Re: [OT] Life found on another planet

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