(July 5, 2014 at 1:00 pm)Welsh cake Wrote: I hate it when this happens.
I wish they wouldn't announce its existence if its not confirmed or is still being disputed. Same nonsense happened with Gliese 667 C's supposed 7 planetary system, when there was actually a failure to account for any correlated noise within the data.
I wish that the 'science' media would stop referring to these planets as 'earth-like'. Yes, these planets may share a handful of qualities with our own, but it's like saying a lizard is 'human-like' because it has the same number of limbs. It's dishonest and it creates a ton of misconceptions, not just about the planets in question but our actual ability to even know such a thing.
