Thursday, March 13, 2008

Public Service Announcement

ACT now! The universe is expanding at such an escalating SPEED that the expansion will ultimately pull galaxies apart faster than the speed of light. This means that in just 100 billion years, we will not be able to SEE other galaxies, and will only be able to observe the stars within our own supergalaxy, formed by the merger of the milky way and nearby galaxies. Our descendants WILL not be able to see anything beyond our own galaxies but a dark, endless void.

WRITE your congressmen and urge them to STOP the expansion of the universe NOW! JOIN the grassroots campaign to say NO to gravity's negative impact on family values, and YES to deceleration. Who knows what knowledge has already sped away, beyond our sight? Only with YOUR HELP can we PROTECT our children's future.

10 comments:

TheMediaDude said...

This sounds like a job for President Clinton!!!

Obama simply does not have the experience in celestial momentum or gravitational quantum mechanics.

DorothyMantooth said...

Scoff! As if the collision of the Milky Way won't kill off all life on Earth. Silly human!

DorothyMantooth said...

Grrrr! Please insert "with other galaxies" above where appropriate.

Boywonderesq said...

Actually, a collision of galaxies would be surprisingly peaceful. While it looks violent on a galactic scale, individual planets would never touch. The only difference we would perceive from Earth would be an interesting night sky.

DorothyMantooth said...

Anyway, the sun will have begun to die long before that, turning Earth's atmosphere into something resembling Mercury. So there's that, at least. (Puny mortal!)

Anonymous said...

revenge of the nerds...

Boywonderesq said...

It's not revenge. We were always winning.

DorothyMantooth said...

Shut up, Nil! You know science gets you hot!

;-)

TheMediaDude said...

I like to think of galaxies colliding as being similar to people crossing the street at a busy light. You have a group of people on both sides headed right for each other. From a far, it may look like it's ready for a collision. But people manage to avoid hitting one another, so the group blends without violence.

Stars are the same way. The distances between them is so massive, that there is no explosions. Of course, they will be thrown off course, and smaller planets like Earth would get caught in the crossfire. But we'll be long gone before then.

' gravitational fields push them apart

DorothyMantooth said...

It's where those solar systems are thrown to that's potentially life-destroying. And is what I was referring to.

But I think we can maybe close the door on the Galactic Evolution chapter of The Most Important Blog In The World.

(And start a new chapter on mixed metaphors?)