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Huge Hydrogen Cloud Will Hit Milky Way
diewlasing points us to a story about a hydrogen cloud, eleven thousand light-years long, which will collide with the Milky Way in a devastating crossfire of shock waves and star formation...in 20-40 million years. Mark your calendars. At least it will give us something to watch while we're waiting for Andromeda to hit us in a few billion years. Hopefully, it will look at least this cool.
"The detailed GBT study dramatically changed the astronomers' understanding of the cloud. Its velocity shows that it is falling into the Milky Way, not leaving it, and the new data show that it is plowing up Milky Way gas before it as it falls. 'Its shape, somewhat similar to that of a comet, indicates that it's already hitting gas in our Galaxy's outskirts,' Lockman said. 'It is also feeling a tidal force from the gravity of the Milky Way and may be in the process of being torn apart. Our Galaxy will get a rain of gas from this cloud, then in about 20 to 40 million years, the cloud's core will smash into the Milky Way's plane,' Lockman explained."
Well, the milky way does have intelligent life. Their intelligence can be seen by the fact that they didn't get in contact with us.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
This is god's answer for all those people who said hydrogen was just an energy storage mechanism, not a solution to the energy crisis. Look, there's untold millions of barrels of the stuff headed our way!
It's gas! It's deadly! Protect yourself! Protect your kids!
I bet quite a number of folks will stock up on gas masks when they'll hear these news...
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
You know what these high-fiber diets do to you.
Anybody want my mod points?
We need to start building ships and load them full of our most important people. Politicians, Lawyers and phone sanitizers. It would best not to wait until the hydrogen hits these people are far too important and should be saved now! The future of our civilization depends on it!..... We'll start building ships for the rest of us when they are safely on their way.
If there's one thing I find more embarrassing than gas trapped in my outskirts, it's when it causes a "devastating crossfire of shock waves and star formation." It's almost impossible to blame on the dog.
Don't expect to be invited to too many parties in the 20,002,007AD-40,002,007AD season.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Both. It's a windshield made of bugs.
Laissez lire, et laissez danser; ces deux amusements ne feront jamais de mal au monde. - Voltaire
First God gives us the finger, and then he farts our way. He must be trying to tell us something about our conduct.
Table-ized A.I.
it's more akin to throwing a baby at an 18-wheeler
Interesting example. I would have used the puppy vs large wood chipper example.
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