If someone were to record a flawless, 4K video of an actual alien walking around or a spaceship flying overhead, people would just think it’s a deep fake.

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    2 months ago

    The good news: if we heard tomorrow that astronomers had discovered an exoplanet with life, it would now sound plausible.

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        2 months ago

        When i saw the headlines I skipped past. Usually they detect “organic molecules”. This means the requisites for life are present but it’s not evidence of life.

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          You should take a look then, this one is subtly but significantly different. They found Dimethyl Sulfide, which is (to our knowledge) only created by living organisms.