It's just more of the same: eyewitnesses and interpretation. After all, just because a recording says "I see an object", heck even if a recording has someone saying "I see a UFO", is not evidence, it's hearsay.



That's correct. But equally ridiculous is the idea that we can successfully "guess" what that "other" life could be. That's my point to that post: that since we only know of ONE sentiant lifeform, we should search on the parameters we KNOW lead to life, not parameters that we ASSUME could lead to some type of life. My thought experiment was just a quick "back of the envelope" examination of how one would go about, scientifically, trying to find these "other" lifes. As you can see, it's a lot more involved than looking for life like us.