0 Comments to “Damn, I Love Science”

1. Old Fart says:

   April 10, 2019 at 9:28 am

   My son and his best friends used to talk about their games (online?), existing and in their own designs, while I was driving them places. One of them mentioned a “black hole” grenade, and I piped in with: “That would be an incredibly bad idea”. “Why?” I was asked. “Because everything in and on the planet would be sucked in and destroyed.”

   I hope and pray there really isn’t a black hole in IQ45’s heart for that reason….

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2. megasoid says:

   April 10, 2019 at 9:59 am

   Yes, it is analogous to not being able to see:

   -The Barr interpretation of the Mueller Report
   -Cheeto’s tax returns
   -Plutocrat’s offshore tax havens
   -Trump’s appointees disappearing
   -The MIC’s voracious sucking up of citizen’s taxes.
   -Corporate and Koch Bros. Dark, darker, darkest campaign cash.

   “The black hole is not the event horizon, it’s something inside. It could be something just inside the event horizon, an exotic object hovering just beneath the surface, or it could be a singularity at the centre … or a ring,” said Younsi. “It doesn’t yet give us an explanation of what’s going on inside.”

   https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/apr/10/black-hole-picture-captured-for-first-time-in-space-breakthrough

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3. Micr says:

   April 10, 2019 at 12:23 pm

   We’re late to the game. All that we’re seeing happened 55 million light years ago. Give or take a few minutes.

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4. Jane & PKM says:

   April 10, 2019 at 2:04 pm

   When IQ4.5 was staring at the eclipse without protective eyewear, was that a shot of his mouths, anterior and posterior?

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5. Rhea says:

   April 10, 2019 at 4:11 pm

   A light year is a measurement of distance, equal to how far light can travel in a year. The Sun is 8 light seconds away from Earth, at roughly 93 million miles. If something is 55 million light years away, we can only see it as it was 55 million years ago, which is 10 million years after a few of the last dinosaurs* did not have time to look up and say, “Does that look to you like an asteroi–”

   *not including their descendants, the birds

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6. Sandino says:

   April 10, 2019 at 7:28 pm

   If there are multiple universes and a black hole sucks in everything near it, I am wondering if the result of a black hole is a Big Bang in some universe we can’t see (on the other side of the black hole). I am reading Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything, which makes me wonder such weird thoughts. It is a great book, even if it is 15 years old!

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7. Monty says:

   April 10, 2019 at 7:39 pm

   This could also be a photo of Trump’s so-called brain.
   A “black hole” for sure.

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8. Rhea says:

   April 10, 2019 at 9:12 pm

   It could also be a photo of the orifice up which Trump’s brain can be found, but you’d have to go a long way up to find it. You’d have a much shorter trip if you just cocked his mouth open, which is generally is anyway.

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9. The Surly Professor says:

   April 11, 2019 at 10:32 am

   As a Real Professor (TM), I gotta point out that it was a grad student, not professors, who made a key contribution that let the black hole be imaged:

   http://lite.cnn.io/en/article/h_27125c86e4d37b79e7e2f7e2e34d07db

   I’m glad to see she is going to be a professor at CalTech. Even happier to see a large number of women going into astronomy and astophysics. Vera Rubin was a trail blazer, but many recent advances have come from women students and professors.

   Sandino@6: I think that Fred Hoyle had a theory that every black hole was linked to a “white hole”, where stuff that got sucked in to a BH was spewed out. The theory did not last, but is similar to what you suggest.

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10. Oldymoldy says:

    April 12, 2019 at 2:26 pm

    “The Sun is 8 light seconds away from Earth, at roughly 93 million miles”
    To think all these years I’ve been thinking it was 8 minutes!?
    jua’sayn’

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