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  "kind": "GlossaryTerm",
  "metadata": {
    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:01Z",
    "language": "en",
    "schemaUrl": "/v1/schema/glossary-term/"
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  "data": {
  "id": "drake-equation",
  "category": "science",
  "definition": "Frank Drake's 1961 probabilistic formulation estimating the number of communicating civilisations in the Milky Way as the product of seven factors (star-formation rate, fraction with planets, fraction habitable, fraction with life, fraction intelligent, fraction communicating, average lifetime). The corpus uses the equation as the contemporary scientific frame for the Capricorn-age target-selection problem.",
  "translations": {
    "en": "Drake equation",
    "de": "Drake-Gleichung",
    "es": "ecuación de Drake",
    "fr": "équation de Drake",
    "ja": "ドレイクの方程式",
    "ko": "드레이크 방정식",
    "ru": "Уравнение Дрейка",
    "zh": "德雷克方程",
    "zh-Hant": "德雷克方程式",
    "he": "משוואת דרייק"
  }
},
  "links": {
    "self": "/v1/glossary/drake-equation/",
    "index": "/v1/glossary/",
    "schema": "/v1/schema/glossary-term/"
  }
}