[Ashrak]

well what bugs me is the fact that it spits out gamma rays when it touches matter ... so when a moon goes we all get fryed by gamma fiered from the black hole which is sucking up the moon and wouldnt it take 100's of years to suck up all the stuff .... the bigger the mass the slower time moves iirc?

[Grug]

If a black hole sucked up the moon, it wouldn't be the same size, probably still tiny in volume. Ecllipses would be quite interesting to see, as light would be bent and sucked up rather than blocked.

Not sure on the amount of gamma radiation that it gives off, but still thats what the Earth atmosphere is for.

[Flipside]

The thing is, you could give Tony Blair a sense of responsibility to his electrorate for one ten billionth of a second, but would it make any difference?

[Col. Fishguts]

Originally posted by Carl
I don't think you quite understand how much light we're talking about here. If you took the light coming from one 60 watt light bulb and shined it into a black hole, it would take 27 million years to increase it's mass by one gram. and that's not counting the mass that gets lost by the whole 1+1 < 2 thing.

Photons have inertial mass but no gravitational mass, so I doubt a black hole can gain gravitational mass by sucking up photons.

[Carl]

Only if Blair spits out hawking radiation meanwhile.

[Flipside]

Well, what was that movie where they killed the bad guy by wishing she had a heart? I think it was Krull?

Either way, I think the outcome would be something like that

[Col. Fishguts]

Originally posted by Flipside
Well, what was that movie where they killed the bad guy by wishing she had a heart? I think it was Krull?

I curse you for bringing back memories of a movie, that I hoped I had buried deep in my subconciousness....

[Flipside]

It's best that you let it out now and deal with the pain, else you get a strange urge to kick people for no reason as you get older

It's like those other sources of shame, Labyrinth, He-Man and, of course, the deepest of them all, The Care Bear Movie....

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Flipside
The Care Bear Movie....

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Actually, I think I still have a blue Care Bear up in the loft - we keep it chained to the wall and feed it fish-heads.

[Flipside]

hehehehe, you should try and convert it to the Dark Side

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Flipside
hehehehe, you should try and convert it to the Dark Side

I'm wondering if I can get it to attack me at full-moon.

Then I could become a Were-Care-Bear.

(boom *tish*!)

[Ford Prefect]

Btw, I've read Hyperion a few years ago, but I don't remember anything about blackholes, my most vivid memories are of a chick with skinfitting liquid metal armor

In Hyperion, the Earth, known as Old Earth, was destroyed when a contained singularity grew out of control and began gradually eating the planet over many years. The event was known as the Big Mistake.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Ford Prefect

Big Mistake.

No ****, Sherlock?



However, I grow interested in this 'chick with skinfitting liquid metal armor'..........

[Ford Prefect]

If you're interested I would highly recommend those books. Their scope is beautifully immense and is conveyed with great poetic prowess, and they're filled to the brim with allegory that inspires a sense of awe I've never found in anything else I've read. They're almost too intricate to digest.

[Grey Wolf]

Actually, given the fact that Luna is actually getting farther from Earth, and the whole 1+1<2 thing associated with black holes, we'd probably end up losing the Moon Black Hole. Hopefully it wouldn't hit Jupiter or the Sun...

[Carl]

why would it matter if it hit jupiter?

[Grey Wolf]

Jupiter has quite a bit of mass, and quite a few moons. Probably wouldn't be a good thing.  Also the fact that it would go through the asteroid belt, and possibly hit Mars along the way.

[Flipside]

Well, admittedly, theres a lot more space out there than planet, but nonetheless, turning your satellite into a singularity is, regardless of the energy gain, something that is usually dreamed up by degree students round a bong one evening.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Flipside
Labyrinth

You don't like Labyrinth! Jim Hensen puppets, David Bowie score, choreography by TNG's Beverly Crusher and a jailbait Jennifer Connelly? What's wrong with you man!

You'll be telling me you didn't like The Princess Bride next or something.

[Flipside]

Well, I will actually admit to watching it occasionally still, but Dark Crystal was just so much better