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- Dark matter may have killed off the dinosaurs: A new model has the solar system drifting into a layer of dense dark matter that sandwiches the Milky Way and may dislodge comets from the Oort cloud every 35 million years or so. *Speculative!* http://www.nature.com/news/did-dark-matter-kill-the-dinosaurs-1.14839 10 comments science
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