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Comment Put 100s of millions out of work... (Score 1) 36

... then see how well your economy performs when you have mass civil unrest. And all the tech bros who BS about paying people to do nothing using AI profits - yeah, people on benefits always find constructive things to do with their time, they never get depressed due to lack of purpose and end up on drinks, drugs or in prison.

Comment The service is useless already (Score 4, Insightful) 49

Phone 101 and you'll be lucky if anyone bothers to answer before you get a message saying to contact via social media or email or die of old age, so what do people do? They phone the emergency 999 number and clog it up. Though if someone has just stolen your car or chucked a brick through your window its an emergency for you.

Comment Re:Since we know nothing about it (Score 1) 70

"If there is, it is extremely weak, below the scale of Higgs interactions, on the scale of gravity"

And you know this how? Where is the proof that these forces can't exist given we have no way to measure them?

"The best fit to the data is a particle that doesn't interact with baryonic matter or itself."

Since when? The CBR gives no such indication, just a general indication of the spread of baryonic matter in the early universe. It says nothing whatsoever about dark matter.

Comment Since we know nothing about it (Score 0) 70

... other than it responds to gravity, there could be an entire alternate universe consising of dark matter stars, planets etc hidden in plain site and perhaps dark energy could be some form of alternative EM radiation that only interacts with dark matter - dark light if you will - that said dark stars emit.

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