Scientists hail ‘strongest evidence’ so far for life beyond our solar system

With the dude's seductive voice that resonates eternally through the very fabric of our... spacetime.

I admire the optimisim

Maybe they would act as a uniting force? :D

If that's the case We don't need their bullshit coming here either. This planet already sucks enough.

They likely suffer from the same bullshit if they are sentient

It’s hard to imagine how we’d even communicate with intelligent life hundreds of light years from us.

If there is life outside of our solar system forget about them. They don't need us bringing our bullshit to them.

In the best case, the detection is at the 2.4 sigma confidence level (less than the usual 3 for reasonable confidence and will below the 5 required for strong confidence), and if previously suspected issues with the instrument are true, the detection could disappear completely.

I do not have a strong confidence in this result. (But at least they didn't publish it in Nature, in which case you would absolutely *know* it's wrong...)

I'll just wait for the PBS Space Time video to tell me it's not aliens.

s/life/certain chemical reactions/

Cool!