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A 10 billion billion billion megaton bomb in space!
BBC ^ | Friday, 21 July, 2000, 18:05 GMT 19:05 UK | Dr David Whitehouse

Posted on 02/16/2004 4:41:43 PM PST by vannrox

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I think that this star system needs a new name. "KPD1930+2752" just doesn't have the pazazz needed to sell it to the American people.
1 posted on 02/16/2004 4:41:47 PM PST by vannrox
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"A 10 billion billion billion megaton bomb in space"

Women and minorities hardest hit.

2 posted on 02/16/2004 4:43:01 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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will explode within the next 200 million years

Get the popcorn out people!

3 posted on 02/16/2004 4:47:17 PM PST by Simmy2.5 (Kerry. When you need to katchup...)
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To: vannrox
I was planning on turning in early tonight, but this sounds like it would be worth staying up for.
4 posted on 02/16/2004 4:48:02 PM PST by Wissa
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To: vannrox
How about, Dean04Yeeearrgh!

WE'RE gonna explode and we're gonna take in the sun, the earth, the moon, and mars and venus and mercury, and then we're gonna take in the White House! Yeeearrrgh!
5 posted on 02/16/2004 4:49:48 PM PST by tet68
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Bomb number 20

6 posted on 02/16/2004 4:52:53 PM PST by balrog666 (Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.)
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Hey! Maybe we can use it to cut THIS. ;-)
7 posted on 02/16/2004 4:54:38 PM PST by StriperSniper (Manuel Miranda - Whistleblower)
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To: Wissa
That's what I thought too, what's a few millennium past my bed time.

It would be worth it just to hear the Rats scream about how it was all a result of GW's enviromental policies.
8 posted on 02/16/2004 4:54:39 PM PST by tet68
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To: Physicist; ThinkPlease; RadioAstronomer; PatrickHenry; edwin hubble
type 1a ping
9 posted on 02/16/2004 4:55:23 PM PST by longshadow
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To: vannrox
WHAT YOU SAY!!
10 posted on 02/16/2004 4:57:45 PM PST by RichInOC (FOR GREAT JUSTICE.)
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"A 10 billion billion billion megaton bomb in space"

Women and minorities hardest hit.

The DNC issued a press release calling for an independent, bipartisan commission to learn "What did Bush know and when did he know it?"

John Kerry also issued a statement saying that obviously the President is ineffective as a leader since he has not done more to protect women and minorities from this coming event.

11 posted on 02/16/2004 4:58:34 PM PST by COEXERJ145
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You cant hug with nuclear arms! :(
12 posted on 02/16/2004 4:58:37 PM PST by vezke
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The star, known as KPD1930+2752, will explode within the next 200 million years.

"WILL EXPLODE"...
What a prognostication. We're Doomed, Doomed, DOOMED!

Oh the Humanity...

13 posted on 02/16/2004 4:59:44 PM PST by michigander (The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
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...will explode within the next 200 million years...

We need a live thread.

14 posted on 02/16/2004 5:01:32 PM PST by Consort
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One is a hot, bright star.

When celestial warming goes unchecked. Paging Al Gore.

15 posted on 02/16/2004 5:03:22 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Consort
Please add me to the 200 millon year(ish) ping list.
16 posted on 02/16/2004 5:08:08 PM PST by michigander (The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
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"The star, known as KPD1930+2752, will explode within the next 200 million years."

Boy I need to start seeing that preparations are in place for that.

17 posted on 02/16/2004 5:09:26 PM PST by Kerberos
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How many light years is this star from the lens? Is it already gone and we're just waiting for the light in the sky?
18 posted on 02/16/2004 5:09:45 PM PST by Glenn (What were you thinking, Al?)
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I think that this star system needs a new name. "KPD1930+2752" just doesn't have the pazazz needed to sell it to the American people.

It's in Cygnus...

...Swan's Egg?

19 posted on 02/16/2004 5:14:29 PM PST by inquest (The only problem with partisanship is that it leads to bipartisanship)
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To: longshadow
type 1a ping

Thanks for the type 1a ping, longshadow.

Type 1a ...like the explosion of a hydrogen bomb approximately the size of the Earth but containing the mass of the Sun.

And only about 1 per millennium per galaxy of our size.

Last big one was probably the Crab Nebula (typeII) in 1054, recorded by Chinese as a 'guest star', but not in the West.
20 posted on 02/16/2004 5:22:15 PM PST by edwin hubble
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