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Mothers' Day and Fathers' Day. I always get my parents gifts, but seriously - Hallmark invented these days as a way to sell more cards! What kind of crap is that?

Brown. Very much of the brown. Although it was very much of the blond when I was younger. >_>

Teo estas sole bona kun lakto. Multaj lakto!

Please, don't spam. We know the image is photoshopped. If you'd taken two freaking minutes to read at least a page or two, you'd know we're now onto a discussion on black holes in general.

Ahh, even more complicated. We're edging towards mine own event horizon - I'm not sure about this, so I'll... guess. ^^ It's time dilation again. It in fact does take the black hole an infinite amount of time to travel even a short distance - from... its own point of view. But from our point of view, it travels at a much higher speed. Relativity again. I'm probably close here. We're not totally out of my expertise, but we're dang close. >_>

My parents are totally against the idea of even a drop of the alcohol in me. However, my girlfriend and some of her friends drink sometimes, and if I'm over at her house for a good period of time, or even overnight, I'll have a little bit. I think it's fine as long as you're not drinking and driving. Something people do after the legal age anyways (19 IN CANADIA HAH!), so who cares whether we drink? I try not to get too drunk, though. oo

They named it Google as a play on googol. As in, there are a googol websites listed by Google, sort of thing. Google has googols. ^^ It's very complicated when you go from "warping space" to "warping time". It's easiest to do with a large whiteboard and plenty of coloured markers. The black hole itself doesn't move through time, and space around it moves at slower and slower rates of time. But outside the black hole's effect radius, time moves normally. You'll need to think carefully about this one. Outside the black hole, you see (or rather, would if you could clearly see inside a black hole's event horizon) matter being sucked into the black hole, and eventually being "devoured". However, for an object being pulled in, time moves slower and slower, and eventually stops. Two different perspectives of Time. Here's another way of putting it: Time is a highway. Any object with gravity (read: anything) warps time in a tiny way. Most planets are only the spaces between the asphalt bits. Large stars are small pockets in the road. Black holes are potholes. With no bottoms. Any object that falls straight in is lost, like being sucked into a black hole. Some objects, however, are traveling fast enough that they're like that annoying basketball rim shot. They come in on an angle, spin around the rim, and shoot back out. That action of going down a little ways slowed their passage along the Highway of Time. Err. Yeah. Am I making sense?

This is a message from your body, telling you that you should take up smoking. In reality, your body hates you, and wants you to die. Thus, the suggestion you take up smoking. ^^

I'm not trying to be cool or prove a point when I go off on people like that. I just get very titchy when people claim to be so knowledgeable, and then spout a bunch of contradictory, unfounded, grammatically incorrect poo. Forgive me. Question: Why does the spellchecker on FireFox catch "poo" as a mistake? And "FireFox"?

You're a homicidal maniac. Kill yourself before you take out countless others. I don't believe dreams have any deep meanings like some people do. It's a dream. They're fun. Beyond that, eh.. They're nothing special.

Smapla's picture illustrates my point exactly. That's what you'd see, more or less. However, Captainkidd. A BLACK HOLE IS NOT 100 BILLION TIMES BIGGER THAN THE EARTH. Dude. You utter moron. Just... no. A black hole always has these two properties: One: Infinitely dense. (Just like you! =O) Two: Infinitely small. The black hole's sheer gravitational pull collapses it to its smallest possible size. NOT 100 BILLION TIMES BIGGER THAN EARTH! If anything, it's the other way around. Also, "Google" is a search engine. You don't see googles of anything. The word you are looking for is googol, as in 1.0ÃÆÃââââ‰â¬

Bonvenon! Cxu parolantoj de Esperanto estas tie cxi? Mi <3 Esperanton. Redakti: Anyone know of any active Esperanto forums?

I'm sure I'm not a "simple-ton", so allow me to share a point here: If you were close enough, it would be very much possible to "see" a black hole, in the same way you can "see" your shadow. Shadows are caused by a lack of light, yet you can see them. A black hole, seen from a certain distance, would look exactly like the picture in the first post - a circle of absolute nothingness, surrounded by a lensing of light. Now please, debate here if you wish. But if you're going to tell us we're "simple-tons", or you're going to claim superiority because of your "uni degree", or something like that, please. Please! You deprive yourself of any right to have spelling or grammar errors in any of your posts. Just throwing that out there.

Dude. Read the whole freaking thread before you make stupid posts like this. To recap: 1. You can see black holes, for a given value of see 2. This value is, "you notice a large patch of absolute nothingness". 3. You can, however, observe them. 4. bbalking has apperantly taking "a course at uni", and is therefore the master of black holes. 5. Therefore, he is entitled to claim seeing = observing, thus we cannot see black holes. 6. Read the whole thread or go aways.

Has it not occurred to you that maybe our telescopes just aren't powerful enough? Read my other posts on this topic before accusing me of something I've already said. Mm'kay? bbalking, I've read all the posts on this thread, so allow me to say: Has it not occurred to you that maybe our telescopes just aren't powerful enough?

The thing is, the vast majority of people aren't interested in "the good stuff". It's not exciting.

We're not insulting you.

I'll give you ten books on how the American government is covering up the fact that the world is really flat. Plus, I'll throw in an essay on how NASA is really an advanced film editing studio, employed by the government to fake space missions. And, if you ignore the blatant stupidity, it'll be completely believable! Fifty pages of forum posts is not a credible source.

Let us consider one important factor: Therefore, no matter how fast your turbines spin, the treadmill will match the speed of the jet. Therefore it can't move, therefore no lift is generated, therefore no flying hunks of metal.

K. Observing something is not the same as seeing it with your eyes. I can observe the wind. I can't see it. I see its effects. That is what observation is. That being said, it is very likely that at some point in humanity's future we will observe a black hole via telescope, or even up close. And I'm damn well going to question what you've "learnt" if you're going to say stupid things.

That's a big word in my dictionary, as it was humans ourselves that created the concept/thory/law of dimensions, so why shouldn't there be more to the three that we have created based on what we alone know? There are four easily measured dimensions. Height, width, depth, time. Yes, time is a dimension. @bbalking, You don't go to university. K. You barely know what you're talking about. Yes, we know you can't see a black hole - even if they had no gravitational mass at all, you wouldn't be able to see them. The thing about a black hole is that it's as small as an object can possibly be - or even smaller. However, you could easily observe a black hole without being close enough to be pulled in. We can observe black holes from earth. Even through the naked eye, we could observe them safely. Looking directly at one from a good distance, you'd see something very similar to the original picture.

Hi. You're Roy Pearson? I'm George. You are a greedy bastard. I'm going to kill you now. *stabs* That's really, really sick. I'ma staying in Canada. No frivolous lawsuits. >_>

Black holes are powerful enough to trap light - anything in its event horizon is lost. Therefore, it is not possible to "see" a black hole. What you see is a space where light cannot be seen. However, there are a few different boundaries to a black hole. There is one that not even light can escape from. But as you go farther out, you can guess at different theoretical boundaries, such as the boundary light can escape from but, for example, a neighboring star can't. So, it happens that sometimes the gasses from a neighboring star are "eaten" by a black hole, which would look something like this. Actually, while that image is photoshopped, it's quite realistic. Because of the way a black hole affects light, you would indeed see something like that if you were close enough to observe. It's "light lensing", and can be seen in rather smaller amounts around the more massive planets, and neutron stars.

NOO! Don't leave H1! We still love you! We can make it up to you! :cry: Damnit, why do all the cool people have to leave?

Make and sell dirty webcam videos. Really. Start up a good website, attach some Google Ads, and hope like hell for clicks. The Web isn't for casual moneymaking - you either make large amounts of money, or you make no money at all.