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It's time for a Congressional sub-committee to get to the bottom of this!I'm consitently stupid- Japher
I think that opinion in the United States is decidedly different from the rest of the world because we have a free press -- by free, I mean a virgorously presented right wing point of view on the air and available to all.- NedComment
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We must cut fossil fuel consumption and deindustrialise to prevent this mess.(\__/)
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(")_(") This is Bunny. Copy and paste bunny into your signature to help him gain world domination.Comment
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Are we doomed?By the time it merges with our galaxy, Smith's cloud will strike a region some distance from the location of our Solar System, about 90 degrees ahead of us in the disc of the Milky Way.
Celestial New Year
Where it does collide, the cloud will generate shockwaves in the gas already residing in the Milky Way.Comment
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On a more serious note, what could lend that much velocity to that much mass? It's about a million times the size of the sun and moving as one hunk. Wouldn't that mean there'd have to be some force applied more or less evenly to a whole side of the cloud to prevent it from being scattered radially? Or is the pure gravity of that much stuff holding it together? Or IS it being scattered radially, like a cosmic shotgun blast?
Regardless, a catastrophe of this magnitude should be named in German. Someone ask BeBro how to say "God's Fart."Comment
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I'm going to buy an umbrella."Every time I have to make a tough decision, I ask myself, 'What would Tom Cruise do?' Then I jump up and down on the couch." - Neil StraussComment
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Personally, I blame Al-Qaida."lol internet" ~ AAHZComment
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Firstly, it's not that much velocity at a galactic scale.Originally posted by Elok
On a more serious note, what could lend that much velocity to that much mass? It's about a million times the size of the sun and moving as one hunk. Wouldn't that mean there'd have to be some force applied more or less evenly to a whole side of the cloud to prevent it from being scattered radially? Or is the pure gravity of that much stuff holding it together? Or IS it being scattered radially, like a cosmic shotgun blast?
Secondly, it is gravity holding it together.Comment
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That is going to be one huge H-bomb going off when the main body hits a spiral arm
You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.Comment
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I say it is about bloody time.
It has been 65 million years since we've seen any new stars around here. And we all remember what a boondoggle that was.
Intergalactic has been ignoring us for too long. We've got a few more billion years on ol' Sol, and then what? Stellar real estate is in dire need of new properties.
Every renewal plan entails some level of pain. But if all these NIMBY's have their way, there soon won't be any new stars shining.Long live the Dead Threads!!Comment
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But at what cost? I for one have made my will and bought my bottle. My comfy chair is moved out into the garden from which I'll watch the stellar caste of characters interact upon the heavens. If writ large in this script is the last act of humanity then I am prepared within and without my self. Bring it! :Goes to garden:
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It's called gravity. The more massive the objects involved, the greater the force...Originally posted by Elok
On a more serious note, what could lend that much velocity to that much mass?Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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I'm too young, but Lefty Scaevola and SlowwHand can. They complained to their local councils about the noiseOriginally posted by Omni Rex Draconis
I say it is about bloody time.
It has been 65 million years since we've seen any new stars around here. And we all remember what a boondoggle that was.
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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If we can make our oil last just a little longer we'll have lots of cheap hydrogen power!Comment
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So the gas is being pulled here? Okay, I was assuming something pushing it. That makes more sense. Thanks.Originally posted by Provost Harrison
It's called gravity. The more massive the objects involved, the greater the force...Comment
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