That frames the hackers as the good guys, campaigning against a lying company; of course, a trove of personal information, including credit card details, can be worth serious money to the right people.

Your profile pic is fucking stupid. Release all of Isaac’s info!

That’s terrible logic.

Ugh hackers raised by single lonely parents are the worst. Your unhappy mother/father would have left eventually either way... taking down a website doesn’t change that.

The Kuyper belt is full of junk, but it all still adds up to less than 1/100th% of the mass of our solar system. Nobody claims to have an accurate estimate of the mass in the universe, but we can be pretty sure we’re right, within a few orders of magnitude. The problem is that doesn’t line up with our observations of…

The mass inferred through gravitational interactions is more than an order of magnitude greater than the mass inferred through visible matter. You could add 100 brown dwarfs for every Sun like star and it still wouldn’t solve the problem.

Popular media has taken the phrase “dark matter” and created the myth that it is a single mysterious substance that we know nothing about. That starkly contrasts with the truth, which is that it is a name given to the difference between the observable matter and the apparent mass, based on other observations. I don’t…

Of course it’s “some mass yet to be found”. But not the sort of mass you’re thinking of, because if it was familiar baryonic matter it would affect other observations that we have. We may not know what dark matter is, but we have pretty good knowledge of what dark matter isn’t. Thus the mystery.

Where do they expect to find dark matter? Excellent question!

There are two primary ways astronomers have to observer mass.

No , even after the discovery , it doesn’t count for the massive amount of the difference in mass.

You are confusing absolute mass with fractional mass. In fact, the fraction of observable mass that we are confident cannot be accounted for by ordinary matter has INCREASED!

It’s not just money. There’s also this stuff called physics. The Mercury Messenger probe could only orbit so long before the fuel it carried (to keep out of the sun’s clutches) ran out. New Horizons could never carry enough fuel to slow down for orbit. Mars, Venus, the Gas Giants, maybe. But not all of them.

Since this is a European headed mission, and I am of Irish descent, I hereby nominate myself to become the mission designated village drunk. I know it’s a difficult responsibility and there will be incredible risks, but I feel I and my liver are up to it.

Dennis Miller once had a funny bit about Star Trek. The crew’s phasers could always be set to “Stun” or “Kill,” but why not “Melancholy?”

Very thoughtful are researched article! This is the first great piece I’ve read taking existentialism thoroughly into the psycho-analytics realm.

“Not our land, our equipment, our citizens, or our weapons. Not our business.”

What is currently unfolding in Egypt should be the main focus for the US. We can’t allow this to continue and should help Egypt in ANY way possible to put down this growth of IS followers in the area. There is plenty of anger by many disparate tribes since the coup that removed the brotherhood from power and these…

Mercury Time