Extraterrestrial intelligence?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Fixed that for you. The current investigative hypotheses are:

1. there are combinations of known naturalistic phenomena working to create unexpected effects
2. there is/are a new naturalistic phenomenon/phenomena at work, waiting to be discovered
3. there are issues with/impacts on the data that have not yet been corrected for

'Aliens' seems to be a subtly humourous proposal that's been taken too far by the popular press. They could have said 'a fly on the lens' but then the joke wouldn't have sold so well.

I appreciate your skepticism.  But, certainly, if we can identify intelligent life on this World (setting all jokes aside), then what's stopping us from doing the same on other Worlds?

Primarily, the fact that we aren't on other worlds.

Boru