http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/12/great_balls_of_fire/



FIVE THOUSAND MILLION TIMES the size of our solar system...

LIKE. HOLY. CRAP. BATMAN.

The finger of god. [/SIZE][/COLOR]

I didn't know God's into fingering

Anyhow, it would be awesome to see that object on the night sky, destroying everything from its path. Kinda like wormhole weapons

actually, this is what happens a few hours after god eats a curry.

[QUOTE=Mr. Stafford]actually, this is what happens a few hours after god eats a curry.[/QUOTE]

oh my.


Either way, thats not something I would have believed possible. I sure as hell hope that nothing like that ever hits out solar system.

Space is pretty big.

No its not, thats crazy talk. Space is small...

>.>

Wow...that's..why would they even say something so lame?

OMG its the ORI!!!!!!

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I hope they name it well. Something like. Gaint hurt ball! Or something along those lines. I suppose death star works too.

What you've gotta remember is that it's space. This gas ball is probably about as diffuse as a nebula, so maybe it's got 2 atoms per cubic meter instead of one.

If it hit us we'd probably never even notice it.

Umm, except it's ON FIRE

Fire can't burn in space... not for long anyway.

[QUOTE=Vincent Valentine]Fire can't burn in space... not for long anyway.[/QUOTE]
Let's say you set the whole solar system on fire. That would take a few weeks at least to exhaust al it's oxygen.

-Mutliply by five thousand million (five billion). Whew.

what are you? idiots?

Its obviously not "fire"!

Fire is a chemical reaction wherin air molecules become energized and ionized creating a flame.

if its a million times bigger than our solar system, its not gonna be a chemical reaction now is it?

We're talking ionisation, fusion of low mass nuclei, all that jazz.

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It's a horrendous space kablooie.

Our galaxy is only 100,000 light years across

we are trulies doomed

And our solar system is like .25 of a percent of a light year across. And our planet is 0.0000000013 of a light year across. Makes you feel small doesn't it.

[quote=Monty Python's The Meaning of Life]
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
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