A layman who has a passing interest in astronomy has criticised an announcement by the European Southern Observatory about the discovery of a new planet close to our solar system that could harbour life.
The ESO said it's discovery is "groundbreaking" as never before have we found such a high probability of life so close to our solar system.
However not everyone was as elated with the news as the ESO were.
A layman going by the name of Geoffrey Jones said "it's not spectacular, we get this sort of announcement every few months, it's not that big, give me aliens, I want aliens.
He continued "we spend all this money on this expensive stuff, sending things into space to look at rocks, we have rocks on Earth, why go into space to look at rocks?
"It says at the beginning of Star Wars that it was a 'long time ago', think about that, we're so far behind them. It says in Space Odyssey we should have come into contact with other beings by 2001 but we haven't, ET was early 80s. I loved that film and every night for five years I looked out of my window to see a spaceship, it never happened.
He finished by saying "I'm bored of it now, to be honest, I want something big, I want aliens.
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