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

I certainly hope so.

41 posted on 01/12/2008 12:56:03 PM PST by dearolddad (Opinions are like rectums: everybody has one.)
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To: placerville

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.


42 posted on 01/12/2008 12:59:05 PM PST by P.O.E.
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To: Alright_on_the_LeftCoast
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.

43 posted on 01/12/2008 1:00:02 PM PST by dearolddad (Opinions are like rectums: everybody has one.)
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To: Calvin Locke
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!

44 posted on 01/12/2008 2:00:45 PM PST by Zakeet (Be thankful we don't get all the government we pay for)
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To: Alright_on_the_LeftCoast
"...Let’s see....40 million years from now..."

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

45 posted on 01/12/2008 2:12:29 PM PST by Does so (...against all enemies, DOMESTIC and foreign...)
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To: placerville
...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.

46 posted on 01/12/2008 2:43:41 PM PST by TigersEye (Crusty is as Crusty does.)
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To: FreePaul

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


47 posted on 01/12/2008 2:47:53 PM PST by delacoert
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To: RepublitarianRoger2

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.


48 posted on 01/12/2008 2:50:24 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Ditter
"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.

49 posted on 01/12/2008 3:04:47 PM PST by davisfh
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To: placerville
...the women, chil'ren and minorities (and aberrant lifestyles practitioners) ...hardest hit
50 posted on 01/12/2008 4:41:11 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (just b/c your paranoid, doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you....Run, FRed, Run. :^)
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To: Aristotelian
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.

51 posted on 01/12/2008 7:15:26 PM PST by FreePaul
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To: 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; ...
Note: this topic is from 01/12/2008. Thanks placerville.
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52 posted on 02/07/2016 7:15:46 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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