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2019-10-04 Science & Technology

Milky Way on ‘collision course’ with nearby ‘monster’ galaxy

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Posted by Fred 2019-10-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Now look at what your carbon emissions have done!

Posted by CrazyFool 2019-10-04 01:22|| 2019-10-04 01:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Eddorians are coming!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-04 01:27|| 2019-10-04 01:27|| Front Page Top

#3 No time to get cocky, Andromedans!
Prepare to encounter Mohammedans,
Who'll seize this occasion
Of friendly persuasion
To flaunt their particular competence.

Posted by Speasing Gray9542 2019-10-04 02:59|| 2019-10-04 02:59|| Front Page Top

#4 WE need to nuke Andromeda now!

Posted by Frank G 2019-10-04 06:40|| 2019-10-04 06:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Somewhere btwn AOC's 12 years and Adromedia's 4.5 billion year estimate lies the truth.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-10-04 07:40|| 2019-10-04 07:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Our suns life cycle will play out before then and become a red giant consuming earth in the process, so we have just a few billion years left regardless.

Posted by Jack Phase7655 2019-10-04 08:16|| 2019-10-04 08:16|| Front Page Top

#7 a new study

????

Back in the real old days, before PCs and with phones tied to the wall, some nerds took up amateur astronomy to engage themselves. This was know over a half century ago among that brand of nerdism.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-10-04 08:25|| 2019-10-04 08:25|| Front Page Top

#8 Does this mean we'll get lots of hot green alien chicks?

Posted by Raj 2019-10-04 10:19|| 2019-10-04 10:19|| Front Page Top

#9 It's been known for many years. It's now being used as another hysteria starter. It'll be about 4 billion years. Humans will be long gone.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2019-10-04 13:04|| 2019-10-04 13:04|| Front Page Top

#10 Slow day for the Science Editor's desk so they ran this article? Next they will tell us the "oceans have water" and are "wet"...

Posted by magpie 2019-10-04 14:36|| 2019-10-04 14:36|| Front Page Top

#11 Greta Thunberg, Our lady of the Sightless Urge will save us.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-10-04 14:44|| 2019-10-04 14:44|| Front Page Top

#12 Milky Way on collision course with Zagnut. Or is it Payday?

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-10-04 16:47|| 2019-10-04 16:47|| Front Page Top

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