I have to assume the [fail] tag is because they actually posted the story here... WTF...
I've been reading./ for a while now. Hardly ever log in (had to hunt down my password)... but srsly... this is... There are no words in entish, elvish or the tongues of man to describe how much of a fail it is for this to get posted, as a serious article.
Tiny black holes couldn't be earth devouring. A black hole is a mass that has shrunk to the point to where escape velocity is greater than the speed of light. So a tiny black hole that was, say comprised of 200kg, would have no moure earth devouring ability (gravitationally) than a 200kg person.
if the sun instantly shrunk to a black hole, there would be no change in the earths orbit, or any of the planets, the gravitational pull would be _exactly_ the same as before.
Just some clarification on what a common misconception of blackholes being 'devouring' objects.
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I have to assume the [fail] tag is because they actually posted the story here... WTF... I've been reading ./ for a while now. Hardly ever log in (had to hunt down my password)... but srsly... this is ... There are no words in entish, elvish or the tongues of man to describe how much of a fail it is for this to get posted, as a serious article.
Curses, beat me to it. :)
Civ 4 for the win!
Tiny black holes couldn't be earth devouring. A black hole is a mass that has shrunk to the point to where escape velocity is greater than the speed of light. So a tiny black hole that was, say comprised of 200kg, would have no moure earth devouring ability (gravitationally) than a 200kg person.
if the sun instantly shrunk to a black hole, there would be no change in the earths orbit, or any of the planets, the gravitational pull would be _exactly_ the same as before.
Just some clarification on what a common misconception of blackholes being 'devouring' objects.