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Earth Punctured by Tiny Cosmic Missiles
Telegraph | News ^
| 12/05/2002
| robert matthews
Posted on 08/13/2005 10:50:38 AM PDT by drlevy88
FORGET dangers from giant meteors: Earth is facing another threat from outer space. Scientists have come to the conclusion that two mysterious explosions in the 1990s were caused by bizarre cosmic missiles.
The two objects were picked up by earthquake detectors as they tore through Earth at up to 900,000 mph. According to scientists, the most plausible explanation is that they were "strangelets", clumps of matter that have so far defied detection but whose existence was posited 20 years ago.
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On another note, strangelets are in danger of being produced in high energy collision apparatus being placed into operation on earth. In such a scenario, the strangelet would burrow into the center of the earth and proceed, more or less speedily, to consume the earth's matter from inside out while producing enormous heat. Ultimate the whole earth would melt down. Too skeery.
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posted on
08/13/2005 10:50:38 AM PDT
by
drlevy88
To: drlevy88
"OH JEEBUS" not this crap again......
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posted on
08/13/2005 10:53:48 AM PDT
by
Sterco
To: drlevy88
Reminds me of how I felt the other day... like a gaseous giant, in need of a cosmic missile. Amodium AD took care of it though.... Whew.
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posted on
08/13/2005 10:54:50 AM PDT
by
taxed2death
(A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
To: drlevy88
I've come face to face with several "strangelets" where I work ...
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posted on
08/13/2005 10:56:40 AM PDT
by
Ken522
To: drlevy88
Larry Niven specializes in "black-hole-dropped-into-[planet]-and-eating-it-from-the-inside"-type stories.
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posted on
08/13/2005 10:56:51 AM PDT
by
solitas
(So what if I support an OS that has fewer flaws than yours? 'Mystic' dual 500 G4's, OSX.4.2)
To: taxed2death
No worry stranglets will only hit in California......
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posted on
08/13/2005 10:57:51 AM PDT
by
Sterco
To: drlevy88
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posted on
08/13/2005 10:57:54 AM PDT
by
Maceman
(Pro Se Defendant from Hell)
To: drlevy88
How long 'til Haliburton is blamed for this?
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posted on
08/13/2005 10:58:28 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum.)
To: drlevy88
Interesting theory. I imagine that these events probably been happening on Earth since it creation.
For the tin-foil hat wearers...They are invaders from Mars being guided by GPS satellites.
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posted on
08/13/2005 10:59:20 AM PDT
by
darkwing104
(Let's get dangerous)
To: taxed2death
I find it difficult to believe that something weighing several tons would not cause significant damage at impact....defies common sense...is it the mass or weight of an object that causes damage? A meteor weighing several tons would be a catastrophe...yet this isn't? It seems it would produce the same result as a bullet passing through an object, leaving a MUCH bigger hole where it exits....very strange...
To: darkwing104
If we are hit I hope we don't get the blame when they come out in China..........
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posted on
08/13/2005 11:01:04 AM PDT
by
Sterco
To: Alright_on_the_LeftCoast
Several tons, yes, but we're talking about stuff that can barely be seen by electron microscopes.
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posted on
08/13/2005 11:04:28 AM PDT
by
Crazieman
(6-23-2005, Establishment of the United Socialist States of America)
To: drlevy88
Thanks!
I'll add strangelets to the huge list of things that are going to kill me, and keep an eye out for 'em.
To: Alright_on_the_LeftCoast
Maybe an equation of displacement. Big splash versus small splash or disturbance of material.
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posted on
08/13/2005 11:07:15 AM PDT
by
ExpatGator
(Progressivism: A polyp on the colon politic.)
To: Sterco
we are hit I hope we don't get the blame when they come out in China.......... Not a wild stretch, I remember the Libs during the Cold War would claim that if a meteorite or a comet hit the Earth it would trigger world war III. That the superpowers wouldn't know the difference from an impact or a nuclear explosion. They assumed that everyone in the worlds military were stupid. Carl Segan wrote about this in Cosmos.
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posted on
08/13/2005 11:07:17 AM PDT
by
darkwing104
(Let's get dangerous)
To: Alright_on_the_LeftCoast
The exit hole is wider because the bullet cross section is deformed on impact and hence "flattens out" the tip as it passes through the medium.
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posted on
08/13/2005 11:09:05 AM PDT
by
CarrotAndStick
(The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
To: drlevy88
Dr. Strangelets or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Boson
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posted on
08/13/2005 11:09:57 AM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Particle of Faith)
To: Sterco
Ah ha! Now we know what's causing global warming and it's not humans or gaseous cows.
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posted on
08/13/2005 11:10:56 AM PDT
by
mtbopfuyn
(Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
To: drlevy88
Dr. Strangelets or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Clumps of Matter
-PJ
To: Alright_on_the_LeftCoast
Mass isn't the only requirement. Even mass isn't necessary. The ability of the particle to interact with the matter of the earth would be important. It isn't the mass that does it, or the massless photon would have no effect on a sunbather.
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posted on
08/13/2005 11:12:44 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and open the Land Office)
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