Spectacular Galaxy Collision Visualization

Cosmiverse ^ | April 9, 2002 08:30 CST

[Texaggie79]

ping

[JRandomFreeper]

Someday our Milky Way Galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy may come crashing together in a horrendous collision that will twist and distort their shapes beyond recognition.

Typical scientists, bring up a problem without offering a solution. Someone should be working on fixing this. But no, we'll wait until the last minute.

/john

[PatrickHenry]

Someday our Milky Way Galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy may come crashing together in a horrendous collision that will twist and distort their shapes beyond recognition.

I have enough to worry about already.

[Texaggie79]

Will it make me look thinner?

[blam]

There is some evidence that the Milky Way galaxy collided with another galaxy in the past. So.....

[Ward Smythe]

Someday our Milky Way Galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy may come crashing together in a horrendous collision that will twist and distort their shapes beyond recognition.

I never know what to wear for a galaxy collision...

[Physicist]

This wouldn't happen if our Milky Way were only "fun size".

[sphinx]

Unfortunately, women and blacks will be most affected.

[Texaggie79]

Do you like nugat(sp?) filling?

[longshadow]

Someday our Milky Way Galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy may come crashing together in a horrendous collision that will twist and distort their shapes beyond recognition.

Any idea if the IRS will give us an extension to file our tax return when this happens?

[PatrickHenry]

Any idea if the IRS will give us an extension to file our tax return when this happens?

They're always reasonable and understanding. I remember how they gave us extra time after Hurricane Andrew. I'm sure you can get an extension if the galaxies collide. Just fill out the form properly. Put your trust in the IRS.

[Scully]

RadioAstronomer's ping-list!

[realpatriot71]

[gcruse]

Astronomers say Galaxies will Collide

                          Thousands flee cities.

[edwin hubble]

There are more likely things to worry about (than our sun hitting something).

Interesting that in a galaxy collision the galaxies can become distended or intertwined.
But star collisions during the process would be extremely rare. It's just statistically unlikely that stars would hit something.
If our sun were an orange in New York, then the nearest star would be an orange in Los Angeles. (for scale).
But two galaxies in scale might be more like two footballs eight to ten feet apart (Milky Way and Andromeda). So galaxy collisions are relatively common.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[fire and forget]

Thanks for the ping. Whether or not we collide with a neighboring galaxy or not, humans have some things to consider on a cosmological scale and in the course of time. Quite a few things, actually, if we survive into the periods where these things will occur.

I'm hopeful that we'll survive. If we do, we'll likely have access to resources and technology that will prevent our extinction; provided the dems, liberals and their ideological successors don't screw it all up for humanity.

[PatrickHenry]

An ancient SF series of novels (by Doc. EE Smith, I believe) began with a galaxy collision. Perhaps it was the Lensman series, I've forgotten. The collision of galaxies with all the near fly-bys of the stars -- according to the theory prevelant in the 1930s -- is what caused the planets to form. There was some ghastly evil species in the other galaxy that dominated things, and their rivals, the good guys who were on "our" side, and some human hero, Kimball Kinnison, who had been bred for hundreds of generations. I think Spartacus was one of his ancestors.

[VadeRetro]

Thousands flee cities.

The Washington Post version:

UNIVERSE TO END TOMORROW!
Women and minorities will suffer most.