Warner Brothers finds 17 lost minutes of 2001: A Space Odyssey in a salt mine in Kansas

I have several questions.

Why does Warner Brothers have a salt mine?

Why would you put priceless production footage into a safe in a salt mine?

Where the hell is Kansas?

You can read the /Film article here. 

Wksc.

Dark matter is a scam

Yeah I said it. I think it is a total scam.

I don't really buy it as totally legit science. But what the hell do I know?

The conundrum here lies in an error in the mathematics of gravity and mass; the basic idea behind dark matter is simply to account for a large amount of 'missing mass' throughout the universe. Stars and Galaxies are observed to be travelling at unexpectedly higher rates of speed in comparison to the gravity generated by their mass. It's as if celestial bodies are clustered around invisible, undetectable matter.

It is estimated that 80% of the observable universe is made out of this 'dark matter'.

So isn't this just bad science? Isn't this just a placeholder until we actually figure out what the universe is all about?

The theory I am going with: fuck dark matter, it's all about the Red Dwarf.

A red dwarf is a main sequence star less than half the mass of our sun. Since they undergo fusion at an extremely slow rate, they are by far the oldest and most abundant stars in existence; making up the vast majority of all stars. They and can also become convective and actually 'recycle' energy - living for an estimated 10 trillion years!!! (the universe itself is only about 14 billion years old)

Totally awesome. 

And here is the kicker: astronomers at Keck in Hawaii have just discovered that there are three times as many red dwarves in the universe as previously estimated.

So that is why I am going with the red dwarf. They are extremely hard to detect, being only about 15% as bright as our sun, astronomers were only able to find red dwarves in our little corner of the milky way. But if these guys make up the majority of matter in the universe, then:

Red Dwarves = Dark Matter

In the end, dark matter turns out to be a fancy way of saying "We don't know yet."

Case closed. Now we can all sleep at night.




Wksc.