Something to be worried about?

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I'm sorry guys, I just can't help but shoot acid nebulaes and chaos clouds at Earth... :sly: Better get wokring on that Space Ark!
 
Famine will save us.
 
Taking into consideration the fact that meteoroligists can't properly predict the pathline of hurricanes and tornados on our own planet (something that has been a topic of study for decades now), I wouldn't want to place much stock in any of these early calculations about the trajectory of a brand new astronomical entity - even if it was those nerds at NASA doing the figuring.
 
Boundary Layer
Taking into consideration the fact that meteoroligists can't properly predict the pathline of hurricanes and tornados on our own planet (something that has been a topic of study for decades now), I wouldn't want to place much stock in any of these early calculations about the trajectory of a brand new astronomical entity - even if it was those nerds at NASA doing the figuring.
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Well, objects in space generally dont change paths for little reason. There's no wind in space... or air...
 
Oh god! We're screwed!
 
Here's where the story originated:

Weekly World Complete Fabrications

If you believe this, you probably also believe that Brad dumped Jennifer because he found out she was actually a lesbian space alien satan-worshipper.
 
Event
Well, objects in space generally dont change paths for little reason. There's no wind in space... or air...
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Not quite hitting on the point of my post, but I'll go with it.

Whether there's any basis to this story or not (I'm quite certain there isn't) - such an object is travelling in three-space. That adds a whole extra dimension for a spatial object to miss its target by as compared to hurricanes (a hurricane is not likely to miss anything it passes over - basically, they can be thought of as 2D).

Given that this thing is supposedly composed of electrons, or whatever, it does have mass, therefore it is not exempt from the conservative force fields present in space - namely gravitational attraction but there's got to be others I have no clue about, I don't study this stuff. It only takes one unexpected pull from something-or-other to alter it's course.

From 8 or so light years away, with a diameter of only 10million miles, it would not take much change in any spatial direction to cause a miss.



that's assuming there is some huge galactic mucus heading towards us in the first place.
"It's like watching a helpless hog being dissolved in a vat of acid," one NASA scientist told Dr. Sherwinski.
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Do NASA scientists make statements like that?
 
:dunce:

had an epiphany while i was sitting on the can.

if it's 8 light years away, travelling at approximately the speed of light, and they saw it just a few months ago...
then either the thing is sitting on our doorstep waiting to have us for lunch tomorrow, missed everything completely, or was totally a figment of someone's imagination (as I believe to be the case)
 
Event
I'm sorry guys, I just can't help but shoot acid nebulaes and chaos clouds at Earth... :sly: Better get wokring on that Space Ark!
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"It's produced when an electron- positron pair are at the event horizon of a black hole," Dr. Sherwinski explained. "The intense curvature of space-time of the hole can cause the positron to fall in, while the electron escapes."
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If we all wind up dead, you are SO getting banned! :grumpy:
 
Aside from the fact that she doesnt prostitute herself, my GF gets points for 7 of those 10 checks (fails on 3, 5, and 9. Hrm, too bad...)


Something to be worried about? or a load of cobblers?
has BL been dating an ET for the past 4 years? :scared:
 
I hope that all the polititicians, lawyers, economists and journalists make it onto the space ark.
 
Yay! We're all going to die!

*makes plans to steal Ferrari's and go on a killing spree the day before it hits*

:D

Blake
 
Scary stuff :scared: ???

Well, let's look at the numbers... 10 million miles is only a mere 0.00000169 light years across. The Milky Way is approx. 100000 lyrs in diameter. That means the 'cloud' is some 59.17 billion times less wide than the Milky Way... if we assume it's travelling in a straight line directly from it's point of origin (the centre of the Milky Way), it can only pass through one half of the galaxy before it leaves, meaning that only 1 part in 118.34 billion of the galaxy would get zapped. With approx. 200 billion stars in the galaxy, that means a vapourising beam 10 million miles across would probably only take out 1 or 2 stars... :) I like those odds....
 
Here's a photo of the beast! :scared:
 
Old men passing wind?
 
I'm not believing anything until there is more facts.
 
I call BS. I figured BS when they predicted it to the minute. It's eight light years away and moving at close to the speed of light. That is some big numbers to narrow down to the minute. Never mind teh fact that if it is moving at close to the speed of light we shouldn't be able to see it until it is here because the light coming off of it wouldn't have reached us yet.

Let's not forget that this is a Weekly World News story. This is the same newspaper that has pictures of a pregnant Osama bin Laden with the headline "Saddam and Osama's Secret Love Child."

And just to emphasize the BS here are some other Weekly World News headlines from this week:

METEOROLOGISTS GIVE STORMS FIRST AND LAST NAMES
Monday September 26, 2005, Weekly World News

BUSH REACHES OUT AND IN . . . & REMAPS THE SOLAR SYSTEM!
FLY ME TO THE RUMMY . . .
Thursday September 22, 2005, Weekly World News

CHOCOLATE SKYSCRAPER MELTS IN HEAT WAVE
Wednesday September 21, 2005, Weekly World News

SCIENTISTS REVEAL LAWYERS & LEECHES HAVE IDENTICAL GENETIC MAKEUP!
Tuesday September 20, 2005, Weekly World News

Good joke.
 
G.T
I'm not believing anything until there is more facts.
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Hello? Its from the "Weekly World News" site. It's an Internet comic strip! It's like a cross between The Onion and The National Enquirer.

Geez...
 
Zardoz
Hello? Its from the "Weekly World News" site. It's an Internet comic strip! It's like a cross between The Onion and The National Enquirer.

Geez...
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Maybe the rest of them are too busy thumbing through the candy at the grocery checkout line to turn around and see the tabloids on the other side.
 
BS called, if it's traveling the speed of light (which I doubt it even can..) and we saw it from here, that means it would be here. I think these people need to clean their telescope lenses.
 

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