Galaxy collision to send solar system flying?

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  1. cerberus

    cerberus Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    "A new computer simulation shows the Large Magellanic Cloud is hurtling toward our galaxy on a collision course. Could the collision knock our solar system out of the Milky Way?"

    Sorry TD but I couldn't resist it. Even by the standards of the moron press, this one must take the effing biscuit?

    Questions questions, so many questions, so little interest in the answers! :sleepy: :mrgreen:

    https://earthsky.org/space/galaxy-collision-milky-way-lmc-solar-system
     
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    BleedingHeadKen Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Building my bunker and stocking it now, just in case!
     
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    wyly Well-Known Member

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    I saw a more spectacular headline that predicted our demise and thought wth! over sensationalized or what!....8+ billion years off interesting I guess, the earth will only support complex life for another 500million years so nothing to get worried about
     
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    TedintheShed Banned

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    This is caused Man Made Cosmic Warming. Gonna make a movie...
     
  5. cerberus

    cerberus Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Good idea - another galaxy bumping into ours wouldn't be pretty?
     
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    HereWeGoAgain Banned

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    Actually, it would be from the right location.

    I am selling tickets. Send me $1000 as a downpayment and your tickets will be provided up to 24 hours before the event.

    PS. In all likelihood, we would never notice except for the change in the stars.
     
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  7. WillReadmore

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    You have to remember that our galaxy is a nearly perfect vacuum. So, things hitting each other isn't very likely.

    Plus, we'd have to find a way to wait for a period of 16 times the remaining life of this planet - as wyly already pointed out.
     
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    HereWeGoAgain Banned

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    What's really scary are the 65 billion neutrinos per square centimeter passing through earth every second.

    That is really fluxing things up.
     
  9. Yant0s

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    I think we all need be all responsible and were hard hats when we go outside. I dont know how big these magnets are in the cloud but when it rains it will hurt if we do not wear proper protection.
     

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