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Scientists find a galaxy joining ours
International Herald Tribune/ NYT ^
| 10 January 2006
| Warren E. Leary
Posted on 01/10/2006 11:03:37 PM PST by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne
I thought I heard a big noise . . . .
To: Larry Lucido
To: anyone
I heard that John Bolton has already proposed erecting a 700 trillion light-year anti-matter wall to prevent stars from entering our galaxy illegally.
Kofi Anonymush has appointed his son (no relation) to start a "Food for Novae" program.
Bono, Clinton and Belafonte are going to take a shuttle out to greet our new visitors......
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01/11/2006 4:22:56 AM PST
by
jbp1
To: Lorianne
The dwarf galaxy lies in the direction of the constellation Virgo A virgin birth?
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01/11/2006 5:22:07 AM PST
by
giotto
To: D-fendr
Nemesis.
Where do I spend my 10 points?
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posted on
01/11/2006 6:46:50 AM PST
by
Jabba the Nutt
(Jabba the Hutt's bigger, meaner, uglier brother.)
To: D-fendr
Also spelled Mohican, as in the last of the........
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01/11/2006 6:50:03 AM PST
by
AmericanDave
(More COWBELL....................)
To: Lorianne
There goes the neighborhood.
To: TomGuy
commingled?? Planned Parenthood is planning a response.
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posted on
01/11/2006 6:59:09 AM PST
by
OrioleFan
(Republicans believe every day is July 4th, DemocRATs believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
To: A CA Guy
There goes the neighborhood!
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That was my thought, too. Congratulations, you beat me to it.
To: D-fendr
Sorry... That was just a bit of border state humor.
But seriously...
Reading at that link you provided makes me wonder: At what point does a group of stars near our galaxy stop being a globular cluster and start to be a dwarf galaxy? Perhaps someone here can answer this. A
dwarf spheroidal galaxy doesn't sound very different than a globular cluster.
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01/11/2006 8:00:48 AM PST
by
Redcloak
("If you can't say something nice about someone, then you must be talking about Hillary Clinton.")
To: D-fendr
Ten points for the first person to name the galaxy currently "colliding" with ours.
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Since its colliding with the Milky Way, I nominate "Snickers".
To: farlander
Save the planet! We're dooooomed... dooomed, I tell ya! Maybe if the whole planet jogged east at the same time we could increase planetary spin and clear us out of the path of this new galaxy?
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01/11/2006 1:03:08 PM PST
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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