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FlatulentGoku t1_iu1auxp wrote

Just microbes, I'm holding out hope for that type of find in my lifetime, and I'm late 80s.

Intelligent life, generations away.

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pompanoJ t1_iu2p0vk wrote

Yeah, it is plausible that some group is already vetting the data on a spectral analysis of an exoplanet atmosphere that reveals the presence of life. Or maybe that moment is a decade away. Or 10 decades.

But I think we all believe that moment is indeed just a matter of time and telescopes.

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