"The strongest sign yet of extraterrestrial life" is like the strongest sign yet that some newly-charted asteroid will strike the earth. Why, the chance might be as high as a few percent! Oh, actually it's different because the place is light years away. It will take a long time to learn enough to set the chance back to negligible.
the Daily Whale
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