Derp Matter

Turns out that not only is the International Space Habitrail over-funded, it's absorbing ridiculous amounts of money for even more pointless ancillary projects, such as the search for the fabled space unicorns dark matter:

In their observations, the international team of scientists found an unusually high number of positrons, the rare, antimatter counterpart to electrons. The finding fits with the theory that when dark matter particles collide, they destroy each other and create positrons.

That would be the dark matter which has no mass and can't be detected by any means? And it releases anti-matter energy upon collision? Riiiiiight...

Ting said that the findings could indicate dark matter collisions, or they could be caused by a less exciting source: a pulsar, or a rotating, radiation-emitting star. "Our evidence supports the existence of dark matter but cannot rule out [another source]," he said.

Yeah. Pulsar or "dark matter"? Which is more likely? Here's a clue:

their findings, which come from a $2bn particle detector mounted to the International Space Station...

Couldn't be they're trying to justify that expenditure, could it? Because "We found dark matter!" sounds much sexier than "We've found... uh, something we've known about for... well, decades." Follow the money.