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Friday, May 2, 2025

We may have found life out there


Artist rendition of planet K2-18 b. (Source)

The ongoing Donald Trump Reality TV Show tends to crowd out other news that deserves more attention, and I wonder if everyone noticed the news the other day that scientists may have found life on a planet 120 light years away. This seems like a news story Robert Anton Wilson would have been interested in, so I am posting about it here.

From the New York Times: "Now a team of researchers is offering what it contends is the strongest indication yet of extraterrestrial life, not in our solar system but on a massive planet, known as K2-18b, that orbits a star 120 light-years from Earth. A repeated analysis of the exoplanet’s atmosphere suggests an abundance of a molecule that on Earth has only one known source: living organisms such as marine algae."

Here is the full article. 

Here is a story doubting the claim.  So, maybe not? Still, it seems to me this should be getting much more attention. This seems more substantial than endless UFO nonsense. 

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