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Comment by ulrikrasmussen | Hacker News Reader

Why was this renamed from the original title, erasing "in the time of"? This is highly misleading.

This is the actual title of the article: "Massive crater under Greenland’s ice points to climate-altering impact in the time of humans"

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It’s not misleading, it’s wrong, the article is about supporting evidence for the Younger Dryas (13,000 years ago) being caused by a meteor strike instead of some internal ice-age cycle.

Also, the impact in the title refers to a meteor impact. Probably OP just misunderstood the article and summarized the title incorrectly. “Meteor crater under Greenland points to climate altering effect of recent meteor strike” would be better.

OP here, my bad indeed. I was fiddling around trying to figure out the right way to shorten and carelessly ended with this. No intention to mislead, but I agree this changes the meaning in a bad way.

Most importantly I don't see a way to revert; hopefully the moderators will see this and do it instead.

I've sent an e-mail to the moderators asking them to fix the title. (The moderators can be reached at hn@ycombinator.com.)

We've just updated the title from “Massive crater under Greenland’s ice points to climate-altering impact of humans”.

HN has a max title length and that's over it. Would've been better to chop off the ending.

Yeah, sounds like the humans have made the crater. Not bad of us doing that under the ice.

It's because of the title length limitation I think. I tried uploading the article and I removed some parts of the title, although OP totally changed the meaning.

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