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Cosmic Cloud on Collision Course
ScienceNOW Daily News ^
| 11 January 2008
| Govert Schilling
Posted on 01/12/2008 11:20:45 AM PST by placerville
AUSTIN, TEXAS--It's large, it's fast, and it's heading toward the Milky Way
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencenow.sciencemag.org ...
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; smithcloud; smithscloud
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need i say any more..we are all freaking doomed.
To: placerville
It’ll be after the football games today, right?
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posted on
01/12/2008 11:22:39 AM PST
by
neodad
(USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Checkmate Cruiser")
To: placerville
We need AlBore to write a new book and collect another prize and last but not least blame Bush and tax the crap out of the American people.
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posted on
01/12/2008 11:23:59 AM PST
by
BipolarBob
(I've been stung by honey bees and bumblebees. I don't want no huckle bee.)
To: BipolarBob
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posted on
01/12/2008 11:25:56 AM PST
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: Larry Lucido; MotleyGirl70; Cagey; Gamecock; Rb ver. 2.0
To: Mr. Brightside
Let’s see....40 million years from now...I would suggest a repost in about 40,002,000 AD.....
To: placerville
I’m ready. Lets all pull our heads down between our legs and kiss it goodbye.
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posted on
01/12/2008 11:28:15 AM PST
by
davisfh
To: placerville
BBC News reports: giant cloud of hydrogen gas is racing towards a collision with the Milky Way, astronomers have announced.
Smith’s Cloud, as it is known, may set off spectacular fireworks when it smacks into our galaxy in 20-40 million years.
It contains enough hydrogen to make a million stars like the Sun, say experts, and its leading edge is already hitting gas from our galaxy.
When it does hit, the cloud could indeed set off a new burst of star formation in the Milky Way.
Details of the work, by a team at the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, were unveiled at the 211th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas.
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posted on
01/12/2008 11:29:13 AM PST
by
Aristotelian
(Freedom is "the absence of coercion." F.A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty, 1960.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
01/12/2008 11:31:19 AM PST
by
To Hell With Poverty
(For evil to win, it is only necessary for Jimmy Carter to be considered a role model.)
To: placerville
I’m still trying to visualize how a cloud of hydrogen gas — even one that is moving at 250 kilometers/sec — can “smash” into anything.
To: placerville
Time to subscribe to survival magazines and start stocking supplies.
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posted on
01/12/2008 11:31:36 AM PST
by
FreePaul
To: placerville
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posted on
01/12/2008 11:32:46 AM PST
by
xcamel
(FDT/2008)
To: placerville
The 100-meter Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia made a discovery which may have some benefit to U.S. taxpayers in only 40,000,000 years.
In other words, the Grand Kleagle finally came up with some useful pork.
I think I'm about to faint.
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posted on
01/12/2008 11:33:08 AM PST
by
Zakeet
(Be thankful we don't get all the government we pay for)
To: placerville
Hydrogen, hydrogen everywhere, and not a drop to burn...
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posted on
01/12/2008 11:33:54 AM PST
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: neodad
Itll be after the football games today, right?The Cosmic Cloud is just a '72 Dolphins fan that doesn't want the Pats to go 19-0.
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posted on
01/12/2008 11:34:10 AM PST
by
GraniteStateConservative
(...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
To: placerville
Well, there’s our unlimited supply of hydrogen; we just have to figure out how to harvest it...
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posted on
01/12/2008 11:34:45 AM PST
by
randog
(What the...?!)
To: placerville
I should get a new HD video camera for this.
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posted on
01/12/2008 11:37:22 AM PST
by
razorback-bert
(Remember that amateurs built the Ark while professionals built the Titanic.)
To: placerville
100-meter Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia this cloud of hot gas (probably a lot of methane and sulfides) is already here, why wait 40 million years? Really, has the man no shame?
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posted on
01/12/2008 11:40:00 AM PST
by
gusopol3
To: Mr. Brightside; MotleyGirl70; Cagey; Gamecock; Rb ver. 2.0
I never trust galactic weather predictions. Last time they predicted giant hydrogen clouds, it turned out to be sunny all day.
To: randog
Be just our luck, in 39,999,999 years we will have just discovered a way to create hydrogen synthetically.
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