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Do Strangelets Pass Through Earth?
Weirdolet writes: "Ananova are reporting that ultra-dense, pollen sized strangelets (aka nuggets of strange quarks) travelling at 900,000 miles per hour hit the earth, violently pass through it and have done on at least two occasions already. It's also reported, allegedly, in the Sunday telegraph but I haven't found it there yet :P
Coming to a particle accelerator near you soon ... ?" Another reader has found the story at the Telegraph.
Uplets? Downlets? Toplets? Bottomlets? Charmedlets?
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
And then ends it with "humans are unlikely to be harmed." We can't make Hollywood blockbusters with those types of "facts." Killer Strangelets from Outer Space needs to have KILLER Stragelets!
It's funny how all the replies list different speeds of light in mph..
I understand that life's not fair, just why is it never unfair in my favor?
Well they weigh several tons. One article said they would leave a crater. My body typically reacts violently when craters appear in it. (And that hasn't regularly occurred for 15 years now...)
Could these be the long-awaited explanation for spontaneous human combustion? ;o)
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"You spilled my egg... I needed that egg."
Tell the military they can weaponize this. See how long it takes them to allocate the funds to restart the superconducting supercollider. Just fire a negatively charged strangelet at the chinese and watch the entire country dissapear... sure, the entire planet would be destroyed too, but that was the case with nuclear weapons, and it never stopped their deployment.
If voting were effective, it would be illegal by now.
A pollen-sized grain of anything weighing over a ton and travelling at 900,000 miles an hour would leave a crater so large that it could fit the entire quantity of bullshit pseudo-science that comes out of Southern Methodist University.
Amazing.
Cheers,
Bowie J. Poag
As I grabbed her bottom, she got up, took off her top, gave me a strange glance, then went down on me and charmed ol' one-eye.
However, a small fraction of these *could* be due to strangelets hitting the Earth. It's not very scientific, but a search on Google for 'unexplained explosion' comes up with over 14,000 items...
It's not very scientific, but a search on Google for 'unexplained explosion' comes up with over 14,000 items...
;-)
Yes, but a search on Google for "unexplained fish" comes up with over 23,000 items. What's your point?
>a search on Google for 'unexplained explosion' comes up with over 14,000 items...
A google search for "sandwich explosion" gives me 24,800 hits.
What I want to know is why, with this many exploding sandwiches, I've never come across one...
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
Since when is a mile defined in terms of meters? You must work at NASA.
Huzzah - Go Light!
Try not to get too hot over it.
DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.
Strangelets in the night....
</Sinatra>
It's OK, I was just leaving anyway.
It is left as an exercise to the reader to do the same calculations using metric units.
All of those "earthquakes" probably coincide with the time of the aerobics class at the nearest Fat Farm.
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