- 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. - Maybe they would act as a uniting force? :D - I admire the optimisim 
 
 
 
- 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…) 
- I’ll just wait for the PBS Space Time video to tell me it’s not aliens. - With the dude’s seductive voice that resonates eternally through the very fabric of our… spacetime. 
 
- s/life/certain chemical reactions/ 
- Cool! 





