--- In stocktonfencingclub@yahoogroups.com, Matt Ray-Muller
<stk26813@l...> wrote:
> ...and not to forget that 85% of all statisticts are made u p on
the spot.
>

Always like that quote about statistics, along with:

Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an
ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be
perfectly comfortable. ~Bobby Bragan, 1963

There are three kinds of lies - lies, damned lies and statistics.
~Benjamin Disraeli, commonly misattributed to Mark Twain because he
quotes Disraeli in Autobiography

Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but
what they conceal is vital. ~Aaron Levenstein

But back to dark matter. Scientists have two schools of thoughts
about what makes up dark matter. The current thinking it is composed
of MACHOs (Massive Astrophysical Compact Halo Objects), and / or
WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles). MACHO's are things like
brown dwarf stars up to black holes and are made of ordinary matter (
baryonic ). WIMPs, on the other hand, are the little weak subatomic
dark matter candidates, which are thought to be made of stuff other
than ordinary matter, called non-baryonic matter. Astronomers search
for MACHOs and particle physicists look for WIMPs.

I believe more in the MACHO's theory then the WIMP's. I think I can
account for almost all the missing matter of the universe myself in
just the pen's I have lost over time and those one socks that get
eaten by the wash. They all must go someplace. I think they are all
in one big MACHO size item someplace.

As far as dark energy, I don't know why scientists spend so much time
thinking about it. That's easy. Dark energy is that energy the
propels things at the speed of dark, but since Chrissy is the expert
on the speed of dark, I'll let her explain that.