On 2025-05-02 18:33:28 +0000, moviePig said:
On 5/2/2025 1:39 PM, Rhino wrote:
One of the news channels I use quite regularly is TLDR - it's actually
a family of channels with separate channels for the UK, Europe,
business, etc. - had a VERY� interesting item on a recent episode of
their Daily Briefing. The episode is two weeks old but I only just
heard it today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHz2fcCLYso [first 2 or 3 minutes]
I am surprised that I didn't see this discovery mentioned elsewhere in
the past couple of weeks. They don't claim to have found INTELLIGENT
life - which would obviously be a huge deal - but just finding
something what very much appears to indicate life on another planet
seems like pretty big news to me.
I suppose the discovery has been overshadowed by other news; Trump-
bashing is obviously far more interesting to the media than life on
another world!
Though only a raised probability of life, I saw it mentioned in
numerous places.
Yep. It was reported in lots of places. The reality is that it's
nothing new and not exciting. Instruments supposedly detected chemicals
that might be a sign of some sort of life, but it's too far away to
ever actually know - it would take thousands of years for anything to
get there, plus what we're seeing now is millions of years old, so the
sun there has already eaten its planets anyway.
The "experts" also claim that these things are "potential signs of
life", but all their searching and informtion is based on Earth life,
and the enviroment and possible life on another planet could easily be
very very different. Such chemicals could be being produced by some
factors that simply don't happen on Earth.
But not until how have I seen it connected to Trump...
Well, Trump the Chump certainly isn't human. :-p
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