You all probably already noticed that the Hubble telescope just took some amazing photos of two galaxies colliding. I thought I'd share the intellectually riveting conversation Jose and I had about them. (As an excuse, let me just say that we were both checking email at the time--he on our ancient desktop PC, and I on my laptop. Our conversations usually go a little better than this....)
TRACY: Did you see these Hubble photos?
JOSE: Of what?
TRACY: The two galaxies colliding?
JOSE: No.
TRACY: There are two galaxies colliding.
JOSE: Cool.
TRACY: What if there are aliens living in one of those galaxies?
JOSE: Poor aliens.
TRACY: That would suck, to just be milling about, minding your own business, and this galaxy comes and collides with yours.
JOSE: Mmmm. Yeah.
TRACY: You know, that's really scary!
JOSE: Why?
TRACY: Um, because it's a GALAXY!!! Colliding with one that looks a LOT like ours.
JOSE: Huh.
TRACY: The offending galaxy is just this lumpy little mess, but the other one that's just sitting there is all swirly, like ours.
JOSE: So?
TRACY: SOOOO, what if a galaxy came and collided with us!?
JOSE: I think we'd know if a galaxy was going to collide with us!
TRACY: Yeah, but it's not like we could do anything about it. At least with a meteor, we kind of have a chance. But you can't send the Shuttle up to divert an entire freaking galaxy.
JOSE: Oh. Yeah. ... Guess not.
5 comments:
I saw the picture but didn't realize it was colliding galaxies. Man, that would suck. Bad day on a cosmic level.
Totally!
I wonder what happens when they do it. Screech of brakes? Call Geico?
"Hello, Geico? Yeah, some SOB galaxy just rear-ended my galaxy. Am I covered?"
:::snort::: Only you two would treat the potential death of millions of aliens so lightly! ; )
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