Ohnoes!
Women, children, and gamers first!
(Suddenly, I find the idea of turning into a little girl wielding a d20 has merit)
Well, I always did want to be front row for a galactic-scale fireworks show...
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ALL RIGHT, LISTEN UP!!!
MANY OF YOU THINK THAT "EVERYONE HAS A PLACE", "NOBODY IS TRULY EVIL", AND OTHER NAMBY-PAMBY CRAP. LET ME TELL YOU, WE JUST GOT TO KNOW DIFFERENTLY! THERE ARE PEOPLE ABOUT TO DESTROY OUR ENTIRE GALAXY! WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THAT?
YEAH. OUR GALAXY. OUR SOCIETY. OUR LOVED ONES. OUR NATIONAL MONUMENTS! NOTHING IS SAFE! IF THE ANDROMEDANS HAVE THEIR WAY, THEY WOULD DESTROY OUR ENTIRE WAY OF LIFE, THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE, AND OUR FAITH IN GOD AS CHRISTIANS! THEIR ACT OF GALACTIC TERROR WILL KILL EVERY SINGLE ONE OF OUR CHILDREN, AND ALL OUR WIVES!
SO, IT FALLS TO US TO ELIMINATE THEM BEFORE THEY ELIMINATE US! EACH OF YOU YOUNG MEN NEED TO ASK YOURSELF: WHAT AM I GOING TO DO ABOUT THE ANDROMEDANS? AM I GOING TO BE A SOLDIER IN THE WAR AGAINST GALACTIC TERROR, OR AM I GOING TO BE A DAMN SISSY?
TODAY IS YOUR TIME TO SERVE AS A SHIELD AGAINST EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO DESTROY OUR NATION!
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ALL RIGHT, LISTEN UP!!!
MANY OF YOU THINK THAT "EVERYONE HAS A PLACE", "NOBODY IS TRULY EVIL", AND OTHER NAMBY-PAMBY CRAP. LET ME TELL YOU, WE JUST GOT TO KNOW DIFFERENTLY! THERE ARE PEOPLE ABOUT TO DESTROY OUR ENTIRE GALAXY! WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THAT?
YEAH. OUR GALAXY. OUR SOCIETY. OUR LOVED ONES. OUR NATIONAL MONUMENTS! NOTHING IS SAFE! IF THE ANDROMEDANS HAVE THEIR WAY, THEY WOULD DESTROY OUR ENTIRE WAY OF LIFE, THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE, AND OUR FAITH IN GOD AS CHRISTIANS! THEIR ACT OF GALACTIC TERROR WILL KILL EVERY SINGLE ONE OF OUR CHILDREN, AND ALL OUR WIVES!
SO, IT FALLS TO US TO ELIMINATE THEM BEFORE THEY ELIMINATE US! EACH OF YOU YOUNG MEN NEED TO ASK YOURSELF: WHAT AM I GOING TO DO ABOUT THE ANDROMEDANS? AM I GOING TO BE A SOLDIER IN THE WAR AGAINST GALACTIC TERROR, OR AM I GOING TO BE A DAMN SISSY?
TODAY IS YOUR TIME TO SERVE AS A SHIELD AGAINST EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO DESTROY OUR NATION!
Not my nation...best wishes. More room in the lifeboat for me.
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What no petition to create enough space ships to move the earth's population to a different galaxy?
What no petition to create enough space ships to move the earth's population to a different galaxy?
I suggest we start far in advance, and out of respect for the valuable contribution the politicians, Justin Bieber, and those who insist dinosaurs were walking the earth 5000 years ago make to our society, allow them to leave first to establish the new colony.
Oh, and those who have concluded that global warming isn't a problem should get those early passes too. We're going to need people of their obvious intellect and care for their race's future to get the colony up and running ASAP.
What's the difference between an intergalactic collision and a galactic collision? :P
What's the difference between an intergalactic collision and a galactic collision? :P
At a guess, a galactic collision involves a galaxy colliding with something, while an intergalactic collision specifically calls out both parties as galaxies.
In practice, I suppose as we don't really have an awareness of anything else large enough for a galaxy to collide with, it leaves them as meaning one and the same thing.
What's the difference between an intergalactic collision and a galactic collision? :P
Galaxies usually survive the latter. The Milky Way has a habit of running into things...
What's the difference between an intergalactic collision and a galactic collision? :PGalaxies usually survive the latter. The Milky Way has a habit of running into things...
We need a new pilot!
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What's the difference between an intergalactic collision and a galactic collision? :P
Nothing is imminent. In two billion years, we could build a f+@&ing cannon that uses white dwarfs for the rails of a railgun.
This thing will shoot 3 quasars a minute at the Andromeda galaxy, and totally demolish it in 3.9 billion years.
One thing to keep in mind is that relatively few stars will collide in a collision between two galaxies -- so odds are, if anyone is actually alive on Earth at the time, they will just see a sky with more stars in it going in more different directions. They may not even realize that they are in the middle of a collision between two galaxies.
Another thing to keep in mind is:
the sentient organic computer bees that evolved to replace
the intelligent brachiating octopi that evolved to replace
the dolphin philosophers that evolved to replace
the humanoid raccoons that evolved to replace
our sorry asses will be dead dead dead, and the earth will be sterilized of life by then.
Except for the brains in jars in their underground bunkers enjoying eternalporn.
Actually, the sun is due to explode in about 5,000,000 years or so, so Earth won't even be around. Also, our solar system is kinda on a collision course with another one. And climate changes might institute an ice age that kills us in the next five hundred...
Anyone else get the feeling that someone just doesn't like us?
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Our galaxy has lower insurance rates because we have the requisite number of airbags and we always drive belted. We'll be fine.
We have time to destroy the Andromeda galaxy, and, indeed the sun, if warranted. We'll replace it by shooting Jupiter with some scientific space bomb s@~! and make another sun like in 2010 or whatever.
You guys seriously worry about s!!% too much.
I see this as more of a challenge, because I make lemonade out of this kinda b$&#!+!&.
Anyone else get the feeling that someone just doesn't like us?
I could care less if you f*+& with me cuz at the end of the day I f#*~ with me an there ain't no bunk beds in a casket - Denzel.
Actually, the sun is due to explode in about 5,000,000 years or so, so Earth won't even be around. Also, our solar system is kinda on a collision course with another one. And climate changes might institute an ice age that kills us in the next five hundred...
Anyone else get the feeling that someone just doesn't like us?
Actually, your estimate of the sun's remaining life is off by a factor of 1000, so the Sun and the Earth will still be around if nothing else happens. However, I do recall reading that the most optomistic estimate for the remaining time that Earth will be inhabitable is about a billion years, which appears to be the new estimate of when the galactic collision would occur (although I could have sworn that it was once estimated by be sooner).
And which sun is on a collision course with ours?
Bah! I should have known my info was off...
And, right now? Gliese 710 is first up on the list. There might be a couple others as well... apparently we've had more than a few close calls.
Also, while searching for the above, I found something about Venus and Mars on a collision course with Earth? WTF? Is there anything that we're not in danger of running into?
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Is there anything that we're not in danger of running into?
A sane forum thread. ;)
Actually, the sun is due to explode in about 5,000,000 years or so, so Earth won't even be around. Also, our solar system is kinda on a collision course with another one. And climate changes might institute an ice age that kills us in the next five hundred...
Anyone else get the feeling that someone just doesn't like us?
Actually, your estimate of the sun's remaining life is off by a factor of 1000, so the Sun and the Earth will still be around if nothing else happens.
I thought so too, but I have the common cold, so all the zero's seemed to blur and multiply.
Okay. Sounds like these two "galaxies" can just kinda "go through eachother" without hitting anything.
We can stand down with the massive railgun made out of white dwarfs.
We don't need to annhilate the Angromeda galaxy.
Can't we get a rocket ship and have Bruce Willis and Aerosmith fix this?
It's fixed. yellingdrongo doesn't know superscience; he was panicking over nothing.
We don't need another hero.
Can't we get a rocket ship and have Bruce Willis and Aerosmith fix this?
It'd probably end up more like Deep Impact. Then again, Frodo Lives! :P
The troubling thing about it is: Even if humans do spread into space, even if they remain human, even if they prepare all they can... there really isn't any way to fix it. And even if we get to this galaxy, getting outside it is still a different concept.
Well, if we're speaking seriously, galaxies collide like gust of winds or ocean currents, or something. They pass through one another, 'cause they're mostly empty space, rather than colliding like a brick and a window.
Ooh, ooh, it could be like mixed rice and beans,where they get mixed together but don't destroy each other. Like, when two galaxies collide, depending on the inertia of their gravitational masses, they might form one supergalaxy, but there's no chance whatsoever that every single gravitational mass in one galaxy will run into every single gravitational mass in the other galaxy.
See, it's that "every single gravitational mass" I don't like. =)
It's more likely they'll combine into a supergalaxy. After all, galaxies do have their own gravitational mass, so they can't pass through each other because those two gravitational masses would be colliding.
It's more likely they'll combine into a supergalaxy. After all, galaxies do have their own gravitational mass, so they can't pass through each other because those two gravitational masses would be colliding.
Yeah, okay, but that means it wasn't an intergalactic collision, it was a galactic inter-collision, or something. Entirely different from a car collision, not that I've ever even her of a inter-car collision. :P
Yes, well, that's the reasonable way of looking at it. I thought this thread was about the unreasonable outcome :P
You know, how the drunken driver of the galaxy slams head-first into oncoming traffic long after Earth is rendered a lifeless rock by pollution, bounced around between Earth and Venus like a ping pong ball, and finally destroyed from the Sun exploding as it collides with another star.
Hey MagusJanus, did you hear how the Great Red Spot on Jupiter is getting smaller and smaller? It's the end times!! :P
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Not the Great Red Spot! NOT THE GREAT RED SPOT!!! ~runs away screaming~
It's fixed. yellingdrongo doesn't know superscience; he was panicking over nothing.
He was panicking? Who panics over something that won't happen for another 2 billion years? We'll be long gone by then. Not just the ones here now; I'm talking about the human race in general.
Still, that Willis/Aerosmith thing. We should keep that in mind for a meteor or a comet or something. That's a good idea. Though we might go for a slightly younger, hipper lineup, like Jonah Hill/Avenged Sevenfold.
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The red spot is vanishing?
Welp. Time for the synchronized panicking.
AAAAAHHHHH! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!
It's fixed. yellingdrongo doesn't know superscience; he was panicking over nothing.He was panicking? Who panics over something that won't happen for another 2 billion years? We'll be long gone by then.
The red spot is vanishing?
Welp. Time for the synchronized panicking.
AAAAAHHHHH! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!
Ponder on this: we already died, but the speed of thought is so slow we're not going to find out for *years*.
(whisper) except for that guy over there, he's gonna find out in a couple of minutes (/whisper)
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The red spot is vanishing?
Welp. Time for the synchronized panicking.
AAAAAHHHHH! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!
Ponder on this: we already died, but the speed of thought is so slow we're not going to find out for *years*.
(whisper) except for that guy over there, he's gonna find out in a couple of minutes (/whisper)
Think we should steal his wallet first?
Why is everyone acting like this is a bad thing?
For personal amusement!
That's my reason.
One thing to keep in mind is that relatively few stars will collide in a collision between two galaxies -- so odds are, if anyone is actually alive on Earth at the time, they will just see a sky with more stars in it going in more different directions. They may not even realize that they are in the middle of a collision between two galaxies.
Indeed! Just relax and enjoy the show! (whoever or whatever that may be still around)
Why is everyone acting like this is a bad thing?
Because change is bad. Fear change.
Mmmmmm... no.Why is everyone acting like this is a bad thing?Because change is bad. Fear change.
Fear me!