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One thing: humanity is doomed to have tragedies. Science will not help that. The universe will see to it that suffering will occur somewhere.

You do know that we do not already have all diseases yet, right? ;)

the planets actually exert a gravitational effect on the sun, in proportion to their mass -- so they are pulling the sun around a little bit... hence the incomplete binary system idea -- altho in arthur c. clarke's 2010, they arced up jupiter to make a second sun for intelligent life to form on its moons...

it's all about size, really -- like the person with the biggest stick wins...

here's something on the magic of dark matter from the paper:

Dark matter proved to be more than a theory

a brief moment of levity, if i may -- ricky gervais from the real UK The Office doing something for microsoft... 2 long videos and some shorter ones...

Ricky Gervais - Microsoft 1 - Google Video

Dark matter proved to be more than a theory

Why is this significant? Does dark matter taste good? :-P

dark matter is very ghostly... it passes thru real matter without affecting it... what's that about? altho it's posited to provide the 'missing gravity' holding galaxies together, so surely it must have an effect on light matter...

"The composition of dark matter is unknown, but may include new elementary particles such as WIMPs and axions, ordinary and heavy neutrinos, dwarf stars and planets collectively called MACHOs, and clouds of nonluminous gas. Current evidence favors models in which the primary component of dark matter is new elementary particles, collectively called nonbaryonic dark matter." :!:

might be hard to work into something edible...

dark matter is very ghostly… it passes thru real matter without affecting it…

So if food is made into dark matter I can keep eating without getting fat?

well, yes, that would be a very low-cal diet, probably worse than the aforementioned pablum tho... and i thought pritikin food tasted watery and bland...

I see that it’s a new paradigm ... This asset bubble is different than all of the others - it will never slow down, or pop. The gains are permanent.

Your crystal ball has bubbles in it. Can I sell you some salt for cleansing?

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