• If there is life outside of our solar system forget about them. They don’t need us bringing our bullshit to them.

  • 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.