NASA to Reveal Hubble Discovery of Milky Way's Violent Fate Thursday - Polidicks

[img]http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4vbbzBzRl1qbn5m1o1_500.jpg[/img] [quote] NASA will reveal new discoveries about the violent fate of our Milky Way galaxy on Thursday (May 31), the space agency has announced. NASA will hold a press conference at 1 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT) Thursday at the agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C. Scientists will discuss new Hubble Space Telescope findings about the inevitable crash of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, which will occur billions of years from now. "Because of uncertainties in Andromeda's motion, it has not been possible to determine whether the Milky Way will have a head-on collision or glancing blow with the neighboring galaxy billions of years in the future," NASA officials said in a media alert Friday (May 25). "Hubble's precise observations will settle this question." [/quote] Source: [url]http://www.livescience.com/20648-nasa-hubble-discovery-milky-fate.html[/url] I DON'T WANT TO DIE YE—Oh billions of years, never mind.

From what I heard on Discovery, our galaxy is not Andromeda's first meal. Wish I could be alive to see the clash, though it probably wouldn't really be much to see even when happening.

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;36139075]From what I heard on Discovery, our galaxy is not Andromeda's first meal. Wish I could be alive to see the clash, though it probably wouldn't really be much to see even when happening.[/QUOTE] maybe speed up by millions-billions of years you man see it happen would be interesting

now we need to find a way to stop our future extinction like all other extinct sci-fi rac- oh wait

[QUOTE=Fire Kracker;36139110]now we need to find a way to stop our future extinction like all other extinct sci-fi rac- oh wait[/QUOTE] By the time this happens, we will either be off this planet, or we killed ourselves in the process. (or we just killed each other in some war)

Thanks for the heart attack, Thread Title.

[QUOTE=Amaurus;36139120]By the time this happens, we will either be off this planet, or we killed ourselves in the process. (or we just killed each other in some war)[/QUOTE] we're already dying

I thought this was well known? Well, it is still bound to be [b][i]SMASHING[/i][/b].

Because of the distance between stars and planets (at least this far out from the centre of the galaxy) the odds are that even in a galaxy merger nothing too destructive would happen. If humanity by some statistical fluke is still around then it probably won't be all too troublesome for us.

The Great Attractor will kill us all anyways.

I'm happy that in billions of years, the atoms that once consisted of my body will be in the Andromeda galaxy.

[QUOTE=Kabstrac;36139207]I personally 100% satisfaction guarantee man won't be around for that length. You'll like the you look.[/QUOTE] well you guys heard it here first thank you Professor, Dr. Kabstrac

[QUOTE=Kabstrac;36139207]I personally 100% satisfaction guarantee man won't be around for that length. You'll like the you look.[/QUOTE] This man is a prophet.

Galaxies are not that dense and a collision will see it as very unlikely to actually crash into something. More likely scenario is our Solar system literally being shot out of the galaxies.

[QUOTE=Fire Kracker;36139128]we're already dying[/QUOTE] The death of a species is not a matter of if, but a matter of when.

hot Andromeda on Milky Way action

This is in many universe simulator games. Every simulation I ran from said games shown Sol being tossed out like a little bitch.

[QUOTE=sltungle;36139182]Because of the distance between stars and planets (at least this far out from the centre of the galaxy) the odds are that even in a galaxy merger nothing too destructive would happen. If humanity by some statistical fluke is still around then it probably won't be all too troublesome for us.[/QUOTE] It's not about actual collision, this will fuck up the gravity in both galaxies.

Won't the sun eventually kill us first? Doh well, maybe we will have gotten off this planet...or moved Earth elsewhere by then

[QUOTE=Kendra;36139627]Galaxies are not that dense and a collision will see it as very unlikely to actually crash into something. More likely scenario is our Solar system literally being shot out of the galaxies.[/QUOTE] Which won't actually be an issue to anyone on Earth. There will probably not be anyone on Earth though because by the time this happens, the sun will have started heating on the path towards it's inevitable death. [editline]31st May 2012[/editline] What's interesting is that if we somehow found a way to survive, or moved to a nearby solar system, quasar might form in the center of Andromeda, which could be visible from wherever we are.

Some fun facts from wikipedia. Sorry NASA, the Wiki has beaten you to it. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy[/url] [quote]The Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest spiral galaxy to our galaxy (Milky Way), but not the closest galaxy overall.[/quote] [quote]Origins According to a team of astronomers reporting in 2010, M31 was formed out of the collision of two smaller galaxies between 5 and 9 billion years ago.[34][/quote] [img_thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Local_Group.JPG[/img_thumb] [quote]The Andromeda Galaxy is approaching the Milky Way at about 100 to 140 kilometres per second (62 to 87 mi/s) (400 lightyears every million years),[65] making it one of the few blueshifted galaxies.[/quote]

[QUOTE=Jurikuer;36139794]Some fun facts from wikipedia. Sorry NASA, the Wiki has beaten you to it. [URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy[/URL] [img_thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Local_Group.JPG[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] Try reading the article again: [quote]"Because of uncertainties in Andromeda's motion, it has not been possible to determine whether the Milky Way will have a head-on collision or glancing blow with the neighboring galaxy billions of years in the future," NASA officials said in a media alert Friday (May 25). "Hubble's precise observations will settle this question."[/quote] Even from the article that [I]you[/I] quoted: [quote]although the details are uncertain since Andromeda's tangential velocity with respect to the Milky Way is only known to within about a factor of two.[66][/quote]

Billions of years... Isn't the sun supposed to go supernova and burn out in billions of years? Which is going to happen sooner?

-snip- [editline]31st May 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=woolio1;36139803]Billions of years... Isn't the sun supposed to go supernova and burn out in billions of years? Which is going to happen sooner?[/QUOTE] Collision first, but the sun will already have heated up significantly enough to wipe out life on Earth.

[QUOTE=LarparNar;36139809]-snip- [editline]31st May 2012[/editline] Collision first, but the sun will already have heated up significantly enough to wipe out life on Earth.[/QUOTE] Life on Earth will probably be lucky to last another billion years at most anyway. CO2 levels have declined rapidly since plant life began dominating this planet. There's simply far more trees spewing out oxygen than there is anything else spewing out CO2. Eventually the levels in the atmosphere will be so low that in, I think it's estimated somewhere between 500 million, and a billion years from now, all plant life will die. Once it goes, all animal life goes too. And not too long after that point solar output will be high enough that even if we do keep everything alive and manipulate the levels of CO2/O2 in the atmosphere everything'll die anyway from the extreme heat, or lack of water.

Isn't the sun going to kill us all in a few million if we don't get a move-on, anyway?

[QUOTE=Mr. Smartass;36140276]Isn't the sun going to kill us all in a few million if we don't get a move-on, anyway?[/QUOTE] It would help if you read some of the other posts in the thread, but yes, although more on a scale of a couple billion years: [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Solar_Life_Cycle.svg/1000px-Solar_Life_Cycle.svg.png[/img]

[QUOTE=Mr. Smartass;36140276]Isn't the sun going to kill us all in a few million if we don't get a move-on, anyway?[/QUOTE] Isn't the society going to collapse in 2030 economically, anyway?

Got Milk

If in not mistaken, we are going to eat 2 micro galaxys before we hit Andromeda.