Well, we've has dark energy, dark force, dark flow, dark matter and now they're looking for WIMPS.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21495800

Whatever next?

Read this, understand it and then everything will become clear:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21499765

As mud? So, at the "end", they're getting round to thinking that it all kicks off again eh?

I knew it :^O 

Next time round they had better scrap people and stick to dinosaurs much simpler 😛 

It seems the Solar System is having a visitation from a few comets?

Comet Pan STARRS:-

http://earthsky.org/space/comet-panstarrs-possibly-visible-to-eye-in-march-2013

Lemmon is going:-

http://astroblogger.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/comet-c2012-lemmon-passes-through-heart.html

Comet ISON:-

http://www.spaceanswers.com/astronomy/2185/will-comet-ison-light-up-the-night-sky-in-late-2013/

Next year Comet Sliding Spring will either hit or just miss Mars:-

http://www.space.com/20079-mars-comet-impact-2014-flyby.html

you might end up calling this thread 'the end' lol

There is no End.

There might be an end to some things/objects/beings but as to the Universe, there will be no End. There might be a New Beginning, but that will only be after some things we know have "ended" before it all begins again.

what came first the beginning or the end

Neither, the beginning was only the last end. B-)

what ended 😛

The previous beginning. Obvious innit?

Now, back to those comets at #243, one day, one will be headed this way........

OMG its the end of the beginning lol

CD, your talents are wasted on here, you should have been an 'Astro- Physicist' 😄

It's the beginning of the end for the Herschel:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21668712

what you doin up at this time witchy lol,rt is for socialists and nut jobs ,ps when cd says duck .............flippin duck 🙂

Spawn, I'm used to ducking and diving but pop up for air now and again! :^O;-)

hey cd ,can you imagin the next telescope built,...we could be on the verge of next galaxy watching.

The possibility of finding our neighbour is getting closer.

see you over there >>> in a min witchy 🙂

Hmmmmm, I've been thinking (OK, OK, I know you'll say that's a bad idea) that all the talk about Dark Matter, Dark Energy & etc must surely beg the question that if the Dark stuff exists, anyone travelling through space will be encountering it which would surely slow a spacecraft?

An object, when propelled by a force, will continue in the direction of that force until acted upon by another force?

The Voyager 1 spacecraft is now about 11,500,000,000 miles from Earth (Voyager 2 some way behind) and still travelling at over 35,000 miles per hour and it's not being "propelled", the fuel on board is only used to orient the craft so why ain't it slowing down if it's encountering this Dark "stuff"? Just wondering like 😮

The speed was "got up" by it's initial launch speed plus the slingshot effects it got from passing Jupiter and Saturn.

Space travel has begun?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21866532

Oh so slowly......?

Yes, space travel has begun but not as you know it.:^O

Soon you'll be travelling in a tin can just like in 'David Bowie's song Lyrics!! :-D;-)

A boost for the Big Bang theory?

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2013/mar/21/ancient-afterglow-of-big-bang-shows-older/