Whew...relax guys, with the current ocean acidification going on[1], we will only have to wait about a million years for recovery, not ten million like you were probably thinking.

[1] https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/ocean-co...

At least with palaeontologists, you can ~always adjust the adjectives in one direction.

Vs. with astronomers, physicists, and such...a phrase like "extremely bright" could mean "the comet will be visible with binoculars, if you know exactly where to look". Or, it could mean "if there were any Earth-like planets in that galaxy...well, there aren't now".

Right, exactly. One of the challenges with this is the soundbite. For those whose agenda is suited, they'll latch on to the word 'quickly'. "Hey, no problem, even if everything goes to hell, it'll recover just fine. No big deal, carry on as usual", entirely ignoring that it's "quickly" on a geologic time scale, not a human.

Is that all? That makes me feel a lot better about the next climate-related mass extinction.