OT: Study Reveals Flaw in Black-Hole Theory

[Atrocities]

Baron, they all lie. NBC has been caught and so has CBS, CNN, and ABC. ALL news organizations lie, they also make mistakes, and from time to time they have even made some huge *** whoopers and been called to carpet for them. Enough please. This is a free nation, if you don't like Fox, don't watch. Most of us are adult enough to make decisions for ourselves and are quite good at faretting out BS from fact. I myself won't watch NBC news at all. I prefer ABC and Fox, but mostly ABC.


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So what would happen if a Black hole, say a very small one about the size of a pin head, came into contact with our planet?

[GuyOfDoom]

Atrocities said:
Baron, they all lie. NBC has been caught and so has CBS, CNN, and ABC. ALL news organizations lie, they also make mistakes, and from time to time they have even made some huge *** whoopers and been called to carpet for them. Enough please. This is a free nation, if you don't like Fox, don't watch. Most of us are adult enough to make decisions for ourselves and are quite good at faretting out BS from fact. I myself won't watch NBC news at all. I prefer ABC and Fox, but mostly ABC.

This is true, but I think we severely disagree on the magnitude. In other words FOX goes above and beyond.

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So what would happen if a Black hole, say a very small one about the size of a pin head, came into contact with our planet?

It wouldn't even get that close before the gravitation would mess everything up enough that all life would be dead.

[Atrocities]

Just think, all we know about black holes is that we don't really know crap. In fact there is so much about the universe that we don't know that to even think we know the smallest fraction of what can be known is a horribly arrogant of us.

[GuyOfDoom]

Atrocities said:
Just think, all we know about black holes is that we don't really know crap. In fact there is so much about the universe that we don't know that to even think we know the smallest fraction of what can be known is a horribly arrogant of us.

The saying goes the more you learn the less you know. That doesn't mean we don't know anything and that doesn't mean that we can't try to learn. There are some items that are beyond our present reach, but that doesn't mean they will be forever. I'm somewhat confused as to what you're trying to say.

[Atrocities]

I guess what I am trying to say is that there is so much to learn that any one who thinks they know it all don't really know crap.

[GuyOfDoom]

Of course no one knows everything. Have you honestly met someone who thinks they do?

[aegisx]

I just don't understand the need, even if you agree that they all 'misrepresent'/skew the truth, to keep pushing that somehow Fox News is worse. that the company line?

[AgentZero]

GuyOfDoom said:
Of course no one knows everything. Have you honestly met someone who thinks they do?

Fyron knows everything but he won't admit it.

Does that count?

[Will]

Atrocities said:
Baron, they all lie. NBC has been caught and so has CBS, CNN, and ABC. ALL news organizations lie, they also make mistakes, and from time to time they have even made some huge *** whoopers and been called to carpet for them. Enough please. This is a free nation, if you don't like Fox, don't watch. Most of us are adult enough to make decisions for ourselves and are quite good at faretting out BS from fact. I myself won't watch NBC news at all. I prefer ABC and Fox, but mostly ABC.

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So what would happen if a Black hole, say a very small one about the size of a pin head, came into contact with our planet?

The difference is that when other news organizations are caught reporting falsehoods, they at least have the decency to put out corrections. Fox makes a habit of ignoring any mistakes in their reporting. In that, they act more like a propaganda machine than an institution with any journalistic integrity.

As for the black hole... that depends. Are you saying the size of a pin head is the size of the event horizon, or the volume containing all the mass? If the former, it would almost certainly evaporate due to Hawking radiation. If the latter, depends on the starting mass, but it probably would also evaporate.

If a black hole were somehow created on the surface of Earth, it wouldn't last long. If it was created on Earth, then by definition it would need to have a mass much less than that of Earth, and so it will have a gravitic pull much less than that of Earth. If it doesn't have the dominant force, it will not consume much mass, and will evaporate.

If the black hole came from outside the solar system, then depending on the mass, and how close it passes by, it could either knock us into a different orbit, or take out a chunk of the planet approximately the size of the event horizon. Then it would continue to bypass us and either get caught up in the sun or exit the solar system.

[Baron Grazic]

Will said:
If the black hole came from outside the solar system, then depending on the mass, and how close it passes by, it could either knock us into a different orbit, or take out a chunk of the planet approximately the size of the event horizon. Then it would continue to bypass us and either get caught up in the sun or exit the solar system.

Does this mean Black holes can travel thru space like a comet?