We're all doomed?

heavymental
heavymental Posts: 2,076
edited December 2008 in The bottom bracket
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7774287.stm

Surely that means we'll all be sucked into it sooner or later?! Its massive and Black Holes pull everything in including light, so surely we don't want one in our neighbourhood?

Are the governments of the world covering up the fact that sometime soon we'll be swallowed up?

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  • ChrisLS
    ChrisLS Posts: 2,749
    ...Heavy old boy your posts are very gloomy...relax, there is nothing we can do...we are all just specks of dust in a huge limitless universe...be a happy speck... :D
    ...all the way...'til the wheels fall off and burn...
  • stage_fright
    stage_fright Posts: 218
    I wouldn't worry about the black hole - our sun will pack up long before that becomes a worry for us.

    Though the black hole is 27,000 light years away - so we actually have no information more recent than it was there and that size 27,000 years ago.
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  • ride_whenever
    ride_whenever Posts: 13,279
    meh, we're in orbit around it, but we have far more pressing concerns, like meteorites and grey goo.

    And stage fright, it won't have got less heavy will it, i mean even with hawking radiation there has got to me millions of tonnes of trash dropping into it...
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  • heavymental
    heavymental Posts: 2,076
    ChrisLS wrote:
    ...Heavy old boy your posts are very gloomy...relax, there is nothing we can do...we are all just specks of dust in a huge limitless universe...be a happy speck... :D

    Don't worry Chris, I'm not a gloomy speck, I'm just wondering if I should just eat a whole box of mince pies or consider my future health! If we're heading for oblivion I'm going to eat those pies, dammit. Might even put some brandy butter on too!
  • snakehips
    snakehips Posts: 2,272
    Heavymental wrote:
    If we're heading for oblivion I'm going to eat those pies, dammit. Might even put some brandy butter on too!
    That's more like it ! I'd join in and eat the mince pies in the picture below , but they disappeared a bit sharpish just after the photo was taken

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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    "Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
    And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
    That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
    A sun that is the source of all our power.
    The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
    Are moving at a million miles a day
    In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
    Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
    Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
    It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
    It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
    But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
    We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
    We go 'round every two hundred million years,
    And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
    In this amazing and expanding universe.

    The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
    In all of the directions it can whizz
    As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
    Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
    So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
    How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
    And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
    'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth."

    Makes you think, doesn't it? Go on, eat the mince pies.... :wink:
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  • Sirius631
    Sirius631 Posts: 991
    Heavymental wrote:
    Its massive and Black Holes pull everything in including light, so surely we don't want one in our neighbourhood?

    Where are the NIMBY's when you need them? How did that get through planning permission? :wink:
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  • Billios
    Billios Posts: 96
    Jeez! How big a garden do you want when something 27,000 light years away i still 'in your neighbourhood'
  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    Sirius631 wrote:
    Heavymental wrote:
    Its massive and Black Holes pull everything in including light, so surely we don't want one in our neighbourhood?

    Where are the NIMBY's when you need them? How did that get through planning permission? :wink:
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    :wink:

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  • iain_j
    iain_j Posts: 1,941
    Surely if it's on a scale of global or universal destruction, someone from Hollywood will save us :P
  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    iain_j wrote:
    Surely if it's on a scale of global or universal destruction, someone from Hollywood will save us :P

    Bruce Willis in a vest, probably. Or perhaps Will Smith.

    David
    "It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Maybe we could send Jo Brand over the event horizon to plug it up.
  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,704
    DavidBelcher wrote:
    iain_j wrote:
    Surely if it's on a scale of global or universal destruction, someone from Hollywood will save us :P

    Bruce Willis in a vest, probably. Or perhaps Will Smith.

    David
    Awww hell no.
  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    johnfinch wrote:
    Maybe we could send Jo Brand over the event horizon to plug it up.

    Probably needs the work now that the appearances on that BBC celeb dancing thingy have ceased. Or am I thinking of someone who looks similar? :wink:

    David
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  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    DavidBelcher wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    Maybe we could send Jo Brand over the event horizon to plug it up.

    Probably needs the work now that the appearances on that BBC celeb dancing thingy have ceased. Or am I thinking of someone who looks similar? :wink:

    David

    Which poor soul looks similar to Jo Brand?
  • nolf
    nolf Posts: 1,287
    Hehe I get it :D

    Also the black hole isn't really a massive issue, I have a feeling it existed even before we discovered it so nothings actually changed. Can't imagine anything interesting wijl happen in our lifetime alas :(
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    Than never to have loved at all."

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  • Mike Healey
    Mike Healey Posts: 1,023
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    M-I-A, "Oh, that's a relief"

    A_R, "Why?"

    M-I-A, "For a minute, I thought you said only 3 million years"
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Maybe if we find a rock, or a star (bigger than the black hole), we can plug it :).
  • Mark Alexander
    Mark Alexander Posts: 2,277
    ride_whenever wrote:
    meh, we're in orbit around it, but we have far more pressing concerns, like meteorites and grey goo.
    ..

    and when the next bike sale's on in the LBS 8)
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