According to the global society of astronomists, we are here, frankly, because we have not yet split apart. An unidentified substance known as"dark matter," which currently takes about about a 1/4 of the solar system has been the sole entity keeping us together for all these years (Captain & Tennille will disagree with this). Trouble is no one knows what dark matter looks like, or how long it will stick around.
"Well, it's like a sort of glue." shrugged one scientist interviewed by the seattle post today.
Not content to sit around and awe over this new diety, The astronomists of the world have taken to chasing it down. They are in a universal race for the answer. The U.S., Europe and Japan in the lead. They've all got different methods and machines that they think will be the link to this epoxy. Weary of looking up and seeing nothing. NASA recently comondeered a defunct mine shaft In South Dakota. Because, maybe looking down will start to do us some good. The mine has been deepened to astonishing ends. It is now the length of 6 empire state buildings tip to tip from gravel to core. Once, in Italy, three scientists claimed to have heard the traces of it in a sonar instrument they had developed. They were never able to replicate it. A frustration, I think, only the most faithful of believers can understand.
