Hmmm...we've been hearing this sort of talk a lot more recently. Feels like conditioning. Get ready for contact.

“We now know the rate of occurrence of habitable planets around the most common stars in our galaxy,” said co-author David Charbonneau.

“That rate implies that it will be significantly easier to search for life beyond the solar system than we previously thought,” Charbonneau said in a statement.


Easier to search...easier to find...and now easier to tell the masses.