From: helbig@asclothestro.multivax.de   
      
   In the category "very interesting if true" belongs the idea of giant   
   (i.e., the mass of a small galaxy) monopoles as dark matter, for example   
   in arXiv:1202.0560.  What do people who know something about the physics   
   on which this is based think of this idea?  Interesting?  Speculative?   
   Crackpot?   
      
   [[Mod. note -- It's certainly speculative.  Interestingly, the authors   
   themselves don't seem to fully endorse this scenario: they write that SDSS   
   data "hopefully will soon lead to a falsification of the entire model".   
   -- jt]]   
      
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