BLACK HOLE FOUND NEAR OUR GALAXY!!(it could be the end of the world!)

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It's 2.2 billion light years away (far)

The merger occurred 2.2 billion light-years away, so it actually took place 2.2 billion years ago and the light just reached Earth this morning.
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well considering it was created 2.2 billion years go and the light from it is just reaching earth I think we're safe for awhile...
 
I hope it lands on my neighbors house, those bitches leave the light on all night shining right into my window.
 
I bet this is something that we won't have to worry about. I imagine it's like that asteroid reporting that happened a few years ago.
 
they said the GRB can fry the ozone and the UV can pass resulting in cancer and (hopefully) turtles turning into HEADCRABS!
 
gh0st said:
I hope it lands on my neighbors house, those bitches leave the light on all night shining right into my window.
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Get curtains
eduh.com

or the trusy brick
Works every time...
 
Prince of China said:
I bet this is something that we won't have to worry about. I imagine it's like that asteroid reporting that happened a few years ago.
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ooh cool, so we can be expecting lots of disaster films where Mr flawed American who has a few problems *boo hoo* is plucked from obscurity to save humanity by using some incredibly implausable plot device to destroy the evil black hole *cue DUN DUN DUN music when it appears on screen in all its polygon glory* oh yeah and he probably dies at the end after giving some heart warming speech to [insert random model wannabe actress here] mother/daughter/girlfriend/wife.

oh and then another film will come along, but claim to be "based on fact" and this time America will get its ass whipped as a chunk of it is ripped up and pulled into the black hole as it gets dangerously close to causing people to wake up in the cinema, in an implausable plot device wrapped up in "no really it could happen dude!" speeches by scientist characters, followed by a drawn out sappy speech at the end about how cool the american people are yada yada yada we all love one and other yada yada yada lets not all have wars again yada yada yada.

making way for the Hallmark feature presentation five years later when everyone has got bored of the whole thing and the kids have long since bought and thrown away their black hole lego toys, about blackholes appearing around the sun, and only Greg Evigan and that Laura Ingalls Wilder girl, you know, the one that went blind so they could write her out of the show can save the day by yup you guessed it, ANOTHER IMPLAUSABLE PLOT DEVICE! probably involving a can of spam and a rocket ship that NASA just happen to be working on and willing to hand over to two people who've never been near one before.
 
The Dark Elf said:
ooh cool, so we can be expecting lots of disaster films where Mr flawed American who has a few problems *boo hoo* is plucked from obscurity to save humanity by using some incredibly implausable plot device to destroy the evil black hole *cue DUN DUN DUN music when it appears on screen in all its polygon glory* oh yeah and he probably dies at the end after giving some heart warming speech to [insert random model wannabe actress here] mother/daughter/girlfriend/wife.

oh and then another film will come along, but claim to be "based on fact" and this time America will get its ass whipped as a chunk of it is ripped up and pulled into the black hole as it gets dangerously close to causing people to wake up in the cinema, in an implausable plot device wrapped up in "no really it could happen dude!" speeches by scientist characters, followed by a drawn out sappy speech at the end about how cool the american people are yada yada yada we all love one and other yada yada yada lets not all have wars again yada yada yada.

making way for the Hallmark feature presentation five years later when everyone has got bored of the whole thing and the kids have long since bought and thrown away their black hole lego toys, about blackholes appearing around the sun, and only Greg Evigan and that Laura Ingalls Wilder girl, you know, the one that went blind so they could write her out of the show can save the day by yup you guessed it, ANOTHER IMPLAUSABLE PLOT DEVICE! probably involving a can of spam and a rocket ship that NASA just happen to be working on and willing to hand over to two people who've never been near one before.
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Yep...thats usually how it happens... :frog: :laugh:
 
ne0_shiny said:
Yep...thats usually how it happens... :frog: :laugh:
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I should add that suddenly all the actors involved will also become experts overnight on the subject of black holes, and in interviews they'll be all concerned n stuff.

And the Hallmark version will probably have a special guest appearance by Stephen Hawking. Or maybe Einstein, even though he's dead.. but its hard to tell the difference next to Greg "when random household objects attack " Evigan.
 
Can it star Jeff Goldblum?

ne0_shiny said:
Get curtains
eduh.com

or the trusy brick
Works every time...
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I have curtains damn it, this guys using LED laser lights or some shit, they are blinding. Its like the sun.
 
gh0st said:
Can it star Jeff Goldblum?
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Of course he can, and he can say his "must go faster" line while him and the star of the film outrun the blackhole in errrm.. a pickup truck
 
The Dark Elf said:
Of course he can, and he can say his "must go faster" line while him and the star of the film outrun the blackhole in errrm.. a pickup truck
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An intergalactic pickup. Hey, while we're listening to his rivetting explanation of chaos theory we can take take it up the ass some more from his cheesy roles and lack of talent.

Or not, whichever.
 
gh0st said:
An intergalactic pickup. Hey, while we're listening to his rivetting explanation of chaos theory we can take take it up the ass some more from his cheesy roles and lack of talent.

Or not, whichever.
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Don't forget the glass of water to aid his scientific explanations, he needs props to hold otherwise his arms flay wildly and in an intergalactic pickup truck, that can be dangerous.
 
The Dark Elf said:
Of course he can, and he can say his "must go faster" line while him and the star of the film outrun the blackhole in errrm.. a pickup truck
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Damn. I was just gonna say that :P

Yeah, we're only 12,904,531,200,000,000,000,000 miles away from this black hole... YIPES!!!

What is that? ...almost 13 sextillion miles away?
 
kelvini said:
they said the GRB can fry the ozone and the UV can pass resulting in cancer and (hopefully) turtles turning into HEADCRABS!
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Great Britain can do that? :O
 
Why is everyone worried? It's not as though the mass just appeared. We're in no danger unless we go right up to it.

Or unless it fries us with a beam of gamma rays.
 
I like how the article doesn't even mention anything bad, and all of a sudden its the end of the universe. :D
 
The Dark Elf said:
Don't forget the glass of water to aid his scientific explanations, he needs props to hold otherwise his arms flay wildly and in an intergalactic pickup truck, that can be dangerous.
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Does he get to ramble on again about his chaos theory too?
 
It's 2,2 billion light years away. This black hole does not expand at the speed of light, in fact, by the time it reaches the solar system (if it does, which is nearly impossible), the earth and sun have since long ceased to be.
 
ACLeroK212 said:
Does he get to ramble on again about his chaos theory too?
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Consider it done. oooh the pickup truck needs to have one of those notices on the mirrors, about objects behind being closer than they appear, it wouldn't be the same without one.
 
The Dark Elf said:
Consider it done. oooh the pickup truck needs to have one of those notices on the mirrors, about objects behind being closer than they appear, it wouldn't be the same without one.
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And he get's to take down the black hole with a computer virus, that despite the workings of all scientists left on Earth, could only be thought up by a cable television employee. Oh, and he's gotta be Jewish.
 
Isn't there a giant black hole in the centre of every galaxy, like they showed on Horizon? :) and also the bigger they are, the safer they are since the gravitational pull is less "concentrated".

Having said that, someone draw up plans for a very big plug please :|
 
1. it might not even still exist
2. if it did exist, it would would either be nearer to us (:S) or futher away from us
3. We are still save for a long time according to the distance
4. There are more black holes than you think, it could go anywhere, any direction, chances are we wont die from it.


NEXT
 
gh0st said:
Why stop there, he's got to be an environmentalist too.
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oh oh, how could I forget. We need Randy Quaid in here too. Someone's gotta play the drunk who in a split second sobers up and saves the world.

Still missing a token black guy though...
 
thats weird, can you imagine a huge cosmic explosion occurred.. wede see the explosion 100 + years before it blew us away , hehe
 
We're completely and totally fine for quite a while, if we're just now seeing it.

Nothing we need to worry about.

Oh, and The Dark Elf completely and totally owns this thread. Cheers on the funnies mate.
 
ACLeroK212 said:
oh oh, how could I forget. We need Randy Quaid in here too. Someone's gotta play the drunk who in a split second sobers up and saves the world.

Still missing a token black guy though...
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Ok fine there will be a black guy that just stands around saying 'well sheeeit' but he has to die at the end while tryng to save his friend, who survives
 
I think it just goes to show that a fair amount of people just dont grasp the immense distances involved, ridiculous distances.. stupendous, even I cant fully grasp the distances envolved.. the closest ive come to that is to look up at the orion nebula and think 'shit, it would take me 60'000 years to get there travelling at 10 trillion kilometers in one year'.
 
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