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Another wildly speculative claim that they will contradict in a few months. Headlines like this are effectively worthless clickbait.
by imwillofficial 5y ago
Another wildly speculative claim that they will contradict in a few months.
Headlines like this are effectively worthless clickbait.
- ghaff 5y agoIt is speculative but it is also a paper in Nature. It's hardly some random blog.
- imwillofficial 5y agoExactly, I hold them to a higher standard.
- feoren 5y agoThat's standard pop-sci title inflation. The article is about how evidence from analyzing fish buried in debris tsunamis indicates that the impact happened in Spring (in the Northern Hemisphere). That is a genuine contribution to understanding what happened. You're right that the hibernation thing is pretty speculative -- but it's also a falsifiable hypothesis that other evidence could shed light on later, so it's not like we shouldn't talk about it.