Huge gas cloud will hit Milky Way

BBC ^ | Saturday, 12 January 2008, 02:58 GMT | Paul Rincon Science reporter, BBC News, Austin

[mikrofon]

Like on Star Trek:TNG, they just need to inject some reactant element into the approaching cloud to ignite it, then everyone can get some sleep....

[JRios1968]

It’s all Bush’s fault, you know...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest_at_the_Beach and To Hell With Poverty. Gosh, I wonder where all the water comes from on planets- wh- this isn't a shower?

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[SunkenCiv]

the newer topic:

Cosmic Cloud on Collision Course
ScienceNOW Daily News | 11 January 2008 | Govert Schilling
Posted on 01/12/2008 2:20:45 PM EST by placerville
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1952655/posts

[Calvin Locke]

Technically, it is named the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope.

He saved it from being shut down.

[aShepard]

..............Technically, it is named the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope.
He saved it from being shut down.
...........................

Aw Com’on, you’re kiddin’ me??

[Swordmaker]

"Smith's Cloud, as it is known, may set off spectacular fireworks when it smacks into our galaxy in 20-40 million years."

Sorry, I can't wait. I have an appointment...

[Repeal 16-17]

Damn Man Made Galactic Warming! Al Gore save us!

[MikeD]

Who needs Rick Hunter? Just play a tape of Minmei singing “To Be In Love...”

[Cheburashka]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Bank_Telescope

[Fred Nerks]

Gosh, I wonder where all the water comes from on planets-

hang on a sec, I've got a pic of that somewhere...

here 'tis:

[blam]

"Just play a tape of Minmei singing “To Be In Love...”"

This?

[lowbridge]

We can prevent this. All we need to do is write a check to Al Gore.

[Fred Nerks]

once upon a long long time ago...when Earth was smaller, there were no oceans at all.

[blam]

Hmmmm. What shall I make of that picture?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Must be that Expanding Earth thing again....LOL!

[Fred Nerks]

Hmmmm. What shall I make of that picture?

Interesting view without the water, (and sediment)isn't it?

[Billthedrill]

20-40 million years.

Couldn't they refine it a little more than that? Like, say, within a million years or so? How's a feller supposed to enter this in his appointment calendar?

[RightWhale]

We used to make maps of Alaska out of scrap from the 48” pipe when we worked at Prudhoe. Looked a lot like that piece of art.

[Fred Nerks]

“Must be that Expanding Earth thing again....LOL!”

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dp5/tecto.htm

Abstract. – This paper looks at the challenges confronting plate tectonics – the ruling paradigm in the earth sciences. The classical model of thin lithospheric plates moving over a global asthenosphere is shown to be implausible. Evidence is presented that appears to contradict continental drift, seafloor spreading and subduction, and the claim that the oceanic crust is relatively young. The problems posed by vertical tectonic movements are reviewed, including evidence for large areas of submerged continental crust in today’s oceans. It is concluded that the fundamental tenets of plate tectonics might be wrong.