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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
My bet? No human will ever witness this.

Focus on the next 11 months, not something 3.75 billion years from now.

41 posted on 01/22/2016 6:41:44 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (AMERICA IS DONE! When can we start over?)
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To: MtnClimber
The Hubble Space Telescope cannot provide enough resolution to image clearly the Great Attractor. In anticipation of what the new WEBB telescope might provide, scientists have used computers to digitally predict what it will look like when the WEBB goes online.

Here is the result:


42 posted on 01/22/2016 6:42:05 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: MtnClimber
I believe the only ones who will be worried about the merger will be the ruling Insect Overlords that will inhabit what is left of Earth.


43 posted on 01/22/2016 6:49:04 PM PST by CapnJack
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To: hal ogen

***I plan on living a long time***

That’s what a local teen said one week before he and his mom were killed in a car wreck. It was not even his fault.


44 posted on 01/22/2016 6:54:31 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I’m staying away from my cars for a while...


45 posted on 01/22/2016 7:27:09 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In the year 2525252525...


46 posted on 01/22/2016 7:28:18 PM PST by Ken H
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To: UCANSEE2

IF there were such a point, it would be stationary relative to what?


47 posted on 01/22/2016 8:37:14 PM PST by mikeIII
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To: mikeIII

And that is my point. There is no known stationary point.


48 posted on 01/22/2016 8:54:42 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: MtnClimber

Was The Great Tractor used to plant The Great Pumpkin?


49 posted on 01/22/2016 10:07:43 PM PST by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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To: MtnClimber

Wow! “Guess I picked the wrong week to stop smoking” - subreference ping.


50 posted on 01/23/2016 3:24:55 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: MtnClimber

Well crap. With the world coming to an end you’re going to see all sorts of mayhem. Men attacking women, murder, rape, mutilations, thievery, butchery, barbarism, slavery, it’s going to get ugly. Oh wait, that’s Tahroush and Islam...


51 posted on 01/23/2016 7:09:05 AM PST by Paco
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