ha!
Maybe by then hydrogen will be a viable alternative fuel source :D
Giant hydrogen cloud menaces Milky Way
A giant cloud of hydrogen gas dubbed "Smith's Cloud" which contains enough gas to create a million stars like our own sun is on a collision course with the Milky Way, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) has announced. Smith's Cloud. Image: Bill Saxton, NRAO There is, however, no need to alert Bruce Willis quite …
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Monday 14th January 2008 21:46 GMT Anonymous Coward
NASA will spring to action
By launching a fleet of space shuttles to outer space with special collectors to extract the hydrogen from space and return it to earth where it will be used to fill a fleet of Hindenburg-style airships that will replace all those ozone-depleting, greenhouse gas-spewing airliners. These airships will cut travel time between New York and London to 4 days for the minimal cost of $10,000 for a coach ticket (plus another $10,000 for a $20,000 accidental death travel policy).
Factoring in the fully laden cost of the shuttle and collection gear, the price per ton of delivered extraterrestrial hydrogen will be about $5 million per ton.
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Monday 14th January 2008 21:46 GMT Tim Brown
Ummmm.....
Does that "40 million years" account for light speed?
If it's 8000 ly away, that means we're seening it as is was 8000 years ago. That means it's actually 1681920000 miles closer to us than it appears.
That means it's actually 0.0002 light years closer than we thought! Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh! Run away!
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Monday 14th January 2008 23:15 GMT Anonymous Coward
I know where this cloud is coming from ...
... all those spams we sent out back in the '90s are finally reaping their just rewards!
From: homo.s@earth.sol.milkyway.uni
To: lurrr@8.omicronpersei.milkyway.uni,zbeeb1@5.betelgeuse.milkyway.uni,[..SNIP..]
Subject: ++HHHH++ MAKE HYDROGEN FAST ++HHHH++
This really works!
Just send 5*10^50 atoms of hydrogen to each of the five star systems listed below. Then, add your own system to the top of the list, delete the system at the bottom, and send out copies of this message to 100 other solar systems.
If you follow these instructions, within 0.25 of a galactic rotation you are guaranteed to receive enough hydrogen in return to power your civilization until entropy reaches its maximum!
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Tuesday 15th January 2008 03:53 GMT Jon Tocker
@Mitch Warner
FFS, think of your descendants! In around 40 Million years they'll be living on colony worlds right where that fucking great gas cloud is going to hit!
What, you don't think 32nd Century colonial real estate agents would knowingly sell property on worlds that are due to be clobbered a few million years down the track? Your faith in human nature is refreshingly naive. Sadly there are some human traits that are going to take more than a few million years to remove and the propensity for people to stoop to real estate, accountancy, marketing, taxation, antique dealing, merchant banking and the legal professions will be one of the hardest to breed out...
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Tuesday 15th January 2008 03:53 GMT Anonymous Coward
Extra bits of space knowledge to take into account.
you sod
This concept awearness of how what was once seen as dark(at least in my head) can now be dangerous fills me with great confidence.
Especially when you consider thats just whats been observed.
Cheers you just found another one of those buttons fillied with aperthetic thoughts and that hang on a minute there ego attempt to explain to myself that wonderful religon that i will indeed go to the stars and be proud of my home world for quite sometime yet.
Damn those often rational aperthetic thoughts.
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