Supernova Shrapnel Found In Meteorite 105
coondoggie writes "Talk about finding a needle in a cosmic haystack. Scientists this week said they found microscopic shrapnel in a meteorite of a star they say exploded around the birth of our solar system 4.5 billion years ago."
The wonders of science... (Score:5, Funny)
Remarkable!
Think of the odds: this meteorite landed 146 years ago in 1864.
What are the chances that something would be flying around the solar system for nearly 4.5 billion years then hit this wee planet which was Created only 5854 years earlier?
Most amazing indeed.
Any files left? (Score:5, Funny)
Were they able to recover any files from Suprnova?
Re:The wonders of science... (Score:2, Funny)
Magnets, how do they work?
OH NOES! (Score:3, Funny)
The Supernova matter will now corrupt our Solar system and makes us goes Supernova too!
Re:Extreme sharpshooting (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The wonders of science... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Extreme sharpshooting (Score:3, Funny)
Sounds impressive, until you think of how many of these fragments were flying around in all directions.
Think of it as a More Dakka [tvtropes.org] situation of stellar proportions.
Re:Extreme sharpshooting (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Extreme sharpshooting (Score:3, Funny)
Davy Crocket didn't have > 2 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 tons of bullets either.
Apparently, Wilt Chamberlain did. This is like finding one of his kids.
Re:The wonders of science... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The wonders of science... (Score:3, Funny)
So its to be Phoenix then?
Re:Might be a nitpick but... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I would consider it to be 'dust'.. (Score:5, Funny)
Great. Now Pluto ranks below shrapnel.
Re:The wonders of science... (Score:5, Funny)
What an oddly specific power.
Re:Extreme sharpshooting (Score:2, Funny)
That base was erected (similar to NORAD) as an early warning/observation post.
Via subspace/ftl data transmission, they have warned the beings on their home planet (99.99~ light years away) that Sol-3 has launched a pre-emptive strike with a single death ray.
First response was, of course, to send enough ordinance towards earth that we will assuredly be destroyed.
We will be attacked by the alien life-forms, and any survivors will assume the aliens attacked us without provocation. when it hits us in a few hundred years. It's really too bad we didn't figure out how to hit them with something bigger than a single laser beam.
Re:The wonders of science... (Score:5, Funny)
What are the chances that something would be flying around
the solar system for nearly 4.5 billion years then hit this wee planet which
was Created only 5854 years earlier?
Easy: 50%. Either it'll happen or it won't. Pretty good odds, I'd say.