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Comment The mass of the galaxy seems fundamental (Score 1) 119

But maybe its harder to measure MilkyWay than to measure the mass of other galaxies. Still, they cannot directly measure the mass of anything out there. So they are implying the mass by looking at the light coming from them and from neighboring objects. I would rather look forward to them being proven wrong about their assumptions because we would learn more. Maybe they might learn something that could help us out here on Earth.

So I prefer to look at theories which challenge the accepted science in the hopes that new discoveries might spark new technologies here at home.

Comment Start from scratch (Score 0) 119

If they can be that wrong about something so fundamental, then how can they possibly claim to understand things or be right now?

I read an article recently about scientists saying the speed of light is not constant. Has their new variable speed of light calculation been plugged into all these other cosmology equations? Maybe this dark matter fudge factor would disappear and we would stop being wrong by the 1/2 the mass of a galaxy.

Comment The justification is... (Score 1) 382

The dealers don't want people coming to their stores and test-driving cars only to lose the sales to some tax-free Internet site. A valid issue, except I don't think there are any Tesla dealerships that would lose out this way. I expect the Tesla dealerships are owned by....Tesla.
The justification seems even worse on things like motorcycles since I don't think people even test drive those.

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