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gus_massatoday at 11:44 AM1 replyview on HN

> How is it "grossly incorrect"?

Perhaps it's not glossly incorrect, but I classyfy it as "super ultra mega misleading".

I'd like a title like "*Cyanobacteria survives in water contamined with martian soil"


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embedding-shapetoday at 12:17 PM

HN title at the moment is: Researchers Find Microbe Capable of Producing Oxygen from Martian Soil

Article title at the moment is: Microbe That Could Turn Martian Dust into Oxygen

Neither of those are particularly misleading, but requires you to read it carefully I suppose, otherwise it can misleading I suppose. I guess "Martian Dust" is the most misleading part of the quote, as the soil isn't actually Martian of origin, but actually "materials that are similar to Martian soil".

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