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pleco
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USA
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 Posted - 05/10/2007 : 15:50:06
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| GREENBELT, Md. - NASA will hold a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT on May 15 to discuss the strongest evidence to date that dark matter exists. This evidence was found in a ghostly ring of dark matter in the cluster CL0024+17, discovered using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The ring is the first detection of dark matter with a unique structure different from the distribution of both the galaxies and the hot gas in the cluster. The discovery will be featured in the June 20 issue of the Astrophysical Journal. |
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by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
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 Posted - 05/10/2007 : 16:17:30 [Permalink]
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They've got it all wrong, pleco. Dark matter is metaphysics, and the problems found in galactic rotation as predicted by Newtonian physics can all be explained if we posit that stars have an iron surface. I assure you that the people appearing in this media teleconference won't mention Alfven, meaning that their understanding of the universe is wrong and not worth considering. Sheesh!  |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 05/10/2007 : 17:12:33 [Permalink]
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Dark matter is indeed metaphysics, but you've got the rest all wrong, Cune. The false assumption of dark matter is required to balance out the equations of the godless Newtonian physics which has been ham-stringing our understanding of the universe ever since epicycles were so foolishly abandoned.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Vegeta
Skeptic Friend
United Kingdom
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Posted - 05/10/2007 : 17:38:07 [Permalink]
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| How can you see it through a telescope? I thought the whole deal with dark matter was that you can't see it, only see its effects |
What are you looking at? Haven't you ever seen a pink shirt before?
"I was asked if I would do a similar sketch but focusing on the shortcomings of Islam rather than Christianity. I said, 'No, no I wouldn't. I may be an atheist but I'm not stupid.'" - Steward Lee |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 05/10/2007 : 17:51:35 [Permalink]
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The delay in releasing the images is due to unexpected technical glitches at the Hollywood CGI studio where they are being produced.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
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Posted - 05/10/2007 : 18:01:19 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Vegeta
How can you see it through a telescope? I thought the whole deal with dark matter was that you can't see it, only see its effects
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Vegeta, it's a complex answer that involves indirect observation. There are some threads here where it's discussed, but it will take me some time to find them. The point is that the data suggest that-- based on a correct understanding of gravity-- matter not otherwise visible exists and nevertheless acts on things as ordinary matter on things like light and so on. |
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Vegeta
Skeptic Friend
United Kingdom
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Posted - 05/10/2007 : 18:07:56 [Permalink]
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| right so they've basically observed something invisible acting on something else and they're going to extrapolate some kind of false colour image from the data |
What are you looking at? Haven't you ever seen a pink shirt before?
"I was asked if I would do a similar sketch but focusing on the shortcomings of Islam rather than Christianity. I said, 'No, no I wouldn't. I may be an atheist but I'm not stupid.'" - Steward Lee |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 05/10/2007 : 18:41:03 [Permalink]
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| right so they've basically observed something invisible acting on something else and they're going to extrapolate some kind of false colour image from the data |
I doubt that is whats going on.
Why don't we wait for Tuesday and find out?
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 05/11/2007 : 06:17:14 [Permalink]
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If the pictures come out looking like the Hand of God, I'm no longer going to fly with NASA.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 05/15/2007 : 11:03:27 [Permalink]
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Nope, no god(s) here...
Link to Bad Astronomy Aritcle |
by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 05/15/2007 : 11:14:35 [Permalink]
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I see Russell's Teapot!
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Hubble Spots Dark Matter
