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Quark Matter Blamed for Paired 1993 Seismic Events

Ethanon writes "In an article posted by BBC, scientists have suggested that two "unassociated" seismic events that occurred in 1993 were actually strange Quark matter passing through the Earth at a speed of perhaps 250 miles per second. A spec of strange Quark matter the size of a human cell is said to be so dense that it could weigh a tonne! Check it out "

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  1. ...in other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    scientists have found that multi-posts of stories on slashdot are due to a quirk matter that passes through the slashdot queue at the high speed of 100 submissions/day.

  2. Where can I get.... by GeneralEmergency · · Score: 4, Funny


    ...a quark repellant hat?

    Will lining it with tinfoil help?

    I called the BBC and they were no help at all.

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  3. Now that's FAST!! by vizualizr · · Score: 5, Funny

    250 Miles per second?

    now that's what i call a . ..

    QUARK EXPRESS

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  4. If this thing punched a hole through the Earth... by GeneralEmergency · · Score: 4, Funny


    ...then why doesn't the Earth whistle as it spins?

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  5. Re:I don't think so. by Xerithane · · Score: 5, Funny

    And there is no reasonable argument for the choice of 11 dimensions (1 time, 10 space, 6 compactified).

    Are you sure you are a mathematician? ;)

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  6. Re:Doesn't add up... by nzhavok · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps they forgot to synchronize their watches? Scientists are terribly forgetful about things like this :)

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  7. Re:Old News... by *xpenguin* · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, everyone can get more karma by copy/pasting comments from the previous story.

  8. I know that Quark is responsible by dandelion_wine · · Score: 3, Funny

    Odo: "I plan to investigate the Klingons, the Romulans, Quark, the visiting Tarellians..."
    Sisko: "You think Quark had anything to do with it?"
    Odo: "I always investigate Quark"

  9. Slackers.. by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    People blame sub-atomic particles for everything now.

    What caused those earthquakes? Quarks.
    What destroyed the World Trade Center? Quarks.
    Who left the toilet seat up? Quarks.

    Its about time people took responsibility for their actions and quit blaming the poor quarks.


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    1. Re:Slackers.. by CNERD · · Score: 3, Funny

      Nah, its more like this..

      What caused those earthquakes? Terrorists.
      What destroyed the World Trade Center? Terrorists.
      Who left the toilet seat up? Terrorists.

      Now lets all rip on the bill of rights and fight those terrorists!

  10. Spontaneous human combustion? by Phosphor3k · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe this is finally a scientific reason for spontaneous human combustion?

  11. Your name would live forever by ehiris · · Score: 4, Funny

    If it could actually do damage to you, you'd enter the guiness book of records for being the most unlucky complex of proteins in the universe.

  12. Re:Surface Damage? by Guppy06 · · Score: 3, Funny

    "I think everyone here is overestimating the size of those things."

    Man, are you crazy? Leaving the house? There are neutrinos out there, man! Nothing can stop them! We're all going to die!

  13. Re:I don't think so. by Guppy06 · · Score: 5, Funny

    " As a mathematician I'm usually very spectical of ..."

    "Usually there is some problems..."

    Whether or not you're a mathematician is debatable, but I'm pretty sure you'll never get confused with an English major. You have some "specticalular" problems with subject/verb agreements...

    "There is almost no experimental proofs for quantum field theory."

    Psst! You're a mathematician. You're supposed to be satisfied when the equations work out. Experimental proof is something done by... well... physicists.

    "And there is no reasonable argument for the choice of 11 dimensions (1 time, 10 space, 6 compactified)."

    Forget the funky math you just did, if you made up new math functions as often as you made up new words ("compactified?"), you'd be the next Newton.

    "can by explained much easier due to the fact that several cohomology groups of the Yang-Chibara manifolds are simple and the remaining ones freely generated."

    Dude! Paramount is looking for you! They need you to help write the next Star Trek series!

    "The other well known phenomena of earth core oszillations"

    We're off to see the wizard! The wonderful Wizard of Osz!

  14. Re:Old News... by Anarchofascist · · Score: 3, Funny

    "No, everyone can get more karma by copy/pasting comments from the previous story."

    You cut-and-pasted that comment from a previous comment on a repeated story! And the next time this happens, I'm going to post this comment again.

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  15. Re:Old News... by KILNA · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your meta-comment regarding copy-paste karma whoring on repeated stories is intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Please only subscribe me once, as I will no doubt post this comment again.

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  16. Re:More BBC 'science'.. by cappadocius · · Score: 3, Funny
    An alternate theory, perhaps. Some drunken teenagers kicked the seismographs?

    You know, that's usually what I do for fun. I and 6 of my friends get drunk then each break into the seven nearest seismographic reseach stations. Then (with our watches synchronized) we all kick the seismographs at the same time then again .73 seconds later (cuz lets face it, .72 is just too hard to pull off).

    These guys are real proffessionals though, we could never get to an antarctic station.

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  17. Re:Not a whole hell of a lot. by pod · · Score: 4, Funny
    So this thing traveling through your skull would be like detonating a pound of TNT inside of your head. The brain damage would definitely register. :)

    At least they're right about ONE thing: it probably wouldn't hurt at all :)

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