5 cosmic events that could kill you before lunch

[Wolvie]

Cracked.com (http://www.cracked.com/article_16817_5-cosmic-events-that-could-kill-you-before-lunch.html) has a humor piece up about the 5 comic events that can end us all before we get done pounding down our noon meal.
Funny shit, but not so funny when you realize that all of these could actually happen. Yay for the end of the world!

[Generation ABXY]

I love that site. So much better than their horrid magazine.

[Wolvie]

Oh I agree, Cracked magazine sucks. But the website is awesome, and surprisingly funny.

[KingGorilla]

Good thing I just ate lunch then.

[Generation ABXY]

Good thing I just ate lunch then.

Great, now you have a full 24 hours of sheer, expectant dread.

[shunoshi]

The sun will suddenly start unwinding itself, and then everything will go black. Soon after the black hole will begin the process of collapsing all matter into a single point. So you, your mom, your couch, your porn, the Pacific Ocean and a billion Chinese people will all be crushed into an area the size of a golf ball.

If that's not scary, nothing is.

[NoName]

There is a "Gamma-Ray Burst Coordinates Network," which attempts to detect bursts ahead of time, thus ensuring that we'll have time to run around in circles a few times while screaming our heads off before it hits.

This article is great :D.

[pomeroy]

Linking to a Cracked article isn't on of the things that can kill you before lunch?

Weird.

[Bone]

I love that site. So much better than their horrid magazine.Cracked was worse than Mad even when Mad had ceased to be funny for 15 years.

[tombofsoldier]

Complete physical law dissolution: Some theories hold that there are multiple "universes", each with different laws of physics. This would imply that our universe was at one point essentially non-exisitant and could instantly become so again.

At least if this happened nearly all trace of cracked.com would be erased forever.

[carnage11]

The Gamma Ray bursts one is really the only one we have to worry about. The black hole deal isn't possible. We might not be able to see them, but we can detect them, and I do believe we'd detect our entire solar system start to rotate around it as it got closer.(All the stars in the sky that have been moving the same way for thousands of years would change. That's something we couldn't miss) Good 'ol Sol won't die for a very VERY long time. The Big Rip is about as possible as CERN killing us all with the LHC. Actually, death by LHC is probably more possible. Gamma Ray bursts, however, can happen at any time. A big neighboring star goes super nova and we're done for.


However, there are galaxies out there we can't see. They are called dark galaxies (or "ninja galaxies" for the purpose of this article) and they are made up solely of dark matter and black holes.
That made me chuckle a little. Ninja galaxies.:D

[BLeeP]

I just read The 13 Most Baffling Book Titles (http://www.cracked.com/article_16818_13-most-baffling-book-titles.html) (which was really amusing), but I have to wonder if that is our very own LanceUppercut having a good ole fashioned internet argument in the comments section.

[Raen]

A big neighboring star goes super nova and we're done for.

Fortunately there aren't any stars near enough that are good nova candidates. Yay for the vastness of the Universe! I love the fact that if something does go nova the radiation and the light from the nova both travel at the speed of light, so we know we're doomed and are actually doomed at the same time. Hurray!

Loved the ninja galaxies thing. Then again I don't believe in Dark Matter (if there's concrete evidence I'll be willing to change my mind), but rather like the idea of the universe being much smaller than we think it is. Then again dark matter makes a fuck load more sense than string theory, so it's not that weird.

[carnage11]

Fortunately there aren't any stars near enough that are good nova candidates. Yay for the vastness of the Universe! I love the fact that if something does go nova the radiation and the light from the nova both travel at the speed of light, so we know we're doomed and are actually doomed at the same time. Hurray!

Loved the ninja galaxies thing. Then again I don't believe in Dark Matter (if there's concrete evidence I'll be willing to change my mind), but rather like the idea of the universe being much smaller than we think it is. Then again dark matter makes a fuck load more sense than string theory, so it's not that weird.

The best evidence of Dark Matter comes from looking at galaxies and how they rotate. The outer bands rotate as fast as the inner bands, which just doesn't make sense, according to present day physics anyways. The fact that the outer galaxy rotates at the same speed as the inner galaxy, makes one think that there is actually more matter in the galaxy then we can see. Hence Dark Matter. It's the best explanation for now.

Here's an interesting article (http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2006-08/2006-08-21-voa63.cfm) written back in '06 where they seem to have proven that it does indeed exist. Or at least it must exist, otherwise there's no explanation. There's just too much gravitational force within galaxies to account for the lack of mass, or at least visible mass.

[TheFlyingOrc]

Complete physical law dissolution: Some theories hold that there are multiple "universes", each with different laws of physics. This would imply that our universe was at one point essentially non-exisitant and could instantly become so again.

At least if this happened nearly all trace of cracked.com would be erased forever.

Yeah, there's actually no "proof" that physics won't completely change tomorrow morning. The only evidence we have is that it hasn't so far.

[Raen]

The best evidence of Dark Matter comes from looking at galaxies and how they rotate. The outer bands rotate as fast as the inner bands, which just doesn't make sense, according to present day physics anyways. The fact that the outer galaxy rotates at the same speed as the inner galaxy, makes one think that there is actually more matter in the galaxy then we can see. Hence Dark Matter. It's the best explanation for now.

Here's an interesting article (http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2006-08/2006-08-21-voa63.cfm) written back in '06 where they seem to have proven that it does indeed exist. Or at least it must exist, otherwise there's no explanation. There's just too much gravitational force within galaxies to account for the lack of mass, or at least visible mass.

The visible mass within galaxies thing has sold me. Thanks!