Was hoping for this post. Lotta love to 'Dr. Astronomer here'!

I once knew two people at my work, on base, in the same...workspace, with those names.

I was about to lose my shit lol

I hate to be 'that guy', but:

Dark matter and dark energy are completely different, and from my layman's understanding - having opposite effects.

Dark matter (DM) is used to explain excess gravity observed in the universe - an attractive force.

Dark Energy is used to explain the observed accelerating expansion of the universe - a 'repulsive' force (not technically true, but observationally convenient phrasing).

Black holes are postulated to be possibly connected to the dark energy thing.

Upvoted for Ace Ventura reference.

Yeah, is why I said it made sense in the context of this subreddit lol

Not taking aim at you, promise. This is something I've only found recently and it bugs me personally.

'Tri-Cities'. Holy F. 'Tri-Cities' is such an overused thing that if you used that phrase, you absolutely should get confused looks. In the context of the forum, your use of the phrase makes sense, but like a lot of the other comments I definitely have to use extra brain power to figure out where the hell people are talking are talking about.

I just found out my hometown in California is part of a 'Tri-Cities'...thing. In LA county. Does that even count? Then...there's a second Tri-Cities in LA county? This one was bigger...and there's apparently a number of them in California, and a few larger ones out East. I remember one up North near St. Louis or something (this was the first time I'd heard of the phrase, so I assumed it was the first one? I have no clue.)

Nowadays, I think that phrase is just used for gatekeeping. Just tell me the city name or the region name, thx!