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Old 02-04-2011, 04:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Robh View Post
Hi Craig,

Interesting hypothesis and in theory it appears feasible.
How about life evolving on a planet without a Sun? They would have great dark vision and permanent night skies. An astronomer's dream.
There was an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise where they found a rogue planet with permanent darkness. There were creatures living there who could change shape .. and a bunch of hunters from a nearby planet considered them prime game.
Perhaps these guys saw the same episode and wrote a paper to make it real.


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Originally Posted by Robh
From the article ...
"While no one knows exactly what dark matter is, it is believed to make up about 83 percent of the universe."

And final comment ...
"Hooper and Steffen admit that they currently do not see a way of detecting any of these possible dark matter planets in the near future, but that in theory, it is possible."

There are so many new hypotheses. When are we going to be able to pin something down?
Personally, I think the IceCube project (neutrino detectors) has the best chance of making something of it all (if it exists).
There's a lot of big funding about to be injected into it all this year. We'll be seeing heaps more about it in the media this year, methinks.

Patience, grasshopper, patience !


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