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| PLANET-DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD IS HEADED TOWARD EARTH! [message #129347] |
Sa, 17 September 2005 20:57 |
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Boy, am I hoping there's a Nexus inside this thing.
Well, one thing's for sure - we can forget worrying about that whole Social
Security thing going bankrupt....
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PLANET-DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD IS HEADED TOWARD EARTH!
Monday September 12, 2005
By MIKE FOSTER
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Scared-stiff astronomers have detected a mysterious mass
they've dubbed a "chaos cloud" that dissolves everything in its path,
including comets, asteroids, planets and entire stars -- and it's headed
directly toward Earth!
Discovered April 6 by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the swirling, 10
million-mile- wide cosmic dust cloud has been likened to an "acid nebula"
and is hurtling toward us at close to the speed of light -- making its
estimated time of arrival 9:15 a.m. EDT on June 1, 2014.
"The good news is that this finding confirms several cutting- edge ideas in
theoretical physics," announced Dr. Albert Sherwinski, a Cambridge based
astrophysicist with close ties to NASA.
"The bad news is that the total annihilation of our solar system is
imminent."
Experts believe the chaos cloud is composed of particles spawned near the
event horizon of a black hole (a form of what's called Hawking Radiation)
that have been distorted by mangled information spewed from the hole.
"A super-massive black hole lies about 28,000 light-years from Earth at the
center of our galaxy," explained Dr. Sherwinski.
"Last year the eminent physicist Stephen Hawking revised his theory of black
holes -- which previously held that nothing could escape the hole's powerful
gravitational field. He demonstrated that information about objects that
have been sucked in can be emitted in mangled form.
"It now appears that mangled information can distort matter.
"Just imagine our galaxy the Milky Way as a beautiful, handwritten letter.
"Now imagine pouring a glass of water on the paper and watching the words
dissolve as the stain spreads. That's what the chaos cloud does to every
star or planet it encounters."
To avoid widespread panic, NASA has declined to make the alarming discovery
public. But Dr. Sherwinski's contacts at the agency's Chandra X-ray
Observatory leaked to him striking images of the newly discovered chaos
cloud obliterating a large asteroid.
"It's like watching a helpless hog being dissolved in a vat of acid," one
NASA scientist told Dr. Sherwinski.
Ordinarily, Hawkings Radiation is harmless.
"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."
But when "infected" by mangled information from the black hole, the
particles become a chaos cloud, which in turn mangles everything it touches.
"If it continues unchecked, the chaos cloud will eventually reduce our
galaxy to the state of absolute chaos that existed before the birth of the
universe," the astrophysicist warned.
Some scientists say mankind's best hope would be to build a "space ark" and
hightail it to the Andromeda Galaxy, 2.1 million light-years away.
"We wouldn't be able to save the entire human population, but perhaps the
best and the brightest," observed British rocket scientist Dr. David Hall,
when asked about the feasibility of such a project.
But even if such a craft could be built in time, evacuating Earth might
prove fruitless if theories about the origin of the chaos cloud are correct.
"A black hole at the center of Andromeda is about 15 times the size of the
one in our own galaxy," Dr. Sherwinski noted. "It might be like jumping out
of the frying pan into the fire."
Speaking under the condition of anonymity, a senior White House official
said the president's top science advisors are taking the findings in stride.
"This is a lot like global warming, where the jury is still out on whether
it's real or not," said the official.
"The existence of this so called chaos cloud is only a theory. Americans
shouldn't panic until all the facts are in."
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--
Peers's Law: The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem.
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| Re: PLANET-DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD IS HEADED TOWARD EARTH! [message #129350 ] |
So, 18 September 2005 02:24 |
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In article <BF51D136.7D2CA%elvisgump.NO [at] SPAM.fastmail.us>, Elvis Gump
<elvisgump.NO [at] SPAM.fastmail.us> wrote:
<snip>
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> "The bad news is that the total annihilation of our solar system is
> imminent."
Again?!?!
That's about the fifth "total destruction" heading to Earth in the next
50 years or so. :-)
Anyone want to up the ante from 2014?
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| Re: PLANET-DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD IS HEADED TOWARD EARTH! [message #129352 ] |
So, 18 September 2005 03:11 |
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in article 180920051224354856%anybody [at] anywhere-anytime.com, Anybody at
anybody [at] anywhere-anytime.com wrote on 9/17/05 7:24 PM:
> In article <BF51D136.7D2CA%elvisgump.NO [at] SPAM.fastmail.us>, Elvis Gump
> <elvisgump.NO [at] SPAM.fastmail.us> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>>
>> "The bad news is that the total annihilation of our solar system is
>> imminent."
>
> Again?!?!
>
> That's about the fifth "total destruction" heading to Earth in the next
> 50 years or so. :-)
>
> Anyone want to up the ante from 2014?
Nah, Bush only has three more years left.
I mean what could he possibly do to the world in three years?
--
"Arnold Schwarzenegger: Finally, a public official who can explain the
administration's social policies in the original German."
-- Bill Maher
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| Re: PLANET-DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD IS HEADED TOWARD EARTH! [message #129353 ] |
So, 18 September 2005 03:18 |
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"Elvis Gump" <elvisgump.NO [at] SPAM.fastmail.us> wrote in message
news:BF51D136.7D2CA%elvisgump.NO [at] SPAM.fastmail.us...
> Boy, am I hoping there's a Nexus inside this thing.
>
If you want to enter the Nexus, it's located in the United Kingdom, at
Newcastle on Tyne:
http://www.tyneandwearmetro.co.uk/
HTH,
Bo Raxo
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| Re: PLANET-DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD IS HEADED TOWARD EARTH! [message #129354 ] |
So, 18 September 2005 03:36 |
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in article Cf3Xe.11411$4P5.10116 [at] newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net, Bo Raxo
at invasions_r_us [at] thepentagon.removethis.com wrote on 9/17/05 8:18 PM:
> "Elvis Gump" <elvisgump.NO [at] SPAM.fastmail.us> wrote in message
> news:BF51D136.7D2CA%elvisgump.NO [at] SPAM.fastmail.us...
>> Boy, am I hoping there's a Nexus inside this thing.
> If you want to enter the Nexus, it's located in the United Kingdom, at
> Newcastle on Tyne:
>
> http://www.tyneandwearmetro.co.uk/
>
> HTH,
>
> Bo Raxo
Great, paradise is in a train station.
What will those boffins think of next?
--
"Look, the truth that nobody wants to admit is, we need the concept of evil
because it makes good look so much more attractive by contrast. It's the
same reason jewelers always show diamonds against black velvet. You can't
have heroes if you don't have villains. Without Hitler, there is no
Churchill. Without Saddam Hussein, there is no Colin Powell. Without
Crabtree, there is no Evelyn. And without Darth Vader, well, Luke
Skywalker's just another hotshot rocketsled jockey in white jammies hitting
on his sister."
-- Dennis Miller
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| Re: PLANET-DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD IS HEADED TOWARD EARTH! [message #129355 ] |
So, 18 September 2005 04:52 |
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Elvis Gump <elvisgump.NO [at] SPAM.fastmail.us> wrote:
> Boy, am I hoping there's a Nexus inside this thing.
>
> Well, one thing's for sure - we can forget worrying about that whole Social
> Security thing going bankrupt....
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> PLANET-DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD IS HEADED TOWARD EARTH!
> Monday September 12, 2005
....
> Americans
> shouldn't panic until all the facts are in."
Considering the source is the always reliable Weekly World News, I
think I'll go ahead and panic now and avoid the rush.
There. I feel much better now that that's out of the way.
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| Re: PLANET-DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD IS HEADED TOWARD EARTH! [message #135465 ] |
Mo, 19 September 2005 21:22 |
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Elvis Gump wrote:
> PLANET-DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD IS HEADED TOWARD EARTH!
Sounds like someone caught ST:TMP on cable last week. Look Out! Here
comes V'Ger!
That, or we'd better start building a device we can shoot into space
that will take hold of some alien mind and give it a lifetime of
memories in about 25 minutes.
--
Gerald
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| Re: PLANET-DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD IS HEADED TOWARD EARTH! [message #135466 ] |
Mo, 19 September 2005 21:45 |
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in article VdEXe.5198$6e1.2657 [at] newssvr14.news.prodigy.com, Gerald Meazell at
gmeazell [at] swbell.net wrote on 9/19/05 2:22 PM:
> Elvis Gump wrote:
>> PLANET-DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD IS HEADED TOWARD EARTH!
> Sounds like someone caught ST:TMP on cable last week. Look Out! Here
> comes V'Ger!
>
> That, or we'd better start building a device we can shoot into space
> that will take hold of some alien mind and give it a lifetime of
> memories in about 25 minutes.
>
> --
> Gerald
What I really liked about and was slightly disturbed about this was that
Yahoo News (how ironic huh?) is picking up Weekly World News stories like
this one and putting them on the web. At first glace because it's Yahoo News
might not immediately register the small "WWN" thing as the source of the
story, rather expecting the stuff that Yahoo picks up to be either Reuters
or some other source that got say snookered by an Onion article.
But now Yahoo is living up to its name by just printing crazy shit from WWN
and making it look like the rest of the real news. And things like this with
junk science details that might mostly go over the heads of the general
public probably makes these things scary to the general public.
If some real dire imminent disaster from space were discovered I wonder if
we could get anyone to take it seriously?
After having seen just the Katrina devastation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
first hand even understanding a threat, knowing that it's coming and trying
to prepare for it doesn't necessarily make us prepared as we've seen nonstop
for three weeks on TV.
--
"Nuclear war would really set back cable."
-- Ted Turner
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| Re: PLANET-DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD IS HEADED TOWARD EARTH! [message #135467 ] |
Mo, 19 September 2005 21:52 |
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I have a dust buster made from one of those doomsday machines from Star Trek
TOS. That'll fix it.
"Elvis Gump" <elvisgump.NO [at] SPAM.fastmail.us> wrote in message
news:BF547F8F.7D7A8%elvisgump.NO [at] SPAM.fastmail.us...
> in article VdEXe.5198$6e1.2657 [at] newssvr14.news.prodigy.com, Gerald Meazell
> at
> gmeazell [at] swbell.net wrote on 9/19/05 2:22 PM:
>
>> Elvis Gump wrote:
>
>>> PLANET-DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD IS HEADED TOWARD EARTH!
>
>> Sounds like someone caught ST:TMP on cable last week. Look Out! Here
>> comes V'Ger!
>>
>> That, or we'd better start building a device we can shoot into space
>> that will take hold of some alien mind and give it a lifetime of
>> memories in about 25 minutes.
>>
>> --
>> Gerald
>
> What I really liked about and was slightly disturbed about this was that
> Yahoo News (how ironic huh?) is picking up Weekly World News stories like
> this one and putting them on the web. At first glace because it's Yahoo
> News
> might not immediately register the small "WWN" thing as the source of the
> story, rather expecting the stuff that Yahoo picks up to be either Reuters
> or some other source that got say snookered by an Onion article.
>
> But now Yahoo is living up to its name by just printing crazy shit from
> WWN
> and making it look like the rest of the real news. And things like this
> with
> junk science details that might mostly go over the heads of the general
> public probably makes these things scary to the general public.
>
> If some real dire imminent disaster from space were discovered I wonder if
> we could get anyone to take it seriously?
>
> After having seen just the Katrina devastation on the Mississippi Gulf
> Coast
> first hand even understanding a threat, knowing that it's coming and
> trying
> to prepare for it doesn't necessarily make us prepared as we've seen
> nonstop
> for three weeks on TV.
> --
> "Nuclear war would really set back cable."
> -- Ted Turner
>
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| Re: PLANET-DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD IS HEADED TOWARD EARTH! [message #135472 ] |
Di, 20 September 2005 00:44 |
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>> PLANET-DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD IS HEADED TOWARD EARTH!
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> Sounds like someone caught ST:TMP on cable last week. Look Out! Here comes V'Ger!
>
> That, or we'd better start building a device we can shoot into space that will take hold of some alien mind and give it a lifetime of memories in about 25 minutes.
Right. Because that would be so useful. ?
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| Re: PLANET-DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD IS HEADED TOWARD EARTH! [message #135490 ] |
Di, 20 September 2005 21:03 |
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In article <BF51D136.7D2CA%elvisgump.NO [at] SPAM.fastmail.us>,
elvisgump.NO [at] SPAM.fastmail.us says...
> Boy, am I hoping there's a Nexus inside this thing.
>
> Well, one thing's for sure - we can forget worrying about that whole Social
> Security thing going bankrupt....
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> PLANET-DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD IS HEADED TOWARD EARTH!
This article is so easily proven bogus by anyone who reads it. Another
WWN classic.
First, this doomsday cloud is hurtling towards us at "close the speed of
light." That means, if it's due to hit us in 2014, it's roughly 9 light
years away.
Then we read "But Dr. Sherwinski's contacts at the agency's Chandra X-ray
Observatory leaked to him striking images of the newly discovered chaos
cloud obliterating a large asteroid". Since present day telescopes can't
even resolve earth-sized planets at a distance of 9 light years, how in
heck could they observe a "large asteroid" at that distance?
I mean, come on guys! If you're going to cook up a hoax, do a better job
of it. This looks like some kind of hack plot B&B might have contrived.
Say, maybe this is really just the prelude to another more insidious form
of malevolence -- next summer's blockbuster. First start a buzz and then
exploit the buzz.
And if the White House is taking the time to respond to stories like
this, then that would explain why they're screwing up so badly these days
-- they're spending all their time reading Weekly World News.
ww
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