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> “It is in no one’s interest to claim prematurely that we have detected life,” said Nikku Madhusudhan, an astronomer at the University of Cambridge

Hmm, well that isn't true. It is literally in your interest, since you are getting fame from the claim

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Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet

Link: nytimes.com/2025/04/16/science…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…



Astronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.
Carl Zimmer (The New York Times)

Nanook doesn't like this.

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Nanook

The chances of life being on this planet are close to nil. The star it circles is a red dwarf and it circles an orbit of only 4 days in order to be in the "habitable" zone of such a dim star. Problem, any planet that orbits that close to it's parent star is also going to be tidally locked, one side will always face that star and the back side will be in permanent darkness. All of the planets water will freeze out on the darkside rendering life as we know it impossible because at present we know of absolutely zero species that doesn't depend upon liquid water.
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