This Would Make The Rapture Ready Folks Heads Assplode

[SPKrazy]

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/30may_upheaval.htm?list966921

May 30, 2007: Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have found evidence for an "awesome upheaval" in a massive cluster of galaxies. A bright arc of ferociously hot gas extending more than two million light years requires one of the most energetic events ever detected.

"The huge feature we detected in the cluster combined with its high temperature (170 million oC) points to an exceptionally dramatic event in the nearby Universe," says Ralph Kraft of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, leader of a team of astronomers involved in this research. "While we're not sure what caused it, we have narrowed it down to a couple of exciting possibilities."
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The favored explanation is that two massive galaxy clusters are running into each other at about 4 million miles per hour. When hot clouds of gas in the two clusters meet, shock waves produce a sharp change in pressure along the boundary where the collision is taking place, giving rise to the observed arc, which resembles an titanic weather front.
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:silly: wonder what explanation they'd have for this?

:shrug:


:rofl:

[InternalDialogue]

1. God fart.

Nothing blasphemous, just a little gas.

[SPKrazy]

3. hahaha!

yeah, god fart.

:rofl:

[DS1]

2. This was Satan coming back from vacation and finding out Cheney only made VP

[SPKrazy]

4. Damn he looks pissed

and no chance of getting dICK elected either :silly:


:rofl:

[NC_Nurse]

5. Jerry Falwell rose to the heavens and opened his mouth...

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[SPKrazy]

7. ha ha ha!

:spray:

no doubt, but do you think he rose?

:rofl:

[Deep13]

6. "...running into each other at about 4 million miles per hour..."

License and registration, please. Do you know how fast you were going?

[SPKrazy]

8. Uhm, Intergalactic Patrol Here

may I see your badge number

:shrug:

[Danger Mouse]

9. They will jam their fingers in their ears and scream 'I CAN'T HEAR YOU!'

Failing that, they can fall back on that old Christian standby: burning the Astronomers at the stake for witchcraft.

[SPKrazy]

11. Or even "Astromers"

:rofl:

[Danger Mouse]

17. Devil Worshipping heathens, the filthy lot of em.

Let's have us a barbecue...mmm-mm, with extra gravy!

[NMDemDist2]

10. it would sure suck to be a being in one of those galaxies

and it's gonna suck to be us when we run into Andromeda galaxy






in about 7 million years :hide:

[SPKrazy]

12. I'll be dust and cosmic energy

somewhere in the universe by then i suspect

:grr:

you can run but you CAN'T HIDE!

:rofl:

[Lethe]

13. arent they protesting the stars yet?

i mean, aren't there stars shining that it takes more than 20,000 light years to reach earth, which kind of messes up their convenient biblical timeline?

[SPKrazy]

14. Oh That's All Just A Hoax

It's all a big black curtain to hide heaven from us and the stars are just little holes that God poked in the curtain to make us all curious. :P

:shrug:

[deucemagnet]

15. It's the end times!! Everybody panic!!11shift+1

[SPKrazy]

16. Hide! Teh Raptor Is Comnig !!!!111111

It's HUGH!!!!!!11111

:rofl:

love your smilies :hi: