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This is more along the lines of my thinking (if you can call what I do Thinking) and then wouldn't that eventually mean that DM would stop orbiting in the normal sense, as DM can shoot right through the very heart of the sun where gravity is at its greatest wouldn't that end up being more like...

Firstly let me reiterate for those not in the know, I am an Idiot, so if my ramblings fall short of sense making, keep that in mind :) I have no idea why, or where this comes from in my mind, but somehow I imagine some Dark Matter(DM) near the event horizon of a Black Hole(BH). Would this...

I've had good jobs, they just weren't interested in weather I smoked weed or not, but yes I am choosy about who I will work for, for example, my father was a police officer for 20 years, I would never presume to apply for such a job as I don't consider myself a hypocrite, or a bus driver (which...

We were talking about cannabis, not "a lot of drugs", mental dependency is all there is for pot, as in, wow, I like this, I can't wait to do this again! Yeah, he picked a bad example... fruit?!? why not say sugared fizzy drinks? chips? bacon cheeseburgers? None of these are drugs and I'm...

I think its more a problem of cost and/or will than of knowledge, with economies around the world failing (when aren't they?) and little support for 'wasting' the taxpayers money in such a way leads to having to do with less... I mean look at poor NASA, having to turn to the public to 'bring...

Maybe a space elevator first? That should lower the cost significantly (of further missions, not the space elevator itself). Not to mention give you a bit of a boost to get you on yer way... Still doesn't solve any of the ACTUAL problems with a Mars mission, but would make space going cheaper...

If I knew this, I would solve the problem myself, and I know there probably was some investigation into this with no results. The best we can do nowadays is tell you have smoked in the last 30 days (give or take a week) and a probable amount of usage, weather it be casual, habitual, or...

Quantify the level of intoxication, in real time, problem solved!

:redface::redface::redface: I totally knew that... sigh, my brain and I aren't on speaking terms... as of NOW! Wish I could add something to this discussion, but I like bapowell's previous post, I had never considered that inflation stopped at different times in different locations, more...

Does Dark Matter eventually resettle on the 'new' galaxy after a collision with another galaxy? And how long might this take? Might this give some discrepancies in local dark matter densities? And so how would observation match the data on small local scales?

And then to extend further back to your 'initial Big Bang state' there simply isn't a way to talk about this. From what I gather (this from a non-scientist and a cosmological neophyte) anything before some 380 million(ish) years after the big bang is what the theory is all about, trying to...

Yes, I think here you are trying to take the balloon analogy beyond its scope, the balloon analogy is mostly to show how something with no edge or center can expand causing arbitrary points on the balloon to move away from any other arbitrary point. This one is easy, there is no proof either...

Ask a believer: Where is it that God resides? Some may point to the sky or simply say 'Heaven', but if you press most people you will quickly decide that Heaven is outside our universe (which makes universe not mean what you think it means). It is I think the only thing theology has right...

The heaviest elements come from supernovae, in any galaxy. Is the Milky Way static? I'm pretty sure it has merged with other galaxies in the past, taking in all of its elements, heavy or not. So if you are asking did ALL the heaviest elements come from another galaxy, then I would say NO! If...

Spending increases GDP, I thought we were all keynesians now?