Message Forum: Re: Galaxies

Re: Galaxies

Posted By: 10Kan, on host 152.33.148.179
Date: Thursday, May 2, 2002, at 11:53:44
In Reply To: Re: Galaxies posted by wintermute on Thursday, May 2, 2002, at 07:35:00:

> > *Only applies if I don't hate you.
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> Well, you can have my opionion anyway.
>
> The Saggitarius Cluster was a separate galaxy (albeit a very small one) until a few million years ago when it started to crash into the Milky Way. Not many people seem to have noticed yet, and they probably won't even when it finishes crashing. And that happened very close to us.
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> winter"Why the hypothetical?"mute

Pardon my ignorance, but I don't see how two galaxies merging would cause such a huge cataclysm. Is there a high probability that star systems would crash into each other? Galaxies aren't very dense, right?

10"...From SPAAAAACE!"Kan

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Message:	> > > *Only applies if I don't hate you. > > > > Well, you can have my opionion anyway. > > > > The Saggitarius Cluster was a separate galaxy (albeit a very small one) until a few million years ago when it started to crash into the Milky Way. Not many people seem to have noticed yet, and they probably won't even when it finishes crashing. And that happened very close to us. > > > > winter"Why the hypothetical?"mute > > Pardon my ignorance, but I don't see how two galaxies merging would cause such a huge cataclysm. Is there a high probability that star systems would crash into each other? Galaxies aren't very dense, right? > > 10"...From SPAAAAACE!"Kan
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