Re: Keep calm and look for alternate explanations
"But it's a bit premature to omit "possible" from the title, dontcha think?"
Indeed. I smell a general bias that says, "There MUST be life somewhere else, so let's go spend a lot of money finding it". The unbiased approach would be "There is a LOT we don't know about the universe, so let's go spend a lot of money learning more about it".