Comments on: The ultimate cosmic ray blast

By: Adrien

Adrien — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:18:58 +0000

Luckily I’ve found a new disaster that could befall us.
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Yes lucky!@ Whew! That was close. Thought I’d be able to sleep all the way thru the night.

By: Ambigulous

Ambigulous — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:47:55 +0000

If most stars rotate and generate magnetic field, and most have planetary systems; then this picture is repeated approx 10^10 times in many millions of galaxies.

Billions of billions of tiny pin-pricks.
Shining brightly in the night sky – enchanting.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:25:43 +0000

Interesting comments. I guess what attracted me to this story was not the possibility of disaster so much as the notion that the sun provided this safe little haven within which our habitat is an extremely small Goldilocks place with conditions just right for life, but our little hutch was not even a pin prick in the essentially hostile vast beyond. So I sought out an image that best conveyed the hidy-hole nature of our place. I didn't much like the New Scientist image, the one from Wiki was too clinical, as was this one. Please note they all have the bad stuff coming from the left. This one from Wiki has it's own fascination - the largest structure in the solar system.

By: David H

David H — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:27:31 +0000

Thanks to Anna who performed divine intervention and restored my post, presumably I can post again…

Frankly I love the classic association by Mercurius of the Left with disaster, oh the evilness of the left! Let’s burn the witches while we’re at it. You could cling to some right wing notion that human law and order will rise to its rightful position as lord of the universe provided enough money can be found to pay for the expansion but only a denialist luxuriating in a lifetime of material success could honestly believe that this version of humanity has got long term prospects.

In the meantime, I am indebted to Koopa Troopa and Liam for sustaining my left wing fascination for doom and gloom.

By: Evony Eyes

Evony Eyes — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:04:07 +0000

Oh great, thanks Terwilleger.

Now I must change my briefs.

Presented without further comment.

By: Evony and irony live together in punning harmony

Evony and irony live together in punning harmony — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:53:02 +0000

Look Mr Liam, I’m somewhat concerned about that Evony girl. It’s all very well to be a “nihilist”, it’s quite another to be in raptures and spilling out of one’s blouse.

Don’t knock it ’til you try it.

Speaking of ebony girls*, stop: Sade time.

Just remember, kids: we’re here for a good time, not a long time.

* kinda

By: Mary Whitehead

Mary Whitehead — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:08:44 +0000

Look Mr Liam, I’m somewhat concerned about that Evony girl. It’s all very well to be a “nihilist”, it’s quite another to be in raptures and spilling out of one’s blouse.

By: David H

David H — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:43:20 +0000

I’m SOOO happy about this little ray of cosmic badness, thankyou brian!

By: Liam

Liam — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:16:18 +0000

The surprise first strike seems to have been ineffective, let's follow it up by getting the whole of SAC in behind: John Dolan's Case For Nuclear Winter.

By: Liam

Liam — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:03:34 +0000

Mercurius, I read Brian’s articles with a grin, waving a cowboy hat, sat backwards on my office chair like Major Kong on his bomb. Woooohoooo! Man, you all make out like gloom and the inevitable certainty of our own catastrophic destruction’s a bad thing.

You know you feel the pull of it already. How much of our alleged “fear” of nuclear war is longing — lust for Nirvana, disguising itself as pious horror?