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- ghank, on 08/19/2008, -1/+50"The new object is much smaller than Sedna, Becker said, probably 30-60 miles across"
Massive? - inactive, on 08/19/2008, -1/+31Scientists have also described it as 'sick' and astrological experts have deemed it '***** gay'
(totally not stolen from XKCD btw)
:D - LtD4n, on 08/20/2008, -1/+31"...with some 20 to 40 ton water-ice comets hitting the earth's atmosphere 5 to 30 times per minute."
what.
Call me ignorant, but that is a new fact to me that blows my mind. - inactive, on 08/20/2008, -1/+29IT's NIBIRU! The 12th Planet! PLANET X! It's coming! It's gonna smash into the earth, and it's filled with Sasquatch! RUN AND HIDE! Eat your pets! Horde batteries! RUN!!!!
- alphgeek, on 08/20/2008, -3/+25It's a space station!
- RealmDown, on 08/20/2008, -1/+23Ender, don't go for the bugger ship in the center. It's an obvious trap.
- shuckl4k, on 08/20/2008, -1/+22i'd call neutrons massive, personally. Seeing as how they, have mass.
- cotaskmemalloc, on 08/20/2008, -1/+20She's built like a steakhouse, but she handles like a bistro!
- maki43, on 08/19/2008, -0/+15In the chav sense it is a 'massive' object.
- DeskFlyer, on 08/20/2008, -1/+16Please disregard my ignorance, but if it is named "2006 SQ372", wouldn't that mean that it was spotted in '06? Or was it just sighted back then and now they have a bead where it actually is? Just curious, because I remember hearing about this thing in '07. Anyway, cool story, nonetheless.
- Azerael, on 08/20/2008, -1/+15Then Jupiter will blow your mind.
- BrokenVisage, on 08/20/2008, -0/+13This discovery pleases the Sunm God.
- durgahutt, on 08/20/2008, -1/+13That's no Space Station......It's a Moon!!!!!
- syda, on 08/20/2008, -0/+9Whoa, there's a Sunm now too... I better put my SPFM on.
- e2superman, on 08/20/2008, -2/+11On Digg.com, massive == small; New == Repost.
- jayfish, on 08/20/2008, -1/+8"A "minor planet" with the awesomely poetic name 2006 SQ372 is just over two billion miles from Earth, a bit closer than the planet Neptune has been discovered in the inner Oort Cloud."
What? English please. - MacSuxWindozSux, on 08/20/2008, -8/+14What ever happened to that discovery weeks ago that was so revolutionary but had to be screened by George Bush first?
- KMartSheriff, on 08/20/2008, -1/+7Yeah seriously. How dare he ask a question. Psh, what an idiot. /sarc
- quarryman, on 08/20/2008, -0/+6Mixing metric and imperial?
Leave that to NASA please.... - Merendino, on 08/20/2008, -1/+7Just to say, I'm pretty sure they were talking about that many comets hitting the earths atmosphere a LONG TIME ago, and not current day.
- prleet, on 08/20/2008, -1/+6so its not global warming, damn those comets....
- booshack, on 08/20/2008, -4/+9Kind of silly not to mention that the existance of the Oort cloud is purely theoreticial.
- txtphile, on 08/20/2008, -1/+6Horribly written and structured article. I would do it myself but I am very lazy.
- NightRiderkami, on 08/20/2008, -1/+6This is just millimeters in the cosmic mile.
- bird757, on 08/20/2008, -4/+9Yeah, the moon would be COVERED in water if that were true.
- vroom101, on 08/20/2008, -2/+6from the article: "The cometary membrane of the Oort Cloud and Kupier Belt actively feeds water to the interior planets, with some 20 to 40 ton water-ice comets hitting the earth's atmosphere 5 to 30 times per minute."
Where is the scientific proof or evidence that there are "20 to 40 ton water-ice comets hitting the earth's atmosphere 5 to 30 times per minute"? - MrMysterious, on 08/20/2008, -1/+5Oh *****, it's a star destroyer. Let's put a bunch of decoys on Mars and spray a bunch of oven cleaner into the air to make earth look like Venus.
- andypop481, on 08/20/2008, -0/+4stop thinking you fool! we're all going to drown!
- thcobbs, on 08/20/2008, -4/+8That's what she said...(sorry, had to).
- Wonderama, on 08/20/2008, -0/+4It's the Mother Ship come to invade. Wake up, sheeple.
- amc1709, on 08/20/2008, -0/+3I thought I had read somewhere that they did discover it in 2006, looked back at photos from 2005 and took some in 2007 to confirm. Don't know if that answers your question though.
- VitriolAndAngst, on 08/20/2008, -0/+3Small meteorites hit the earth so frequently, that there is a company that bounces radio waves off of them to send location information to truckers -- kind of a poor man's satellite dish.
At least there was ten years ago -- don't know if they still do it. - opticwind, on 08/20/2008, -0/+3Well the NASA Director came out and said that the discovery, explicitly, was not the discovery of life. Also, Bush himself was not screened, but one of his advisors. Aaand to answer your question, we found out what it is, and it was a type of material that typically has no correlation to life.
- simpleid, on 08/20/2008, -0/+3... what?!
anyone care to elaborate? - MalarkeyPN, on 08/20/2008, -0/+3What the hell is the Sunm?
- VitriolAndAngst, on 08/20/2008, -0/+3Great, now what do I do with this transcript?
NASA dude: "Yes sir. Sorry to disturb you on your Presidential biking excursion."
Bush: "Well what is it stretch? I haven't run into anyone all day, and I'm feeling lucky."
NASA dude [struggling for breathe]: "Sir, we were going to hold this press conference but we were told that we had to get clearance from you."
Bush: "and?"
NASA dude: "Sir, we have nothing to report. Nothing at all. Just another Mars rock. And if you say so, we will deny having found nothing."
Bush: "Well you covered your ass on that one didn't you? The next time you find nothing -- I want you to not hold a press conference, until you can meet with someone with plausible deniability. Preferably someone with a history of attempted suicide. We have to put a lid on this pronto."
NASA dude: "Um, noted sir. I'll call all our usual blogger brigades, and have them ridicule anyone who says I met with you." - cschmitz, on 08/20/2008, -0/+3zing!
- UltX, on 08/20/2008, -0/+3I am Legion
- VitriolAndAngst, on 08/20/2008, -0/+2Yeah, that's what is weird about this article. Yesterday, I read that there was no observed objects from the Oort cloud -- but they theorize that it is there because of comets.
Now this article talks about it as if it is an established fact. One of these groups of astronomers needs to check in with the other. - producerism, on 08/20/2008, -1/+3It's at the point now, where I can't even read a headline like this without immediately thinking of either the Onion or some type of 4chan-ish image.
- adam71o, on 08/20/2008, -0/+2I love you.
- GoatMonkey2112, on 08/20/2008, -0/+2If you want to know what it is, all you have to do is look through the Object's properties in a loop. Here, this will get you started:
System.out.println(SQ372.getType().toString()); - knowmonger, on 08/20/2008, -0/+2Niburu/Planet X ? Just curious. :D
- voyetra8, on 08/20/2008, -0/+2Portions of the article are lifted directly from Wikipedia! i.e., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort_cloud
Quite possibly one of the most poorly written articles I have ever come across. Was this written by a 9th grader? - inactive, on 08/20/2008, -2/+4Some kind of neutronium alloy sir, our sensors can not PENETRATE it.
- getatmedigg, on 08/20/2008, -0/+2It's Galactus.
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