Re: Science is killing Science Fiction

On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 02:06:39 -0400, John Duncan Yoyo
<john-duncan-yoyo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 20:47:11 GMT, rgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (David
>Johnston) wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 16:57:50 GMT, throopw@xxxxxxxxx (Wayne Throop)
>>wrote:
>>
>>
>>>:: Things were easier for the sf writer a hundred years ago. If the
>>>:: scientists weren't discovering a new force they were isolating a new
>>>:: element; and on their off days they overhauled a backwater science or two.
>>>
>>>So you mean back when they were doing exciting things like discovering the
>>>existance of dark matter and/or dark energy,
>>
>>Has anyone ever found anything interesting to do with dark matter? Is
>>there anything interesting to do with it? The big wounds to popular
>>science fiction are:
>>
>Isn't the Earth essentially dark matter? It's pretty well lit so we
>can see it since it is so close and all.

I hope that's a joke. No. Dark matter, and it's evil twin, dark
energy are basically umbriferous ether.

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