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    I'm not worried, for the Lord is my shepherd and we are His children.

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    We also don't ever have to worry about overpopulation.

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    Volcanoes are absolute proof of that theory, Raistlin. After all, they make the landmass larger with runoff and also kill people with awesome explosions!

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    That's why God made gays.

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    I thought God made gays so people have someone to hate?

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    That's just an added bonus.

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    If we were to colide with a galaxy tommorow hopefully a giant landmass flies close enough to the earth that first we experience weightlessness before the earth's gravity is overcome and we all fall into the sky before we burn/freeze/get squished. Unfortunately people on the opposite side of the earth will just experience more and more gravity. However a select group of people on the side of the earth might get to experience falling sideways

    Or the two spiral galaxies merge into a giant rasengan
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vyk View Post

    Not quite sure what you're trying to say. But I'm pretty sure it breaks physics :P
    What? It's just a model.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rubah View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Vyk View Post

    Not quite sure what you're trying to say. But I'm pretty sure it breaks physics :P
    What? It's just a model.
    No, I got the whole freeze-frame thing. It was still the idea suggesting instantaneous galactic interactions lol

    Its hard for me to fathom how long these things takes, as the numbers are insanely high. But its also hard for me to imagine, with how massive and vast these things are, even hypothetically, anything happen anywhere remotely close to instantaneous. Or "Tomorrow".

    Off-topic: Interesting factoids! To put things in perspective for the curious~ Earth is 93 millions miles away from the sun. Traveling at super-sonic speeds, a jet (if it were capable of flying in a vacuum) would take up to 15 years to reach the sun

    Andromeda is 2.5 million light years away. A light year is 9.5 trillion kilometers, almost 6 trillion miles. It would take that jet 978,000 years to travel one light year. One of the Helios probes (Helios 2) is apparently currently the fastest man made object to date (launched in the 70s) at 250,000 km/h (160,000 mp/h). Would take Helios about 4,340 years to travel one light year. Andromeda and the Milky Way are coming together at about twice that speed

    Edit: So it takes Andromeda + Milky Way 2,000 something years to take off one unit of that 2.5 million light years. Hence we won't meet for another 4 billion years. Interesting to think that the earth is pretty much right at the half-way point, life-span wise

    (I actually just looked up the numbers and did the math myself so if I missed a decimal place somewhere on accident, my apologies. But I'm pretty sure these are right)



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    Quote Originally Posted by ShlupQuack View Post
    I'm not worried, for the Lord is my shepherd and we are His children.
    I suddenly feel 100 times better.
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    This troubles me. I do plan on living forever so I must escape this doomed planet.

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    Meh its never going to happen... So why bother with the WHAT IF.....

    besides we'd be dead in seconds ...Like when someone lets go a smelly doozy with out giving us an important evacuation notice and we drop to the ground trying to gasp for air....Then we die....


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    Quote Originally Posted by Raistlin View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by SuperMillionaire View Post
    I'm sure there's also an initial instant impact too.
    Through what? The invisible ropes connecting everything? The only thing that connects the Milky Way is gravity. Therefore, a large body from the galaxy first has to get close enough for its gravitational field to impact the Earth's orbit around the sun. That would be the "initial" change. If the edge of one galaxy starts going through the edge of the other side of the Milky Way, the Earth won't "feel" a thing.

    There's also no such thing as "instant."
    There is, however, an initial impact that happen almost instantly.

    Quote Originally Posted by black orb View Post
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    The only thing that connects the Milky Way is gravity.
    >>> That and Dark matter, which is actually like invisible ropes connecting everything..
    There's also the force of buoyancy, which opposes gravity by keeping objects from sinking.

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    I'm not worried, for the Lord is my shepherd and we are His children.
    Most certainly indeed.

    Quote Originally Posted by Jiro View Post
    This troubles me. I do plan on living forever so I must escape this doomed planet.
    That has been discussed before; we might end up colonizing other planets, but are we alone in this universe?
    Is that your final answer?

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