Star-stealing galaxy

[fatboi6238]

The need to keep the other awesome voiced chick and get rid of this chick.

[BeeAngelful]

oh those big guys!

[lygophile]

i wonder how much life was killed by the collision.

[davedumas0]

@lygophile 0 life would be killed cuz the event only changes the sky the distances between the stars are still HUGE

[kamak894]

Picking on the little guy...

[freezing3345]

Om nom nom. >.>

[zoidbetag]

Omg he killed little galaxy....YOU BASTARD!

[Awhiffofsuspicion]

mm, repetition repetition, big things eating little things, is that the fractal nature of the universe, survival at all levels!!

[greenheadjoe]

great video!

ah... just imagine the night sky after our galaxy's merging with ANDROMEDA... GLORIOUS!

[MrDeadInMyPocket]

Imagine having to live in a galaxy whos only claim to fame is that it steals stars from other galaxies. In an intergalactic civilization everyone would be like "He's from where, M31? OMG did you hear that the M31 galaxy was convicted of stealing more stars from neighbor globular clusters again. It's a shame really, It's all due to bad upbringing you know". Then civilizations that came from M31 would be like "Hey listen that's stereotyping, not every civilization from M31 are thieves." yeah right

[sixtomatoes]

very interesting.

[suprisepickle]

mmm, galaxies.

[Mellthorn]

Yep.. Cannibal galaxy andromeda is coming for Milky way.

[PinkCasper]

god i hate this chicks voice...

[DemonAMVs]

@PinkCasper I hate your voice fuck off.

[ShallowThoughts]

I wonder if my uncle is a galaxy? He, too, grows by gobbling up smaller galaxies.

[jasonsadventure]

wow, you need to stop putting anti-freeze in your hookah. it makes you loopy.

[jw2327]

Uncle Chronos?

[jasonsadventure]

yawn...

[ShallowThoughts]

Boring, are ya? Yeah, sucks to be you.

[kevinpaulharper]

maybe one day we will all be in one big galaxy one day, so all our alien friends will be closer to home =)

[deadNIGHTCRAWLER]

Gobbling up smaller ones, that just sounded funny

[Sciesch]

Yes, somehow like a cartoon or smthng :)

[mooxim]

awesome

[MattyCosmics]

Why talk like a robot???

[teamforteress]

Cuz they have low budget, they use microsoft sam voice

[Ueichen]

Maybe she's a robot

[roidroid]

You could probably get the presenters voice-overs from ALL of the videos, and use a computer program to average them out and then transcribe their notation into a singular "song".

The NewScientist News-Woman Song

[Gannondalf]

DO IT

[coozno1977]

This is a known fact already... this isn't news...

[ImpureContagion]

Yeah exactly..The Andromeda and the Milky Way are said to collide in a few billion years. This isn't news and the robot lady is quite annoying.

[JuniorDExchangecore]

Gasp. What about our great-great-great-great-great-­great-great-great-great-great (up to 1 million) grandchildren!? Well, if we haven't started a nuclear apocalypse or filled the entire atmosphere with CO2 by then.

[ImpureContagion]

We'll all be dead in a decade. The sun is going to wipe us all out with radiation anyway.

[JuniorDExchangecore]

Goody. Its so fun being optimistic!

[gocolts1]

What a leap. You guys have lost it.

[youstupidwoman]

and the concept that black holes recycle and reclamation matter in a steady state kinda way ,

as showing there field influence in a previous video ,

[LeopardFrogPilboxhat]

WTF galaxy??

Get your own stars quit taking them you big dumb jerk

[ramslak]

GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE!!!!

[LemonadePicnics]

THAT GALAXY GOT PWNED

[morethansalt]

"stole"? "escaped"? Inappropriate use of language- unless New Scientist knows something about galaxies and sentience that we don't?

[rintrah81]

bogus sci-fi nonsense

[jidar]

You must be a conservative.

[rintrah81]

You must be gullible.

[jidar]

If I must.

Do you have a distrust of science? Does the word 'hostile' best describe your default position to people with graduate degrees? Do you use the word "Intellectual" as an insult? Congratulations you're a conservative political tool.

[rintrah81]

Oh really is that how it is? Your conclusions are based entirely on your assumptions, yeah? No wonder it is convenient for you to believe in sci-fi.

[kukelz]

yea..i already saw that in a videoclip of Beyoncé : If i was a Galaxy... so yeah..

[keyanage]

noooooooooooo the galaxy is coming to get us very very slowly

[NIK4EVA]

Please, and When I Say this, I bet i speak for most of the viewers here, Change the tone in which you speak or change the narrator altogether.

[Sc0ttPrian]

stop listening. if you cared about the video, you wouldnt care about someones voice, its so unimportant!

[puretroubleman]

if you cared about the video you'd just watch it and wouldn't comment.

[Sc0ttPrian]

Lol good one. too bad the video is under a minute long, plenty of time to comment.

[monkeyology1]

I dont know much about stars but I am the first to comment

[vitruvian8807]

Dear NewScientist:

We aren't really complaining about the narrator's voices. What we don't like is the monotonous and life-less tone, not really their accent, we understand them just fine.

P.S Can you make the videos longer?

[rambokam88]

i agree. the videos should be longer. not super long, still keep it pretty short, just longer than 40 seconds would be great.

[gotriceandshrimp]

I think it's great but do they even have enough material to make it longer?

I mean some of their videos are pretty straight forward but that's really there is to it.

[Frances3654]

how do scientists know this stuff!?!?!?

[LivingSacrifice888]

They observe events through photographs and past events, but the key to knowing if the scientist truely know is heard from 0:21 - 0:40. Almost EVERYTIME you will notice them say, "probably, might have been, etc." They are never certain, a mere educated guess. Theories. =)

[VincentBlouin]

scary, the power in these phenomena . outstanding.

[DamienZshadow]

Ultimately, nothing is even being destroyed lol

When galaxies collide, almost nothing gets hit because they are made almost entirely of the empty space between the stars. The magnificent cataclysms illustrated by simulators only shows how the structures of galaxies are torn apart by the shere overall gravity of each of the stars passing through each other, kind of like mixing a cloudy dye in water.

There are few instances, however, where stars may flung out or into the super massive black hole

[yusufer5000]

So, its kind of like that fish game where you eat the smaller fish to make yourself bigger.

Except galaxies are slightly bigger then fish.

[OTownNewl]

what a crap voice, she cant even talk properly, pausing in incorrect places, fragmenting speech so she can be "heard." Shocking display of how the media has no connection to what the viewer actually needs.

[RafaelMinuesa]

It sounds to me like a former KGB agent trying to put in a British accent.

Nothing wrong with that, though. Russians are very advanced when it comes to Cosmology.

[stevensteven327]

i like soy milk and her voice

[Shaunt1]

This takes hundreds of millions of years doesn't it? If we are still living when this happens to us we'll have the ability to save ourselves. Nothing to worry about.

[ariadarabi]

UGH that sucks, I feel sorry for the people who died ='(

[LuisDanielGamez]

they're like ghosts

[AtomicKennen]

Its the end!

[fox9ninja]

You need a new narrator.

[DidntKnowWhatToPut1]

Andromeda is coming for the milky way

[lwanatt]

we will prob have our little bit of the milky way colonized by then and what a crazy time it will be, first interaction with another galaxy, or maybe we will just find that life is life is life is life

[xjaskix]

when 2 galaxies containing hundreds of billions of stars collide, none of the stars crash into each other, because the distances between each star are still so incomprehensibly vast.. how's that for amazing?

[ReluctantZer0]

I like her voice

[1RadicalOne]

I wonder how the Milky Way will handle the Andromeda coming for it...

[RawIronMan]

I can believe planetary collision happens, I might even be able to believe that sometimes two solar systems might be close enough together that they accidentally swap planets, throw off the trajectory of specific planets or even collide and/or merge. But come on. Entire galaxies floating into each other and colliding? That's sounds kind of far fetched, but whatever. It is just a simulation, after all.

[Fr0zenLegend]

We have observed hundreds of galaxy collisions, Just google "Colliding Galaxies" and you shall find lots and lots of pictures of colliding galaxies. that are colliding.. right NOW! (technically not now, but millions of years ago, but for us its now! so check it out!)

For us it seems that galaxies collide much more often then planets. this may not be the case since we can not see planets out of our solar system (not directly) but galaxy collisions sure as hell happen!

[xjaskix]

uhh how is it far fetched? there's tons of evidence, plus it makes sense.

[RawIronMan]

In during shitstorm.

[charlieclown]

how does a galaxy suck in another galaxy? Is it the gravity of it's central solar object? Is our galaxy going to lose some stars to a bigger one? Will earth be relocated?

[payasofeo69]

I be happy with just a minor pole shifting. Give summer for 12 months!

[ReluctantZer0]

What if we get fucked with winter for 12 months?? :(

[payasofeo69]

I live in Canada... I'm already fucked. ;)

Seriousy, it's not that bad.

[lwanatt]

it is unlikely that our species will be directly effected like that

[UncheckedIrony]

maybe some small gamma rays and a small chance there will be a small light show but i dont have to worry about that ill let someone else do it

[dannyel22]

small minded stuff....

[Core5]

M31 aka The Andromeda Galaxy is already on a collision course with the Milky Way. So which will happen first: M33 and M31 merge, then collide with us. Maybe we merge with M31, then M33 comes crashing into the mix. Or could all 3 possibly merge together at once. That would be interesting to see. I hope they make a simulation including all 3 galaxies.

[SCARREDMIND]

i would rather live long enough to see it myself.

simulating it just aint as good as the real thing.

[Jayhawkblue]

Gods creation

[Phi16180]

there is no god you twat

[theendofconfusion]

Fucking crazy.

[mikrobluess]

"Stole and devour".... thats the terms standard science has to rely on to try and explain what they don't understand.

Just like when they call the birkeland currents of energy, entering the poles of earth, for "Magnetic ropes"

- Plasmacosmology

- Electric universe theory

- reciprocal system of physical theory

- Sacred geometry

- Fractals

- Vortex

- infinity within finite boundries

Thats where you will find the answers to movement patterns of the foundation of creation.

[ktombak]

ROFL! How scientific: "Big galaxies grow by gobbling up smaller ones"

[Phonomorph]

Hot dang! A gypsy galaxy n_n

[morallyanonymous]

Videos are too short still :(

[JohnBlack666id]

I hate the bitch's voice, great info though

[flavorfives]

her voice makes babies cry

[refill1234567]

shit happens

[XTheFadedLineX]

She is just the worst narrator.

[mah93047]

Can you people please STFU about her voice already? We heard your whining, nobody cares. We sane people prefer to listen to what she has to say instead of how she says it. Give it a try!

(Sorry for being harsh, but this is getting ridiculous.)

[RentTheSpokeMan]

I agree, mah93047

[puretroubleman]

no its not ridiculous, we the consumers generate revenue for newscientist thus it is in there interest to provide a better voice for the videos. her voice is so dull and plain and Lose interest watching the video because of it.

[AbsalomPitchingfork]

You watch the videos anyway, right? The only way that would work is if you stopped watching the videos. Besides, the videos are utterly unimportant. It's the article that matters.

[comicus211]

She makes me want to fall asleep with a knife in my hand.

[AnonEyeMouse]

Well I like her voice, so I cancel you out.

Just to point out, watching the vid on Youtube generates nil income for New Scientist.

[mah93047]

Your interest in science depends on the voice telling you about it? I feel sorry for you ... Anyway, "generating revenue" is no excuse for bullying people the way it is happening in some of these comments.

[puretroubleman]

I don't know if you was aware of this, but there are many other places which 'break' these same stories. the bbc for one normally has the exact same stories as newscientist in its science section.

my interest in using new scientists youtube page depends on its content and when the content contains a boring lifeless voice I lose interest.

call it bullying if you want, but please remember we are human beings not robots, we have dislikes and likes.

[marsCubed]

puretroubleman, If you read newscientist occasionally then you might realize that, just like any other publication, ns is the breaker of news stories and ideas which very often then get picked up by others, such as the BBC.

Your comment is like implying that we do not need meteorology because they have the weather in newspapers on page 2.

It stretches the point, but hopefully you can see what I mean.

[mah93047]

I'm not saying you are doing the bullying, but many of the comments about this topic certainly have reached a level of meanness that can only be described by this word.

And that only be explained by the respective posters' pathetic lack of self-esteem, imho. I get the distinct impression of a couple of nerds playing the role of bullies from the safety of their parents' basements, rejoicing in the fact that it's someone else who is getting bullied this time and not them.

[scytheboy]

I just find the sound irritating. So much so I just use this subscription to remind me to check out their blog, and READ it instead.

[edgonzaliz]

AGREE, PLEASE CHANGE THE VOICE!!!

[scullyy]

I'm calling it.... the Mario galaxy!

[randomviewer896]

:D!

[liquidus2172]

galaxy cannibalism! lool

[MagikGimp]

This shit makes me laugh. It's just a bunch of dots on a screen and doesn't mean anything. A time scale of billions of years and millions of suns? Who cares, it's all science fiction anyway, we can't possibly comprehend this stuff at all.

[master1140]

Well thanks for your opinion on the matter. "..just a bunch of dots on a screen.." and you're using a computer? Monitors are up to a point basically thousands of dots (pixels) and you don't complain about that, hypocrite. Furthermore, sounds like you look at things at life negatively, I feel sorry for you, and "..doesn't mean anything..." maybe to you..but many other people may actually comprehend it in a differently. If you've got nothing constructive to say, don't say anything at all.

[MagikGimp]

Please comprehend a billion years for me then I might start to understand. The entire history of the human race is less than 1% of such a timespan. The collision of two galaxies is just dots on a screen because it does not happen that fast. Who cares about the gravitational forces of galaxies? You cannot see them? They are simulations on a computer, whoop de doo. Congratulations Mr. Scientist, it is a novelty for science fiction, whatever keeps you happy. Go watch a fucking episode of Star Trek.

[themightychickens]

Well, it's actually just a part of understanding the universe.

One step at a time mate.

[master1140]

I don't care if you understand it or not, you don't have to bash on things you don't like or understand, just don't say anything at all if it's not useful or constructive. "Who cares about the gravitational forces of galaxies?" more to the point, who cares about your negative opinion on this topic. Who or what the hell are you mad with? You sound like a person who gets pissed off at the smallest things imaginable. Simulations aren't 100% accurate/reliable, they simply give you an rough vision.

[atotti2000]

calm down baby, have a piece of cheese.

[AbsalomPitchingfork]

I propose he has a glass of soymilk instead!  That stuff is so happiness-inducing.

[AnonEyeMouse]

Soy milk makes me sad... it's vile.

[grendelee]

doesnt matter if you like it or not. it exists.

[SAsgarters]

Please just fuck off and die already.

[MagikGimp]

Lol, nerd rage

[SAsgarters]

You know, being called a nerd by someone who most likely never made it through elementary school, is not very insulting.

[lordblazer]

it isn't science fiction. Its physics.

[Plutonwolf]

Our own galaxy has done this many times in the past. All big galaxies do this. The Magellanic Clouds are the most visible remnants of our victims.

[defect530]

survival of the fittest.  Darwinism in space!!!

[pubtor]

its the same everywhere

[awesomeSimon]

omg we r gon get owned by biggar galexy ;(

[SteveDeFacto]

Can you imagine what the intelligent life forms in those galaxies are thinking?

[WhiteDragon103]

They would probably think nothing of their galaxy being eaten up. Imagine if this video was played trillions of times slower. It would be motionless, and that's how it was when it was happening - no forces were really capable of stripping planets like ours from their stars. The forces were extremely faint and uniform, but had a large affect on the behavior of galaxies because of the duration for which the forces were applied.

[MagikGimp]

You're completely right, it's meaningless because it took so damn long nobody cared.

[WhiteDragon103]

Well, there would be some interesting patterns in the sky nonetheless. The milky way is boring because all it appears like to us is a streak of dots across the sky. Perhaps the aliens on those stars saw some interesting streaks going everywhere. They'd have a front-row view of Andromeda too.

[TravisMorien]

Have you ever seen through a proper astronomical telescope? The stars glow like flaming jewels, the Milky Way resolves into countless numbers of stars through a telescope and if you point it at a nice star cluster it is breathtaking.

I suppose not everyone finds it so nice, but to those of us that way inclined stargazing with or without a telescope is awe inspiring.

[WhiteDragon103]

That does sound wonderful. I was exaggerating my point though, stargazing is probably very breathtaking but I think it would be astonishing to see a neighboring galaxy reaching across the sky from one horizon to another.

[TravisMorien]

Well I suppose it would look much like the sky looks now, just another "milky way". Unless of course the galaxy approaches us axially, in which case it would be a big spiral.

Of course stars are very far from one another, so most stars would generally pass harmlessly by one another during the collision with their solar systems unaffected and at speeds that would not result in noticeable movement over many generations.

[ccaptorchen]

our galaxy the Milkyway IS the big bully in our case.. we are currently stealing stars from the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy..

[rollhard86]

Fuck yeah the milky way is the best!!!!!!

[WhiteDragon103]

Well, they'd probably think it's pretty cool, though. :)

[WillP999]

OMNOMNOM

[WhiteDragon103]

OM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM! burp

[uire23]

ARGH the lady with the voice...

[baltusd]

I'm hungry. Let's go to McDonalds.

[aboodmatar]

ok i'll come with you.

[TheFluffyDuck]

And another bites the dust.....

[DamienHell]

om nom nom nom

[kennypark]

Or small galaxies grow by affiliating themselves with bigger ones.

[erthany]

That's terrible.

Poor stars.

[Uejji]

There's so much empty space in galaxies that very little if any stars actually collide. They're just being drawn into the new galaxy, not being destroyed.

[erthany]

It was a joke.

I wasn't being serious, you know.

[Uejji]

Sorry if I offended you by trying to be helpful.

[farhmoha]

Will this happen to us T_T

[teemuruskeepaa]

Us? In 5 billion years?

[fenix611]

yea before we kill ourselvs in nuclear war or in some catastrophy because of global warming. anyways, super powers like USA, japan,china,russia and some others could maybe even go to war with each other for the remaining oil supplys in some 10 or 30 years, well only if they insist with that or change to better energy ways. but its around the corner man. the energy crisis.

[WhiteDragon103]

These events happen over such a long duration. We probably wouldn't feel a thing here on earth if our galaxy was swallowed up by a larger one because our existence depends on the sun, not on neighboring stars, and the earth's orbit around the sun wouldn't be disturbed. Keep in mind that individual starts are thousands of lightyears away while we are around 100-150 million kilometers away from our sun.

[aboodmatar]

What if the sun was stolen?

[WhiteDragon103]

The earth would follow the sun as it is stolen, pretty much as it is now. In this case the forces we're dealing with are extremely faint, but it is applied for a very long time. The video was obviously sped up significantly.

[aboodmatar]

cool i dont have to worry about anything.

[WhiteDragon103]

Put it this way: If you were in a car, and someone was gently pushing it from behind, the car would move slowly and gradually pick up speed, but you'd probably be able to sleep in the back seat while this was happening in that you wouldn't really notice the force.

[AbsalomPitchingfork]

I'd blame Carmen Sandiego.

[TheLastHaze]

Eat them stars!!!... num num num

[kazimann]

Yummy

[Shalek]

What a bully.

[nafrajo]

Swweet

[zx1011]

gobble gobble