Okay, I know it’s basically a press-release aggregator, but I still check in on ScienceDaily.com from time to time. Today, I found this and couldn’t stop WTFing.
A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalyzed data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, has discovered an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star’s habitable zone, the area around a star where a rocky planet could support liquid water. [emphasis added]
Now I’m going all kooky with images of a scientist named Talos who is 12,000 miles tall with one foot in Noordwijk, Netherlands and the other in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Rob Grigjanis says
Reminds me of an Afrikaans slang term for South Africans of British origin.
Lofty says
Matters placement word. Or something. Maybe the scientists have been spaghettified by a black hole already.
John Morales says
Um, I do not think that word means what you think it means.
chigau (違う) says
Which word?
Rob Grigjanis says
chigau @4: My guess is “syntax”, but if so, John is wrong, because syntax can include word order. “A transatlantic team of scientists” is perfectly cromulent.
Crip Dyke, Right Reverend Feminist FuckToy of Death & Her Handmaiden says
@chigau & Rob:
Of course John Morales can speak for himself, but I chose to interpret him as speaking of the word “transatlantic” and criticizing the people who wrote the original press release, because I think it’s unreasonable to assume that anyone would ever disagree with me on even the smallest point.
chigau (違う) says
CD
Of course I agree.