[andremendes]

What's up with this title? At the time of writing this, it's worded as:

"Medieval Icelanders were likely hunting blue whales long industrial technology"

Seems they were trying to hunt industrial tech from whales. I guess a "before" went missing before "industrial"?

[HPsquared]

The blue whales had been investing their funds in industrial technology, and the Medieval Icelanders did not like that. This unfortunate event delayed the Industrial Revolution by centuries.

[xattt]

Per Occam’s Razor, this is the most likely explanation. The title can be fixed with a simple comma, instead of some multi-character, multi-syllable word like “before”.

[alephnerd]

Let's eat grandma

[CRConrad]

Chewy and stringy, and tastes like... Camel?

Then again, as she always said, "Smoked meat lasts longer."

[anal_reactor]

Whales were so close to becoming the dominant species, but Icelanders fortunately stole their industrial technology in the last moment.

[johnsutor]

Long industrial technology, Short pre-industrial technology

[bell-cot]

Article's far-too-long-for-HN Subtitle:

> New research suggests that medieval Icelanders were scavenging and likely even hunting blue whales long before industrial whaling technology

[tokai]

But the actual title is not too long at all

[bell-cot]

"How Viking-Age Hunters Took Down the Biggest Animal on Earth" is far more clicky than informative.

[BurningFrog]

Petty I know, but it actually bothers me that they took the whales up from the ocean, not "down".

[bell-cot]

Compared to English-language horrors like the right/rite/wright/write homophones, that is a fairly minor nitpick.

[tokai]

Doesn't matter. Its the title.

[xeckr]

There's a missing comma, OP is telling us to buy stocks in companies that are in the business of industrial technology

[red_trumpet]

Yeah weird. If it was done for length-reasons, maybe better omit the "long" instead of "before"?

[datahack]

Look you can either have AI written articles or train wreck titles written by humans. Which one do you want? /s