I just found out that our galaxy, the MilkyWay, is about to collide with the Andromeda galaxy. The two galaxies are approaching each other at hundreds of kilometers per second. Most scientists agree that the root cause of this impending collision is gravity.
Obviously, it is something that humans are doing to increase gravitic pollution and cause this undue attraction and it is time that we started to stop this stellar wreck.
So, with that in mind, I have created Uncle Joe's Gravity Preservation Corporation, the UJGPC. The UJGPC will have gravity offsets for sale (at a nominal fee) to anyone who wishes to be 'gravity neutral' and therefore save the galaxy.
Any takers?
2007-08-01 01:12:09 · 20 answers · asked by credo quia est absurdum 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I got a pretty good laugh from your post, thanks!
I don't think many of the people replying got the gist that you were being sarcastic. People are too serious!
2007-08-01 01:28:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Sign me up for some of those gravity offsets! Perhaps if we all started driving heavy SUV's, we could spin the earth a bit faster, and possibly divert the path of the planet from this doom. As a nice side benefit, burning all that oil will result in a lighter earth, which will slow the breakneck pace of our galaxy a bit and give our descendants 3 million generations from now a bit more time to do something. Please, everyone, think of your great (to the 10497365th power) grandchildren! We need to be good stewards of our galaxy, and leave them with a beautiful and safe place to grow their own children in test-tubes!
2007-08-01 12:30:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
How do you propose to stop the warpage of time and space by matter? Can you neutralize the Higgs Boson? Since gravity is an attractive force between two bodies, how can we be sure that the Andromedians are doing their part?
Questions, questions and more questions.
To kev, our sun will not go super nova but will expand dramatically in a few billion years, not millions. Then it will collapse and just become a cold chunk of iron. No massive explosion.
2007-08-01 08:53:20 · answer #3 · answered by beren 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
A collision is in the offing but it is not "just about to collide with the Andromeda"
Depending on who you read the collision is several billion years away.
2007-08-01 08:21:44 · answer #4 · answered by fredrick z 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps if we just completely dismantled the industrial complex, turned it inside out and upside down and surrender our way of life for the alternative of living off the land like cave men killing each other over antelope skin, we could turn back the galactic tide much like it would reverse global warming. Right?
2007-08-01 08:25:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Yes, darth vader is coming, the death star was real, only it was not a planetary killer but a solar system destroyer. C'mon, we have enough to worry about getting governments to act in unison regarding climate change and world debt, get them to start weorrying about the what they can't control, man, they'll just look to the sky and say " right, thats your bit, thats my bit - we all worry about our own bits, Ours looks fine."
2007-08-01 08:14:18 · answer #6 · answered by Mad M 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
i have a very small gravity footprint but if we got rid of manbearpig then the gravity thingy may improve because he is using 3 times the normal gravity.
2007-08-01 08:16:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Can't we just wedge the two galaxies apart with a bundle of hockey sticks?
2007-08-01 08:20:28 · answer #8 · answered by skip 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
as i under stand it our sun will go super nova long before that will happen and that's a few million years from now so if we can not sort out our problems by then we deserve what we get
2007-08-01 08:17:25 · answer #9 · answered by kev l 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
lol you know how long it will take our galaxy to "collide" with the other? our earth probalby wont even be here by then...good luck with that
2007-08-01 08:14:52 · answer #10 · answered by Sweeetboy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋