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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Cosmic crash unmasks dark matter

Posted by Gary William Murning on August 31, 2008
Posted in: Cosmology., Current Affairs., The Sciences.. Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . 6 Comments

Striking evidence has been found for the enigmatic “stuff” called dark matter which makes up 23% of the Universe, yet is invisible to our eyes.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Cosmic crash unmasks dark matter.

Pah! I knew it was there all the time.

© 2008 Gary William Murning

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E-Day.

Posted by Gary William Murning on February 28, 2008
Posted in: Current Affairs., General., Humourous Observations. Tagged: , , . Leave a comment

Well, today was apparently E-Day — a day set aside for folk like you and I to “leave it off” (i.e. turn off all those devices that we’d normally leave on standby etc.) As with all of these badly-publicised, goody-goody “days”, it’s been a huge success and at the end of the official twenty-four hour period we as a nation have reduced our energy consumption against the average by +0.1%!…

Hmm… no, wait a minute. A saving of +0.1% [EDIT: in the sense used on the E-Day site, not the true mathematcial sense!] isn’t a saving at all, is it? E-Day usage is actually up on the daily usage average!

Serves ’em right, says I. I mean — did they really think I was going to shut my computers down just for them? Sheesh. What a preposterous idea! When the rising seas are lapping at my doorstep and I have to wear factor 400 sunblock even on a cloudy day, then I’ll shut the computers down and not before!

So there.

(This post was brought to you with a healthy dollop of irony.)