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If there is life outside of our solar system forget about them. They don’t need us bringing our bullshit to them.
They likely suffer from the same bullshit if they are sentient
If that’s the case We don’t need their bullshit coming here either. This planet already sucks enough.
It’s hard to imagine how we’d even communicate with intelligent life hundreds of light years from us.
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…)
Cool!
