Yes but for it to cause the effect we see with galaxy rotation, there would have to be an absolute shit-ton of it; way more than any theory predicted.
Every type of matter that is floating around out there gets incorporated into stars. The reason for this is that there’s nothing special about the process that makes stars. It’s just a gravitational collapse. It can’t select for one type of matter and exclude another. So for example, if carbon atoms are floating around, they end up in stars. Make sense?
We can use spectrographs to get the proportion of different types of matter in stars, and (with some adjustments for the age of stars) the proportion that should be in the rest of the galaxy.
But then, based on the anomalous spin, there must be a lot more - a lot more.
Or, theories of gravity are wrong, or maybe the speed of light isn’t constant. There are several possibilities, but “missing matter we can’t see” is definitely the simplest. It’s just that, after all these years we haven’t found it.
Dark matter is a pretty reasonable guess to explain a very clear observation.
You’ve seen animations of the solar system, right? The inner planets are wizzing around really fast, but the outer planets are going quite slow. A galaxy should work the same way. But when you measure the speed of stars at various distances (using red shift and blue shift) the speed is a lot more uniform.
So, something is missing. Maybe red shift/blue shift doesn’t work the way we think it does. Maybe gravity doesn’t work the way we think it does. Or maybe there’s a lot of extra mass we can’t see.
For a long time (and mostly still today) people thought the most likely explanation was missing mass. We know there are particles we haven’t discovered. The discovery of the neutrino happened just like this: an experiment got a strange result, and someone proposed a new particle to explain it.
But with the neutrino, they came up with a clever way to test the hypothesis, and when they did, they found neutrinos.
Actually, I suppose a similar thing has been done with dark matter. Given the hypothesis called dark matter, they make a prediction: light should bend around galaxies a lot more than it would otherwise. They set out to find examples and it took the resolution of the HST to finally find any. “Gravitational lenses” they’re called.
But unlike with the neutrino, this doesn’t give us any insight into what dark matter actually is. So, people are still open to other possibilities. MOND is one.
As a modern example, “dark matter” was proposed as an explanation for the observation that galaxies weren’t spinning the way models predict they should be. But after decades of searching for dark matter, no candidate particles (for example, “wimps”) have been found.
So, maybe the initial hypothesis is wrong. Maybe it’s not dark matter. Maybe the answer is “mond” (modified Newtonian)
Isn’t that cool? When science gets something wrong, we correct. We move forward.
…but, for some reason, which makes no sense at all but trust me on this… if you refuse to bend the knee and accept global warming and dismantle your entire economy to “fix” it …. For some reason that stops astronomers from considering other explanations for dark matter.
QED
Someone pointed out that Harvey Weinstein was apparently the force that continued to cast attractive women even as anti-white and anti-beauty sentiment rose.
Of course, he only cast them if they fucked him, but it’s not like any of these women have morals
I haven’t worked with Chinese devs but Indians have a culture of faking, scamming, and stealing - I’ve never had a good experience working with them.
When you try to explain to an Indian what you expect him to deliver, he’ll interrupt you to loudly declare “NO PROBLEM, SAR, ITS NO PROBLEM” sometimes even waving his arms. The impression you get is that you just asked a stupid question - like if someone was building you a house and you asked if there would be a front door. “Of course there’ll be a front door you idiot, this isn’t my first house”
But then with Indians you get a house with no front door. Then when you point that out they act like it’s no big deal to add one after the fact. It’s fucking infuriating.
Here's a really obscure show that I think most people here will like: Ascension - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascension_(miniseries)
It's about a colony ship sent from Earth to another planet way back in the 1960s, but kept secret from the general public. If that sounds a little too far fetched, consider this:
(1) the technology actually existed back then! It used nuclear bombs for propulsion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pulse_propulsion - in the '50s they were talking about building spaceships the size of aircraft carriers, because with nuclear-pulse propulsion, the larger the spacecraft, the smoother the ride.
(2) the british interplanetary society specced out a design that used this engine and could reach barnard's star in just 50 years (it was a flyby, but still) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Daedalus
(3) in the 1950s, the public's perception of nuclear weapons wasn't "catastrophized" like it is today. It was the atomic age and they viewed nukes as just another tool, not the agent of armageddon. So, it kind of makes sense that a government project of this type might get going, then decades later realize there was zero public support for it.
Do not read too much about this series - if you find my description at all compelling, just watch an episode or two. If you read too much about the series' plot, it will spoil it for you. There is a major hidden twist that you want to experience in the show, if you like the show.
One final thing: the orion engine is also used in the novel, Footfall, which is also excellent.
Seven women and one troon. You know what’d be super interesting? A study that mimicked this setup, but where all but one of the ballon-holders was a confederate.
The study participant would be a woman who thinks she’s playing this game. The man (also a confederate) would pop the troon’s balloon and then, each time the study is repeated with a different participant, you’d have a different number of confederates pop their own balloons.
Your prediction (and I tend to agree) is that a participant woman would be far less likely to pop her own balloon when none of the confederates do so.
Yeah I was just about to say the same thing. If you set up a colony in Antarctica and weren’t hurting anyone, they’d come kill you.
It'll happen to Orania eventually. Mark my words. They’ll send a bus full of bhantu invaders up there and the whites will have to defend themselves and then the (((international community))) will move on them.
I’ve been wondering how that’s going to work. On the one hand, a colony is going to have no surplus for a long time. That means it won’t be able to support a person who doesn’t substantially contribute. On the other hand, the powers that be are going to demand diversity for diversity’s sake, just like they always do.
It’s long been my hope that we get a swarm of robots on the moon turning out bricks from regolith and firing them out to Lagrange points via solar-powered mass drivers. The point would be to make construction of giant space stations very, very cheap. That way, there could be enough of them for a few to slip under the radar with non-woke governance. Basically, Orania in space.
Banned, muted… or just hidden, so you think your comment was posted but nobody else can see it. Reddits user block feature is also unique. If a user (not a mod, just a regular user) blocks you, you can’t reply to them or to any comment that replies to them, or any comment that replies to that one, etc.
It’s amazing how much effort leftists put into avoiding ideas they don’t like.
I’m reminded of that famous Apple Macintosh commercial that only played once, during a super-bowl. In it, the bad guy says, “we have created a garden of pure ideology where each worker may bloom, safe from the pests purveying contradictory information”
The point of the ad is that Macintosh would put the power of a computer - the power of information, into everyone’s hands. It’s hilarious that the left is on the side of the bad guy.
Say infowars is given to the onion (or anyone else) - is AJ prevented from just creating YouTube/rumble/etc videos under a different name?
Can’t he and Owen just quit infowars and start a channel named TruthWars or whatever?
They could run a masculine black man. It’s just hard to find one that’s married and doesn’t have multiple felonies. Obama was reasonably masculine - if only in the easy way he spoke.
Of course, behind the scenes he’s gay. But he fronts as heterosexual.
Trump is a loudmouth at times, and is rough around the edges
Trump runs his mouth in public, but (generally) makes good choices for the country. Lefties prefer someone who says nice things (even if the nice things are word salad) and then supports policies that destroy us all.
And let’s not forget: all the lefties are sexual degenerates in one form or another. Biden was nibbling a baby just last week - how the fuck did we all get comfortable with that?? Walz was obviously a homo who chased teen boys. Harris was an alcoholic slut. They had topless trannies on the white house lawn and butt fucking porno filmed in congress.
Lefties prefer leader that talk nice - talk about DEI and shit - and then are degenerates in private. Trump is ironically wholesome by comparison. He openly wonders if we should nuke hurricanes (lol) but then behind closed doors his biggest vice is that he likes to fuck adult women (and even pays them well)
Women date guys, or reject guys, based solely on vague feelings that emanate from ancient subconscious cognitive processes.
Then, after making their decision, a completely different part of the brain makes up a reason to explain their behavior.
Interesting writeup. It's always been weird to me that fascism is associated with nazis and not with the italians who invented it.
Something I learned recently: the chair the Lincoln sits on in his memorial monument is made of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces
probably considered 'far right'
Everyone who isn’t a leftist is called “far right”
I heard some retard in a bar ranting about politics and he called Dr Phil “far right” so I asked him for an example of someone who is on the right but not far right. It was as if he couldn’t even understand the question.
Even lesbian writing features rape! The vagina monologues is one example.