• Balthazar@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    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…)

  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

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

    • Kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 days ago

      With the dude’s seductive voice that resonates eternally through the very fabric of our… spacetime.