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Nohero
Citizen
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 1154
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 20, 2002 - 9:40 am: |     |
Okay, people, enough whining about our petty problems. This is serious:
Two massive black holes are on a collision course out in space, and their crash will result in a catastrophic event that will unleash intense radiation and gravitational waves!
The full story is at this link. Sure, it won't happen for several million years, but why waste time getting upset about it? |
ml1
Citizen
Username: Ml1
Post Number: 329
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 20, 2002 - 9:53 am: | |
Didn't I see this on Star Trek? A hysterical William Windom was the only survivor of the collision... |
Bjp
Citizen
Username: Bjp
Post Number: 9
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 20, 2002 - 1:00 pm: | |
The article goes on to reveal that the collision would cause all matter in the universe to wobble a little bit--but that it would be nowhere close to discernable by humans. Which begs the question, if two black holes collide and nobody feels it... |
patty
Citizen
Username: Patty
Post Number: 244
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 20, 2002 - 5:45 pm: | |
It's fascinating.
I'd imagine that it will be one more event that is being noted because we have the capability at this point in time to see it coming but.........just another day for the universe itself.
It's like realizing, thanks to Mr. Hubble, that the Universe is expanding and Orion will one day lose its shape (sigh).
But we've got time.
And hey, No Hero, Saturn still rocks!
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nan
Citizen
Username: Nan
Post Number: 646
Registered: 2-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 6:06 am: | |
Remember that "great" movie When Worlds Collide? Maybe it's time for a remake. |
wharfrat
Citizen
Username: Wharfrat
Post Number: 669
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 6:19 am: | |
The collision will occur billions of years from now, long after our own sun dies, rendering our own planet a lifeless mass of carbon.
This event is also a blueprint for our own interstellar collision. At some point WAY into the future our galaxy will collide with our nearest neighbor, creating a massive explosion which will spread through the universe and cause matter to wobble a little bit somewhere else.
Perhaps it's collisions such as these that are seminal events creating the matter that eventually coalesces into suns, planets and other interstellar objects. |
Nohero
Citizen
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 1159
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 9:20 am: | |
...so, like, does this mean you just got back from the Other Ones concert? |
wharfrat
Citizen
Username: Wharfrat
Post Number: 671
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 3:40 pm: | |
Nah..the show started WAY PAST my bedtime...  |
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