When you get stuck in a Black Hole.........

[ljiljanac]

I thought this was hilarious.  Thought I'd share this so everyone knows what to do the next time they fly past a black hole and fly just a little TOO close.   

http://www.universetoday.com/2007/05/10/maximizing-survival-time-inside-the-event-horizon-of-a-black-hole/

[PPI Karl]

I thought this was hilarious.  Thought I'd share this so everyone knows what to do the next time they fly past a black hole and fly just a little TOO close.   

http://www.universetoday.com/2007/05/10/maximizing-survival-time-inside-the-event-horizon-of-a-black-hole/

Thanks, Lillie, for that fun article.

I feel this is advice is apt for so many situations, such as maximizing my happy time at work before certain colleagues whom I describe as black holes start to drag me down into their pit of negative despair.  (When I cross that event horizon, I look down at my feet and realize the unravioli-fication has begun. )

[PPI Tracy]

I wish we had a "Like" button here like they do on Facebook.  Cuz I "LIKE" it!

[Damian]

New vocabulary word for me:  spaghettification   

[PPI Jason]

I can't pull up the article, but I'm gathering from Damian's mention of the word "Spaghettification" that it's related to what I read about black holes in one of my favorite books "Death by Black Hole" by Neil DeGrasse Tyson. (Though he borrowed that term from Stephen Hawking from another of my favorite books "A Brief History of Time.")

I used the analogies in that book when I was teaching my boys about black holes last year. It's just so amazing how much we know about black holes today. I remember growing up and people were still arguing whether they existed or not. Thanks to Tyson's book, my boys can give a lecture on black holes, what happens to you if you fall into a stellar versus a galactic black hole, what kind of relationship exists between mass and gravity, how a black hole is created, what techniques scientists use to detect their presence, theories regarding "white holes," and, of course, many of the lines from the 1979 Disney classic "The Black Hole."



"There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are very few old bold pilots."
"Rashness is the characteristic of youth, prudence that of mellowed age, and discretion the better part of valor."

[ljiljanac]

I thought this was hilarious.  Thought I'd share this so everyone knows what to do the next time they fly past a black hole and fly just a little TOO close.   

http://www.universetoday.com/2007/05/10/maximizing-survival-time-inside-the-event-horizon-of-a-black-hole/

Thanks, Lillie, for that fun article.

I feel this is advice is apt for so many situations, such as maximizing my happy time at work before certain colleagues whom I describe as black holes start to drag me down into their pit of negative despair.  (When I cross that event horizon, I look down at my feet and realize the unravioli-fication has begun. )

You know...I think there should be annual Black Hole in the Workplace training.  I think I'll throw that into the suggestion box at work.    

Jason, I think it is Awesome that your kids are learning this stuff from you.   

Damian, I can't even say that word.  lol  "Spaghetificination, Pasghetificanation....."