"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! https://earthsky.org/space/galaxy-collision-milky-way-lmc-solar-system
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
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.
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.
What's really scary are the 65 billion neutrinos per square centimeter passing through earth every second. That is really fluxing things up.
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.