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1 Skip Intro  Thu, Mar 20, 2014 10:04:52am

No, a small black hole would not “suck in our entire universe”.

How many scientifically illiterate people are out there these days? Billions?

2 Charles Johnson  Thu, Mar 20, 2014 10:09:11am

Good grief. The Parade of the Morons.

3 No Country For Old Haters  Thu, Mar 20, 2014 10:11:29am

re: #1 Skip Intro

No, a small black hole would not “suck in our entire universe”.

How many scientifically illiterate people are out there these days? Billions?

At least she was 2/3rds right. That’s pretty good for cable news.

4 NJDhockeyfan  Thu, Mar 20, 2014 10:15:17am
5 Skip Intro  Thu, Mar 20, 2014 10:21:52am

I will repeat my comment from below. Why isn’t he asking the one person in the country who knows where the plane is? That person, of course, is the Long Island Medium.

6 Snarknado!  Thu, Mar 20, 2014 10:23:11am

re: #1 Skip Intro

No, a small black hole would not “suck in our entire universe”.

How many scientifically illiterate people are out there these days? Billions?

I’d like to think she meant our entire universe in the sense of everything near and dear to us (that is, the entire planet)… but somehow, I doubt it.

(No, I don’t know whether a “small” black hole would swallow the entire planet, it probably depends on the trajectories of both — let’s not test it.)

7 KiTA  Thu, Mar 20, 2014 10:25:53am

re: #1 Skip Intro

No, a small black hole would not “suck in our entire universe”.

How many scientifically illiterate people are out there these days? Billions?

Metaphorically, it would — Earth would be gone, along with everyone on it. Moon, too. Only thing left to show the Human race once existed would be random debris that escaped the gravity well (not much) and a few random space probes.

8 wrenchwench  Thu, Mar 20, 2014 10:27:38am

re: #7 KiTA

Metaphorically, it would — Earth would be gone, along with everyone on it. Moon, too. Only thing left to show the Human race once existed would be random debris that escaped the gravity well (not much) and a few random space probes.

What happens in the event horizon stays in the event horizon.

9 Skip Intro  Thu, Mar 20, 2014 10:29:21am

re: #7 KiTA

Metaphorically, it would — Earth would be gone, along with everyone on it. Moon, too. Only thing left to show the Human race once existed would be random debris that escaped the gravity well (not much) and a few random space probes.

I don’t believe she was speaking metaphorically. Also, one would have to explain how a black hole could form on the earth.

Scientific morons.

10 Skip Intro  Thu, Mar 20, 2014 10:31:22am

re: #6 Snarknado!

I’d like to think she meant our entire universe in the sense of everything near and dear to us (that is, the entire planet)… but somehow, I doubt it.

(No, I don’t know whether a “small” black hole would swallow the entire planet, it probably depends on the trajectories of both — let’s not test it.)

There’s a super massive black hole in the center of our galaxy, yet the galaxy, and us too, are still here.

Black holes don’t work the way most people seem to think they work.

11 Snarknado!  Thu, Mar 20, 2014 11:02:06am

re: #10 Skip Intro

There’s a super massive black hole in the center of our galaxy, yet the galaxy, and us too, are still here.

Black holes don’t work the way most people seem to think they work.

That’s why I mentioned trajectories. A (non-giant) black hole at the center of the Earth would probably leave the Earth unswallowed for a long time.

12 Timothy Watson  Thu, Mar 20, 2014 12:03:01pm

Maybe those nutjobs that said the LHC would create mini-black holes were correct.

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13 Ace-o-aces  Thu, Mar 20, 2014 12:19:42pm

What about a Sharknado? Could it have been a sharknado? WHY IS NO ONE ASKING THESE QUESTIONS!!!!!????

14 Skip Intro  Thu, Mar 20, 2014 12:38:43pm

Someone needs to put together a list of the theories Don Lemon has entertained over the last ten days.

Not me, but thanks for asking.

15 steve_davis  Thu, Mar 20, 2014 1:14:00pm

re: #1 Skip Intro

agreed, but I suspect the question was so loopy, the respondent just put it in the simplest terms they could: a small black hole large enough to simply eat an airplane would happily be chowing down on the entire planet right now, and creating a massive x-ray burst in the process that somebody would have noticed.


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