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This is CBS Island the World. I'm John Batser visiting with my colleague Bob Zimmerman. He keeps the website

behind the black. Exoplanets. We're leaving this world and going to another world where there was

reported sometime this year or last year. Chemicals that are consistent with organic life. And yet,

what have we learned, Bob? Good evening, John. First, I forgot to do this in the first segment, but I want to thank

your listeners for their donations during my July fundraiser. I really appreciate their support,

and it keeps me going, so I really thank you. We're talking about an exoplanet that was,

they used data from web in April, and scientists thought they had found two molecules.

I'm not going to state the molecule names because they're long and complicated.

But these two molecules on Earth are only associated with the presence of life.

And so those scientists then said there's a possibility we've discovered life or evidence that

there might be life on this exoplanet.

Well, scientists use Web again to get better data, and they are saying, no, no, no,

uncertainty of science.

Those molecules apparently are not there.

That was a weak data point, and it is not confirmed.

This is a, it's a super-Earth or Neptune-sized planet, and it apparently has a lot of water,

they think, but there's no, at this moment, signs of life. The bottom line here is that we're in the infancy of studying exoplanets, and we really can

only tease out the tiniest details about them because of their distance.

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