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Lab fireball 'may be black hole'
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| 3/17/2005
Posted on 03/17/2005 12:59:33 PM PST by flashbunny
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To: -YYZ-
See!
I knew there would be someone here smart enough to figure it out.
:0)
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posted on
03/17/2005 1:36:12 PM PST
by
Bigh4u2
To: ShadowAce
Cool. I'm going to try it.
62
posted on
03/17/2005 1:36:22 PM PST
by
Finger Monkey
(H.R. 25, Fair Tax Act - do the research, contact your legislators, get this puppy passed.)
To: -YYZ-
Errrrr, that's assuming they're using billion in the north american sense, not the british sense. Whoever wrote that article is innumerate and/or scientifically illiterate. They might just as well have said "an extremely tiny fraction of a second" for all that most would understand it - scientific notation is the only reasonable way to write a number with that many zeros in it.
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posted on
03/17/2005 1:38:05 PM PST
by
-YYZ-
To: flashbunny
"This fireball, which lasts just 10 million, billion, billionths of a second"
Wow! Isn't that about the same amount of time as passed from when "Waterworld" came out in the theater and when it hit the video stores?
To: -YYZ-
"an extremely tiny fraction of a second" Sounds good, lets go with that.
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posted on
03/17/2005 1:40:31 PM PST
by
NY-YANK
To: Daus
When I was in HS electronics, I built a cattle prod with 2 d-cells, a step-up transformer and a large capacitor. Ain't HS kids inventive?
66
posted on
03/17/2005 1:40:39 PM PST
by
LexBaird
("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats" --Jubal Harshaw (RA Heinlein))
To: EvilOverlord
There is actually a book about this...can't remember the name. The CERN scientists created a tiny opening into another universe. An alien collective organism noticed this and sent a nanomachine through the hole. The nanomachine used the concrete in the walls of the building to construct an army (millions of flies with instantly fatal bites, etc.) with which to kill everyone on earth and establish a colony of its own kind. It would take only a couple of days to kill everything on earth. I read this one too - the name of the book is "Einstein's Bridge". It came out shortly after the SSC (Superconducting Super Collider) project was scrapped by Congress back in the mid '90s. I can't remember the author's name.
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posted on
03/17/2005 1:41:57 PM PST
by
bassmaner
(Let's take the word "liberal" back from the commies!!)
To: LexBaird
I built a cattle prod
I hope you actually lived near some cattle. :)
68
posted on
03/17/2005 1:42:00 PM PST
by
Daus
To: proxy_user
Just what I was thinking!
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posted on
03/17/2005 1:42:48 PM PST
by
Fast1
(Destroy America buy Chinese goods,Shop at Wal-Mart)
To: flashbunny
You don't wanna mess around with this kind of stuff, that's for sure...
70
posted on
03/17/2005 1:42:53 PM PST
by
WestVirginiaRebel
(Carnac: A siren, a baby and a liberal. Answer: Name three things that whine.)
To: flashbunny
If... 10 million, billion, billionths of a second... can even happen at all..
It raises a pregnant or at least a poinant question..
Did it really happen.. or was the clock/device measured it flawed.?.
Kind of like if a tree falls in the forest and nobody was there to hear it ... blah blah blah..
or the proverbial I have my truth and you have yours..
If that was true, then, that makes those truths an opinion.. as liberals think all truth is..
Question: What happens when you sequister some liberals in a cylotron and expect them to come up with a logical thought.?.
Answer: Humans love a good story, liberals know that.. and will provide one..
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posted on
03/17/2005 1:45:23 PM PST
by
hosepipe
(This Propaganda has been edited to include not a small amount of Hyperbole..)
To: Cornpone
"However, even if the ball of plasma is a black hole, it is not thought to pose a threat.", Whew...had me worried there for a second.
Glad to know people playing around with black holes aren't a threat. Man, I hope you ended that with a tacit "/sarcasm". I remember reading that one of the biggest worries connected to the Manhattan Project was that they would ignite the whole of the earth's atmosphere. "There goes the atmosphere, oh bother!".
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posted on
03/17/2005 1:46:01 PM PST
by
Chinito
(6990th Security Group, RC-135, Class of '68)
To: hosepipe
Is the cup half full or half empty?
73
posted on
03/17/2005 1:46:28 PM PST
by
Bigh4u2
To: flashbunny
To: Daus
I hope you actually lived near some cattle. :) Not near enough, so I had to find ... um, other means of testing.
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posted on
03/17/2005 1:49:10 PM PST
by
LexBaird
("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats" --Jubal Harshaw (RA Heinlein))
To: Rodney King
Yeah, but then only .5% of the readers would have any idea what that means.
Yeah, but how many of the other 99.5% really need to read about black holes, anyway?
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posted on
03/17/2005 1:50:48 PM PST
by
beezdotcom
(I'm usually either right or wrong...)
To: Bigh4u2
[ Is the cup half full or half empty? ]
Depends on whether its at the level it was filled to <- half or some extent full.. or whether that level has been reduced <-half or some extent emptied..
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posted on
03/17/2005 1:52:01 PM PST
by
hosepipe
(This Propaganda has been edited to include not a small amount of Hyperbole..)
To: NY-YANK
Another way they could have written would have been as "10 millionths of a billionth of a billionth of a second", which is still damn awkward but at least reads correctly and I assume is what they meant.
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posted on
03/17/2005 1:52:33 PM PST
by
-YYZ-
To: LexBaird
That's what I was afraid of. :)
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posted on
03/17/2005 1:53:14 PM PST
by
Daus
To: Paradox
How about John Ringo's new book
Through the Looking Glass, due out in June, where a black hole is accidentally created in a lab at the University of Central Florida, devastating a large portion of Orlando?
Check out the sample chapters at www.baen.com
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posted on
03/17/2005 1:54:49 PM PST
by
Stonewall Jackson
(Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. - John Adams)
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