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The article seems to treat speculation with more confidence than it deserves, and also to report estimates with unjustified level of precision. For example, it
by gweinberg 3y ago
The article seems to treat speculation with more confidence than it deserves, and also to report estimates with unjustified level of precision. For example, it claims the annual amount of glycine transferred to Titan is equal to the mass of "a male African elephant" rather than simply an elephant.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoI always find the metaphorical estimates in science reporting absurd. I don’t know why the mass of a male African elephant is in any way more visceral than 6000 kg (btw a quick google search gives a band of 1800 to 6300kg, which isn’t particularly precise). Given Titan is about 4.5 billion years old this could be an enormous amount of complex carbon transferred from the surface assuming it’s more or less a one way process.