I heard about that. I just had to laugh. The space alien believers are insanely superficial. They jump up and down and call press conferences when what? 1 of 1000 requirements might possibly be met?

There's so much more to habitability than location, but they don't care to consider all that. They're pushing a wish, and the motive behind that wish is pure rebellion.

Dark Matter + Dark Energy = Dark Truth

"We find that such evidence demonstrates that the ID argument is dependent upon setting a scientifically unreasonable burden of proof for the theory of evolution." - Judge Jones Kitzmiller case
http://www.talkreason.org/articles/Falsify.cfm

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