 John the OFM  | 04 Apr 2013 9:18 a.m. PST |
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| Streitax | 04 Apr 2013 9:40 a.m. PST |
Take care when wandering the cold dark universe, there are things out there that go 'Gotcha!' in the night. Another planet that took a postprandial stroll around the neighborhood and was never seen or heard from again. |
| jpattern2 | 04 Apr 2013 9:48 a.m. PST |
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| John the OFM | 04 Apr 2013 9:52 a.m. PST |
Poul Anderson wrote a fantastic story about a "demon", basically a "life form" that existed on pure energy, that was being sucked into a black hole. It was telepathically linked to a woman who…was badly lacking in social skills.
His death was very drawn out, due to that time-space thingie around black holes.
I believe the story ended with:
"As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover! " Damn that businessman from Porlock!  |
| Militia Pete | 04 Apr 2013 10:20 a.m. PST |
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 Parzival | 04 Apr 2013 10:42 a.m. PST |
Uh uh. They can't fool me. It was Galactus. I read all about it in the comicbooks. |
| Eclectic Wave | 04 Apr 2013 12:30 p.m. PST |
A black hole belches and everyone makes a big deal about it. |
| John the OFM | 04 Apr 2013 12:58 p.m. PST |
Yeah, but this time we caught it at it. |
| Streitax | 04 Apr 2013 1:03 p.m. PST |
Wait a minute, I've often thought the OFM is three dimensional representation of a multidimensional wormhole. This 'farting' black hole could be the other end. |
| skippy0001 | 04 Apr 2013 1:09 p.m. PST |
Vor:The Maelstrom was right!!! |
| kallman | 05 Apr 2013 5:31 a.m. PST |
Having read the article I was stunned by the idea that the object "eaten" by the black hole was the mass of 14-30 Jupiters! I mean we know that black holes and novas, and suns in general are huge. But this was perhaps a planet??? Yeesh! I mean the gravitational well that thing had must have been enormous. Here it was wandering the universe thinking, "Hey I am the biggest, bad a…OH CRAP! There is always something bigger than you. |
| Last Hussar | 05 Apr 2013 8:10 p.m. PST |
I hope it didn't have intelligent life – that would be a horrible thing to happen. |
| Parzival | 06 Apr 2013 5:50 p.m. PST |
So, you're saying the experience would suck? |
shows us that you don't need money to have great bases.
