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Re:The Big Alien Theory by tsimionescu on Friday June 04, 2021 @03:27PM (#27397999)
> Maybe not much more. But definitely more. And not with 100% confidence, we can't conclude anything. But there is information there, and we would be daft to ignore it completely because it isn't conclusive. We should adjust our predictions.

From pure statistical inference, you know precisely 1 more thing than nothing: an individual of the species can run 100m in 9.58s.

Now, adding other kinds of information and reasonable assumption from physics and biology, we can conclude more than that 1 thing, as you say. It's unclear exactly how much those would apply to alien biology, but they might.

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