Astronomy

[Cassander]

yes, we're all going to miss that 1.76 seconds every year through the Tribulation.

[nacho]

And, lo, did he shift a millimeter to the left. 

[monkey!]

And, behold, did many weep.

[Nubbins]

[monkey!]

AMEN!!!

[Matt]

rapture freaks disturb me more than any other type of christian

[monkey!]

rapture freaks disturb me more than any other type of christian

'cause they're the guys who will press that big red button the first moment they see a horse in the clouds.

[RottingCorpse]

Way to kill my buzz, Stephen!

Aliens may exist but contact would hurt humans: Hawking

LONDON (AFP) – Aliens may exist but mankind should avoid contact with them as the consequences could be devastating, British scientist Stephen Hawking warned Sunday.

"If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans," said the astrophysicist in a new television series, according to British media reports.

The programmes depict an imagined universe featuring alien life forms in huge spaceships on the hunt for resources after draining their own planet dry.

"Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach," warned Hawking.

The doomsday scenario is suggested in the series "Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking" on the Discovery Channel, which began airing in the United States on Sunday.

On the probability of alien life existing, he says: "To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational.

"The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like."

Glowing squid-like creatures, herds of herbivores that can hang onto a cliff face and bright yellow predators that kill their prey with stinging tails are among the creatures that stalk the scientist's fantastical cosmos.

Mankind has already made a number of attempts to contact extraterrestrial civilisations.

In 2008, American space agency NASA beamed the Beatles song "Across the Universe" into deep space to send a message of peace to any alien that happens to be in the region of Polaris -- also known as the North Star -- in 2439.

But the history of humanity's efforts to contact aliens stretches back some years.

The US probes Pioneer 10 and 11 were launched in 1972 and 1973 bearing plaques of a naked man and woman and symbols seeking to convey the positions of the Earth and the Sun.

Voyager 1 and 2, launched in 1977, each carry a gold-plated copper phonogram disk with recordings of sounds and images on Earth.

[monkey!]

When I read that yesterday, the first thing I thought was, "what does he know? He's in a wheelchair."

[Sirharles]

Whoops!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100429/sc_space/hugenasascienceballooncrashesinaustralianoutback

[nacho]

It was just a weather balloon. 

Also, Australia is now the property of the Saturn Alliance.

[RottingCorpse]

It was just a weather balloon. 

THAT'S WHAT THEY SAID AT ROSWELL!!!@!@!! (Illuminati are watching us!!!)

[nacho]

Could you please step into the back of the truck, Mr Corpse?

[RottingCorpse]

Look, everybody knows that Eisenhower signed a top secret accord with the Alpha Centurians which gave us (but not the Russians) access to their technology in return to access to our natural resources. The aliens could have wiped us out of course but then who would mine the resources. See, Petroleum based products are the only thing strong enough to create ship hulls strong enough to withstand space travel despite the alien craft being powered by a fission device about the size of a laptop. Cellular wireless technology was given to us but is really all part of a plan to control our mind through the alien's superior telepathic abilities the more we're hooked up to the grid, the more media messages we receive telling us to be good little worker bees harvesting our earth's resources for our alien masters.

Thanks Ike!

[monkey!]

Don't debunk David, you cunt.