[blam]

It's always something!

[blam]

FYI. (comments)

[billorites]

I just swept my deck. This stinks.

[PsyOp]

Ping

[irv]

Maybe these things exist so they'll probably destroy the Earth?

And reporters wonder why people don't respect them!

[medved]

Formed in the Big Bang and inside extremely dense stars, strangelets...

If these things depend on the "big bang" for their existence, we've no need to worry about them. The big bang is a bunch of BS.

[ZOOKER]

Guess I'm a little fuzzy on the math of this idea...

Lots of mass, lots of velocity --- how does this NOT generate a big crater?

[TopQuark]

made from quarks - the subatomic particles found inside protons and neutrons.

For the record: I have nothing whatever to do with that.

[Alas Babylon!]

The good news is that, despite their force, the impact of strangelets on an inhabited area would, probably, be less violent than that of a meteor. Prof Herrin said: "It's very hard to determine what the effect would be. There would probably be a tiny crater but it would be virtually impossible to find anything."

Ok, but what if it hits one of the inhabitants of an inhabited are?

[PatrickHenry]

Yet another catastrophe thread.

[sheik yerbouty]

"The sky is falling!"

[lepton]

I had nothing to do with this. (Well not much anyway).

[Kermit]

1 million miles per hour. What's the speed of light? 186,000 miles per hour or miles per second?

[NormsRevenge]

Strangelets - sometimes also called strange-quark nuggets - are predicted to have many unusual properties, including a density about ten million million times greater than lead. Just a single pollen-size fragment is believed to weigh several tons.

The scientists looked for events producing two sharp signals, one as it entered Earth, the other as it emerged again. They found two such events, both in 1993. The first was on the morning of October 22. Seismometers in Turkey and Bolivia recorded a violent event in Antarctica that packed the punch of several thousand tons of TNT. The disturbance then ripped through Earth on a route that ended with it exiting through the floor of the Indian Ocean off Sri Lanka just 26 seconds later - implying a speed of 900,000 mph.

Professor Eugene Herrin, a member of the team, said that two strangelets just one-tenth the breadth of a hair would account for the observations. "These things are extremely dense and travel at 40 times the speed of sound straight through the Earth - they'd hardly slow down as they went through."

WoW!!! CooL!

[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[Liberal Classic]

"Does my insurance cover this?"

[chilepepper]

Strangelets - sometimes also called strange-quark nuggets - are predicted to have many unusual properties, including a density about ten million million times greater than lead. Just a single pollen-size fragment is believed to weigh several tons.

My wife made some meatballs out of this stuff once...

[Cvengr]

Then again, if a group of kids with an armful of bottle-rockets in the USA coordinated with a group of similarly minded kids in the Ukraine, with an armful of Roman Candles,..by their parent's cell phone and unused ham radio, synchronized watches,......

I think I see where this is heading....

[Junior]

A Tunguska bump.

[Jeremiah Jr]

Holy sparks

[StriperSniper]

Are these what they cancelled the Crusader for? ;-)