Kevin Russell<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@jimsalter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jimsalter</span></a></span> </p><p>Wishful thinking. Billions and billions spent, terabytes of data, thousands of searchers, decades of nitpicking study, and not one empty matchbook, not a sniff, not an atom out of place in a very very big Petrie dish. </p><p>Hopeful sure, even excited for the search, but the unlikeliness, the fragility, of this gossamar exception, is also fascinating and enervating.</p><p>And frightening. Its really very easy for a planet to fail. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Fermi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fermi</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FermiParadox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FermiParadox</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Venus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Venus</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/carney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>carney</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CDNpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CDNpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/klima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>klima</span></a></p>