Look, “puffy” and “fluffy” are not terms appropriate to a scientific discovery.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060914/ap_on_sc/puffy_planet_1
Astronomers find distant, fluffy planet
Sorry. That doesn’t fly. Neither does the line “along with a second, smaller distant world that’s also puffier than theories would have predicted.” Puffier than theories predicted? Never the twain shall meet!
Are verbal standards really so low now that we have to say “puffy” and “fluffy” instead of “less dense” or perhaps even “lighter weight”. Of course, maybe then we’d have to talk about mass versus weight, and that just won’t do.
Is this choice of words so that people who ordinarily would have ignored the discovery of a new planet would take note, perhaps thinking some new fad in planets has made Jupiter the new Earth? It’s totally orange and pink. And have you checked out that storm? So dramatic. I wouldn’t wear that storm during the day, but it’s ok because planets only come out at night… like, right?
Come on, guys. Planets don’t resemble pink fuzzy accessories. They are not named “Fifi”. They are not puffy and fluffy. Ever.
