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Possible Hole in Black Holes
jd writes "Researchers have found what they believe may be a MECO (Magnetic, Eternally Collapsing Object) inside of a quasar. MECOs are rivals to black hole theory and involve plasmas that never reach the state of being a singularity. The most obvious differences between them are that MECOs have a magnetic field and do not have an event horizon. The problem lies in that the Universe cannot have both MECOs and black holes — it can only have one or the other. If this object truly is a MECO, then black holes do not exist. Anywhere. (Furthermore, this would require Professor Hawking to return a year's subscription to Private Eye and give Professor Thorne a year's subscription to Penthouse.) On the other hand, if this thing isn't a MECO, it's behaving very very oddly for a black hole."
*Too complicated to coment*
Finally! Now that movie Contact doesn't have any scientific merit! (Like it did before...)
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Yo -
This is MC Hawking. It is my expert opinion that this theory is total bunk. Indeed, I'm pretty sure all their evidence comes from misinterpreting flawed results from their telescope which, rather than showing an exotic object in space, was merely showing some spunk on the lens left after a late-night session with 'Penthouse' magazine.
Peace out,
MC Hawking, PhD.
So if I understand correctly,
Black holes suck and swallow
Meco's suck, gargle and then spit it out
Dirty buggers the lot of them!
Beating up people in little rooms, if you do it for a good reason you do it for a bad one.
Come on! This is slashdot! No-one needs to actually know anything about a subject to comment on it - we don't even read the fucking articles!
ARRRG!
The universe is so anoying, why won't it let us just go out an take a look?
Bloody speed of light crap.
monk.e.boy
Maybe we should invade its surface, kill its plasma and convert it to black holeness.
And given that the 'super massive black hole' at the centre of the galaxy is actually thought to be a multiple system, then this nes suggests that the entities at the centre of our galaxy do snowballs. Ewww.
I think that's as far as we can take this. I hope so.
J.
You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.
The universe isn't a big truck, it's a series of tubes!
Ah, another string theorist!
Eternally collapsing.... Never reaches the final state .... I think they are talking about Microsoft Vista. Please retag the thread as MS with that cool cyborg morph of BGates as the icon.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
I'm sorry but I checked your URLs and they are all wrong. Here is the correct one : http://www.penthouse.com/
May contain traces of nut.
Made from the freshest electrons.
Maybe we should invade its surface, kill its plasma and convert it to black holeness.
Maybe we should just ask it how it feels to think that it's a MECO, and no matter what it says, start up a government program designed to empower its sense of communinity with the black holes. Then, if Kofi Annan decides that the arrangement is suitably free of human suffering that no one in Europe will notice, we can assign a series of attractive Hollywood types to set the tone for more research by doing some short publicity pieces that will help all MECOs feel better about ejecting mass, even if it hurts other stellar objects (which isn't their fault, since the laws of physics are really just The Establishment and Hawking is just The Man, running Big Physics from his position of authority-backed, but morally weak institutional power).
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
MECOs are rivals to black hole theory and involve plasmas that never reach the state of being a singularity.
No singularity, but Meco did come out with that that singularly awesome Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk album back in '77. Take that, black holes!
Swedish plasma phys. PhD student; MSc EE; knows maths, programming, electronics; finance interest; seeks opportunities
Hmm...I'm trying to think of a question which gives 42 but I'm not having much luck.
Schrödinger would have loved anything he could stick a cat into. He hated cats. You should have heard him go on about the microwave oven, and the wood chipper.
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Goddidit?
Furthermore "mecos" is Mexican slang for cum. I just wanted everyone to know that, so you can never again think about black holes and MECOs again without thinking about cum.
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I suggest you read Slashdot
There's actually a theory that renders your theory irrelevant. Let's say for a moment that CUBIC NATURE IS OMNIFIC, INFINITE, INEFFABLE, AND ON DUTY. Singularity is the death math
of religious/academic Godism.
Seriously, have you read your crackpot? "Why Software Is Bad"? "Simple Proof that Nothing Can Move in Spacetime"? At least Time Cube is funny.
Weeeeeee, I'm next!
So you're saying Internet Explorer is really a MECO?
Weeks of coding saves hours of planning.
Funny mods do not raise karma. If you are modded funny, then modded troll, or offtopic, then you will lose karma. I am very happy to see that more and more moderators are modding funny comments with other, karma-giving mods, not only because I think people deserve karma for making the world a funnier place, but especially because it helps to solve the problem that you can lose karma because people disagree as to whether you are funny or not. If the balance is 0, then the balance of karma should also be 0, but this is not how slashdot operates.
I urge everyone to use a karma-giving moderation instead of the funny moderation in all circumstances.
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