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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: bash on September 20, 2005, 05:13:43 pm

Title: The end is near!
Post by: bash on September 20, 2005, 05:13:43 pm: Did anyone buy that cloud insurence after watching family guy? If so, you may have outsmarted all of us...

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/wwn/20050912/112653720001.html

Now who would have thougt of that? :wtf:
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Post by: Stealth on September 20, 2005, 05:15:36 pm: so important you had to post twice, eh? :D
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Post by: bash on September 20, 2005, 05:17:43 pm: >>so important you had to post twice, eh?

With our global catastrophy management you can't be warned enough ;)
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Post by: Ace on September 20, 2005, 05:20:26 pm: I liked the Neanderthal in an alien time warp article better :p
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Post by: bash on September 20, 2005, 05:27:46 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Ace
I liked the Neanderthal in an alien time warp article better :p

:eek:
Got a link? :D
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Post by: IceFire on September 20, 2005, 05:46:43 pm: I have to say but one thing: WTF?
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Post by: Martinus on September 20, 2005, 05:54:59 pm: [color=66ff00]Dammit, I thought our noodly overlord had been spotted handing out tomatoey destruction to the unbelievers of the world.

False alarm.
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Post by: BlackDove on September 20, 2005, 05:59:32 pm: Ramen. Raaaaaaaaaaaameeeeeeeeeeeen!

SOUUUUUUUMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!
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Post by: karajorma on September 20, 2005, 06:50:30 pm: *Spits his drink over bash Randal Graves style*

*Waits for Koala-fish mutant bird story*
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Post by: achtung on September 20, 2005, 07:08:21 pm: errrr.... is this ****e true????
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Post by: Galemp on September 20, 2005, 07:11:16 pm: Yes. Yes, it is. The Weekly World News (http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/) is the world's ONLY reliable news source.

Funny how they never do follow-up articles, though...
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Post by: MatthewPapa on September 20, 2005, 07:13:44 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Galemp
Yes. Yes, it is. The Weekly World News (http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/) is the world's ONLY reliable news source.

Funny how they never do follow-up articles, though...

lol

arrr...tabloids is all these storeies are matey

haha, watch them be right
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Post by: achtung on September 20, 2005, 07:15:11 pm: I can't beleive I fell for that *sigh*

But oooo boy do I have some good prank material now!;7

The url is what got me. :doubt:
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Post by: Grey Wolf on September 20, 2005, 07:58:19 pm: The fact it said Entertainment and Gossip in top didn't alert you to something being off?
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Post by: Cobra on September 20, 2005, 08:20:24 pm: i didn't notice that. :p

also, you see EDT instead of EST. that wouldn't be in an actual news report. Besides, how could a cloud of 'acid' be floating around in space?

that actually scared the **** out of me.
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Post by: Grey Wolf on September 20, 2005, 08:21:57 pm: EDT is Easter Daylight Time. As in, what the time is until we switch back.
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Post by: Descenterace on September 21, 2005, 01:37:31 am: My first response upon seeing the title of the thread was: "What, again?"

Hard not to be apathetic about armageddon, what with all the hype about Y2K, then global warming, and the US's apparent campaign against the non-Christian population of the globe...

Frankly, there's no way that article could've been genuine (even disregarding the 'subtle' clues). For one, it'd be all over the news within minutes.
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Post by: Ghostavo on September 21, 2005, 02:20:16 am: Quote
Last year the eminent physicist Stephen Hawking revised his theory of black holes -- which previously held that nothing could escape the hole's powerful gravitational field. He demonstrated that information about objects that have been sucked in can be emitted in mangled form.

"Lies, all lies!!!"

:lol:

EDIT:
You guys don't believe this do you? Look at all the details.

Cloud moving at close to the speed of light, likely? And heading directly towards Earth...
Even if it was, according to the date seen on it, it would be way outside the solar system, in which case how could he see an asteroid be destroyed by it (outside the solar system in between solar system space?) with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory??? Too many inconsistencies to be bothered with...

This guy explains better than me:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=569258
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Post by: bash on September 21, 2005, 03:04:31 am: I actually posted that link because I think its kind of funny.
I hope no one ectually thought of this to be actually happening :shaking:
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Post by: Carl on September 21, 2005, 10:59:43 am: If it's moving close to the speed of light, than by the time we see the cloud, it'll already be here.
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Post by: MicroPsycho on September 21, 2005, 03:21:59 pm: The thing that tipped me off was the fact that there was a ridiculously precise ETA.
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Post by: Cobra on September 21, 2005, 05:18:32 pm: ooh, i think i noticed something else...

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Experts believe the chaos cloud is composed of particles spawned near the event horizon of a black hole (a form of what's called Hawking Radiation) that have been distorted by mangled information spewed from the hole.

now how can particles form near an event horizon, when an event horizon sucks everything in around it? and a black hole doesn't spew out 'information' to the best of my knowledge. now wtf was that?
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Post by: Grey Wolf on September 21, 2005, 05:32:15 pm: Hawking Radiation does exist. That's not it though.
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Post by: Descenterace on September 22, 2005, 01:41:54 am: Quote
Originally posted by Cobra
ooh, i think i noticed something else...

now how can particles form near an event horizon, when an event horizon sucks everything in around it? and a black hole doesn't spew out 'information' to the best of my knowledge. now wtf was that?

It's known that Black Holes can 'evaporate'.
It's due to the 'quantum cosmic soup'. Everywhere in space, particle-antiparticle pairs appear and annihilate continually. This has little effect usually; they annihilate so fast the energy change goes unnoticed.
But near a Black Hole, there is the possibility that one particle of the pair will be snatched away by the Black Hole's gravity. The other particle takes the energy it needs to become 'real' from the Black Hole, and since it's not inside the event horizon there is a chance it will escape from the gravity well.

Not information, per se, but Black Holes don't suck in everything.

The event horizon is the point where the escape velocity exceeds lightspeed. Anywhere short of the event horizon it is still possible to escape from the gravity well, depending on your speed.
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Post by: Martinus on September 22, 2005, 08:18:42 am: Quote
Originally posted by Ghostavo
"Lies, all lies!!!"

[color=66ff00]Zim?!? Is it you?
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