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We're on a collision course with the Andromeda Galaxy - here's what will happen to Earth
Business Insider ^
| 22 Jan, 2016
| Jessica Orwig
Posted on 01/22/2016 5:30:16 PM PST by MtnClimber
An epic war is coming between our home galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy, which is currently racing toward us at a speed of 250,000 mph.
Astronomers estimate that 3.75 billion years from now, Earth will be caught up amid the largest galactic event in our planet's history, when these two giant galaxies collide.
Luckily, experts think that Earth will survive, but it won't be entirely unaffected. The collision will unfold right in front of us, changing the night sky to look like nothing any human has seen before.
Join us on a journey into the future to see what it will be like:
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To: MtnClimber
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posted on
01/22/2016 5:30:50 PM PST
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: MtnClimber
Who says we’ll still inhabit Earth almost 4 billion years from now?
To: MtnClimber
I really am not worried about this. I plan on living a long time...but not that long.
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posted on
01/22/2016 5:31:48 PM PST
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: MtnClimber
Hopefully I’ll be out of town when it happens
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posted on
01/22/2016 5:32:15 PM PST
by
NativeSon
( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
To: MtnClimber
Whew. I thought you said million years.
To: MtnClimber
Anyone who thinks the human race (as we know it) will be around by then is delusional.
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posted on
01/22/2016 5:32:35 PM PST
by
rbg81
(Truth is stranger than fiction)
To: MtnClimber
Astronomers estimate that 3.75 billion years from now Damn, that soon?
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posted on
01/22/2016 5:33:09 PM PST
by
Michael.SF.
(That was the gift the president gave us, the gift of happiness, of being together,' Cindy Sheehan")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I think that the sun will go super nova in about 4 billion years, so earth may not even be here to go through the collision.
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posted on
01/22/2016 5:33:51 PM PST
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: MtnClimber
Thanks for posting this article (politics sucks)
which is currently racing toward us at a speed of 250,000 mph.
First question: At what speed are we racing toward Andromeda ?
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posted on
01/22/2016 5:34:04 PM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: rbg81
Well... I might...
You never know...
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posted on
01/22/2016 5:34:40 PM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(A Psalm in napalm...)
To: MtnClimber
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
01/22/2016 5:34:52 PM PST
by
Insigne123
(It is the soldier, not the community organizer, who gives us freedom of the press)
To: MtnClimber
OK, what are the new taxes and bans going to be?
To: MtnClimber
I expect to be retired right around then the way this market is moving...
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posted on
01/22/2016 5:36:02 PM PST
by
FredZarguna
(You did not see what I did there.)
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
01/22/2016 5:36:25 PM PST
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: UCANSEE2
I think the two have a closing speed of 250,000 mph. For individual speeds you have to ask “relative to what?”
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01/22/2016 5:36:27 PM PST
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: Michael.SF.
To: MtnClimber
Considering one estimate that life will survive at most another billion years due to dwindling levels of CO2, I don’t think the collision presents much of a hazard.
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posted on
01/22/2016 5:38:36 PM PST
by
exDemMom
(Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Who says we'll still inhabit Earth almost 4 billion years from now?Oh, wait! Billion. For a moment there I thought I had read MILLION. Had me worried there for a minute.
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