10 07 03

It has come
to the attention of a group of scientists in Arizona and Chile
that our Milky Way (the one with the stars and stuff, not the
candy bar) is voraciously (their word, not mine) consuming
large numbers of its galactic neighbors.

Apparently
what is taking place even as we speak is the fact that our
very own Milky way is sucking up the stars, planets and
whatever life forms which might exist over in the Sagittarius
Galaxy. It seems that the larger Milky Way (10,000 times the
size of Sagittarius) is nibbling away at the other galaxy and
will soon destroy it.

There isn’t
any set timetable when this giant space vacuum will be
completed, but I would guess it might be over in say another 2
or 3 million years, give or take a few hundred thousand.

Now, you the
average uninformed reader might just ask yourself…”What the
heck is all of this about and why should I care?”

I would
suggest to you that there is certainly plenty to worry about.
While you are sitting in your Lazy-E-Boy eating those high fat
snacks and watching the Cubs come out of hibernation for the
first time in nearly 100 years, I suggest you consider the
following.

One, these
things don’t happen overnight. No sir. Rome wasn’t built in a
day and the stars weren’t formed yesterday. I am going to give
you a solid fact of space.

It’s huge.
It’s large. In fact it’s bigger than anything you can imagine.
You can’t think about how big it is. Just try…see you can’t do
it, can you?

So, the
problem is simply this. If it takes maybe 500,000 years for
the images these guys are seeing to get from where they are
happening across space to us, then what happened 500,000 years
ago might just very well be over and something new might be
going on over there, isn’t that correct?

So that would
mean that something new might be happening that we wouldn’t
know about until 500,000 years from now. A point in time at
which I probably won’t be around writing this column.

So, if the
Sagittarius galaxy is or was being devoured, then once it’s
gone, who’s to say that the next victim might just be our
solar system? I mean if it happened to them, couldn’t it
happen to us?

I don’t
suppose those poor aliens (as in residents of another planet,
not Mexico) had any idea that the laws of physics or whatever
they used would be turned upside down when their planets got
sucked up by some larger greedy galaxy. I’d think that would
make the news for sure and possibly be the lead story
replacing some political race they might have had going on at
the time. In times like these, reality is king.

Suppose life
was just going on like normal and then one day, all heck broke
loose and gravity was suspended or something equally
disturbing. Or perhaps the oceans got sucked up into space,
never to return. Where would that leave us? It’d hack off a
lot of cruise passengers, that’s for certain. Imagine being
out in the Atlantic and the ocean goes away…. You’d want your
money back for sure. Think of all of the negative public
relations those cruise lines would have to deal with.

This is a
danger we can ill afford to ignore. It might happen to us at
any moment. In fact it might be starting and we not even know
it since it started thousands of years ago. It might even be
the explanation for things like the Bermuda Triangle, or
Amelia Earhart or the lost socks in the dryer problem. I don’t
seem to remember hearing anything about people living say
1,000 years ago losing socks in their dryers. This might the
explanation to this growing problem.

Since I am a
civic-minded person, I have decided to set up a non-profit
foundation to study the possibilities of this happening to our
planet. I haven’t thought how I will perform the research, but
am offering interested parties (such as yourself) to send me
money so that I can keep you on the mailing list and let you
know what my research proves. Only those active, paying
subscribers will receive advance notice directly from me
concerning the potential for impending doom.