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Time Lapse Video Of Milky Way And Andromeda Joining

Posted by Hemos on from the getting-together-right-now dept.

8bit writes: "Check it out! In 7 million years we will be in the Andromeda-Milky Way galaxy. Apparently galaxies have been joining together for millennia now, and not just on my computer screen either. We can only hope that the ozone layer is gone and we are dead before our galaxy joins with Andromeda, from what it says it'll be prety nasty. Let's all give a round of appause to IBM and their clustered computers that made this video. "

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  1. Typo! Major Typo! by dbarclay10 · · Score: 3

    That's seven BILLION years. :) Please change that. For a second, I thougt that we(the human race) might actually have been around to see it - but I doubt it now ;)

    Dave

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    Barclay family motto:
    Aut agere aut mori.
    (Either action or death.)