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Has an alien comet infiltrated the solar system?
New Scientist ^ | 3 December 2008 | Stephen Battersby

Posted on 12/03/2008 9:41:38 AM PST by Fractal Trader

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To: Fractal Trader
... repeated baking by the Sun's heat has removed most of its cyanogen.

Aaaagh! ... Is this what we can expect with Global Warming?! Loss of cyanogen! We're Doooooomed!

21 posted on 12/03/2008 10:08:41 AM PST by TexGuy (If it has the slimmest of chances of being considered sarcasm ... IT IS!)
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To: Fractal Trader
RAMA, is that you?

If true, it is just because it is taking a job that American comets refuse to do.

22 posted on 12/03/2008 10:08:48 AM PST by 50sDad (-/\/\/\- Obama's coming; be a Resistor!)
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To: Fractal Trader
Alien comets? Next you will hear that there are Klingons surrounding Uranus.

Be careful firing those paper torpedoes then. One miss and you could wind up squealing like a Deliverance actor.

23 posted on 12/03/2008 10:12:02 AM PST by Centurion2000 (To protect and defend ... against all enemies, foreign and domestic .... by any means necessary.)
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To: Fractal Trader

Too bad for Heaven's Gate.... Their ride is finally here.

24 posted on 12/03/2008 10:53:29 AM PST by Constitutionalist Conservative (ACORN is a criminal enterprise)
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To: Fractal Trader

We are all going to die.


25 posted on 12/03/2008 11:01:48 AM PST by LiberConservative
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To: BossLady

Obama’s birth-place revealed ...

Good one!


26 posted on 12/03/2008 11:37:16 AM PST by Cloverfarm (Children are a blessing ...)
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To: Fractal Trader

Isn’t the correct term undocumented migrant celestial body? How long before Ted Kennedy and John McCain co-author a bill to grant the comet a path to citizenship of our solar system?


27 posted on 12/03/2008 2:03:51 PM PST by VRWCmember
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To: Secret Agent Man
Better than Klingons invading Uranus....

Wouldn't that depend on the klingon in question?

28 posted on 12/03/2008 2:10:18 PM PST by VRWCmember
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To: Fractal Trader
for Catastrophism, maybe GGG, but I've got to dash, so will figure it out later. :') Thanks!

Machholz site:freerepublic.com
Google

29 posted on 12/03/2008 2:20:36 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, October 11, 2008 !!!)
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To: VRWCmember

Being a straight guy, no.


30 posted on 12/03/2008 3:46:13 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; BBell; BenLurkin; ...
Thanks Fractal Trader.
 
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31 posted on 12/04/2008 9:32:05 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, October 11, 2008 !!!)
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But aliens are REAL. I have proof.

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32 posted on 12/04/2008 6:40:34 PM PST by bigheadfred (FREE Evan Vela)
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David Schleicher of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, measured the chemical makeup of 150 comets, and found that they all had similar levels of the chemical cyanogen (CN) except for Machholz 1, which has less than 1.5% of the normal level. Along with some other comets, it is also low on the molecules carbon2 and carbon3.

33 posted on 12/05/2008 4:45:47 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, October 11, 2008 !!!)
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To: Fractal Trader

No, that’s politically incorrect! The right term is “undocumented comet”.


34 posted on 12/05/2008 5:00:42 PM PST by rfp1234 (Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
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