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I am a nobody, and nobody is perfect; therefore, I am perfect.

Everyday I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

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Sounds like fun.

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Do you have stairs in your house?

the only way to see a Black hole is from an acreition disc from a nearby source of matter, usualy stars...

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---Thomas jefferson, Declaration of Independance.

True, but you can still somewhat see the matter disappear into the hole. I'd figure its worth seeing even if you only see the star disappear. And you can "see" black holes cause they give off tremendous amounts of x-rays. Interesting article.

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Prowling out of the tundra, swinging a jeweled meat hammer, cometh Outlaw Torn! And he gives a gutteral bellow:

"I'm seriously going to hump you until you scream like a banshee!"

And they discovered that in the middle of the black hole were the missing Florida ballets, hereby confirming that Al Gore won.

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I can't think of anything to put here right now.

Har har har har.

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The Matrix is not Linux compatible.

I've always wondered something:

When something is sucked into a black hole, where does it go? It it simply compressed down to a single atom size, or is the matter ultimately destroyed by being converted to energy?



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Most people regard me as the dark and immoral side of Massassi. At least I'm getting what I want out of life.

Canada.

THRAWN, that made me smile.

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Someone wrote this over one of the urinals: "The joke isn't on the wall; it's in your hand." - BV

No one knows. Some think that it is crushed and destroyed, the only place mass/energy can be destroyed. Others think there are "white holes" in other dimensions/universes/galaxies ect. that link together. So black holes are like wormholes, and they compress the "data" and then shoot it off to its connecting white hole, and then it "decompresses the data."

But really. No one knows.

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MadQuack on Military school: Pro's: I get to shoot a gun. Con's: Everything else.
"I'm going to beat you until the laws of physics are violated!!" ! Maeve's Warcry

RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

Aha, so it's like winzip.


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Most people regard me as the dark and immoral side of Massassi. At least I'm getting what I want out of life.

Get over it already

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

Pagewizard: It's not called a singularity for nothing, you know. The core of a neutron star (a step down from a black hole in terms of density) is a collection of neutrons compressed as closely as weak nuclear force will allow. If you add enough mass, that repulsive force is overcome and the neutrons and whatever else collapse. The awesome part is there are no other forces strong enough to hold it apart. Once that threshold is reached, the star never stops shrinking.

A black hole doesn't really occupy any space at all. It's an infinitely dense collection of matter in an infinitely small area.

I wonder why they came up with the idea that the matter gets "transported" miraculously to another part of the universe. Ummmm... why? What evidence is there to support this? Why can't it just be accepted that a black hole is one helluva dense object. (Who knows, it could be the size of a baseball or even the size of an asteroid, do they really know?

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Have a good one,
Freelancer

Avenger, it was a joke. You could replace it with say Jimmy Hoffa's body or the WMD from Iraq.

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I can't think of anything to put here right now.

the matter is not 'transported' to anoutehr part of the universe. that is a screwed up version of the wormhole theory. wormholes are a different matter entirely. with black holes, the theory you're thinking of is that it will get transported to anouther universe entirely, through the 'compression' that happydud mentioned. that theory comes about from th fact that black holes distort space (and time) to such a gigantic degree that it is possible that they may break it entirely, and punch a hole into the other side. however, this is all speculation, and is doomed to be so forever, because there is no possible way to test any theories involving the inside/other side of black holes.

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"No good can ever come from staying with normal people"
-Outlaw Star
"Some people play tennis. I erode the human soul"
-Tycho, Penny Arcade
"I'm a Cannabal-Vegitarian. I will BBQ an employee if there is no veggie option"
-DX:IW

I first heard about this yesterday in my physics class. I was hoping someone here would post it. Yay.

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"Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend." - Proverbs 27:17

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