posted January 07, 2003 01:36 PM              

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posted January 07, 2003 01:48 PM              

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The larger a blackhole gets the more "lenient" its distortion of spacetime is, IE, the spaghettification effect is less pronounced - which is why a massive blackhole will always be pretty gentle.

A tiny black hole on the other hand would have a diabolically steep gravity well, and would also be white hot (look up Hawking Radiation )

I dont know what the regular bursts could be though...the "jets" are caused by intense magnetic fields that blow all the plasma close to the hole out into space at something daft like 80% lightspeed.

anyway...*crawls under a table before he looks too much like a smartarse*

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posted January 07, 2003 02:39 PM              

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lol

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posted January 07, 2003 06:59 PM              

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posted January 08, 2003 01:15 AM              

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Smart-ass away, N_w.

And, hey - we've "eaten-up" a few other galaxies, so there.

Question - When a galaxy is, well, dismembered, how much does that affect individual stars and their surrounding planets?

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posted January 08, 2003 01:38 AM              

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I'm gonna stick around on this thread but just because I do, don't be fooled, I don't understand much of what you and N_wEvil talk about Proxieme!

I am smart- just not so much with abstract things, OK!

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posted January 08, 2003 05:49 AM              

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Galaxies are waay to large to be eaten, the central black hole while it has a load of influence doesnt really stretch out of the immediate core.

If they collide generally they just mash through each other flinging stars around everywhere, it looks alot like slow-motion fluid dynamics..there's some guy who wrote a simulator for it.

Some stars get thrown out into intergalactic space (where there's pretty much nothing at all), some just get jiggled around and some get thrown towards the core if they're particularly unlucky.

I think in the simulator for our impending collision with the Andromeda galaxy in a few million years earth is more likely to be whizzing off into intergalactic space though. Not that it'll matter since by then the sun will be a red giant and earth will be e burnt out cinder

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posted January 08, 2003 03:05 PM            

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By then we'll be advanced enough to migrate to Earth 2 or maybe even to refuel our Sun and control black holes for unlimited energy (and travel).

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posted January 08, 2003 04:10 PM              

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Slow yer roll, ya'll - how do ya know we'll even be around to worry about the above by then?
Humans haven't even existed in anything approaching our present form for a few million years.
We's be babies, in evolutionary terms.
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But, thinking about it, I read somewhere that as it is right now we're approaching the avg. amount of time for a species to exist b/f extinction...
of course, we're a global force, so the same rules might not apply -
we probably won't make it as long as the averages allow.
Ah ha.

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posted January 08, 2003 09:10 PM              

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posted January 08, 2003 09:14 PM              

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i ahev no idea what an actuary is...but a guesstimate could be....

fifteen to the power of 4 and a third?

how about this:

Q:How many Bill Gates clones does it take to change a lightbulb?

A:One, he holds the bulb in place and the world revolves around him.

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posted January 08, 2003 09:38 PM              

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posted January 08, 2003 09:53 PM              

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(Statistics- I am taking that now!)

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