Or Should I flesh out this story? the Deep Story behind the recent hype on possible life on Venus

 
somehow we have to get across the very buzzy HUMAN DRAMA of ... so the venus announcement is that they used these impressive peices of machinery to listen to radio waves traveling through atmosphere of venus and we CAN determine that it's diff shaped molecules DANCING!

and..the HISTORY we gotta get across that science is a LOONG HAUL story, not the latest fashion buzz, not the quick salvation from aliens.  it took 150 years of really hard work, confusing work, to understand that stuff is made of dancing molecules, hell, Boltzman died for it

so the sense of mastery, the precision craftwork it takes to work with these radio detectors and have CONFIDENCE we've detected a particular molecule dancing in the atmosphere of what looks like a DOT in the sky!

we have to keep talking about how science is this grand slow collective endeavour of 1000s of people carefully taking apart and putting together an understanding of results from many different realms to get them to fit together into a stronger and more wideranging world view

our job is to explore the philosophical implications of the question "what is life".  We don't know what life is! we don't know how life fits in with the rest of physics and chemistry!  is it totally alien?  is it a phenomenon on a continuum of complexity possible? etc...

we have to portray how amazing it would be  if we even ONLY found, say, something like the reverse krebs cycle happening on venus and nothing else.  putting life in the continuum of levels of complexity of chems instead of it being a miracle invented by alien space dude, god.