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Re:Astronomers discover super-Earth around Barnard's star by craftyguy on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @08:03PM (#18455961)
> I don't think we'd find that very exciting.

Uh, that would be absolutely, positively very exciting to find microbes that originated someplace other than Earth. If you expect we'll find little green humanoid-looking things, you're going to be highly disappointed for likely centuries.

Re:Astronomers discover super-Earth around Barnard's star by dev_north_east on Thursday November 15, 2018 @06:28AM (#18458451)
> microbes that originated someplace other than Earth

Well we could never be sure of that without real samples. Who's to say it's not all the result of panspermia?