[agmart]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Scared-stiff astronomers have detected a mysterious mass they've dubbed a "chaos cloud" that dissolves everything in its path, including comets, asteroids, planets and entire stars -- and it's headed directly toward Earth!

"The good news is that this finding confirms several cutting- edge ideas in theoretical physics," announced Dr. Albert Sherwinski, a Cambridge based astrophysicist with close ties to NASA.

"The bad news is that the total annihilation of our solar system is imminent."

Experts believe the chaos cloud is composed of particles spawned near the event horizon of a black hole (a form of what's called Hawking Radiation) that have been distorted by mangled information spewed from the hole.

Ordinarily, Hawkings Radiation is harmless.

"It's produced when an electron- positron pair are at the event horizon of a black hole," Dr. Sherwinski explained. "The intense curvature of space-time of the hole can cause the positron to fall in, while the electron escapes."

But when "infected" by mangled information from the black hole, the particles become a chaos cloud, which in turn mangles everything it touches.

"This is a lot like global warming, where the jury is still out on whether it's real or not," said the official.

"The existence of this so called chaos cloud is only a theory. Americans shouldn't panic until all the facts are in."

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/wwn/20050912/112653720001.html

[sol]

Mmmm...so we have

1. Peak oil
2. Economic collapse
3. Social collapse
4. Global warming
5. Chaos cloud
6. Sun going nova

something in that order to look forward too then ? sounds not good.

but today is a new day and it's good

Sol

[Sencha]

This chaos cloud thing is a joke right? Please don't tell me this is for real because I can't take much more of this apocalyptic crap.

[marko]

This article comes from the Weekly World News, which is a supermarket tabloid whose specialty is the ridiculously outrageous. They have things like photographs of "space aliens." I would not take this too seriously.

[Maddog]

Great. Stir up more unneeded panic. A chaos cloud. Yeah right, that's as probable as aliens trying to kill us with milk missles.

Seriously, this is under the section "Entertainment and Gossip." NASA needs to hire some new scientists or take away the crack from the ones there now. And you, agmart, should be smarter than to buy into this. To think there's a column about a deadly dust cloud and no one talks about the energy crisis.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')ome scientists say mankind's best hope would be to build a "space ark" and hightail it to the Andromeda Galaxy, 2.1 million light-years away.

"We wouldn't be able to save the entire human population, but perhaps the best and the brightest," observed British rocket scientist Dr. David Hall, when asked about the feasibility of such a project.

[Specop_007]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Maddog', 'G')reat. Stir up more unneeded panic. A chaos cloud. Yeah right, that's as probable as aliens trying to kill us with milk missles.

Seriously, this is under the section "Entertainment and Gossip." NASA needs to hire some new scientists or take away the crack from the ones there now. And you, agmart, should be smarter than to buy into this. To think there's a column about a deadly dust cloud and no one talks about the energy crisis.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')ome scientists say mankind's best hope would be to build a "space ark" and hightail it to the Andromeda Galaxy, 2.1 million light-years away.

"We wouldn't be able to save the entire human population, but perhaps the best and the brightest," observed British rocket scientist Dr. David Hall, when asked about the feasibility of such a project.

[pilferage]

So we should be worried about the chaos cloud, but not the black hole accompanying it?

[Grimnir]

So they're not even sure about the physics behind this thing, yet they know it's exact position and trajectory and can predict precisely that and when it will hit Earth? Sure.

[Schweinshaxe]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('sol', 'M')mmm...so we have

1. Peak oil
2. Economic collapse
3. Social collapse
4. Global warming
5. Chaos cloud
6. Sun going nova

something in that order to look forward too then ? sounds not good.

but today is a new day and it's good

Sol

[k_semler]

Don't forget:

7. Shadow people
8. EVP
9. Crop circles
10. Alien abductions
11. Hollow earth theory
12. The pyramids generate hydrogen
13. Wherwolves
14. Vampires
15. Cats sucking out your soul
16. Demon posession
17. Lizard people
18. The illuminati
19. ZPE
20. Satanists
21. Creationism
22. Numerology
23. Astrolegy
24. Prophecy
25. Atlantis
26. Remote viewing
27. Out of body experiences
28. Mind over matter
29. Chupacabra
30. Sasquatch
31. Time travel
32. 2012 predictions
33. A religious fanatic that calls the host of the show an agent of satan.
34. Man-made structures on mars and moon
35. UFOlogy
36. Weather minipulation
37. Strange sightings
38. Clarvoiance
39. Terraforming

Looks like we have a month and a week of Coast to Coast AM planned. (A month and two weeks if you count bi-weekly "open lines".) Just repeat this pattern, (make sure to mix it up a little), and you have the entire C2C AM radio show over the last 2 years. What do you know! Even I, as an amature, can come up with a whole programming guide for a major radio show! (I highly doubt I could host it though.)

[chuck6877]

You're all forgetting about the Bird flu that is working its way through Europe now.

Bush to the CHAOS CLOUD: "BRING IT ON"

Chuck

[k_semler]

WTF?? You mean all that eHype about Avian flu was real? Oh fuck! Is it really at a 90% fatality rate? Also, have NBC suits went up in price any? And where can I get some NATO spec filtration masks and spare charcol filters? If it is as bad as expected, we are fucked indeed!

[insurgent]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')
"The existence of this so called chaos cloud is only a theory. Americans shouldn't panic until all the facts are in."

[spear]

Set it at warp five Mr. Sulu. Phasers on full.
Launch chaos cloud missiles...............................NOW.

We missed Captain, its heading for Earth.

[Barbara]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('sol', 'M')mmm...so we have

1. Peak oil
2. Economic collapse
3. Social collapse
4. Global warming
5. Chaos cloud
6. Sun going nova

[Wildwell]

This forum gets worse...

It's a wind up..

http://www.belowtopsecret.com/thread171297/pg1

[Grimnir]

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=569258

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')It's B.S., of course, but beyond that...what would you really like a
researcher to tell you. There's so little factual information in the
article, there's really nothing concrete to fact-check.

--There doesn't appear to be anyone in the astronomical community in
Cambridge named Albert Sherwinski.

--The article notes: "A super-massive black hole lies about 28,000
light-years from Earth at the center of our galaxy," explained Dr.
Sherwinski. Well...what of it? If the acid-chaos-cloud-of-death
lies near this black hole, it's not reaching us anytime soon. If it's
not near the black hole, why is it even relevant to the article?

--If the Chandra X Ray observatory has detected the cloud, then it's
here already! The observatory can't 'see' things unless the energy
from them has already reached our area of space.