Tech Talk with Theunis : Aliens? Microscopic, Maybe… But Still Aliens?!

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Cue the dramatic music. Dim the lights. Picture a lone scientist hunched over a screen, coffee in one hand, sheer disbelief in the other. And then… it happens. The blip. The signal. The microscopic clue that just might change everything.

Theunis Jansen van Rensberg from Bandwidth Blog and Keeno Lee dive headfirst into the slime-trail of what could be the biggest (yet tiniest) discovery in modern astronomy: possible microbial life on another planet. That’s right—little alien bugs. Not the kind that abduct cows or beam down to Area 51, but the kind that could totally ruin your soup and redefine life as we know it.
Are we alone? Or have the microbes been throwing a party across the galaxy all along—and we’re just late to the invite?
Buckle up. Things are about to get spore-tacular.
14 May English South Africa Tech News

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