[SunkenCiv]

The young star LL Ori forms a bow shock as it moves through the Orion Nebula. Image courtesy STScI/AURA/NASA

[panzer_grey]

It is ExxonMobil’s fault.

[GeronL]

warp factor 0.0001 Mr. Sulu

[rightwingextremist1776]

Does this mean that we don't all die in December?

Oh crap........HONEY!!!!!!!!

[TomGuy]

sun is moving at about 52,000 miles per hour

That is about 1.24 million miles per day.

It may be slower, but it is still moving at a whopping speed to somewhere.

[Lazamataz]

Aw crap. We’ll NEVER make the Forshund Empire border on time at THIS pokey rate.

[CodeToad]

I can feel it. Been feeling kind of sluggish lately.

[pfflier]

You mean that wasn’t “settled science”?

[Revolting cat!]

It is true, indeed. Days have been getting longer, I’ve noticed, as sun moves slower across the sky.

[campaignPete R-CT]

I guess the traffic jam in our spiral arm is worse than traffic reports thought.

the spiral pattern in our Galaxy called spiral arms. ... Differential rotation provides an easy way to produce a spiral ... for the local radio station sees a traffic jam at ...

http://www.astronomynotes.com/ismnotes/s8.htm

[catfish1957]

Sun Is Moving Slower Than Thought

Damn, I knew it!!!! November 6th should have gotten here by now.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Typical uninformed or careless science writer. The sun's velocity with respect to what, exactly?

Presumably, compared to the surrounding galaxy, although the writer failed to specify that. He utterly fails to reckon with the velocity of the galaxy itself.

[beethovenfan]

Clearly Bush’s fault.

[Wurlitzer]

Seems a rather significant calculation error. Was the old speed a SWAG?

[b4its2late]

Does that mean we’re all not as old as we though we were?

[Drill Thrawl]

Obviously this is due to Globull warming, or something.

[6SJ7]

Milky Way speed trap ahead!

[Beowulf9]

Wait’ll we hit a black hole! Then we’ll really speed up:)

[StormEye]

"The discovery suggests that the protective boundary separating our solar system from the rest of the galaxy is missing a bow shock, a major structural component thought to control the influx of high-energy cosmic rays."

Stop driving SUVs.
Stop using CFCs.
For God's sake we're destroying the Solar System's protective "ozone layer." And one more thing: It's Bush's fault along with the very evil Exxon-Mobile corporation. And fraking might be to blame too.
And we need affirmative population control.
Why isn't OWS protesting this destruction of our Mother Solar System?

[central_va]

Sun Is Moving Slower Than Thought

[dfwgator]

UNEXPECTED!