Black Hole Sans Donut Puzzles Astronomers

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Black Hole Sans Donut Puzzles Astronomers

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 30, 2001 @08:47PM from the no-eclair-either dept.

Anonymous Squonk writes: "This time, a telescope made news by not finding something. According to this Honolulu Star-Bulletin article, a black hole was found that did not contain the expected 'donut' of warm matter swirling around it. This discovery (or lack of discovery) may lead scientists to rethink what they know about the core of active galaxies."

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viva la homer by banditski · 2001-10-30 20:54 · Score: 3, Funny

(as homer is sucked into said blackhole)

mmmm.... intergalactic donut...

d'oooooooohhhhhhh!!
1. Re:viva la homer by jeffy124 · 2001-10-31 03:13 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  From the episode of Mensa taking charge of Springfield:
  [steven-hawking]Homer, your theory of a donut shaped universe is intriguing[/steven-hawking]
  
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  The One Rule Of Chess You'll Ever Need: Don't play someone who carries a kit in their bookbag.
Re:Is it my imagination... by Jace+of+Fuse! · 2001-10-30 21:15 · Score: 5, Funny

It's not your imagination... it's just further proof that everything everybody knows is wrong.

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"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"

Moderation Totals: Wrong=2, Stupid=3, Total=5.
No wait... by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-30 21:55 · Score: 1, Funny

I think they're confusing real life with TV again - this happened in StarGate on TV last night.

All you need to do is cause an energy surge to make the wormhole jump from one gate to another, simple. job done. no more black hole.
SANS Donut? by Demerara · 2001-10-30 22:03 · Score: 2, Funny

What has a black hole got to do with System Administration and Network Security?

Am I missing something here?

And, surely, it's "doughnut"?

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Backward%20compatibility%20is%20over-rated
Re:Is it my imagination... by Blackneto · 2001-10-31 00:10 · Score: 1, Funny

It's also proof that once the answer is found, The question will change and make it invalid anyway.

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Ursula Andress, Catherine Deneuve, and Charo, twice...
Blah! by Caine · 2001-10-31 01:43 · Score: 2, Funny

When will they stop fooling around with this kind of lame stuff, and give me hyperspace or warpdrives. I'm getting restless!
Quality submissions by BigBong · 2001-10-31 03:47 · Score: 3, Funny

I read Slashdot religiously every day and the Science section is the main reason. In general the Science posts to /. are great. This post was not. The article linked in this post is terrible. One sentence paragraphs comprise the entire article! Let's try to raise the bar back to where it was here people.

And in my experience...

$journal_name =~ m/(.*) star.*/i;
$tabloid = $1;

Please don't give me bad karma just because I prefer quality.