• Didn’t NASA find fossilized microbes on Mars or a meteorite or something in the 90’s? Sure it wasn’t alive, but it kinda proves alien life existed in some form just in our own backyard.

    With the sheer abundance of life forms just on our one planet, it would be fucking weird for their not to be alien life elsewhere in the universe.

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      What?.. no. That would be confirmed life on another planet. It would be the single biggest discovery in human history. You would have heard if that was the case. “Fossilized microbes” would be “life”. Nobody needs the life to still be alive to be a huge, huge deal.

      If you’re thinking the word “organic” means “microbe”, it doesn’t. I guess this is the consequence of all the harm to the public understanding that all the shitty headlines caused trying to get clicks but still being “technically correct” despite knowing it will be misinterpreted as “life”.