Is a Planet-Dissolving Chaos Cloud Really Headed Towards Earth?

[The Rev]

Does anyone know anything about this?
http://tv.yahoo.com/news/wwn/20050912/112653720001.html

PLANET-DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD IS HEADED TOWARD EARTH!
Monday September 12, 2005
By MIKE FOSTER
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!
Discovered April 6 by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the swirling, 10 million-mile- wide cosmic dust cloud has been likened to an "acid nebula" and is hurtling toward us at close to the speed of light -- making its estimated time of arrival 9:15 a.m. EDT on June 1, 2014.
"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.
"A super-massive black hole lies about 28,000 light-years from Earth at the center of our galaxy," explained Dr. Sherwinski.
"Last year the eminent physicist Stephen Hawking revised his theory of black holes -- which previously held that nothing could escape the hole's powerful gravitational field. He demonstrated that information about objects that have been sucked in can be emitted in mangled form.
"It now appears that mangled information can distort matter.
"Just imagine our galaxy the Milky Way as a beautiful, handwritten letter.
"Now imagine pouring a glass of water on the paper and watching the words dissolve as the stain spreads. That's what the chaos cloud does to every star or planet it encounters."
To avoid widespread panic, NASA has declined to make the alarming discovery public. But Dr. Sherwinski's contacts at the agency's Chandra X-ray Observatory leaked to him striking images of the newly discovered chaos cloud obliterating a large asteroid.
"It's like watching a helpless hog being dissolved in a vat of acid," one NASA scientist told Dr. Sherwinski.
Ordinarily, Hawking 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.
"If it continues unchecked, the chaos cloud will eventually reduce our galaxy to the state of absolute chaos that existed before the birth of the universe," the astrophysicist warned.
Some 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.
But even if such a craft could be built in time, evacuating Earth might prove fruitless if theories about the origin of the chaos cloud are correct.
"A black hole at the center of Andromeda is about 15 times the size of the one in our own galaxy," Dr. Sherwinski noted. "It might be like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire."
Speaking under the condition of anonymity, a senior White House official said the president's top science advisors are taking the findings in stride.
"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."

I'd love to hear what people who know what they're talking about, physics-wise, have to say about this.

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The Rev

 

[Physics Monkey]

I love that title, "Planet Destroying Chaos Cloud." I want one!

On a more serious note, this is totally untrue. See here: http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/news/killercloud.html

 

[ClatomicBomb]

Wow a chaos cloud eh? Well i think that's a load of crap if there's a chaos cloud how come there's no pictures and why is the President not talking about it? Plus if you believe in God the reign of 1000 years would be taking place right now and God said that one day the Earth will be destroyed by fire. That stomps that so called doctors little story now does it

 

[carlos_dfc]

Forget god - if something like that were true, a mythical deity couldn't save you.

However - it is complete claptrap.

Just look at the figures - it is 'supposedly' 10 million miles wide - the Earth's orbit around the Sun is over 180 milion miles wide. Compared to the size of our WHOLE SOLAR SYSTEM, 10 million miles is tiny - and on a galactic scale, it is completely insignificant, so this little quote...

"If it continues unchecked, the chaos cloud will eventually reduce our galaxy to the state of absolute chaos that existed before the birth of the universe,"

...is complete poop!


And the talk of 'Arcs' going to Andromeda is even funnier - we haven't even got one man beyond the Moon yet - how the hell are we going to send arcs to the Andromeda galaxy, within 8 yrs

Yet another 'Comet will kill us all in October' story

Just how gullible can some people get?

 

[ClatomicBomb]

Exactly! they said this metor is going to kill us all! now they say a chaos cloud is coming but no proof... These posers need to show us proof if its a true story and not make up stories to scare people

 

[russ_watters]

Ok, this reaaaaaally was done a year ago.