Thursday, September 30, 2010

Astronomer dispenses with the scientific method...

and leaps to an unsupported conclusion:  '100 percent' chance for life on newly found planet?  More technical article here: First "Potentially Habitable" Planet Announced.

Indeed, why bother with actually doing the hard science when one can generate sensational headlines with a ridiculous proclamation made with no evidence whatsoever?  For the record, this is what it would take:  If There's Life on Alien Planet Gliese 581g, How Do We Find It?

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