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Astronomers Make Important Dark Matter Discovery
saudadelinux writes "To quote a press release on NASA's site, astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered 'how dark and normal matter have been forced apart in an extraordinarily energetic collision.' There will be a briefing at noon, August 21 ET, on this discovery, with streaming media provided by NASA, and some details of the research posted on Harvard's Chandra site just beforehand."
Now dark and normal matter will be one big family again, obviously with court supervision.
Not at all. It's got plenty of mass, it's just dark.
Humans, at least alive ones, are not at zero degrees K, and therefore radiate energy, not much, but some. We might be said to be dim matter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matterThis link will tell you more.
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As long as NASA doesn't try to measure DM in metric units, everything should go just fine.
"We are all geniuses when we dream"
- E.M. Cioran
August 21 Eastern Time? Wow, great.
This is news to announce there will be news at a later date.
the future will be here, any day now
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Due to recent events at NASA, we'd appreciate everyone helping out by recording the stream of the event, and puttting it... well somewhere you can find it later.
Cool! Now I can get started on my warp engine!
Yours, Zephram Cochrane
Dark Reflection
So what's the matter, NASA?
Full Tilt
We like to refer to it as "matter of color."
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How about "Slashdot Announces NASA Announces Announcement of Dark Matter Discovery"?
Less is more.
And this is different from believing in God... how, exactly?
Apparently, when you seperate dark matter from normal matter you get an extraordinarily energetic collision, whereas when you seperate a Christian from God you get a rational thinking being.
Your sig(k) has been stolen. There is a puff of smoke!
Isn't this what a light bulb absorbs till it's full, and then you must throw it away?
I am the unwilling control for my Origin.
It's a "Dark Discovery". We cannot observe it directly, but only infer its existance based on its secondary media influence.
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This atrangely resambles those cosole pre-release press conferences where nothing new of the product is said at all. Hype machine at work for a science briefing, what's next?
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