Exactly. I laugh even harder when certain “science” pubs announce some astronomers claim they have found another “earth like” planet, that is “only” X light years away.
I laugh because of the hilarity of what some silly scientists and some silly science publications consider what qualifies as “earth like”. Most often they think some orb that is revolving around some sun at a similar distance from that sun as earth’s orbit around our sun qualifies that orb for the designation “earth like”. They get away with ignoring all the attributes of a planet that have gone into making our earth “earth like”. They pretend one single similarity qualifies as “earth like”. They don’t deserve the designation “scientists”.