Voyager 1 Spotted from Earth with radio antennas

[Joseph Bento]

On 9/17/2013 6:18 PM, Phil wrote:
> Ah, Richard, you have thereby hit the proverbial cosmic nail on the 
> nub of the focus of the fulcrum of the head. Three decades of 
> concerted searching for Dark Matter by the world's best scientists has 
> so far yielded nothing but Dark Zilch, Nix, Nada. This is almost 
> unprecedented in the history of scientific endeavour. In fact, the 
> best comparison is possibly the long hunt for the aether. And we all 
> know how that turned out, don't we? Even the Higgs boson turned up, 
> eventually (it had been accidentally kicked under the rug).

Dark matter?  That's what collects on the inside of a dark sucker, AKA 
an incandescent lamp, and to a lesser extent fluorescent lamps.

You know, the song just wouldn't be the same if it were penned, "Imagine 
there's no aether..."

Joe, N6DGY