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Dark Matter Discovered

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the lost-and-found dept.

sebFlyte writes "Wired is reporting that scientists have come up to a solution as to where all the matter in the universe actually is. Experiments being done with Chandra, NASA's X-ray telescope have shown up a likely candidate for the solution of the dark matter problem. There are massive quantities of Baryons in a super-heated gas cloud several hundred million light years away."

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  1. Another picture by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And here's a picture in microwave sprectum.

  2. Re:Ummm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah, it's great that your daughter has nothing to wear because I'm always sitting in her closet jacking off over her little budding titties.

    I even try to get jizz in her little panties so that her cunt smells of semen.

  3. dark matter found on uranus. news at 10. [NT] by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    nt

  4. Dark matters ehh.. a farce. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I think we should take care of matters on our own planet before attempting to look on the outside.

  5. Stop with those headlines by djago · · Score: -1, Troll

    Could you please people stop the kind of headlines saying "discovered" when the real experiment is "likely candidate"? This is sensationalism! Science is *supposed* to be objective!

  6. Easily one of the best slashdot discussions by hshana · · Score: 0, Troll

    in a while. The picture and the definitions had me rolling. Everybody mod yourself up one point on me.

  7. So Dark Matter wasn't really discovered by meheler · · Score: 0, Troll

    Inference isn't discovery. That's all this story's worth.

  8. Bullshit! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    There are massive quantities of Baryons in a super-heated gas cloud several hundred million light years away."
    Really? And how does anyone know that it is that far away? Do they shoot out a signal and wait for the signal to return and then calculate the distance? Wouldn't that signal take several hundred million years just to reach the target even at the speed of light? I doubt that anyone had the technology several hundred million years ago to shoot such a signal.
    If that distance is correct, wouldn't we be seeing what that object looked like several hundred million years ago? That object may have ceased to exist millions of years ago. So, why are we wasting our resources on it?

    Most of science is speculation, and therefore, shouldn't be taken seriously.