I'm with you on this. The announcement is going to be about unicellular Mars life or unicellular life on one of those ice moons with subsurface oceans. The ann

I'm with you on this. The announcement is going to be about unicellular Mars life or unicellular life on one of those ice moons with subsurface oceans. The announcement about observation of Bussard Ramjet exhaust plumes, or light sail launch lasers will happen after the unicellular life dust settles. And that could be decades. A large fraction of the US population is young earth creationist. They're not going to take news of a 2nd abiogenesis easily.