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Hydrogen beast is closing in on the Milky Way

sciencenow.sciencemag.org — It's large, it's fast, and it's heading toward the Milky Way. Less than 40 million years from now, a giant cloud of hydrogen gas, clocked at 250 kilometers per second, will smash into our home galaxy, likely setting off a huge burst of star formation.

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  • rpi22, on 01/12/2008, -2/+89Duck!
  • noahhoward, on 01/12/2008, -5/+88Ha ha, suck it immortals!
  • NikoKun, on 01/12/2008, -3/+77lol, In less than 40 millions years, huh?
    Boy, I better start packing...
  • Tanktunker, on 01/12/2008, -1/+55OH ***** TOMORROW IS LESS THAN 40 MILLION YEARS FROM NOW.
  • D3koy, on 01/12/2008, -1/+48If we're still around in 40 million years I'll be impressed...
  • demusdesign, on 01/12/2008, -3/+43I, for one, welcome our new giant hydrogen overlords.
  • inactive, on 01/12/2008, -6/+40wtf do you have against lesbians? porn would die without them.
  • inactive, on 01/12/2008, -1/+31The spaghetti monster.
  • mxpx720, on 01/12/2008, -11/+38There's actually a spaceship behind the giant cloud that's going to pick everyone up and take them to heaven....... or so some bearded man told me
  • stronglikedan, on 01/12/2008, -2/+27FAIL
  • 1807, on 01/12/2008, -1/+23Hi, I'm School. Have we met?
  • pimpofpixels, on 01/12/2008, -0/+21The problem with astronomy posts:
    "Wow that's cool. I'll be sure to check that out in 40 million years"
  • jmpeagle, on 01/12/2008, -2/+22can't wait....
  • akuma, on 01/12/2008, -1/+19RAmen.
  • STKD, on 01/12/2008, -1/+19Ah, another beautiful sunny day in the year 40, 000, 000. Glorious climate controller weather and not a cloud in the sk... hey wait a minute WHAT THE ***** IS THAT...
  • Scynet, on 01/12/2008, -0/+17If we only managed to expand to other planets, it might actually happen. Having just two planets to live on would already boost our chances of surviving nuclear wars, comets and whatnot quite a lot. For as long as we're stuck on this same house, we're very vulnerable.
  • debuggercll, on 01/12/2008, -0/+15Same goes for midgets. Doubly so for lesbian midgets.
  • KaiUno, on 01/12/2008, -0/+14My guess would be he's been turned down by both.
  • D3koy, on 01/12/2008, -0/+13I notice you have safe search turned off.....
  • inactive, on 01/12/2008, -0/+13I can't even begin to imagine how advanced as a race we will be if we're still around in 40 million years... I doubt this will be a problem for my future relatives, Gleepglop and Nixx B'tang 3000. They'll handle it.
  • MacGyver2210, on 01/12/2008, -0/+12Where's the Uber-Maid with a huge vacuum cleaner from Spaceballs when you need one?
  • sniperboy67, on 01/12/2008, -3/+14ITS A TRAP!
  • bomb288, on 01/12/2008, -1/+11*6,000 years
    fixed it for you
    /s
  • SoleRider, on 01/12/2008, -0/+10Where's Bruce Willis when we need him?
  • rolosworld, on 01/12/2008, -0/+10...and cover
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0K_LZDXp0I
  • InfamousAtheist, on 01/12/2008, -1/+10Unlike your comment.
  • nurvus, on 01/12/2008, -0/+9Must be the russians.
  • JasonCox, on 01/12/2008, -0/+9That's not a cloud, it's a space sta- oh, no, wait, that's definently a cloud.
  • Ratteler, on 01/12/2008, -0/+8Speak for yourself. I'm still going to be here digging down your descendants comments!!!!
    The Singularity is Near!!!
  • Ratteler, on 01/12/2008, -0/+8If we switch to a hydrogen fuel based economy... that cloud is DONE FOR!!!!
  • RUFFyamahaRYDER, on 01/12/2008, -5/+12Ok... who farted?
  • 1807, on 01/12/2008, -0/+7Nothing can repel gas of that magnitude!
  • KaiUno, on 01/12/2008, -0/+6So... on the one hand we have the Andromeda galaxy bearing down on us, heading for a massive collision on galactic scale, on the other hand we've got a gassy cloud.

    I'm rooting for the cloud.
  • PRlME, on 01/12/2008, -0/+6Goose!
  • NoStoppingUs, on 01/12/2008, -0/+6should i bring my camera?
  • PlutoPrime, on 01/12/2008, -0/+6I'm in Y3R PantZ Castrating j00.
  • omaryak, on 01/12/2008, -0/+6Here's an idea - read the article: "Many clouds of hydrogen surround the Milky Way. But astronomers didn't start spotting them until a half-century ago--after the advent of radio telescopes, which are able to detect cold, neutral hydrogen gas."
  • manicallday, on 01/12/2008, -1/+7I read beast as breast. I have issues.
  • inactive, on 01/12/2008, -0/+6That'll be one hell of a firework show.
  • johnhummel, on 01/12/2008, -0/+5Sweet - so you know how people say we don't have a good supply of hydrogen to run the "cars of the future"?

    Well, I guess they were wrong! We just have to wait 40,000,000 years, and we'll be *bathing* in hydrogen. Fuel cells for everyone!
  • ZebraCrew, on 01/12/2008, -0/+5thanks orson.
  • Jamihabs, on 01/12/2008, -1/+6Oh the humanity!
  • WallnutBoy, on 01/12/2008, -2/+740 million light years? Plenty of t-....wait.. LESS THAN 40 million light years?!?! OH ***** RUN.
  • esotericguy, on 01/12/2008, -0/+5Did you say Gleepglop? OUR KIDS ARE GETTING MARRIED?!?!
  • mattjewell, on 01/12/2008, -0/+4"Yesterday....tomorrow seemed so far awaaayyyyy"
  • girishso, on 01/12/2008, -0/+4Noooooooooooo Al-Qaida.....
  • inactive, on 01/12/2008, -0/+4So they are predicting gas clouds 40 million years into the future? It'd be more impressive to me if they could say if it's going to rain next Tuesday.
  • mattjewell, on 01/12/2008, -0/+3The wrong words I know, but for a long while I though they were the real ones...although frankly the real lyrics fit quite wel here as well, so I shall try again.

    "Yesterday.... all my troubles seemed so far awaaaayyyy"

    better? ;)
  • stevenb486, on 01/12/2008, -0/+3They come to our galaxy and attack us because they hate our freedoms!
  • Binto, on 01/12/2008, -0/+3It's your galaxy, too...unless I'm missing something.
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