Astronomers Find Star-Less Galaxy

Wohngebaeudeversicherung writes "Astronomers have discovered a galaxy about 50 million lightyears away from earth that appears to be composed entirly of dark matter. This galaxy, dubbed VIRGOHI21 is rotating like a real galaxy, at speeds only explainable through massive amounts of matter, thought no single visible star could be detected."

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Re:This is really fitting

[the_mad_poster]

Subscribers.

$5 for 1000 pages. If you set it up so the subscription is 1 ad-free page per day, like me, you can be subscribed for more than two and half years for five bucks (I've gotten some gift subscriptions and at this rate I'll be subscribed for the next eleven years), which is great for trolls who only want to see stories early so they can get semi-relevant first troll posts into stories that get modded up long enough to cause problems and throttle legit discussion.

The "nothing to see here" means the story is up, but to try and keep the trolls away it can't be posted to for about 60 seconds after it's put on the front page (and, as a side effect, if the entire write up isn't on the front page, you can't read the whole story either).

Clearly it's just another failed attempt by Taco and friends to keep trolls out. It doesn't, I've gotten in two or three first post trolls that resulted in giant pissing matches despite the "Nothing to see here" crap, so all it does, like most of the other "anti-troll filters" on /., is inconvenience legit posters. If Malda wasn't so anal about having meta-discussions about the site somewhere on Slashdot, he'd know this.

Re:This is really fitting

[50000BTU_barbecue]

And it would be nice if Taco didn't sit at his computer to mod down so quickly, too.

Re:At least now we know

[Alsee]

Yep. It's about half the speed of dork.

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