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Huge gas cloud will hit Milky Way
BBC ^ | Saturday, 12 January 2008, 02:58 GMT | Paul Rincon Science reporter, BBC News, Austin

Posted on 01/12/2008 9:49:08 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

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1 posted on 01/12/2008 9:49:10 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: NormsRevenge; SunkenCiv; blam; Fred Nerks

We’re doomed!


2 posted on 01/12/2008 9:50:50 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

20-40 million years from now?

Guess I won’t change my vacation plans after all. ;-)
Lovely picture!


3 posted on 01/12/2008 9:53:46 AM PST by pillut48 (CJ in TX --Soccer Mom and proud Rush Conservative! WIN, FRED, WIN!!!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Smith's Cloud, as it is known, may set off spectacular fireworks when it smacks into our galaxy in 20-40 million years.

Nothing like getting out front on the breaking stories.
4 posted on 01/12/2008 9:53:51 AM PST by cripplecreek (Only one consistent conservative in this race and his name is Hunter.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Been wondering when these guys were going to show up and don't worry Admiral Hunter will handle everything.
5 posted on 01/12/2008 9:56:09 AM PST by Trueblackman (Terrorism and Liberalism never sleep and neither do I)
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To: cripplecreek
Well I did restrain myself from putting it in breaking news.
6 posted on 01/12/2008 9:56:20 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

We could have history’s longest live thread while we wait.


7 posted on 01/12/2008 9:57:27 AM PST by cripplecreek (Only one consistent conservative in this race and his name is Hunter.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

—I expect to be dead of bird flu by then—


8 posted on 01/12/2008 9:58:23 AM PST by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the MSM tells you about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
It contains enough hydrogen to make a million stars like the Sun, say experts, and its leading edge is already hitting gas from our galaxy.

That does it, everybody stop eating beans right now.

9 posted on 01/12/2008 10:02:50 AM PST by xJones
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To: All
Related thread:

A Billion Stars Hiding in Milky Way

10 posted on 01/12/2008 10:03:05 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: KevinDavis

fyi


11 posted on 01/12/2008 10:04:18 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

End times alert?


12 posted on 01/12/2008 10:05:00 AM PST by Saundra Duffy (Romney Rocks!!!)
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See link at post #10,...it’s long and is recent....


13 posted on 01/12/2008 10:05:24 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Saundra Duffy

I’m not going to say that.


14 posted on 01/12/2008 10:06:16 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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Somewhat related thread:

Baby Versions of Milky Way Spotted

15 posted on 01/12/2008 10:19:55 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I heard there’s a huge gas cloud around Uranus.


16 posted on 01/12/2008 10:28:41 AM PST by Charles Henrickson (Somebody had to say it!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"when it smacks into our galaxy in 20-40 million years."

Is that before or after 2012?

17 posted on 01/12/2008 10:37:58 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

It won’t matter - AlGore said that the earth has another 10 years or so.


18 posted on 01/12/2008 10:49:54 AM PST by Bosco (Remember how you felt on September 11?)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Party Time!!!


19 posted on 01/12/2008 10:54:18 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

.......................team using the Green Bank telescope (GBT) in West Virginia ......................................

Gee, I was kinda glad that this facility wasn’t named the Robert Byrd Telescope!


20 posted on 01/12/2008 11:01:28 AM PST by aShepard (Who took those pictures, and who let them get into the hands of the MSM? Disgusting!)
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