“I think this is as big a moment as it gets in the search for life.”
Nikku Madhusudhan from Cambridge University tells Matt Frei why his team's discovery on the planet K2-18b is so significant.
Read and watch:
https://www.channel4.com/news/scientist-explains-how-he-discovered-evidence-of-life-on-k2-18b
Nikku Madhusudhan from Cambridge University tells Matt Frei why his team's discovery on the planet K2-18b is so significant.
Read and watch:
https://www.channel4.com/news/scientist-explains-how-he-discovered-evidence-of-life-on-k2-18b
Comments
There's going to be a 50% chance that they will be more advanced than us or 50% chance that they will be behind us.
If they are advanced they will view us as being primitive.
They discovered gases commonly associated with microbes like algi.
These gases can be created from non biological processes.
Even the US government now admits there is a higher intelligence operating in its air space after decades of denials:
https://youtu.be/ZBtMbBPzqHY?si=Qf3el9Fzft9zAXM7
It was aways clear to me the aerial manoeuvres could not have been performed by human tech.
Cant imagine they are impressed by what they see here.