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What If Dark Matter Really Doesn't Exist?
sonar67 writes "According to The Economist: 'It was beautiful, complex and wrong. In 150AD, Ptolemy of Alexandria published his theory of epicycles--the idea that the moon, the sun and the planets moved in circles which were moving in circles which were moving in circles around the Earth. This theory explained the motion of celestial objects to an astonishing degree of precision. It was, however, what computer programmers call a kludge: a dirty, inelegant solution. Some 1,500 years later, Johannes Kepler, a German astronomer, replaced the whole complex edifice with three simple laws. Some people think modern astronomy is based on a kludge similar to Ptolemy's. At the moment, the received wisdom is that the obvious stuff in the universe--stars, planets, gas clouds and so on--is actually only 4% of its total content. About another quarter is so-called cold, dark matter, which is made of different particles from the familiar sort of matter, and can interact with the latter only via gravity. The remaining 70% is even stranger. It is known as dark energy, and acts to push the universe apart. However, the existence of cold, dark matter and dark energy has to be inferred from their effects on the visible, familiar stuff. If something else is actually causing those effects, the whole theoretical edifice would come crashing down.'"
I am Triumph, oh scary nerd
vodka, straight up, thank you!
I'll tell you what's going to make the Universe collapse:
I didn't get no fucking FP.
Seriously, do you think the OSDN's Red Head is hot?
Everyone knows that Dark Matter is really Dust--Shadows--particles created by and vital to consciousness. Come on people! (See Philip Pullman's *His Dark Materials* trilogy... that's the American name; I think it's different in Britain.)
To follow knowledge like a sinking star, / Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. ("Ulysses", Tennyson)
Saavik: "Protomatter. An unstable substance which every ethical scientist in the galaxy has denounced as dangerously unpredictable."
David: "But it was the only way to solve certain problems."
If its dark matter then you cant see it duh. Any way I am scared of hte dark there are monsters that come out in the dark like the boogie monster.
MonkeysKickAss
"Most people prefer certainty to truth." This bit of wisdom is part of the standard Unix fortune file, and it speaks volumes about why hatemongers
such as Adolf Hitler and Michael Moore enjoy such popularity. If somebody is pure evil -- like the Jews, or George W. Bush -- it's OK to hate them. Right?
Absolutely. Just ask Moore what Bush "has in store for us". Ask Moore what Bush "really wants". Ask Moore about Bush's "greed", his "stupidity", his
"hypocrisy", and his "moral defects". These are exactly the same propaganda techniques used by Adolf Hitler.
How can it be that sixty years after the Holocaust, so many are again pulled in by such a blatant propagandist? Simple. The world has been in an uneasy state for the past two and a half years, chiefly due to Islamic terrorists. It would be nice if we had somebody to blame for it all. But since blaming the actual perpetrators of the crimes would be too obvious, in addition to Not Politically Correct, it's much more interesting (and convenient to the conscience of the "progressive") to just blame any white
Christians within easy reach.
Thus, the Michael Moores of the world engage in some brilliant intellectual contortions, while coming up with truly startling accusations. That Moore's claims tend to fail under the pressure of a little scrutiny, or even common sense, is not the point. The point is that Moore must -- he MUST -- arrive at the conclusion that Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein are blameless for the world's troubles. We should instead be blaming John Ashcroft and George W. Bush. We know all about them, they're closeby, we can pronounce their names, and they look like us. Hating them is much easier.
This is the key to the certainty-vs.-truth principle. The complex and difficult truth is too much for Michael Moore. He cannot process the
facts. So his mind instead focuses on an easy, satisfying idea -- that George W. Bush is comprised of nothing but negative qualities -- and he believes that idea with a religious certainty. It's not the truth, but it helps him cope with his world.
A number of individuals have been fooled by his ideas, but you don't have to be one of them. Double-check Michael Moore's facts once in a while and draw your own conclusions.
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The problem with socialism is that they always run out of other people's money. - Margaret Thatcher
Yeah, good ol' meaningless statistics.
Guess what? I'm a scientist, I believe in God, and I've *never been surveyed* about it. In fact, most scientists I work with have never been surveyed either, and many of them believe in God as well.
But I post, therefore I am.
What if slashdot doesn't exist? I can observe it's effects on my productivity - but what if it's actually something else? Like laziness?
My God, it's full of tacos...
- w
My sig sucks.
Why isn't it? Anti-religionists seem to think everything, including anything within religion, should be "provable", no matter what. The underlying problem with this mindset is that (for the most part) religion relies upon faith - so there's no need to rely upon physical evidence. Finding the ark, the shroud of Turin, proving the Red Sea could be parted with scientific facts, does it really matter? Either you believe or you don't. Do you really have to prove God exists before you'll believe?
Just remember what Pascal said: If you believe and you are wrong, you've at least led a good life; if you believe and you're right, heaven is on your way. If you don't believe and you're right, you've lived your life the way you wanted to; but if you're wrong....which outcomes pan out the best?
"If you live your life like there's no God, you better be right!"
Funny...
He\she probably doesn't see it as laughable. Regardless of what you believe, you better hope your religion is the right one when the day of reckoning comes. BTW, did you ever notice how everyone talks about someone who is dead as though they are in "a better place", "looking down on us". Do these people really think everyone is getting into heaven? If so, who isn't? Or are they just trying to speak well of the dead?
Just remember, it will happen like a thief in the night.
What If... G.I. Joe Fought The X-Men???
"The USS Make Shit Up"
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I was stranded on a planet, Just me and Spock
We met a nasty nazi alien who locked our asses up
We found a hunk of crystal and a metal piece of bed
We made a laser phaser gun and shot him in the head
Bust a move, Tog
I was standing on the bridge when Sulu came to me
His eyes were full of tears he said "Captain, can't you see
the ship is gonna blow do something I beseech"
I grabbed a tribble and some chewing gum and stopped the warp core breach
And I say,
Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish
Thats the way we do things, lad, we're making shit up as we wish
The Klingons and the Romulans pose no threat to us
'Cause if we find we're in a bind we just make some shit up
And though he's just a child, and some think him a twit
Wesley is the master when it comes to making up some shit
He's the guy you want with you when you go out in to space
Now if only he could beam those pimples off his face
And if you're at a party on the starship Enterprise
And the karaoke player just plain old up and dies
Set up a neutrino field inside a can of peas
Hold on to Geordi's visor and sing into Data's knee
And I say
Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish
Thats the way we do things lad, we're making shit up as we wish
The Klingons and the Romulans pose no threat to us
'Cause if we find we're in a bind we just make some shit up
Sisko's on a mission to go no bloody place
He loiters on a space station above Bajoran space
The wormhole's opened up and now they come from near and far
We'll keep the booze but please send back the fucking Jem-hadar
What is with the Klingons, remember in the day
They looked like Puerto Ricans and they dressed in gold lame
Now they look like heavy metal rockers from the dead
With leather pants and frizzy hair and lobsters on their heads
And I say
Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish
Thats the way we do things lad, we're making shit up as we wish
The Klingons and the Romulans pose no threat to us
'Cause if we find we're in a bind we just make some shit up
Well, I was stuck on Voyager, pounding on the door
When suddently it dawned on me I've seen this show before
Perhaps I'm in a warp bubble and slightly out of phase
'Cause it was way back in the sixties when they called it "Lost in Space"
We were looking for a way to make the ratings soar
So we orchestrated an encounter with the Borg
Normally you'd think that that would get us into shit
But this one has a smashing ass and a lovely set of tits
And I say
Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish
Thats the way we do things lad, we're making shit up as we wish
The Klingons and the Romulans pose no threat to us
'Cause if we find we're in a bind we're totally screwed but nevermind
We'll pull something out of our behinds, we just make some shit up
Vergon 6 should be in no danger of implosion from over-mining of fecal material.
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
What the hell?
God's not a kludge, just different terminology. One as educated as yourself should be able to understand that if you did some research.
Jake
Dating: while( 1 ){ call_girl(); get_rejected(); drink_40(); } return 0;
what do they think them shadows are made from?!