# Fear is like our planet. That is what Super Earth scientists say **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 30, 2021, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-is-like-our-planet-that-is-what-super-earth-scientists-say/931841 "2021-01-30T04:37:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-is-like-our-planet-that-is-what-super-earth-scientists-say/931841/1 "2021-01-30T04:37:17Z")
This site seems to take English web articles and translate them into bad English? All the articles are winners, but here is the source of thread title. [https://presstories.com/2021/01/27/this-planet-is-1000-crore-years-old-it-is-super-earth-it-seems-to-be-alive/](https://presstories.com/2021/01/27/this-planet-is-1000-crore-years-old-it-is-super-earth-it-seems-to-be-alive/) ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-is-like-our-planet-that-is-what-super-earth-scientists-say/931841/2 "2021-01-30T05:33:50Z")
This site seems to be a very valuable tool. A quick browse through any article of interest will provide you with an advance experience of dementia. Sure the words are English but what the hell do they mean? [Rugby – 4 rugby movies you should watch now](https://presstories.com/2021/01/28/rugby-4-rugby-movies-you-should-watch-now/) is, in fact, about the Bulls documentary series _The Last Dance._ ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-is-like-our-planet-that-is-what-super-earth-scientists-say/931841/3 "2021-01-30T22:19:14Z")
Yuggoth is that you? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-is-like-our-planet-that-is-what-super-earth-scientists-say/931841/4 "2021-01-30T22:21:20Z")
I had to google up an earlier discovery (turned out to be in 2016) of sites like this that apparently do multiple translations to obscure plagiarism. One of the mangled articles I traced to the source was from Wired. (Unfortunately the publishing site for the mangled copy is gone, and [archive.org](http://archive.org) didn’t cache it.) One that is still around, is articles about tellurian hankies. A little study of context gives some logic to “tissue” being translated as “hankies”, but I don’t know how “human” ended up as “tellurian”. Google for tellurian hankies, though, and you’ll get several hits (including places that I mentioned it.) [https://usa.timesofnews.com/health-care/did-you-get-it-all-experimental-pen-could-help-surgeons-detect-remaining-cancer-instantly.html](https://usa.timesofnews.com/health-care/did-you-get-it-all-experimental-pen-could-help-surgeons-detect-remaining-cancer-instantly.html) ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-is-like-our-planet-that-is-what-super-earth-scientists-say/931841/5 "2021-01-30T22:29:51Z")
Tellurian means “of or pertaining to the Earth”. Related to “Terrestrial” or “Terran”. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-is-like-our-planet-that-is-what-super-earth-scientists-say/931841/6 "2021-01-30T22:33:18Z")
So we know there is a defective TARDIS translation matrix involved… > **[Tellurian](https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Tellurian)** > > "Tellurian" was a term used by various aliens to refer to humans, or Earthlings specifically. The term was utilised in the Third Zone in the 20th century (TV: The Two Doctors), by humans on Pluto in the distant future (TV: The Sun Makers) and in the... ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-is-like-our-planet-that-is-what-super-earth-scientists-say/931841/7 "2021-01-30T22:40:40Z")
As I mentioned in the GQ thread in which an article from this site, was first posted, this article still retains a fragment of what appears to be Gujarati script (சோலைல்). So someone translated an article from English (or some other language) through Gujarati and back to English. No wonder the syntax is bizarre. [https://presstories.com/2021/01/04/this-strange-exoplanet-helps-astronomers-discover-planet-9/](https://presstories.com/2021/01/04/this-strange-exoplanet-helps-astronomers-discover-planet-9/) ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-is-like-our-planet-that-is-what-super-earth-scientists-say/931841/8 "2021-01-31T20:54:49Z")
The use of “crore” is also an indication that it was written in an Indian language at some point before it was poorly translated. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-is-like-our-planet-that-is-what-super-earth-scientists-say/931841/9 "2021-01-31T21:27:35Z")
Thanks for pointing that out. A crore is 10 million. So 1000 crore would be 10 billion, which is the age for the most ancient rocky planets mentioned in the article, and so checks out. However, the article also says the planet is 1000 billion years old, or 100 times older, and much older than the universe itself.