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Posted: 8/15/2005 11:30:02 AM EDT
Interesting.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F05%2F12%2Fwnugg12.xml
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This explains all the apparent brain damage people have these days.
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Shit, that blows the 50 BMG out of the water.
I wonder when Quark Nuggets will be banned in California? |
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What would happen if one of these hit someone?
Would it punch right through and you wouldn't even notice or would the huge energy blow an arm right off? |
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Imagine getting shot by a single tiny bullet about the size of a single red blood cell that was traveling at 1000 miles per hour. It would cause some damage, but would you even notice? Kinda freaky. |
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more like 900,000 miles per hour |
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It would just punch a very tiny, neat hole through you, I think. In order to do any damage to you other than just punching a tiny hole, it would need to transfer energy to you. Since it's so small and moving so fast, I don't think there would be any significant energy transfer. But I guess there might be some kind of "shockwave" that would move through you as it displaces what tiny amount of stuff it will displace. It depends on how "hard" those shockwaves are. Or maybe it would just push out a "plug" of your tissues along its path. That'd be freaky. |
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Um the artical doesn't say anything about these things hitting the US. Earth yes, US no.
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Now that i think about it, if you somehow one of these remained on the earth's surface, there would be no way to pick it up, The sheer weight of it would punch right through anything
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I do believe you'd be dead as hell. This is the ultimate small caliber high velocity projectile, and don't forget that a yeast grain sized bit of this stuff weighs tons. So, I suspect localized effecs simlar a a couple thousand pounds of TNT, which is what the article says in terms of what they see seismically. |
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Not saying I'm skeptical but...
I have to get a job where my funding depends on me finding strange, hypothetical things that can only be detected using special equipment I design myself. The more far-fetched it sounds the more moeny I get. The less people understand, and the less tangible the results, the more money I get. I'm all for the scientific method but how would we ever know we're being fleeced? |
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Only if you were the size of the Earth. I scaled it down. |
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Two words. Peer review (or two other words - Cold Fusion ) |
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I, for one, would like to welcome our new Strangelet overlords...
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Yeah, but that is going through thousands of miles of earth. The effects wouldn't be near that in a few inches of tissue. |
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I think I may have passed one of these nuggets after dinner last night....
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Kent Brockman? |
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Hmmm...I guess the jury is still out on these little dudes. It took quite a while to prove the existence of neutrinos as well, so it'll be interesting to see if any type of measurement system can be devised to detect or prove/disprove their existence.
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I've released a few ass nuggets that had a pretty severe density, caused a lot of damage too.
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Yep, classic Simpsons |
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Impossible.....Quark was on DS9 at the time......Couldn't have been him. Those were chicken McNuggets....
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Chicken McStrangelets? Very Strange. If 90% of the matter in the universe is strangelets and it is more or less evenly distributed why haven't we been hit more often? Wait ... they are more dense than ordinary space stuff ... so there only have to be a few out there ... this IS strange. |
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Yeah - post it, along with your degree in astrophysics and high-energy particle physics. |
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I always said that a small caliber high velocity round would never work as a planet killer.
More suited for small asteroids, perhaps a moon but not something as large as a planet. GM |
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Sounds like another cancer causing agent. Time to ban quarks will be the rallying cry of the global warmers.
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If it hasn't been said already;
"I'm the only one here who can take a full power shot from a strangelet." |
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Someone find Old Painless... we really need to test this in the "Box of Truth".
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Quark Nuggets sounds like a breakfast ceral for graphic designers.
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This could explain some of the Local Group's motion. And why there seem to be points of high gravitational density with little or nothing visible in those areas.
Its probably a bit early to wave the: Here's another, somewhat recursive, link |
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The real question is:
who here could take a full power shot from a quark nugget? |
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That would be a butt nugget |
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So, if 900,000mph is 40 times the speed of sound... that means the speed of sound is 22500 mph. Not on this planet. The speed of sound in steel is 13332 mph. |
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Any chance of directing them to Iran???
We could always nuke their reactors and say that they were hit by strangelets. |
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Genius !! Give that man a Nobel Peace Prize !! |
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