Cosmic Cloud on Collision Course

ScienceNOW Daily News ^ | 11 January 2008 | Govert Schilling

[taxesareforever]

Just like the climate, there isn’t anything anyone can do about it so go on living.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

I guess this will pretty well eclipse the crash and burn of the Hindenburg eh?

[Scarchin]

For some reason - I can’t get that Spongebob “When Worlds Collide” song out of my head!

[lexington minuteman 1775]

I guess this will pretty well eclipse the crash and burn of the Hindenburg eh?

[Izzy Dunne]

40 million years from now...I would suggest a repost in about 40,002,000 AD.....

Isn't this the Live Thread ?

[attiladhun2]

I dunno, I think my wife might call it something akin to “collide” after I’ve eaten a bowl of chili.

[knarf]

[geo40xyz]

No doubt its Bush's fault, since democRATS do no wrong:-()

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[Talking_Mouse]

Is this going to be before or after the Andromeda galaxy hits us (poor Milky Way, seems to be getting beat up)?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks! Will add to the catalog, and ping this one:

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 12:49:08 PM EST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1952606/posts

[Camel Joe]

Thank your lucky stars its not methane, imagine a giant fart speeding across the galaxy!

[SunkenCiv]

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[dragonblustar]

Damn new neighbors moving in and causing trouble.

[SunkenCiv]

“the 100-meter Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia”

Well, that name has to go.

[ridesthemiles]

Great Photos!!!!!

[LibWhacker]

This is a very imperfect analogy, but... Have someone gently toss a cotton ball at you. Now have them throw it at you at 250 kps...

This cloud has the mass of tens of millions of stars, a not insignificant gravitational field, and is embedded with all kinds of other celestial debris. It's at least going to be interesting when it hits!

[Republic_of_Secession.]

I wonder if this has anything to do with the fast approaching sudden end of the Mayan -an ancient native Central American tribe / nation - Calender.

[ModelBreaker]

Be just our luck, in 39,999,999 years we will have just discovered a way to create hydrogen synthetically.

Maybe. But creating elements is pretty basic stuff, usually reserved to "In the beginning . . ."

[Calvin Locke]

Actually, the NSA came up with it originally, and it got handed off to other agencies, until it was going to be closed down and dismantled.

Byrd just saw it as yet another opportunity to have his name on yet another thing.

So, he does get credit for saving it.

I'm pretty sure the Drake Equation was developed at Green Bank.

[Ditter]

>>pull our heads down between our legs and kiss our (butt) goodbye>>>>

The last time I could get myself into that position it was 1947 and I was in 1st grade. I don’t bend that way anymore so I guess I’m DOOMED!