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2014-01-05 Science
Earth May Have Dark Matter Disc
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Posted by Grunter  2014-01-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 Yes, but is the disc MACHOS or WIMPS ?

Posted by George Alowishus Hatrack III  2014-01-05 01:29||   2014-01-05 01:29|| Front Page Top

#2 or axions - although, iiuc, they would be more likely to form a ring than a disc
Posted by lord garth 2014-01-05 02:44||   2014-01-05 02:44|| Front Page Top

#3 

As you will hear in my upcoming State of the Union, DMD is a challenge we can solve together. It will not be easy, but we must lay aside our differences and pull together to achieve this common goal.
Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-05 03:16||   2014-01-05 03:16|| Front Page Top

#4 You sure this isn't the effect of Al Gore circumnavigating the globe selling carbon credits?
Posted by Procopius2k 2014-01-05 08:53||   2014-01-05 08:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Isn't that science settled yet?
Posted by Bobby 2014-01-05 11:20||   2014-01-05 11:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Hm, a disk rather than a halo - that implies entities with mass and angular momentum moving below escape velocity. And which don't interact with the electromagnetic force or the solar wind.
Posted by KBK 2014-01-05 13:34||   2014-01-05 13:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Like that guy said, there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your philosophy, biatches.

KBK makes interesting points in #6.
Posted by SteveS 2014-01-05 14:35||   2014-01-05 14:35|| Front Page Top

#8 if it was a halo, they'd call it "The Obama Ring"
Posted by Frank G 2014-01-05 14:44||   2014-01-05 14:44|| Front Page Top

#9 if it was a halo, they'd call it "The Obama Ring"

I dunno Frank; equating a dark eing to Bambi sounds faintly racist
Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-01-05 15:14||   2014-01-05 15:14|| Front Page Top

#10 'eing' = 'ring'
Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-01-05 15:15||   2014-01-05 15:15|| Front Page Top

#11 Sniff, sniff, and to think it only took 30 years to discover it.

Welcome back to the future of the 1980's.

Call me when Subway brings back its "Buy-one-get-one-Free" promo.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-01-05 19:14||   2014-01-05 19:14|| Front Page Top

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