Is Dark Matter a Dark Planet in Spacecraft?

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If the dark matter, both positively charged and negatively charged particles are both heavy, then you can get away with it. Then they form a basic, like a neutral particle, ok? Even though there is an electromagnetic force, its is more or less all invisible to you. And so my new colleague here, david caplin at john's hopkins, he and his collaborators wrote some papers on dark atoms,. Ah, it's very interesting stuff. I still think that the answer is, you can't go so far as to get dark planets in spacecraft. But it is an interesting intellectual ex sise to imagine how far you can go. There's almost no reason to expect that that is

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