[H&F] "A brief note on the Tyche furor"

[rfmcdonald]

I've a post up at History and Futility making the point that the recent flurry of press interest in the theory of a superjovian Tyche orbiting our sun out in the Oort cometary cloud has a lot to do with our digestion of the Kepler mission's revelations. Next to some of the worlds found, Tyche looks pretty conservative.

Go, read.