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Planet-dissolving dust cloud is headed towards Earth!
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tv.yahoo.com/news/wwn/20050912/112653720001.html
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Scared-stiff astronomers have detected a mysterious mass they've dubbed a "chaos cloud" that dissolves everything in its path, including comets, asteroids, planets and entire stars -- and it's headed directly toward Earth!
Discovered April 6 by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the swirling, 10 million-mile- wide cosmic dust cloud has been likened to an "acid nebula" and is hurtling toward us at close to the speed of light -- making its estimated time of arrival 9:15 a.m. EDT on June 1, 2014.
I wonder what a 'scared-stiff astronomer' looks like?
The rest of the article is quite funny too. Especially the piece about evacuating Earth using a space ark.
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This is fun;
tv.yahoo.com/news/wwn/20050912/112653720001.htmlCAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Scared-stiff astronomers have detected a mysterious mass they've dubbed a "chaos cloud" that dissolves everything in its path, including comets, asteroids, planets and entire stars -- and it's headed directly toward Earth!
Discovered April 6 by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the swirling, 10 million-mile- wide cosmic dust cloud has been likened to an "acid nebula" and is hurtling toward us at close to the speed of light -- making its estimated time of arrival 9:15 a.m. EDT on June 1, 2014.
I wonder what a 'scared-stiff astronomer' looks like?
The rest of the article is quite funny too. Especially the piece about evacuating Earth using a space ark.
i found a link to a picture of a scared stiff astronomer. this person did not take the news too well :- . this is what happened the last time it came around. thank god for the x prize soon we will all be able to afford to escape.
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Actually stephen thats not a scared stiff astronomer at all. I found her on the platform at limerick junction station. Apparantly she'd been waiting for 'je traaaen ta dublin' 47 years she'd been waiting. There were a load of trains going to some place called 'Atha Cliath' and 'Corcaigh'. Nothing to Dublin tho:(
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ROFLMAO!
Actually stephen thats not a scared stiff astronomer at all. I found her on the platform at limerick junction station. Apparantly she'd been waiting for 'je traaaen ta dublin' 47 years she'd been waiting. There were a load of trains going to some place called 'Atha Cliath' and 'Corcaigh'. Nothing to Dublin tho:(
trains go to limerick? , or maybe they just leave there. it would explain alot though. i thought just the US army went there to acclimatise for iraq .
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