I've received a couple of emails about
this article on Yahoo! News detailing a cosmic "chaos cloud" that will obliterate the earth in 2014:
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.
If it's not immediately obvious by its subject matter that the story is a joke, then it's source (the
Weekly World News) should be a giveaway. It joins the
time-traveling insider trader and the
bogus japanese-to-english phrase book as examples of WWN stories mistaken as news, thanks to Yahoo!'s policy of not listing them as satire in their news feed.
Comments
When something travels towards you at the speed of light you don't see it until it hits.
Besides it sounds like some awful disaster movie plot. I won't be going to see it.
I like the concept, though - planet-dissolving dust, heh.
Posted by Big G on Wed Sep 21, 2005 at 06:32 AM
Good Point
Good luck and thank you for sharing the dissolving cloud.