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Old 18-May-2006, 07:18 PM
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Default When Galaxies Collide

I found a very interesting utility on the Internet that simulates galaxy collisions on your PC: http://loke.as.arizona.edu/~ckulesa/astrosoft.html

Here are my initial settings:

0 0 100
0 0 0
5 5
1
QuickDraw and Reverse checked, number of iterations set to 9999.

The result are the two galaxies colliding top-down and bottom-up, with both being totally destroyed in a highly cataclysmic dual cone expansion pattern!

Play with it for a while - you'll get hooked!
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