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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|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1736 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

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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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