dailygalaxy.com — in 1999, Astronomers focusing on a star at the center of the Milky Way, measured precisely how long it takes the sun to complete one orbit (a galactic year) of our home galaxy: 226 million years. The last time the sun was at that exact spot of its galactic orbit, dinosaurs ruled the world.
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talsiachMay 17, 2009Submitter
You are right. I have contacted digg and hopefully they will fix it soon. Thanks for pointing it out.
sloonarkMay 17, 2009
What?
sternomastoidMay 17, 2009
Dear Daily Galaxy,If You are going to keep doing re-posts, You could at least correct the spelling. Or was "1n 1999 " some kind of internet meme in 2007.Yours faithfully,S.C. Mastoideus<a class="user" href="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/10/hubbles-secret-.html">http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/10/hubbl ...</a>
tyrannousdotnetMay 17, 2009
My girlfriend loves milkyways
enterresMay 20, 2009
Here's some actual proof of this article's main theorem, if you can accept that certain stellar alignments will correlate to more solar flares.<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunspots#Indications_of_correlations_in_human_ecology">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunspots#Indications_ ...</a>There are influenza outbreaks during intense solar flares because this induces mutations. In and of itself this is a completely plausible explanation for the biodiversity, and even the ending of the Mayan calendar.The rest of the claims in this article about general radiation damage is suspiscious, though. If the background cosmic radiation was enough to do that amount of damage wouldn't the most obvious result be mass infertility? Aren't our sexual organs the most sensitive to radiation?I'm not worried - wearing my lead underpants all the time now. It's no problem, really - i'm used to the heavy lifting. And besides, in the dystopian not-so-distant post-apocalyptic future of milky-eyed, three fingered mutants and mass sterility i'll be much sought after as a stud.Gotta love science.