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yeatruestory t1_iwl4dp9 wrote

Lmao that's like saying you looked everywhere for the needle when you aren't in the same country as the haystack

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Oriana_xx t1_iwlvzw3 wrote

its like trying to find a blue sand particle in a sun sized mass of sand, we barely have looked through a handful of sand

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[deleted] t1_iwoo3za wrote

This is the best analogy I've heard. We've only been able to meaningfully look for less than a hundred years, our capabilities for looking are very limited, we haven't even looked everywhere we can look, and this is all assuming that our technology can even detect it. It's even possible that it exists under our noses, but is undetectable to us for the time being (like underneath ice sheets on Europa, or something like that).

Anyone saying the search for life is "over" is painfully unaware that the search for life is just getting started assuming humanity makes it through the next century.

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