I'm not impressed. Alien life is over-hyped. I wrote a few words on the topic and these findings do not make me change my mind.
Fair warning: this is a self-plug.
Fair warning: this is a self-plug.
A) It didn't change the scientific paradigm. It was an extension of generally agreed on principles.
B) It didn't effect the day to day work of the majority of scientists.
That seems to be the criteria you are using, and they seem pretty strange to me in this case.
Nobody asserts that the discovery of alien life would produce a product. Instead, pundits carry on about “the implications for our understanding of our place in the universe” or some other such rot. That's the focus of commentary on alien life and that's what I critiqued in that essay.