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woodchip
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by woodchip » Thu Mar 17, 2005 6:54 am
Don't know how many of you remember the intro to this game where a govt.lab ex[eriment goes wrong and fubars the planet. Well I couldn't help but think of that game when I read this:
"A fireball created in a US particle accelerator has the characteristics of a black hole, a physicist has said."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4357613.stm
So should we be worried? I already have guns and a motorcyle so I'm all set.
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by roid » Thu Mar 17, 2005 8:16 am
no there's nothing to fear woodchip.
a kickass unexpected anomaly though.
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by Top Gun » Thu Mar 17, 2005 8:48 am
Very cool stuff. And no, I don't think we have to worry about the universe imploding.
P.S.
at the black hole "picture" associated with that article. So that's what they look like!
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by Lobber » Thu Mar 17, 2005 10:37 am
Very interesting. Could fuel speculative fiction.
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by snoopy » Thu Mar 17, 2005 11:04 am
Woot! That's awesome.
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by llClutchll » Thu Mar 17, 2005 12:15 pm
Quantam mine! I loved that game... wait till you had a couple of people in the room and WHAM! Shoot the QMine and nuke 'em all!
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by Avder » Thu Mar 17, 2005 3:31 pm
A black hole that size would have an event horizon of maybe a few microns at most. All youd need would be to magneticly suspend it somehow in a vacuum.
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by World War Woodi » Thu Mar 17, 2005 6:52 pm
Very interesting stuff, good thing gravity is not the major force involved, or we might be humming a different tune.
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by Dedman » Fri Mar 18, 2005 10:12 am
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by Top Gun » Fri Mar 18, 2005 2:11 pm
That's an awesome page, Dedman.
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by woodchip » Fri Mar 18, 2005 3:43 pm
Yeah thanks Dedman, I'm going to sleep real well tonight knowing bin Laden has probably read that site also...
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by snoopy » Fri Mar 18, 2005 10:52 pm
woodchip wrote: Yeah thanks Dedman, I'm going to sleep real well tonight knowing bin Laden has probably read that site also...
Heh... bin Laden dreams of having enough resources to come even close to making any of those happen.