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Ah, so Weekly World News is satire. That fact has suddenly made a lot of things make sense.
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I ran a quick scan of Google regarding "Piers Van der Meer" and primarily the only thing it sent back were various versions of this article... and something about "Satan's Excrement." I might look into that later. :P
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Won't matter even if it does, 'cos we ain't gonna feel it are we?


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taz wrote:Won't matter even if it does, 'cos we ain't gonna feel it are we?
Um...

No, he' s just joking...
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:lol: This is great stuff........

Anyone also heard of the asteroid that is suppose to pass by the Earth from around 10 million KM and cause catastrophic changes to the Earths environment?

Lets hear some more! I find this to be entertaining. :P
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The theory of an explosion of the sun is both absurd and childish. So some jerk wants to scare you with a posting on yahoo. Ok... well let me tell you that the sky is going to turn green, and the great oceans are going to turn into pudding within 3 years. Do you wanna post a question on that?
Don't waste your time, its not gonna explode for a projected 50 BILLION years-do some real research.
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That's five billion, not fifty.

Do you know how infinately long fifty billion years is?
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Kamakazie Sith wrote::lol: This is great stuff........

Anyone also heard of the asteroid that is suppose to pass by the Earth from around 10 million KM and cause catastrophic changes to the Earths environment?

Lets hear some more! I find this to be entertaining. :P
Maybe when the sun explodes it'll just wipe out that asteroid for us. :)
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Spanky The Dolphin wrote:That's five billion, not fifty.

Do you know how infinately long fifty billion years is?
Not very, since it's only fifty billion.
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Spanky The Dolphin wrote:That's five billion, not fifty.

Do you know how infinately long fifty billion years is?
Spanky, calm down. Magice is a guy across the hall from me, and he hit "0" by accident.
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magice wrote:The theory of an explosion of the sun is both absurd and childish. So some jerk wants to scare you with a posting on yahoo. Ok... well let me tell you that the sky is going to turn green, and the great oceans are going to turn into pudding within 3 years. Do you wanna post a question on that?
Don't waste your time, its not gonna explode for a projected 50 BILLION years-do some real research.
What flavor of pudding? 'Cause if you say tapioca, I'm gonna be really upset.
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IG-88E wrote:
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:That's five billion, not fifty.

Do you know how infinately long fifty billion years is?
Spanky, calm down. Magice is a guy across the hall from me, and he hit "0" by accident.
I'm not mad or anything, so stop telling me to calm down. If I said it with excamaition points, you'd have something.

Plus, I posted that almost 12 hours ago.

XaLEv: compared to 5 billion, 50 billion years is practially infinately long. Especially for the sequence of a star.
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Spanky The Dolphin wrote: I'm not mad or anything, so stop telling me to calm down. If I said it with excamaition points, you'd have something.

Plus, I posted that almost 12 hours ago.

XaLEv: compared to 5 billion, 50 billion years is practially infinately long. Especially for the sequence of a star.
I don't know man, sometimes you can really fly off the handle (no offense) especially when someone say something stupid.
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Just for the record, this isn't a "news" report. It's not even a hoax or an attempt at tabloid sensationalism. It's... the Weekly World News. Now for those not familiar with it, the WWN is so fucking over-the-top that absolutely NOBODY takes it seriously. It's essentially a humor magazine that dresses up like a supermarket tabloid. Some other storied I've read in WWN:

* 4000 year old vampire found living in old-folks home.

* Bigfoot to fight Yeti in wrestling match.

* Housecat is Hitler reincarnated. (It even had a moustache!!)

So relax. Not even the writers expect anyone to believe their stories.
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Kamakazie Sith wrote::lol: This is great stuff........

Anyone also heard of the asteroid that is suppose to pass by the Earth from around 10 million KM and cause catastrophic changes to the Earths environment?

Lets hear some more! I find this to be entertaining. :P
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Yes...
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GrandAdmiralPrawn wrote:Just for the record, this isn't a "news" report. It's not even a hoax or an attempt at tabloid sensationalism. It's... the Weekly World News. Now for those not familiar with it, the WWN is so fucking over-the-top that absolutely NOBODY takes it seriously. It's essentially a humor magazine that dresses up like a supermarket tabloid. Some other storied I've read in WWN:

* 4000 year old vampire found living in old-folks home.

* Bigfoot to fight Yeti in wrestling match.

* Housecat is Hitler reincarnated. (It even had a moustache!!)

So relax. Not even the writers expect anyone to believe their stories.
Wait a minute, I remember that rag! My mom used to read it (We're still not sure if therapy is in order...) Isn't that the one with that fuckin' stupid bat-baby? ROFLMAO!
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The insider stopped short of saying that the robots were created in order to stem a rising tide of anger and distrust arising from allegations of sex abuse by priests of the United States.
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Gotta love how it says the sun is overheating. That's like saying the icecap is overcooling.
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On the subject of stars, some dimmer, cooler, ones can burn for over 50 billion years.

As for the Weekly World News, they're full of more than someone after a -eating contest. They're just trying to make us afraid.
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There is enough BS going on as it is without someone else stirring up the headless chickens into a rampage...
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"It's quite similar to when a star goes supernova at the end of its life," Dr. Van der Meer explains. "Over the past 11 years, we've seen our Sun go through changes frighteningly like those that took place in Kepler's Star right before it was observed going supernova in 1604."
I didn't know they could take a stars temperature in 1604. Must have had the flue.
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Ironwolf wrote:
"It's quite similar to when a star goes supernova at the end of its life," Dr. Van der Meer explains. "Over the past 11 years, we've seen our Sun go through changes frighteningly like those that took place in Kepler's Star right before it was observed going supernova in 1604."
I didn't know they could take a stars temperature in 1604. Must have had the flue.
They didn't. The star just grew bigger, IIRC. Suddenly, there was a new star in the sky. Hard not to notice for an astronomer
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