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    Zeichen des fremden Lebens können eigentlich nur statistisches Lärm sein

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    1. Conscious-Ball8373 on

      Well I’m shocked – shocked! – that claims of signs of extraterrestrial life turn out to have insufficient statistical rigour and to have been overblown. I literally can’t believe that this could happen. I really hope something changes to make sure this doesn’t happen again.

      (/s, of course…)

    2. David_Parker on

      ….Thanks, Scully. The one time we thought there was actual life, and you and your degree had to come in and stomp on it.

    3. TequilaJesus on

      But the latest measurements were a 3 sigma result (99.7% certainty). In order to be absolutely certain, they would need a 5 sigma result (99.99994%). So this sign of alien life through a 99.7% certainty of the detection of Dimethyl Sulfide (DMS) and Dimethyl Disulfide (DMDS) is a pretty good statistic.

      So as of now, there’s a 0.3% chance that is may just be statistical noise

    4. Space19723103 on

      there’s enough background radiation that, statistical noise may actually be alien life.

      there are 3 types of lie: lies, damn lies, and statistics.

    5. RobbyRobRobertsonJr on

      Well call me shocked, you mean the so called Earth 2 that is 4 time the earths mass and orbiting a violent red dwarf star is not teeming with life and has aliens looking back at us.

    7. DarthFister on

      Paywall. Are they saying they re-did the statistical analysis and it isn’t actually 3 sigma? Or are they just latching onto the 0.3% chance this is noise?

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