# The Milky Way and Andromeda Collision

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-milky-way-and-andromeda-collision/815664>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 8, 2018, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-milky-way-and-andromeda-collision/815664 "2018-06-08T05:05:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-milky-way-and-andromeda-collision/815664/41 "2019-02-13T16:41:49Z")

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> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> And then the Eddorians will take over the whole shebang.

I believe that the Arisians will do their best to prove you wrong.

and damn you for getting to that joke first. Where is Qadgop?

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**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-milky-way-and-andromeda-collision/815664/42 "2019-02-14T00:51:48Z")

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> [@rat\_avatar](#):
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> Stars colliding would be rare as stars are ~1/100,000,000,000 the size of the space between them.

**NEWSFLASH - 4-billion AD:** In an incredible cascade of bad luck, all the stars of the Milky Way collided with those of Andromeda.

_Blippy Blurppo_, a sandworm from Betelgeuse reported, _“it was like watching Minnesota Fats hard break a rack of billiard balls. Stars were flying every which way!”_

Our away team, who’ve been anal probing humans since they climbed down from trees (and who remarkably haven’t evolved for 4 billion years, except for losing their little toes and appendixes) reports that Earth ricocheted off Uranus and is heading toward Tadpole galaxy.

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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-milky-way-and-andromeda-collision/815664/43 "2019-02-14T00:57:35Z")

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> [@Folacin](#):
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> I believe that the Arisians will do their best to prove you wrong.
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> and damn you for getting to that joke first. Where is Qadgop?

Slithering on the hull, natrally! 😃

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