Bush and Repugs are doing nothing to stop this crisis

[kres24GT]

Good article on how our galaxy will one day collide with the Andromeda galaxy.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/galaxy_collides_020507-1.html

Astrophysicist Frank Summers, of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), produced a simulated galaxy collision, using a combination of computer modeling research and the same special effects software used to make computer-generated movies.

The resulting animation shows a crash between two large spiral galaxies roughly the size of our own Milky Way and its larger neighbor Andromeda, themselves slated to collide in a few billion years.

Bush and his administration are doing nothing to stop this and our great- great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-great- great- great-grandchildren will pay the price.

Imagine one day waking up and seeing this:

As the galaxies approach each other, they keep their spiral shapes up to the point of impact, where so-called "tidal forces" of gravity result in the formation of long plumes of stars, gas and dust called tidal tails. The centers of each galaxy then merge into one remnant core. The scenario is a likely preview for the expected interaction between the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, which some astronomers have already mapped out with computers models.


Scary stuff.

[Bill]

There's nothing quite like the smell of apologist humor in the morning.

Very refreshing.

[Linkster]

Long before that happens the sun will grow to a red giant star and envelop the earth anyway so unless we find another home on a distant planet outside our own solar system it wont really matter :lmao2:

[kres24GT]

There's nothing quite like the smell of apologist humor in the morning.

Very refreshing.

You really have no sense of humor.

[Bill]

You really have no sense of humor.

Really? I thought my comment was pretty funny. You know, the Apocalypse Now reference.

It amused me. ;-}

I guess I just didn't get your joke - the mix of billion year events and Bush just didn't ring my funny bone.

[disrupter]

kres24GT is a Bush apologist, despite his protestations.

Bush has actively buried the science facts about global warming for his oil patch buds.

kres24GT, i see a little bit of Bush's 'brown' left around your mouth, might want to wipe that off.

Very likely Global Warming will cause mass extinction as it did 250 million years ago. An intelligent species might have acted to prevent it.

[kres24GT]

kres24GT is a Bush apologist, despite his protestations.

Bush has actively buried the science facts about global warming for his oil patch buds.

kres24GT, i see a little bit of Bush's 'brown' left around your mouth, might want to wipe that off.

Very likely Global Warming will cause mass extinction as it did 250 million years ago. An intelligent species might have acted to prevent it.


Not a Bush apologist. If you look at what I write i have several times said he is probably the worst president ever. I just think some of your levels of hate for him is funny. I am not obsessed with hating him, I just don't like him and think he is a shitty president and possibly not very bright.

[Moby]

If we stay focused on science and ignore myth then we will have the technology to leave the galaxy long before the collision and all will be saved. We'll probably ignore science and become extinct though.

[kres24GT]

If we stay focused on science and ignore myth then we will have the technology to leave the galaxy long before the collision and all will be saved. We'll probably ignore science and become extinct though.

Only if we continue to stifle research and development with fascism and socialism.

[Linkster]

Like I said - it really doesnt matter as our sun will start growing into a red giant and completely envelop our solar system including the earth long before that galaxy collision

[kres24GT]

Like I said - it really doesnt matter as our sun will start growing into a red giant and completely envelop our solar system including the earth long before that galaxy collision


Very true. Have you seen the Universe on the Hist. Channel? cool stuff.

[psikeyhackr]

At least we can be sure that when the galaxies collide they will still remember that Bush was a crappy president. It is just a question of will there be any worse ones in the next 2 billion years.

psik

[Linkster]

No one will remember him as a president - more than likely it will be the dictatorship they remember that will be in place within 10 years in the US

[Bill]

At least we can be sure that when the galaxies collide they will still remember that Bush was a crappy president. It is just a question of will there be any worse ones in the next 2 billion years.

psik

That's actually pretty funny too. Nice one!

[Bill]

No one will remember him as a president - more than likely it will be the dictatorship they remember that will be in place within 10 years in the US

The Thousand Year Reich - brought to you by the "Good Americans".

I know, I know - it's a cheap low-humor Godwins Law manuveur - so sue me.

[Moby]

At least we can be sure that when the galaxies collide they will still remember that Bush was a crappy president. It is just a question of will there be any worse ones in the next 2 billion years.

psik
Wait until Jeb runs. He will be the last of the neo-cons unless they recruit more. Since he'll be the last it will be balls to the walls federalist state or bust.

[kres24GT]

Wait until Jeb runs. He will be the last of the neo-cons unless they recruit more. Since he'll be the last it will be balls to the walls federalist state or bust.


No way another Bush wins.