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Dark Matter Scientists Observe the Rarest Event in History
Popular Mechanics ^ | April 27, 2019 | Avery Thompson

Posted on 04/29/2019 8:47:54 AM PDT by C19fan

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To: colorado tanker

Models die hard.....When will the theorists look for another explanation for the holding together of the universe being that the universe is so old?

Oh...I forgot...it’s settled science...


41 posted on 04/29/2019 9:49:22 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: C19fan

Dark matter matters.


42 posted on 04/29/2019 9:54:10 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Trump: "America will never be a socialist country!")
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To: C19fan

“While most xenon isotopes have half-lives of less than 12 days, researchers think a few are exceptionally long-lived, and essentially stable. Xenon 124 is one of those, though researchers have estimated its half-life at 160 trillion years as it decays into tellurium 124.”
https://www.futurity.org/xenon-124-neutrios-isotopes-physics-2045552-2/


43 posted on 04/29/2019 9:54:12 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: C19fan

Maybe dark matter drives climate change. Same scientists?


44 posted on 04/29/2019 10:01:35 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: TexasGator

Shouldn’t you be out pimping electric golf karts?


45 posted on 04/29/2019 10:09:43 AM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: doorgunner69

“Shouldn’t you be out pimping electric golf karts?”

http://www.saferwholesale.com/Black-Pipe-Line-Edition-Club-Car-Precedent-Lifted-p/tcd-pipeline-golf-cart.htm?Click=24691&msclkid=5b8df652e2ea159cc3a4aa95d241ebf6&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Product%20Listing%20Ads%20PLA(BSC)&utm_term=1100101393171&utm_content=Golf%20Cart


46 posted on 04/29/2019 10:13:46 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Spirochete
Sorry, no. A Democrat tax cut plan is the rarest event ever recorded in human history.

Rare because there hasn't been a recorded instance of it.

I heard there was one in 1964 but I was only 7 so I can't attest to it.

47 posted on 04/29/2019 10:16:15 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Nifster

“To be fair “Dark Matter” is a fancy way of saying fudge factor”

Without fudge factors we would have no physics.


48 posted on 04/29/2019 10:23:42 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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49 posted on 04/29/2019 10:29:05 AM PDT by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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“While most xenon isotopes have half-lives of less than 12 days, researchers think a few are exceptionally long-lived, and essentially stable. Xenon 124 is one of those, though researchers have estimated its half-life at 160 trillion years as it decays into tellurium 124.” https://www.futurity.org/xenon-124-neutrios-isotopes-physics-2045552-2/

I want to know how they are so absolutely certain that all 3.5 tons of material they have in their tank is 100.0000000000000000000% is pure Xenon124? Perhaps it is really 99.9999999999% Xenon124 and there is 0.0000000001% spurious CO2 with some of the Carbon in that Carbon DiOxide being made up of the 14C isotope mixed in among their Xenon124 which just decayed and they saw that instead? I think they are making quite an assumption based on a single flash of light in absolute darkness.

Frankly, I don’t think we have the ability to make ANYTHING that pure.

50 posted on 04/29/2019 10:30:37 AM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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Post a science article and all the comment are crude jokes...

That's because most Freepers wouldn't know a superconducting supercollider from a hole in the ground.


51 posted on 04/29/2019 10:38:14 AM PDT by golux
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To: Texas resident

“A democrat spoke the truth?”

This is by far the most rare event known to man!!!


52 posted on 04/29/2019 10:41:40 AM PDT by bantam
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That's because most Freepers wouldn't know a superconducting supercollider from a hole in the ground.

;>)

53 posted on 04/29/2019 10:45:00 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: C19fan

hitlary doing squats with a barbell loaded with 200-lbs?


54 posted on 04/29/2019 11:04:37 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: golux

I would. My father-in-law used to work at the one by Waxahachie, Texas before President Lewinski defunded it.


55 posted on 04/29/2019 11:11:55 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: TexasGator

I didn’t say they were bad things. I’ve used em myself. Just that they represent that area of the “ I have no clue” but this makes my equations work


56 posted on 04/29/2019 11:53:33 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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“I didn’t say they were bad things. I’ve used em myself. Just that they represent that area of the “ I have no clue” but this makes my equations work”

Interesting. What fudge factors have you developed?


57 posted on 04/29/2019 12:04:29 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: TexasGator

They were project specific. You wouldn’t recognize them.


58 posted on 04/29/2019 1:08:07 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: C19fan

Dark AMtter, the catch all we cannot figure out how God did this so we will create a miracle pile of goo that provides all the stupid suppositions that we waste money on trying to figure out.

We cannot reliably even study the very planet we live on and these parasites sit around positing the most inane ideas and theories.

I know, my brother watches them incessantly and in the long run it is a bunch of pointy heads trying to out do God and explain that He had nothing to do with the creation of the universe.

Mental Masturbation of the first water


59 posted on 04/29/2019 1:54:08 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: colorado tanker
Thanks colorado tanker.

60 posted on 04/29/2019 5:56:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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