Ugh, "alien life" is a reasonable title, IMO. I think the sensationalism is happening in your head, that you're imagining the Borg or little green men.
Ugh, "alien life" is a reasonable title, IMO. I think the sensationalism is happening in your head, that you're imagining the Borg or little green men.
I'm imagining some new kind of volcanism and one less way to detect life. Or, as my wife put it, "Ah, rock babies again."
I don’t think it’s an unreasonable title, but it’s also not accurate. The paper states quite clearly that they’ve found reasonable evidence of a known biomarker. They don’t know enough to say whether it’s from a biological or some abiotic process (but speculate a little about what that might mean and what evidence they would need to take that further).
That’s quite a different tone from the article, and I think the comments here and elsewhere online reflect that.
More like big green algae?