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hanlonsaxe t1_j76ywi8 wrote

Reply to comment by Putin_Delenda_Est in Newly-discovered Earth-mass exoplanet — named Wolf 1069 b — may provide durable habitable conditions across a wide area of its dayside by marketrent

It would be nice if we used different words for habitable for humans, and habitable for some kind of life in general.

But then no one would click. I guess that could be the title for the chapter in the 22nd century history book about this era.

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LightChaos74 t1_j77i2r4 wrote

Sorry, what do you mean by no one would click? Like it wouldn't work all together?

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ogorangeduck t1_j77mizv wrote

Nobody would read the article (click on it to read past the headline)

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rogerdanafox t1_j7al6ba wrote

Are you familiar with the term Clickbait?

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LightChaos74 t1_j7c6nwf wrote

Yeah, for some reason I didn't put that together til after I commented. Not sure where I was at mentally

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marketrent OP t1_j78zbhx wrote

>hanlonsaxe

>It would be nice if we used different words for habitable for humans, and habitable for some kind of life in general.

>But then no one would click. I guess that could be the title for the chapter in the 22nd century history book about this era.

Who is ‘we’?

Do you mean that the majority of users in r/science may not read linked content, or excerpts in comments?

Do you also mean that such users need in-title explanations for scientific words?

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