Cosmic Cloud on Collision Course

ScienceNOW Daily News ^ | 11 January 2008 | Govert Schilling

[placerville]

AUSTIN, TEXAS--It's large, it's fast, and it's heading toward the Milky Way

[dearolddad]

It’ll be after the football games today, right?

I certainly hope so.

[P.O.E.]

btw- I’m selling global metacatastrophe insurance. Just send me $10,000 and after the world is destroyed, I’ll assign a claims agent to your case.

[dearolddad]

Let’s see....40 million years from now...I would suggest a repost in about 40,002,000 AD.....

What a relief! I was afraid I wouldn't have time to get out and get more beer for the games this evening.

[Zakeet]

Actually, the NSA came up with it originally, and it got handed off to other agencies, until it was going to be closed down and dismantled ... Byrd just saw it as yet another opportunity to have his name on yet another thing.

I propose we name the gas cloud after AlGore.

Think about it.

It's a big bag of hot air. It has no discernible intelligence. It stinks to high heaven. It causes global warming. It takes up space. It serves no useful purpose.

It's a natural!

[Does so]

"...Let’s see....40 million years from now..."

Was that 40 million—or 40 billion years from now?

[TigersEye]

...when it smacks into our galaxy in 20-40 million years.

It will be here just in time to fuel the first hybrid vehicle I buy.

[delacoert]

People will probably still have all that unground wheat they stocked up on for the millenium, so they’ll be set, right?

[Blood of Tyrants]

Well, the SR-71 Blackbird flew at a mere 2300 miles per hour and gets so hot that ordinary fuel boils. A cloud of gas going 540,000 miles per hour might warm things up a bit.

[davisfh]

"I don’t bend that way anymore so I guess I’m DOOMED!"

Yeah! Me too. Well, hopefully it will all be over quickly 40 million years from now.

[skinkinthegrass]

...the women, chil'ren and minorities (and aberrant lifestyles practitioners) ...hardest hit

[FreePaul]

Smith’s Cloud, as it is known,...

Wouldn't it be funny if a cloud named Smith destroyed the universe? Surely they could come up with an exotic name with at least a Z and an X in it.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 01/12/2008. Thanks placerville.

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