Redditsux'It's happening': Journalist warns Trump's UFO order a smoke screen for something bigger
Anybody who knows anything about science knows that an announcement of alien life would not be a bombshell press conference by any one nation or organization.
It would be a slow series of scientific papers over the course of years as confidence in the findings slowly increases. Starting with “there’s something interesting going on in the atmosphere of this exoplanet” until we finally get to “we’re 95% confident that this is a biological process, but this exoplanet is 50 light years away so we can’t really do anything else with this information right now.”
Not saying you’re wrong, but… that’s only if we discover them first.
If they discover us first this would happen in their planet:
It would be a slow series of scientific papers over the course of years as confidence in the findings slowly increases. Starting with “there’s something interesting going on in the atmosphere of this exoplanet” until we finally get to "we’re 95% confident that this is a biological process, but this exoplanet is 50 light years away so we can’t really do anything else with this information right now.
The ship filled with interstellar face-eating parasitic spiders parked in the middle:
“Alright boys, we got a 25 light year jump in either direction, which ones we wanna hit first?”