[Williams]

Maybe I’m narrow minded, but if you can’t talk to it, pet it, or at least watch it running around, I’m not sure finding microbial life elsewhere is going to ring my bell.

OK, it will be a huge deal but some bacteria swimming in arsenic well, it only goes so far.

[mmercier]

A thing swimming in arsenic only goes so far, unless they bear a DNA strand that can cure cancer or diabetes or Alzheimer's or liberalism.

[ZX12R]

Maybe I’m narrow minded, but if you can’t talk to it, pet it, or at least watch it running around, I’m not sure finding microbial life elsewhere is going to ring my bell.

If they do indeed find it somewhere other than on earth, that would be interesting, but I see no reason to be optimistic about any life elsewhere in our solar system.