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Not impossible, but rather unlikely. According to TFA, the partner star was much further out. Also, gas giant planets Jupiter's size are fairly common I thought (this knowledge may be outdated).
TFA? I'm getting "The Force Awakens". Or "Teach For America".
I read it 'Paris'. I need some coffee.
Same here. I believe the effect is similar to that of a garden path sentence[1] except instead of discovering a grammatical inconsistency and having to backtrack to re-parse, the grammatical context misleads the lexical level so much so that we "see" 'Paris' where 'Pairs' actually exists. I suspect that the 'P' being capitalized further supports the 'Paris' misinterpretation. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_…
I read it 'Paris'. I need some coffee.
Same here. I believe the effect is similar to that of a garden path sentence[1] except instead of discovering a grammatical inconsistency and having to backtrack to re-parse, the grammatical context misleads the lexical level so much so that we "see" 'Paris' where 'Pairs' actually exists. I suspect that the 'P' being capitalized further supports the 'Paris' misinterpretation. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_…
I can tell you it gets even more bizarre: I once misread "bluetooth is dead" as "IrDA is dead" and was like, "duh, no shit, Sherlock, how is this even a news?".
So, apparently, everything gets lexed right initially, then it goes to semantic analysis which figures out that some comms standard is dead, obviously IrDA is a comms standard which is virtually dead nowadays, this tidbit is fed back into the parser, which stabilizes on its final output: IrDA is dead. Kill me.
I read it 'Paris'. I need some coffee.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same here. I believe the effect is similar to that of a garden path sentence[1] except instead of discovering a grammatical inconsistency and having to backtrack to re-parse, the grammatical context misleads the lexical level so much so that we "see" 'Paris' where 'Pairs' actually exists. I suspect that the 'P' being capitalized further supports the 'Paris' misinterpretation. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_…
Also, the weird English custom to capitalize most words in titles, but not in normal sentences, adds to the confusion here.
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2015/05/28...
I read this initially as "paris" and the title took a strange turn when I clicked it