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Milky Way Black Hole Could Reignite
sciencehabit sends us to Sciencemag.org for an account of a survey of nearby galaxies that points to the possibility that once-quiescent galactic nuclei could wake up and become active again. If the Milky Way's dormant black hole should become active, it could be bad news for life on Earth (and elsewhere in the neighborhood). The paper (PDF) is up on the arXiv.
I for one welcome our "new" glactic core Overloards!
What if it happened 4999 years ago?
I mean, sure, we may still not care if Bush manages to trigger another world war by nuking Iran, but what are the odds of that happening?
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
Quick, invade something, anything!
Don't be so quick to invade! I say, we develop manned space travel so that we may send some of our elected leaders to meet with the black hole in its homeland of the galactic nucleus to discuss the situation.
Give me a break, I'm seeing double because there's a nitrogen bubble in my left eye. Not only am I seeing double but that eye is REALLY out of focus. And since it's a bubble it moves around, which makes that part of the double vision move around too.
If I got pulled over there's no way I'd pass a field sobriety test, even though I've not been drinking.
The pain in my neck and back from keeping my head down 50 minutes out of every hour is distracting as well, affecting my reading comprehension too.
But mcgrew haters can rejoice, it keeps me from posting at slashdot much.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
"I swear your a bunch of emo kids..."
No, the emo kids on Slashdot feel a need to make those posts, and then mod them up. It's a troll that has a big enough group behind it to support it.
That being said, read the FAQ - this is a US centric site. Deal with it.
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
Out of curiosity, how did you develop that bubble ?