Dark Matter, WIMPS, and NASA's Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Data 44
cylonlover writes "Recently the media has been saturated with overly-hyped reports that NASA's Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer may have detected dark matter. These claims may have some justification if the word 'may' is shouted, but they rest on a number of really major assumptions and guesses, some of which are on weak and shifting soil. So just what was seen in the experiment, and what are the possible explanations?"
Re:more antimatter near Earth than expected (Score:0, Interesting)
If someone figures out how to capture and store antimatter on long timescales (even just positronium [wikipedia.org]), this could be an orbital energy source. It's known that lightning creates antimatter [discovermagazine.com] and ejects it into space [space.com].
Once a method to capture and store antimatter from lightning has been created, this could be used for a low orbit fuel station. Just because there's a tiny amount detected doesn't mean that a much larger quantity isn't created by thunderstorms and lost to space and/or annihilation events from collisions with matter.
After a design is known to work, a station could be placed in orbit over Jupiter's great red spot for continuous collection.