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Re:Life on Venus? Astronomers See a Signal in Its Clouds by SiempreViernes on Monday September 14, 2020 @11:53AM (#24471628)
At the same time, that comment is based on someone, working in exoplanetary science, skimming the paper for at most two hours before commenting.

Just looking at figure 2[0], it doesn't look like the ALMA a detection is particularly weak and looks like a proper line. Of course, I don't know the full analysis chain, so I can't say how hard it is to make a line like this completely by accident, but I doubt you could tell just from this figure either way.

[0]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1174-4/figures/2

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Re:Life on Venus? Astronomers See a Signal in Its Clouds by nabla9 on Monday September 14, 2020 @12:13PM (#24471866)
One of the authors agrees that the finding needs additional confirmation in the last paragraph.
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Re:Life on Venus? Astronomers See a Signal in Its Clouds by SiempreViernes on Monday September 14, 2020 @12:24PM (#24472000)
Well yeah, xkcd 2268 is a good joke for a reason. Confirmation of a new result is always desirable and everybody knows this, "more studies needed" is however not the same as saying "we're probably wrong".
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