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2012-06-01 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Milky Way Galaxy Doomed to Head-On Crash with Andromeda

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Posted by tu3031 2012-06-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Um... we have known that for years.

Posted by DarthVader 2012-06-01 00:01|| 2012-06-01 00:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Yeah, I first heard about this decades ago.

Posted by crosspatch 2012-06-01 00:16|| 2012-06-01 00:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Yet another side effect of global warming. Thanks a bunch, humans!

Posted by SteveS 2012-06-01 00:23|| 2012-06-01 00:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Still do not know what to use as ZULU time.

Posted by newc 2012-06-01 01:21|| 2012-06-01 01:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Surely our politicians can figure out a way to tax this.

Posted by gorb 2012-06-01 01:42|| 2012-06-01 01:42|| Front Page Top

#6 As per childhood dreams/visions since the late 1960's, or the Vatican's "Riderless Winged Horse" ala Third Secret of Fatima artwork, CALL ME WHEN WE CRASH INTO THE HORSE/PEGASUS NEBULA.

D *** NG IT, MADONNA, ARE YOU + GOD SURE ITS A HOSS - THE HEAD LOOKS MORE LIKE A SNAKE OR DRAGON, NOR A HORSEY [Horses, etal = Dragons during Middle Ages]???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-06-01 01:44|| 2012-06-01 01:44|| Front Page Top

#7 It's Bush's fault. Obama said so, and our God King Dear Leader Messiah Savior couldn't possibly be wrong now, could he?

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2012-06-01 01:57|| 2012-06-01 01:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Nearterm downside:

After a US government satellite crashes near the town of Piedmont, New Mexico, a microbe attached to the satellite kills all but two of the town's inhabitants a sixty-two-year-old man and an infant. Some of those who died show signs of having first gone mad. The mechanism of death is massive clotting and granulation of every drop of blood in their bodies. An elite scientific team takes the satellite into a secret underground laboratory in the Nevada desert, known as the Wildfire Complex, in order to study it. The new life form is assigned the code name Andromeda Strain. Within a couple of days the microbe mutates into a form that degrades synthetic rubber gaskets and thus escapes containment. This triggers an automatic self-destruct mechanism designed to set off a nuclear explosion beneath the complex, eradicating all germs before they can reach the surface. However, the scientists learn that the alien microbes, having evolved in the harsh environment of outer space, would thrive on the radiation of a nuclear explosion and would consequently be able to mutate into a supercolony of an untold number of forms. Meanwhile, scientists have discovered how to really defeat the microbes. To stop the explosion and save the world, one scientist races to shut down the bomb before it can detonate.

Posted by Besoeker 2012-06-01 02:07|| 2012-06-01 02:07|| Front Page Top

#9 ION DAILY MAIL.UK > "BEAMS" FROM SPACE THAT COULD POWER CITIES: FIRST TEST OF SOLAR SATELLITES OFFER HOPE OF GREEN ENERGY THAT MIGHT ACTUALLY WORK.

SPACESTRIKE/ORBITAL STRIKE = "DUAL-USE" URBAN, "CONTINENTAL" [Regional, Trans-, Global Unions] EXTERNAL MAJOR ENERGY SOURCE???

Ditto for HAARP + GROUND-BASED LASERS, as Deflectors + Transmitters ala Tesla???

NASA-JPL = Its official - we can finally stop targeting That-Guy-from-Guam + refocus on real Cities. CIVILAN ENERGY = NICE "IMMEDIATE/REAL-TIME/NEAR-TERM MILITARY ZAP [ZZZZZZZZZTTTTT].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-06-01 02:14|| 2012-06-01 02:14|| Front Page Top

#10 having evolved in the harsh environment of outer space, would thrive on the radiation of a nuclear explosion

Radiation is not a nutrient. A species might be immune to it, but it wouldn't "thrive" on it, either.

Posted by crosspatch 2012-06-01 02:41|| 2012-06-01 02:41|| Front Page Top

#11 Shhh, you're messing with some folks suspension of disbelief.

Posted by gorb 2012-06-01 03:00|| 2012-06-01 03:00|| Front Page Top

#12 What about V-ger? V-ger might be able to thrive on it.

Posted by Lowspark 2012-06-01 03:32|| 2012-06-01 03:32|| Front Page Top

#13 Radiation is not a nutrient. A species might be immune to it, but it wouldn't "thrive" on it, either.

The bacteria in the movie is able to transform energy into matter.

Posted by JFM 2012-06-01 07:38|| 2012-06-01 07:38|| Front Page Top

#14 So you better SEND ME LOTS OF MONEY if you want to have any chance of avoiding it!

Don't think - the science is settled and we don't have much time!

Posted by CrazyFool 2012-06-01 08:29|| 2012-06-01 08:29|| Front Page Top

#15 Don't spread this further until SpaceX and other new ventures go public. Once I have bought low... spread away...

heh...

Posted by Water Modem 2012-06-01 13:06|| 2012-06-01 13:06|| Front Page Top

#16 Oh yeah. In about a billion years.

Posted by mojo 2012-06-01 13:13|| 2012-06-01 13:13|| Front Page Top

#17 In 4 billion years M31 will collide with the Milkly Way? I guess I can still buy green bananas for awhile.

Posted by JohnQC 2012-06-01 14:29|| 2012-06-01 14:29|| Front Page Top

#18 I guess I can still buy green bananas for awhile.

Yeah, but put 'em in a paper bag anyway just in case the numbers are off.

(peeve mode: nobody *ever* shows error bars)

Posted by SteveS 2012-06-01 15:02|| 2012-06-01 15:02|| Front Page Top

#19 OK. Why wasn't I told?

Posted by tu3031 2012-06-01 16:22|| 2012-06-01 16:22|| Front Page Top

#20

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2012-06-01 16:40|| 2012-06-01 16:40|| Front Page Top

#21 Sadly, this is today's good news.

Posted by Matt 2012-06-01 19:16|| 2012-06-01 19:16|| Front Page Top

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