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darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2003-07-20 11:33pm

Now i know that black holes unless continusley fed enough matter/energy dissapper in a puff of gamma radiation and i know scientists are creating mini black holes, but what if, scientists calculate wrong and make a black hole that
get's enough mass/energy and keeps growing. Wouldn't it eventually suck in the earth? Wouldn't that be a very bad thing?

Hyperion · Post by **Hyperion** » 2003-07-20 11:36pm

Indeed that would be possible and would be a Bad Thing (tm).

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2003-07-20 11:59pm

Well if they fuck up is there anyway to make a black hole collapse? Perhaps feeding more antimatter than the matter it's sucked in already?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-07-21 12:32am

Unless a scientist can cram a mountain's worth of mass into an artificial singularity, I don't think we need to worry about it hanging around long enough to accumulate mass.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-07-21 12:37am

darthdavid wrote:Now i know that black holes unless continusley fed enough matter/energy dissapper in a puff of gamma radiation and i know scientists are creating mini black holes, but what if, scientists calculate wrong and make a black hole that get's enough mass/energy and keeps growing. Wouldn't it eventually suck in the earth? Wouldn't that be a very bad thing?

That'd have to be a massive error, far beyond the metric/English system mishap. Trust me, we're a long way off from destroying the Earth with an artificial black hole.

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2003-07-21 01:01am

Scientists can create artificial black holes now? That's extremely cool. Probably microscopic I'd imagine, but rad nonetheless. How energetic is a gamma ray burster anyway? I've always wanted to know that.

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2003-07-21 02:49am

more importantly, can it be used as a weapon?

walsingham · Post by **walsingham** » 2003-07-21 09:29pm

Still more importantly, can it be used as a garbage disposal?

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2003-07-21 11:11pm

Nah. Have to feed it small ammounts in just the right way. Too much, Sucks up the earth. Too little, Explodes like an uber nuke.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-07-21 11:31pm

darthdavid wrote:Nah. Have to feed it small ammounts in just the right way. Too much, Sucks up the earth. Too little, Explodes like an uber nuke.

Uber Nuke doesn't even begin to explain it

Dark Hellion · Post by **Dark Hellion** » 2003-07-21 11:48pm

How long til someone posts about how they already use black holes for weapons in their secret moon base.[/quote]

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-07-22 01:51am

Dark Hellion wrote:How long til someone posts about how they already use black holes for weapons in their secret moon base.

Shit, how did you find out?

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2003-07-22 02:27am

darthdavid wrote:Now i know that black holes unless continusley fed enough matter/energy dissapper in a puff of gamma radiation and i know scientists are creating mini black holes, but what if, scientists calculate wrong and make a black hole that
get's enough mass/energy and keeps growing. Wouldn't it eventually suck in the earth? Wouldn't that be a very bad thing?

This could not happen, the amount of matter to create a black hole that is sustainable for even a small amount of time is large. You need a large amount of matter to start with to create a black hole that could actually affect the surrounding matter significantly before it vaped. The amount of matter needed to create a black hole the size of a marble is roughly equal to the earth. If a person was simply transformed into a black hole all of the sudden, that hole would be smaller than an electron. The holes these scientists are creating are the byproduct of a collision between single ATOMS.

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