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>terran

Could we please not alter headlines to replace real words with made-up scifi words? The original headline uses "terrestrial," which is correct.

Also even in the context of scifi, "terrestrial" has a completely different meaning ("of the land surface", vs "of the planet Earth").

Inb4 'all words are made up' etc etc boring thread

Mods, can we get a fix?

EDIT: Thanks!

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>Inb4 'all words are made up' etc etc boring thread

You admit your point is baseless but haven't internalized it emotionally, I guess.

"Terra" is "Earth" in Latin, and "teren" is Romanian for "ground". Can't "terran" be a shorthand for "terrESTRIAL" in English just because it's the name of a faction in StarCraft?

The article title is "Remote sensing reveals Antarctic green snow algae as important terrestrial carbon sink", which is over the 80-character limit for titles. The submitter likely made the edit to make the title fit.

If you have better alternative, feel free to suggest one.

Edit to add: the best way to get a title fixed is to (quietly) email the mods using the contact link in the footer.

Drop the word 'green', its an interesting descriptor but accuracy wouldn't be lost in the same way (I believe).

That's a good idea. I dropped 'terrestrial' instead, because I'm not sure where else the carbon sink would be.

(Submitted title was "Remote sensing shows Antarctic green snow algae is important terran carbon sink".)

Oh, honestly that's way better for the reason you specified. Nice.

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