Take cover Andromeda's coming.

frogstamper · 19-04-2008, 21:51

Well not just yet anyway, but our own galaxy the Milky Way and our nearest galactic neighbour Andromeda are currently on a collision course

speeding towards each other at 120 kilometers a second.

Admittedly this will not happen for another 2 billion years, but it will happen. Will humanity still be around? if so they will hopefully have found a new home by then, if not its curtains.

PS Beam me up Scotty!

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=...m-home&ref=rss

Xaccers · 19-04-2008, 22:23

We'll probably have collided with Vega long before then.

**Hugh** · 20-04-2008, 00:29

So disappointed - I thought it was a porn movie starring Lexa Doig (Rommie)

G UK · 20-04-2008, 02:02

And there was me worrying about the Sun engulfing the earth in 5 Billion years. This is a much more pressing matter

Edit: Must type all words in future

hoggie · 20-04-2008, 02:29

and here's me worried about my fence blowing down in the wind

Hom3r · 20-04-2008, 02:31

did you know that lexa is married to Michael Shanks (Daniel jackson of SG-1)

Mal · 20-04-2008, 02:32

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Originally Posted by Hom3r

did you know that lexa is married to Michael Shanks (Daniel jackson of SG-1)

Yes

Hom3r · 20-04-2008, 02:33

She is very hot

TheBlueRaja · 20-04-2008, 10:51

So nobody's heard of our 1 in 450 chance of annihilation in 2036 by a 200 billion tonne asteroid then.

Scarlett · 20-04-2008, 12:37

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Originally Posted by TheBlueRaja

So nobody's heard of our 1 in 450 chance of annihilation in 2036 by a 200 billion tonne asteroid then.

I heard that he got his sums wrong

TheBlueRaja · 20-04-2008, 12:38

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Originally Posted by Scarlett

I heard that he got his sums wrong

Thats what they want you to think...

frogstamper · 20-04-2008, 12:49

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Originally Posted by TheBlueRaja

So nobody's heard of our 1 in 450 chance of annihilation in 2036 by a 200 billion tonne asteroid then.

Gives you confidence in NASA stories like this. When you take into account the "dinosaur" asteroid 65 million years ago, and god knows how many more have hit since, it seems very unlikely the human race will make it to the Andromeda event. Look at the Moon or Mars and see how many impacts they have, which can be clearly seen due to little or no atmosphere and no weathering, it makes you realise our luck will not hold out forever. What we really need is SG1 on hand, and maybe the Asgard.

Cobbydaler · 20-04-2008, 13:00

If you think about it logically, even if the asteroid hit the ISS in 2029, is a 200 billion tonne body going to be significantly deflected by a sub 500 tonne object?

frogstamper · 20-04-2008, 13:47

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Originally Posted by Cobbydaler

If you think about it logically, even if the asteroid hit the ISS in 2029, is a 200 billion tonne body going to be significantly deflected by a sub 500 tonne object?

I thought that, but I suppose that if it did hit the ISS it would be well, well close already to the atmosphere, so even if it upset its trajectory by a minuscule amount by the time it comes around again it might well hit us.

**Mick** · 20-04-2008, 15:05

They say there is quite a few astronomical events that could wipe out life on Earth. It's up to us if we believe them or not.

If your worried about big celestial bodies hitting us - fear this monster if it ever came our way its in this galaxy:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7hsQA3wo3Q

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VV_Cephei

On the Wiki page you can see its size in comparison to our own Sun.