Jun 12, 2006, 06:47 PM
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An interesting little tidbit for further comparision and perspective: Wikipedia in short states that the Milky Way Galaxy ranges from 250,000-400,000 light-years in diameter. So even if we went with 400,000 that'd make this "comet-like structure" between 7-8 times greater in diameter than that of the Milky Way. That's......pretty big.
Frankly, I don't think there's really anything plausible we could do against something that enormous. But then again, even if that thing was heading straight for us, it'd take it an awful long time to get here. To give an idea of how long, the Andromeda Galaxy, estimated to be about 2.5 million light-years from here, is measured to be heading in our direction at about 300 km per second. At that speed, it's estimated to reach us in 3-4 billion years. Yes, this thing is going faster than 300km/s, but it's also "millions of light years away from us".
Jam it back in, in the dark.
Last edited by Josiah; Jun 12, 2006 at 06:56 PM.
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