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Do Strangelets Pass Through Earth?

Posted by timothy on from the particles-of-truth dept.

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.

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  1. second impact? by AnimeFreak · · Score: 4, Funny
    The second event in November started in the Pacific Ocean travelling through Earth to appear in Antarctica 19 seconds later.
    For some reason Neon Genesis Evangleion comes to mind.
  2. Re:What about... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Re:What about... by Skyfire · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  4. Re:What about... by Bhang · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  5. Everyone's speed of light is different.... by Spaceman+Spiff+II · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's funny how all the replies list different speeds of light in mph..

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  6. Re:Would these actually create an entry/exit wound by Consul · · Score: 5, Funny

    Could these be the long-awaited explanation for spontaneous human combustion? ;o)

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  7. Need Funding? by Perdo · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  8. Horseshit. by Bowie+J.+Poag · · Score: 4, Funny



    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.

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  9. Strange fantasy! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  10. Re:Entrance/Exit Point by foobar104 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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? ;-)

  11. Re:Faster than light? by Kris_J · · Score: 4, Funny

    Since when is a mile defined in terms of meters? You must work at NASA.