Submitted by The_Weekend_Baker t3_y2yvi7 in space
Aquaticulture t1_is5lbfg wrote
Reply to comment by Stayts in Heaviest element yet detected in an exoplanet atmosphere by The_Weekend_Baker
This is /r/Space not /r/aliens.
Every new discovery doesn’t have to be related to aliens to not be click bait.
Although just saying “The heaviest element yet, Barium, has been detected in an exoplanet’s atmosphere.” Would have been easy enough.
This is an interesting discovery though:
> But even so, the scientists were surprised to find barium, which is 2.5 times heavier than iron, in the upper atmospheres of WASP-76 b and WASP-121 b. "Given the high gravity of the planets, we would expect heavy elements like barium to quickly fall into the lower layers of the atmosphere," explains co-author Olivier Demangeon, a researcher also from the University of Porto and IA.
Stayts t1_is5losn wrote
The title also kind of implies the heaviest element known to exist was discovered in the atmosphere.
Sly1969 t1_is5mf4u wrote
I think we can all agree that the title is poorly worded.
Insertclever_name t1_is5orfa wrote
I think you mean perfectly worded. For their goals, anyway. It’s technically the truth and gets clicks on the web page.
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LilSpermCould t1_is5ok6y wrote
I read it the way OP did too. If you're just scanning content to see if you want to read you're probably not reading critically.
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LunarLutra t1_is61d58 wrote
THANK. YOU. Folks if you misread, correct yourselves and move on. Trying to move the goal post so you feel less wrong is such a waste of brain energy.
LilSpermCould t1_is5v0dw wrote
You asked a question, I just gave you my theory.
Thinking about how I parse through my feed. I realized I did the same thing you questioned.
I didn't actually take a position.
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Shoshin_Sam t1_is9ukzz wrote
Can you explain why that’s not what it is implying?
TimBrowneye81 t1_is61n3x wrote
There's a large portion of this community that hates clickbait so much they've gone blind and think everything is
TimBrowneye81 t1_is61jrv wrote
It doesn't, your dumb asses just read it that way. The rest of us have common sense
Blazerer t1_is9gt73 wrote
There are some serious mouthbreathers in this sub who do scream "aliens" at literally everything, then get salty when you call them out on it.
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