Hiya K2-18b-ers

 
Why a God would create a whole Universe for us Earthlings and then tuck the Planet away in the dull suburbs of the Galaxy perched on the edge of the Milky Ways spiral arm is confusing but the religio's believe it but then it wasn't that long ago that they were absolutely certain that the Earth was at the center of the Universe until Science slapped that particular nonsense out of their heads.
I have always believed that the Universe is just too large for their not to be life elsewhere on one of the 1 Septillion (that's 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) planets in the observable Universe so it was only a matter of time before they found us or as seems to have happened, we found them.
A giant planet, 2.6 times larger than Earth and 124 light years from Earth, K2-18b, has yielded the strongest evidence yet that extraterrestrial life may be thriving based on observations by the James Webb space telescope has revealed the chemical fingerprints of two compounds that, on Earth, are only known to be produced by life.
The Scientists at the University of Cambridge are keen to state that the detection of the chemicals, Dimethyl Sulfide (DMS) and Dimethyl Disulfide (DMDS) do not comprehensively prove alien biological activity, but it is 'very strong evidence' and called it: 'A potential tipping point to answering the question of whether we’re alone in the universe'.
K2-18 b sits in the Leo constellation and orbits in the habitable zone but at 124 light years or 744 trillion miles away, it is too far away to photograph and using the speed of the New Horizons spacecraft travelling at 36,373 mph as a baseline it would take 390,000 years to travel there to have a look ourselves so that is out of the question.
The findings, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, suggest concentrations of DMS, DMDS thousands of times stronger than the levels on Earth but there is a chance that there may be processes on the Planet that are producing these molecules but they don't know of any Earthly process that can explain this, without it being biological life.
'Life is one of the options, but it’s one among many' poo-pooed  Dr Nora Hänni, a chemist at the Physics Institute of the University of Berne and was joined by Dr Jo Barstow, a planetary scientist at the Open University, who said that the detection was significant, but the burden of proof of life elsewhere must be very, very high and I don’t think this crosses that threshold'.
The Planet is estimated to be 4 billion years old which is approximately the same age as the Earth which is 4.5 billions years old and life began here 3.7 billion years ago with intelligent life 200,000 years ago, so if the K2-18b-ers began on the same trajectory as us hundreds of millions of years before us while our ancient ancestors were first clambering out of the oceans or Tyrannosaurus Rex stopped fighting with a Triceratops to see what that loud noise from that massive fireball was, they would be so far advanced of what what we can offer that maybe we shouldn't try too hard to announce we are here.
K2-18 b may be filled with harmless bacteria, it might have the equivalent of cats and dogs but it may be little green man angrily waving around something which looks suspiciously like an anal probe at our telescopes looking at them but at 124 light years away, unless they have a Red Dwarf style Faster-Than-Light Drive, we can rest easy.