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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.
It was strangely charming to see her bottom go up and down while I should've been more interested in watching her top, this being a jump-rope contest after all.
I went up the elevator to the top of the building, where everyone lives a charmed life, then I took it back down to the bottom where the sysadmins are strange.
Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
As she was smiling down at the bottom row of people, I glanced up at the top row, to see the woman who charmed me with her strange eyes.
Sig
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?
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?
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....
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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.