Supernova Shrapnel Found In Meteorite

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Supernova Shrapnel Found In Meteorite

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 9, 2010 @04:52AM from the just-missed-the-dinosaurs dept.

coondoggie writes "Talk about finding a needle in a cosmic haystack. Scientists this week said they found microscopic shrapnel in a meteorite of a star they say exploded around the birth of our solar system 4.5 billion years ago."

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The wonders of science... by grub · 2010-09-09 04:52 · Score: 5, Funny

Remarkable!

Think of the odds: this meteorite landed 146 years ago in 1864.

What are the chances that something would be flying around the solar system for nearly 4.5 billion years then hit this wee planet which was Created only 5854 years earlier?

Most amazing indeed.

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1. Re:The wonders of science... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-09 04:57 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Magnets, how do they work?
2. Re:The wonders of science... by TitusC3v5 · 2010-09-09 05:13 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  TFA was really sparse on details. It didn't even say what kind of super powers it would give us if we came in contact with it.
  
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3. Re:The wonders of science... by AffidavitDonda · 2010-09-09 05:28 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  it will give you Hemolysis and survival of autologous red blood cells salvaged after cemented and uncemented total hip arthroplasty
4. Re:The wonders of science... by dilvish_the_damned · 2010-09-09 05:32 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  The universe was created 6000 years ago too. The 4.5 billion figure, for any object terrestrial, or extra-terrestrial, is the product of a duped mind, duped by Satan himself; bound, like Satan himself to writhe eternally in the lake of fire
  So its to be Phoenix then?
  
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5. Re:The wonders of science... by corbettw · 2010-09-09 07:00 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  What an oddly specific power.
  
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6. Re:The wonders of science... by c++0xFF · 2010-09-09 08:15 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  What are the chances that something would be flying around
  the solar system for nearly 4.5 billion years then hit this wee planet which
  was Created only 5854 years earlier?
  Easy: 50%. Either it'll happen or it won't. Pretty good odds, I'd say.
Any files left? by MrEricSir · 2010-09-09 04:56 · Score: 4, Funny

Were they able to recover any files from Suprnova?

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OH NOES! by garyisabusyguy · 2010-09-09 04:59 · Score: 2, Funny

The Supernova matter will now corrupt our Solar system and makes us goes Supernova too!

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Re:Extreme sharpshooting by eln · 2010-09-09 05:11 · Score: 4, Funny

This is why you should never shoot blindly into the sky. Sure you think it's harmless, but your great-great-great-great(etc)-grandparents won't think it's so funny when they get attacked out of the blue by an alien race from another star system seeking revenge for your errant shot that just happened to kill their beloved leader. Your celebratory gunfire after your local sports team wins some meaningless (from a pan-galactic perspective) competition could end up sparking an interstellar war.
Re:Extreme sharpshooting by jackpot777 · 2010-09-09 05:13 · Score: 2, Funny

Sounds impressive, until you think of how many of these fragments were flying around in all directions.
Think of it as a More Dakka situation of stellar proportions.

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Re:Extreme sharpshooting by Tynin · 2010-09-09 05:25 · Score: 3, Funny

It is too late, the first shot in the intergalactic war has already been fired!!!
Re:Extreme sharpshooting by srussia · 2010-09-09 05:26 · Score: 2, Funny

Davy Crocket didn't have > 2 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 tons of bullets either.
Apparently, Wilt Chamberlain did. This is like finding one of his kids.

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Re:Might be a nitpick but... by PocariSweat1991 · 2010-09-09 06:11 · Score: 1, Funny

Yes, but only supernovae from the Champagne region in Françe may call themselves Champagne supernovae.
Re:I would consider it to be 'dust'.. by Hognoxious · 2010-09-09 06:29 · Score: 4, Funny

Great. Now Pluto ranks below shrapnel.

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Re:Extreme sharpshooting by damien_kane · 2010-09-09 08:12 · Score: 2, Funny

You jest, but, that shot was observed by the aliens who have a station on the dark side of the moon.
That base was erected (similar to NORAD) as an early warning/observation post.
Via subspace/ftl data transmission, they have warned the beings on their home planet (99.99~ light years away) that Sol-3 has launched a pre-emptive strike with a single death ray.
First response was, of course, to send enough ordinance towards earth that we will assuredly be destroyed.
We will be attacked by the alien life-forms, and any survivors will assume the aliens attacked us without provocation. when it hits us in a few hundred years. It's really too bad we didn't figure out how to hit them with something bigger than a single laser beam.