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“The breaks indicate a very large area of impact and devastation,” she says. “It’s likely the individual was killed by a siege engine.” So it’s likely, which m
by nexus6 2mo ago
“The breaks indicate a very large area of impact and devastation,” she says. “It’s likely the individual was killed by a siege engine.”
So it’s likely, which means it’s not confirmed as the headline implies.
- _mjk 2mo agoI don't get the nitpicking here. Scientifically correct, since circumstantial. Meteor is also possible, but very unlikely. The probability regimes in which science is dealing often only leave marginal room for alternative explanations.
- 27183 2mo agoPeople who haven't spent much time around scientists or watched them work often have a mistaken idea of just how precise the work is. Even high precision work can be found later to be wrong! That's just the system working as designed. But impugning scientists for just doing their jobs is really a bad smell, and unfortunately on this webforum it happens way too much.