Ignoring is so hard 😅 I never bring it up.
I don't think they're fanatics. I just think their curiousity, with inexperience in healthy skepticism, has found a very easy outlet.
But I guess you're right. The current state of astrobiology isn't as exciting and people want to wonder. Maybe hard science is too difficult to sell in this case.
Lmao, just watched it. Thought it was gonna be longer than 2 minutes. However this is a fun little hack, though it doesn't work for everything.