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Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge’s_law_of_headlines

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This “law” doesn’t really hold up, according to that article’s studies section. I wholeheartedly agree that it’s a dirty and gross way to head something; but it was more interesting that the answer appears to more often be “yes”. Problem is there are so few examples of it (comparatively).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines#Studies

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2 points

That’s because it’s no longer a journalistic article but an editorial.

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28 points

ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA.

ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.

USE THEM TOGETHER.

USE THEM IN PEACE.

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18 points

How should I know? You’re the news website, you tell me.

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For every news article that asks a yes/no question, 99% of the time the correct answer is “no, cause then we would tell the news, but this no has a long story about entertaining dead ends”

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Based on my knowledge of absolutely nothing since the website asked me, I declare that they found snails

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6 points

No

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No, no intelligent life in Europe, just like the rest of the earth. /s

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You added an extra descriptive word.

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