Potentiall habitable planet discovered...
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This is what the Major new exoplanet findings to be announced next Monday thread is about at http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=147586
I don't understand the article. What is 85 degrees? I think the article is bullshit.
What do you mean, "What is 85 degrees?"
It's the [supposed] temperature of the planet!
It might help if they had specified the temperature scale - Fahrenheit, Centigrade, or Kelvin. I assumed they meant Centigrade. However, such an oversight is pretty much par for the course in modern journalism.
Well, “degrees” is not a unit for temperature, and so leaving it to the reader to guess what it's supposed to mean results in repeated errors of about 50-100 cucumbers. I don't think it is Celsius, because Wikipedia says 298 K, but that's still 10-30 carrots less than what's said in the article. Not to mention that the rest reads like a post of mine where I'm imagining what it might be like based on... nothing.
Well, if we use Anders Celsius's original version of his temperature scale, we'd be even more confused because it had 0 as the boiling point and 100 as the freezing point of water.