called “National Radio Quiet Zone”, is designated as free of electro-magnetic interference, in which radio transmissions are heavily restricted by law to facilitate scientific research and military intelligence.

As astrophysicist spend their days using the equation and the radio telescopes to search the edge of the universe looking for signs of life, a parallel set of systems and codes define the lives of the families which have been thriving for generations in Green Bank, along with the new settlers who have arrived to flee the technology age.