I'm not a believer in Dark Matter.

Shhh. Thats a secret. The evidence still isn't convincing for its existence.
Works well to complicate theories, however.

The simplest test I can think of would be this:

Dark matter interferes with the baryonic matter via gravitic coupling.
This should affect local 'speed of sound' measurements, including angle of shockwaves from transsonic objects.
So measure the shockwaves from a test mass moving through local space at a considerable velocity. It would be trivial to calculate shockwave angle from the known velocity and from the observed particle density.
There should be a considerable discrepancy.
This would be an experiment in local space. After all, if there is Dark Matter anywhere, it should be here as well.
If it isn't here, then where did it go?

Also, gravity measurements of 'known mass' volumes of space would show excess mass of around +75%.
Problem is, I haven't heard of a way to measure the gravitational field of say a few cubic kilometers of interplanetary real estate.

...RenegadeMime would like to point out that this post officially enters me into the ranks of Internet Nuts, and would like me to feel free to experiment with different fonts and colours.

Alice was beginning to write out a history of all flesh...

The Revelations Of Alice

I like to eat grapefruit.
I prefer to peel them like oranges and eat them like apples.
I dislike the way the juice runs.
Now before someone says: "Thats why they are cut in half and eaten with specific spoons" ,
I would like to emphasize that that idea takes a bowl, concentration, and two free hands.
So what I want with my grapefruit is a soft hemisphere of plastic, silicone preferably, which allows me to hold the grapefruit. Like a catchers mitt for juice. It would work for other fruit as well, of course - ( peaches, anyone?), and would be quick and easy to use and clean.
Adding a small stiff curved tab to one edge - about the size of a teaspoon's blade - would
facilitate the peeling process as well.

Anyone want to run with this idea?
Calling it the Fruit Cuddler might attract the wrong customers, though.

Would it be possible to grow a human embryo inside an ostrich egg?
If the egg was fertilized, but the blastoderm excised, replaced with a human egg cell?
I'm wondering that if because of a common Terran heritage, if the molecular hooks and cues would be the same, so that the placenta would form attached to the egg yolk, and feeding from it.
At a first guess, oxygen demands would become a problem. Now if the egg was carefully decanted into a beaker, kept at human incubation temperatures,and a oxygen perfusion rig attached...
As the yolk is consumed, fresh supplies could be added via injection.

This would approach the egg as a development machine which could be hacked to grow other things. Its already done with virii and bacteria, after all.

This could be tested with chicken eggs.

Hmmm.

The experiment was interesting . I got one comment on a blog post, and one on the experiment.
Same person? Possible - they happened on the same day...
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Do to circumstances beyond our control,
RadioPsychedelica is going off the air for the next few months.
In order to combine 'dead air' with 'social experiment',
I'd like to find out how many people actually read this
notice. Comments will be enabled, and I'd like everyone
who has read this far to leave a brief note, if only just a single letter : 'Q' for instance, or 'M'.
Thanks.

I've probably mentioned it berfore, but I really like the idea of wind-propelled, walking robots. Sort of Solarollers with a timber-and-heavy-iron feel. They would walk slowly, but really, how much of a hurry wopuld you be if you were living inside one? At ten kilometers a day, it would take ten months to cross the continent...



And of course, the lances would come in handy for jousting , for jockeying into the best windstreams...