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http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03622 http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03622 The paper. Basically Kepler, or to be more precise the Planet Hunter crowdsourcing effort, foun
by yk 11y ago
http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03622 http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03622
The paper. Basically Kepler, or to be more precise the Planet Hunter crowdsourcing effort, found a star with a rather strange light curve and the Atlantic jumped the gun and babbels of aliens.
- yarou 11y agoWhile they are prematurely speculating about intelligent life, it certainly warrants further investigation. Given that the Atlantic's target audience is lay-people, of course they would play up the "extraterrestrial" hypothesis, because that's how they grab readers' attention.
- yk 11y agoWell, there are a lot of stars and some fraction has anomalous light curves in one respect or another. I am not against investigating, but I believe that overhyping science does more harm than good.