Bad News And Good News: Hycean Worlds Aren’t Real, But Earth’s Water Isn’t Unusual

I love how, as our understanding of our place in the cosmos has developed and evolved, it becomes ever more apparent how very average we are, in complete opposition to how we conduct ourselves and how we prefer to imagine our roles and lives in the universe. From our galaxy to the sun to the earth’s water content.

One of my biggest problems with scientific communication and reporting, and people’s understanding of science in general, is that single studies are treated as definitive answers.

Then of course when a different study comes out and contradicts things, LOL start saying bullshit like ” scientists don’t know what they’re doing, one day they say one thing, wonder they say the other” when really what it is is two studies that don’t have totally agreeing results. Reported on by somebody who has at best of vague understanding of what the research actually said.

It’s one study, it may be a very good study I’m not in a position to judge that, but I doubt that the astrophysics community is going to universally accept these results. If further modeling and research supports this, then we gain confidence that these results may be accurate and correct, but until then, it’s just one paper.

I do hope parts of what they say all right, it would be nice in the universe if Earth like Rocky planets with water were not uncommon, because it increases the probability that life exists cells for. And for whatever reason, that thought pleases me.

I don’t want us to be alone in the universe, I don’t want us to be special that way, I’d rather the idea of a universe teaming with life, and maybe someday Humanity can find a way to meet some of that life, even if it’s just Moss.

Hello little moss.