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To: chuck_the_tv_out
sounds cool though.

Yep. It cracks me up how some Astronomers and Astrophysicists on shows like The Universe claim precise measurements to distant objects with only one point of reference and no way to accurately verify their measurements, or when they claim to fully understand processes within stars or planets, yet these stars are so distant it's akin to standing in New York and trying to look at a mosquito on the moon. Or, like so-called "dark matter". We can't see it, but it must be there, right?

Why it is that "experts" always seem to be "surprised?"

10 posted on 01/28/2009 4:21:15 AM PST by Thermalseeker (Government is not the solution to the problem. Government IS the problem - Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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To: Thermalseeker

Totally. surprised experts is an oxymoron.

dark matter (just undetectable, like a neutrino field permeating the universe) might actually explain a lot of the redshift we see. but yeah it’s all mights & ifs & buts


15 posted on 01/28/2009 5:46:03 AM PST by chuck_the_tv_out
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To: Thermalseeker

I have been using a toilet most of my life. 0ne might think that by now I can be considered an expert, and that there would be nothing new. But I still find myself continually surprised and AMAZED...


21 posted on 01/28/2009 7:29:18 PM PST by bigheadfred (Negromancer !!! RUN for your lives!!!)
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