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Space Observatory May Have Found Dark Matter

KentuckyFC writes to mention that new data from the orbiting observatory PAMELA may shed some additional light on the question of dark matter. Still only a preliminary announcement, the new findings apparently support the "Minimal Dark Matter" model, in which a particle called a "Wino" is responsible.

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  1. How dark? by kauttapiste · · Score: 5, Funny
    How much darker could this matter be?

    The answer is none. None more darker.

    1. Re:How dark? by FornaxChemica · · Score: 5, Funny

      If they keep shedding light on dark matter, it's not going to remain dark for long.

  2. Blame those who can't answer back by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thats right, when you can't find the real reason blame those too drunk to respond.

    Winos are not responsible for every single badass event in the universe you know.
    It could just as easily have been this Pamela woman.

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  3. A wino? by Viol8 · · Score: 4, Funny

    So it gets drunk on dark energy , trips over a neutrino and falls down a black hole where no one can see it?

    1. Re:A wino? by MrNaz · · Score: 4, Funny

      Perhaps that could also prove Hawking radiation. Winos get drunk and then eat too much, and then emit Hawking radiation all over the nearest park bench.

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  4. Re:GNU know it better by MPAB · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wino is a recursive acronym for "Wino Is Not Observable"

  5. Re:Is that a troll? by value_added · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've always heard the opposite

    I'm afraid the OP was correct. You can't shed light on dark matter because the dark will suck all the light, just like the sun sucks dark so hard that the friction of the dark moving to the sun causes it to become very hot. The flow of dark towards the sun interrupted by the earth causes the side of the earth away from the sun to accumulate dark, thus causing Night. As the earth rotates the dark caught on the night side can then be pulled off, this causing the absence of dark known as Day.

    What we call light bulbs are truly dark suckers as well. That is why light bulbs are hot, just like the sun. When a light bulb is full of dark and won't suck dark any more, it cools off. If you look in old light bulbs you can even seen the accumulation of dark.

    And when he said shed some dark on the matter of light mass, shed some mass in order to become become light I think he was referring to the fact that dark is heavier than water (in the oceans, the deeper you go, the darker it gets).

    I don't know about lighting dark sheds bit, though. Maybe someone else?

  6. Re:Again? by Goaway · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is the grown-up internet. You're allowed to say "fuck" here.