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PLANET-DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD IS HEADED TOWARD EARTH!
Weekly World News, via Yahoo ^ | Monday September 12 - 2005 | MIKE FOSTER

Posted on 09/20/2005 5:25:47 AM PDT by vannrox

PLANET-DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD IS HEADED TOWARD EARTH!
Monday September 12, 2005



By MIKE FOSTER

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Scared-stiff astronomers have detected a mysterious mass they've dubbed a "chaos cloud" that dissolves everything in its path, including comets, asteroids, planets and entire stars -- and it's headed directly toward Earth!

Discovered April 6 by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the swirling, 10 million-mile- wide cosmic dust cloud has been likened to an "acid nebula" and is hurtling toward us at close to the speed of light -- making its estimated time of arrival 9:15 a.m. EDT on June 1, 2014.

"The good news is that this finding confirms several cutting- edge ideas in theoretical physics," announced Dr. Albert Sherwinski, a Cambridge based astrophysicist with close ties to NASA.

"The bad news is that the total annihilation of our solar system is imminent."

Experts believe the chaos cloud is composed of particles spawned near the event horizon of a black hole (a form of what's called Hawking Radiation) that have been distorted by mangled information spewed from the hole.

"A super-massive black hole lies about 28,000 light-years from Earth at the center of our galaxy," explained Dr. Sherwinski.

"Last year the eminent physicist Stephen Hawking revised his theory of black holes -- which previously held that nothing could escape the hole's powerful gravitational field. He demonstrated that information about objects that have been sucked in can be emitted in mangled form.

"It now appears that mangled information can distort matter.

"Just imagine our galaxy the Milky Way as a beautiful, handwritten letter.

"Now imagine pouring a glass of water on the paper and watching the words dissolve as the stain spreads. That's what the chaos cloud does to every star or planet it encounters."

To avoid widespread panic, NASA has declined to make the alarming discovery public. But Dr. Sherwinski's contacts at the agency's Chandra X-ray Observatory leaked to him striking images of the newly discovered chaos cloud obliterating a large asteroid.

"It's like watching a helpless hog being dissolved in a vat of acid," one NASA scientist told Dr. Sherwinski.

Ordinarily, Hawkings Radiation is harmless.

"It's produced when an electron- positron pair are at the event horizon of a black hole," Dr. Sherwinski explained. "The intense curvature of space-time of the hole can cause the positron to fall in, while the electron escapes."

But when "infected" by mangled information from the black hole, the particles become a chaos cloud, which in turn mangles everything it touches.

"If it continues unchecked, the chaos cloud will eventually reduce our galaxy to the state of absolute chaos that existed before the birth of the universe," the astrophysicist warned.

Some scientists say mankind's best hope would be to build a "space ark" and hightail it to the Andromeda Galaxy, 2.1 million light-years away.

"We wouldn't be able to save the entire human population, but perhaps the best and the brightest," observed British rocket scientist Dr. David Hall, when asked about the feasibility of such a project.

But even if such a craft could be built in time, evacuating Earth might prove fruitless if theories about the origin of the chaos cloud are correct.

"A black hole at the center of Andromeda is about 15 times the size of the one in our own galaxy," Dr. Sherwinski noted. "It might be like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire."

Speaking under the condition of anonymity, a senior White House official said the president's top science advisors are taking the findings in stride.

"This is a lot like global warming, where the jury is still out on whether it's real or not," said the official.

"The existence of this so called chaos cloud is only a theory. Americans shouldn't panic until all the facts are in."


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This is considered, on the internet, to be some kind of Joke. Or parody. Personally, I find this very hard to believe.
1 posted on 09/20/2005 5:25:52 AM PDT by vannrox
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To: vannrox

Yahoo news is now rehashing Weekly World News?

I am nearly certain I have seen this posted before.


2 posted on 09/20/2005 5:28:42 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: vannrox

Time to forget the 401K and buy that Porsche!


3 posted on 09/20/2005 5:28:58 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Now that taglines are cool, I refuse to have one.)
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To: vannrox

I ain't skeered.


4 posted on 09/20/2005 5:29:29 AM PDT by tongue-tied
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To: vannrox; Laura Earl

We're all gonna die! 2014? That gives me 9 years to max my credit cards out!


5 posted on 09/20/2005 5:30:28 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Ponce de Leon is coming here to look for the fountain of dumb. DC is his first stop.)
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To: vannrox

The French are already wondering who to surrender to.


6 posted on 09/20/2005 5:31:08 AM PDT by MaryFromMichigan
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To: vannrox

We're DOOOMED!!!

Bush's Fault!!!!

AAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!

Sorry, had to do it.


7 posted on 09/20/2005 5:31:12 AM PDT by roaddog727 (P=3/8 A. or, P=plenty...............)
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To: vannrox

Women and minorities effected the worst.


8 posted on 09/20/2005 5:31:19 AM PDT by JimWforBush (Alcohol - For the best times you'll never remember)
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To: Jet Jaguar

http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/features/science/61501


9 posted on 09/20/2005 5:32:51 AM PDT by JustRight
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To: tongue-tied

I Fear No Dust Cloud


10 posted on 09/20/2005 5:32:52 AM PDT by Sterco
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To: vannrox

If I understood this I'd probably be scared but since I don't, I'm not.


11 posted on 09/20/2005 5:33:13 AM PDT by Ditter
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1486733/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1486563/posts


12 posted on 09/20/2005 5:33:24 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: vannrox

Mangled matter? I was trying to make sense out of the mechanism behind this, is that supposed to be anti-electrons?

Even if it were a cloud of anti-electrons headed towards Earth, it would probably produce a barely noticable light show in the atmosphere when if it hits, because it would be far too diffuse to do anything.


13 posted on 09/20/2005 5:33:49 AM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: vannrox

To avoid widespread panic, NASA has declined to make the alarming discovery public.


I'm sure glad they're not telling us about this !


14 posted on 09/20/2005 5:33:56 AM PDT by sawmill trash (You declare jihad ... we declare DEGUELLO !)
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To: vannrox

Weekly World News? LMAO!!


15 posted on 09/20/2005 5:33:59 AM PDT by conservativecorner
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To: vannrox
I went to school with a guy named "Dusty Cloud"!!!

He usually "disolved" after about four beers!

16 posted on 09/20/2005 5:34:01 AM PDT by LilDarlin (Being very feminine got me this far; it will get me the rest of the way, too!)
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To: vannrox

I guess I can be first....It's Bush's fault.


17 posted on 09/20/2005 5:35:06 AM PDT by Flint
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To: vannrox

It's Bushes fault.


18 posted on 09/20/2005 5:36:38 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: vannrox

Billy Mays could make a killing hawking this...


19 posted on 09/20/2005 5:37:01 AM PDT by LRS
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To: Conspiracy Guy

Don't panic.


20 posted on 09/20/2005 5:37:02 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (Doctor my eyes cannot be disguised. Is this the prize for having learned how not to cry?)
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To: vannrox
Is it VeeGer?


21 posted on 09/20/2005 5:37:19 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: vannrox

We'll just leave it to FEMA to plan the evacuation. As long as the New Orleans Mayor and Louisiana Governor aren't involved.


22 posted on 09/20/2005 5:37:40 AM PDT by FreePaul
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To: roaddog727

Halliburton's fault!


23 posted on 09/20/2005 5:37:57 AM PDT by starfish923
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To: vannrox

Where is FEMA?


24 posted on 09/20/2005 5:38:00 AM PDT by McGruff (Woof!)
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To: vannrox

"The existence of this so called chaos cloud is only a theory. Americans shouldn't panic until all the facts are in."

This from the people who bring you Bat Boy.


26 posted on 09/20/2005 5:38:57 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Mom of Calico Charity Bonne and Calico Bess Rackum-argh!)
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To: vannrox

Yay!! I don't have to pay back my student loans!!


27 posted on 09/20/2005 5:39:05 AM PDT by wizardoz
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To: 2Jedismom

Go your thumb and towel handy?


28 posted on 09/20/2005 5:39:09 AM PDT by roaddog727 (P=3/8 A. or, P=plenty...............)
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To: 2Jedismom

Panic nothing. I'm going to buy that beach house I can't afford.


29 posted on 09/20/2005 5:39:50 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Ponce de Leon is coming here to look for the fountain of dumb. DC is his first stop.)
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To: vannrox
Some scientists say mankind's best hope would be to build a "space ark" and hightail it to the Andromeda Galaxy, 2.1 million light-years away.

Shotgun! Called it!

30 posted on 09/20/2005 5:40:26 AM PDT by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: roaddog727

The good news is that Hillary won't have time to complete her second term in office.


31 posted on 09/20/2005 5:41:08 AM PDT by CedarDave (MLKing: "I have a dream"; Howard Dean: "I have a scream"; Jesse Jackson: "I have a scheme")
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To: eyespysomething
Planet dissolving gas headed toward earth! Hot-diggity-dog!

Think of the chaos that will follow! When it gets here I'm going looting at Wal Mart and I'll bring home an HDTV the size of our living room wall!

32 posted on 09/20/2005 5:41:17 AM PDT by SittinYonder (Nemo me impune lacessit)
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To: vannrox
estimated time of arrival 9:15 a.m. EDT on June 1, 2014

Dang! I need to prepare!

Dear Cox Cable,
Please disconnect my cable service on the morning of June 1, 2014.
Thank you. !

Dear Electric Company,
Please disconnect my electrical service on the morning of June 1, 2014.
Thank you.!

Dear Natural Gas Company,
Please disconnect my gas service on the morning of June 1, 2014.
Thank you.!

Dear Credit Card Company,
Please discontinue my account on the morning of June 1, 2014.
Thank you.
33 posted on 09/20/2005 5:41:53 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: vannrox
To avoid widespread panic, NASA has declined to make the alarming discovery public.

Good move. I won't tell anyone.

34 posted on 09/20/2005 5:42:23 AM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: roaddog727

You bet!

:-)


35 posted on 09/20/2005 5:42:30 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (Doctor my eyes cannot be disguised. Is this the prize for having learned how not to cry?)
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To: 2Jedismom
Don't panic.

ROFLOL!

36 posted on 09/20/2005 5:43:04 AM PDT by SittinYonder (Nemo me impune lacessit)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
It's Pigpen's Revenge!


37 posted on 09/20/2005 5:43:18 AM PDT by Constitution Day (PS: Make mine Ferrari)
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To: SuziQ

Yeah, where is Capt. Kirk when you need him?


38 posted on 09/20/2005 5:43:26 AM PDT by LIConFem (A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.)
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To: starfish923
I think you're on to something here.

Apparently this whole situation was all thought up by Karl-of-the-Rove To get president Bush to declare a state of world emergency, forcing the UN to contract Halliburton to save the world at a cost of Bazillions of dollars thereby lining the pockets of all of us Evil republicans further leading to additional capitalist repression of the third world (as well as the remainder of the 2nd and industrialized nations)

How's that?
39 posted on 09/20/2005 5:44:01 AM PDT by roaddog727 (P=3/8 A. or, P=plenty...............)
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To: SittinYonder

I can't believe it took 20 posts!

;-)


40 posted on 09/20/2005 5:44:16 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (Doctor my eyes cannot be disguised. Is this the prize for having learned how not to cry?)
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To: LilDarlin
I went to school with a guy named "Dusty Cloud"!!!

Did he go on to run for the US Senate?


41 posted on 09/20/2005 5:44:22 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Many Democrats are not weak Americans. But nearly all weak Americans are Democrats.)
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To: vannrox
"The bad news is that the total annihilation of our solar system is imminent."

But the good news is, I saved on my car insurance by switching to Geico.

42 posted on 09/20/2005 5:44:33 AM PDT by proud American in Canada
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To: vannrox

9:15 a.m. EDT on June 1, 2014

actually.....

6:00 a.m. EDT on June 6th (666)


43 posted on 09/20/2005 5:45:38 AM PDT by G Larry (Honor the fallen and the heroes of 9/11 at the Memorial Site.)
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To: vannrox
"It's like watching a helpless hog being dissolved in a vat of acid," one NASA scientist told Dr. Sherwinski.

Note to NASA:
Please investigate what this scientist is up to in his spare time.

Sincerely,

44 posted on 09/20/2005 5:46:01 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: vannrox

Now THAT'S Global Warming!


45 posted on 09/20/2005 5:46:23 AM PDT by G Larry (Honor the fallen and the heroes of 9/11 at the Memorial Site.)
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To: vannrox
"It's like watching a helpless hog being dissolved in a vat of acid"


46 posted on 09/20/2005 5:46:38 AM PDT by LRS
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To: vannrox

When is the movie?


47 posted on 09/20/2005 5:46:54 AM PDT by bmwcyle (We broke Pink's Code and found a terrorist message)
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To: JimWforBush

""Women and minorities effected the worst.""



um, I think you mean "affected."

Unless you're saying that women and minorities caused this tragedy.

(Sorry, couldn't resist - I wouldn't have played grammar cop on a series thread. That would have been hughly rude.)


48 posted on 09/20/2005 5:47:03 AM PDT by hocndoc (Choice is the # 1 killer in the US. http://www.lifeethics.org/www.lifeethics.org/index.html)
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To: vannrox

Some other article titles written by Mr. Mike Foster.

WORLD-SHAKING DISCOVERY... UFO FOUND ON BEACH AFTER KILLER TSUNAMI
Alien pilots & missing woman are onboard!

SPACE ALIEN GAL CLAIMS 'NASA ASTRONAUT GOT ME PREGNANT'


9-FT-TALL CYCLOPS HEADED TO THE NBA?

BUSH'S SECRET PLAN TO INVADE THE MOON
--And Make it the 51st State!

'PAINTING OF SADDAM CURED MY HICCUPS'
Iraqi Man Claims Looted Portrait of Hussein Has Magic Healing Powers!


Thanks for making me smile this morning!


49 posted on 09/20/2005 5:51:04 AM PDT by FarmerW
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To: vannrox
If the cloud is coming at us at near the speed of light, how did the light manage to get here so much ahead of the light (or X-rays or whatever Chandra detected)? The whole thing sounds bogus to me.
50 posted on 09/20/2005 5:51:08 AM PDT by JoeFromSidney (My book is out. Read excerpts at www.thejusticecooperative.com)
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